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58 -- SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS -- HANDHELD RADIO SINCGARS -- FOREIGN MILITARY SALES(FMS) RQMT SOL DAAB07-99-R-C713 DUE 053199 POC Doni rucker, 732-427-1653, Homer O'Krepki, 732-532-4840 WEB: http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/cbdsubmit.cgi, http://acbop.monmouth.army.mil. E-MAIL: Tactical Mobile Communications System (Tmcs), Hand, ruckd@mail1.monmouth.army.mil. Tactical Mobile Communications System (TMCS) Handheld Radio, SINCGARS, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) This is a market survey for determining the availability of a Non-Developmental-Item (NDI) TMCS Handheld Radio, a component of the Tactical Mobile Communications System (TMCS), to be used primarily by members within a squad for short-range voice and data communications. The TMCS Handheld Radio must have embedded Type I encryption endorsed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). It must be a digital radio utilizing digital modulation techniques and with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) capability to allow for future upgrades through software. The TMCS Handheld Radio shall also meet the following technical characteristics to the maximum extent possible: Range: Up to 3 Km in close country or 10 Km in open country Frequency Range: 1.6 MHz 512 MHz Channel Spacings: 100 Hz, 12.5 KHz and 25 KHz Modulations: Conform to standard practice Voice: Analog and digital with whisper capability Data: Analog and digital Data Rates: Adaptive 75, 1200, 2400, 9600, 16K, 19.2K, 32K, 48K, 64K bps and higher Channel Rates: 16 Kbps and higher Data Standards: MIL-STD 2045-47001, 2045-14502-1A, 2045-14502-6A and 188-220A Digital Interfaces: RS232 and RS422 Operating Modes: Net, Point-to-point, and broadcast with simultaneous voice and data Covert Operation: Voice-activated throat microphone Presets: 10 minimum with all programmable parameters Scanning: 5 channels minimum with priority scan and priority interrupt Squelch: Off/Noise/150 Hz Tone selectable LPI/LPD: DS/FH Spread Spectrum, Automatic Power Control and Free Channel Selection; FH shall be SINCGARS compatible Cloning: No special equipment Size: As small as possible or reasonably sized Weight:  2.5 Kg complete COMSEC: Embedded Type I and inter-operable with TSEC/KY-57 VINON, TSEC/KY-99 ANDVT MINTERM, ANDVT AIRTERM and ANDVT KYV-5 TACTERM GPS: Embedded and external interface Environmental Conditions: High altitude, high and low temperatures, rain, fungus, salt fog, sand and dust, immersion, vibration, and shock per MIL-STD 810E Operating and Storage Temperatures: -71 C to +75 C Climatic Protection: Heavy rain, snow, wind and Direct Solar Radiation up to 1.08 KW/m2 Physical Protection: Dust and mechanical Hardening: EMP and NBC contamination agents EMI: CE106, CS103, CS104, CS105, RE102 and RF103 per MIL-STD 461D TEMPEST: Accredited by the US NSA, UK GCHQ, Canada's CSE or New Zealand's GCSB Batteries: Primary and secondary Battery Life: 24 hours primary battery and 12 hours secondary battery at a duty cycle of 10:10:80 (transmit:receive:standby) Power Management: Internal for maximizing battery life Display: Litton M972 and M983 Night Vision Goggles compatible BIT: Built In Test for detecting 90% of all failures MTBF: 5000 hours minimum The TMCS Handheld Radio shall not require R&D funding. It shall be currently in production or be in the market place within the next three months, have available test data verifying functional and environmental performance, have supporting commercial literature and a published marketing price list of the radio and its components. Any offeror having an item which meets all or most of the above technical characteristics and conditions is invited to submit the following: System description and performance specification, test data verifying functional and environmental performance, reliability and maintainability, production lead times and schedule, quantity produced to date, customers (US or foreign), type and extent of standard warranty coverage and availability of extended warranty, supporting commercial literature to include operations technical manual, repair/service manual, list of required test and maintenance equipment, and ancillaries items needed to operate, repair and support the proposed system in world wide tactical military environments, identification of exceptions or deviations to the above technical characteristics and other conditions. All responses must be submitted by 31 May 1999 to U.S. ArmyCECOM, ATTN: AMSEL-RD-ST-WL-TR (Joseph Lee), Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5203, Telephone (732) 532-0448. Posted 04/28/99 (W-SN325567). (0118)

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