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A -- AMENDMENT TO THE STATEMENT OF WORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMERCIAL LINEAR/MIXED SIGNAL RADIATION TOLERANT MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY SOL AIC 2841 POC Negotiator David Nemerow (703) 325-6627, Contracting Officer Donald Shires (703) 325-6684 WEB: Click here to access the DTRA Current Solicitations, http://www.dswa.mil/dswaproc/curproc.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via, David.Nemerow@DTRA.MIL. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency proposes to procure, without using full and open competition, an effort entitled "Amendment to the Statement of Work for the Development of a Commercial Linear/Mixed Signal Radiation Tolerant Microelectronics Technology." Under this contract modification, the contractor, Mission Research Corporation (MRC) of Santa Barbara, California, based on tasks already performed under the existing contract, shall identify and document all of the processes, device and circuit design rules that effect radiation hardness, and perform additional analysis. The contractor will perform Radiation Tolerant Process Demonstration Tests and also perform Evaluation and Process Qualification and RHA Development. MRC has worked with Harris, as their subcontractor, for the last 2 years to develop a radiation tolerant process at the Harris Semiconductor Facility. Another party would have to either start anew to develop the process or spend a considerable amount of time to develop a complete understanding of the process. This would result in a duplication of effort and a very significant delay in the contract performance. Competing this part of the effort would probably shift the schedule by one year since it took approximately 1 1/2 years to develop the process and design rules to the level that they are at presently. Adding a third party to perform this part of the effort would complicate the completion of the overall effort and result in additional cost to the government. In addition, there has been a considerable transfer of proprietary information between MRC and Harris, and this type of relationship would have to be established between Harris and any third party. This would further delay the performance of the effort. See Numbered Note 22. Posted 03/22/99 (W-SN311287). (0081)

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