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A -- EXPEDITIONARY WARFARE DECISION AID ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT SOL N00014-99-R-0004 POC Keith Strohman, Contract Specialist, ONR Code 252, (703)696-8557, Genesta Belton, Contracting Officer, (703)696-4511 E-MAIL: click here, strohmk@onr.navy.mil. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) intends to issue a Request For Proposals (RFP) for continued development of, and engineering support for, existing software applications that provide a set of mission planning tools to support expeditionary warfare. This software includes the Mine Warfare and Environmental Decision Aids Library (MEDAL), the Joint Countermine Application (JCA) and the Expeditionary Warfare Decision Support System (EDSS) with their attendant physical and environmental databases, analytical tools, models and decision aids. Task areas are: 1) Software Engineering, 2) Command and Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I), 3) Fleet Support, and 4) Program Management. This effort requires that offerors have a solid technical understanding of: i) Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment, ii) mine countermeasures (MCM) operations, iii) amphibious operations, iv) combat engineer countermine operations, and v) MCM fleet support requirements. ONR anticipates the release of the RFP within 60 days of this announcement. The solicitation will be issued under full and open competition and a single award is contemplated. The SIC Code for this effort is 8731 with the small business size standard of 500. It is mandatory that an offeror have the following: 1) The facilities to perform work up to the SECRET level; and 2) Have at least three (3) personnel who possess TOP SECRET Security Clearances. The RFP will only be released electronically and must be downloaded from the ONR web site at: http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/rfp//. Questions regarding business and legal matters relating to this announcement should be directed to: Office of Naval Research, Attention Mr. Keith Strohman (Code 252), Ballston Towers One, 800 N. Quincy St., Arlington, VA 22217-5660, (703) 696-8557, E-mail strohmk@onr.navy.mil. Posted 04/28/99 (W-SN325436). (0118)

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