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12 -- FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT SOL N00024-98-R-5454 POC John Murray, (703) 602-7903 The Naval Sea Systems Command has a requirement for Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) MK-2 hardware for the CVN-69. This hardware will be developed based on the SSDS MK-1 in support of the AAW Capstone Requirements. It also incorporates certain critical command and control functions that currently exist in the Advanced Combat Direction System (ACDS). Raytheon Naval and Maritime Systems (NAMS) of San Diego, California is the design agent and only qualified producer of SSDS MK-1 and ACDS. The SSDS MK-2 requirement is an evolutionary development of the SSDS MK-1. The MK-2 requirement and design effort was contracted with Raytheon on a sole source basis in FY98 under Contract N00024-97-C-5466. The preliminary design of the SSDS MK-2 hardware was completed in September 1998 and the critical design is presently being finalized for Government approval. This hardware is needed to support the SSDS MK-2 software development and system integration schedule starting in February 2000. The first incremental software build is needed by October 2000 to support LPD-17 National Test Network (NTN), and a follow-on software build is required by June 2001 to support CVN-76 Combat System Light-off. Raytheon will be permitted to use the CVN-69 hardware as a dedicated test asset to support the MK-2 software development and system integration effort. This is being done to reduce some of the development risk associated with the aggressive MK-2 software build schedule. The MK-2 design is of a complex nature and would require substantial investment in both time and money to qualify another source. Raytheon NAMS is also the only company that can meet the 12-month hardware delivery schedule by leveraging off their earlier MK-1 production experience. Therefore, the SSDS MK-2 hardware requirement will be solicited from Raytheon NAMS. See Numbered Note(s) 22. Posted 12/21/98 (W-SN282196). (0355)

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