U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

58 -- COMMUNICATION/LOCATOR SUITE DUE 051599 POC John Bojarksi, Project Lead, (732) 427-4143 CECOM's Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate is performing a market survey of a potential communication/locator suite that can locate an item anywhere on the globe. The item sized is up to 9 ft. x 9 ft. x 20 ft. and is loaded in an aircraft for transport. In case of an emergency, such as an impending crash, the payload will be air dropped from the aircraft and could land in some unknown location. The subject requirement is to precisely locate (to a radius of 250 ft.) the payload within a drop area of 10,000 square miles. To accomplish this, a communication/geolocator suite will be embedded/attached to this payload. The on board communicator suite should remain silent until interrogated by a search and rescue team. The payload will not transmit a beacon signal until such time as it is "interrogated" by the rescue vehicle. At that time it will transmit location determining response signal to alert the recovery team of its location. For planning purposes, the following assumptions can be made:a) the desired locator equipment should operate day/night, all-weather, all-terrain, b) a helicopter based recovery team can be assumed, however, light of sight to the payload from the recovery platform is not assured. CECOM is interested in evaluating any type of commercial off-the-shelf communication/locator products which can satisfy the above requirements. Any and all technologies will be considered. Interested parties are invited to submit proposals on possible solutions for this RF communication suite. Request all responses be submitted by 15 May 99 to the U.S. Army CECOM, ATTN: AMSEL-RD-ST-WL-AW (Bojarski), Bldg. 2700, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703. Project lead is Mr. John Bojarski and can be reached at (732) 427-4143. Posted 04/16/99 (W-SN321251). (0106)

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