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A -- CONTINUATION OF AN APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECT TO VALIDATE DAMAGING DOWNBURST PREDICTION AND DETECTION SOL NWWG4000800149JW DUE 081798 POC Jacqueline Wright (303) 497-5282, FAX (303) 497-3163 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisitions Management, Brenda.S.Summers@noaa.gov. The National Weather Service (NWS) Operational Support Facility (OSF) requires the second year funding of an existing project in applied research between the Cooperative Institute for Applied Meteorological Studies at Texas A&M University (CIAMS), the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and the Houston Weather Service Office which requires the continuation of the same type of analysis performed in the previous contract. This includes, the design and validation of a multi-sensor damaging wind algorithm in a semi- tropical regime, determining the range dependency of parameters used in the algorithm, improving the algorithm performance, and determining the benefit of including cloud-to-ground lightening information in the algorithm. No RFQ is available. This announcement is being issued under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures, FAR Part 13 (NTE $100,000.00). It is the intent of the government to award on a sole source basis to CIAMS Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station, TX. JACQUELINE WRIGHT, Purchasing Agent. Posted 07/23/98 (D-SN227797). (0204)

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