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

B -- STUDY OF USE OF AIRBORNE RELAY TO EXTEND RANGE OF AN/GRC-245 HCLOS RADIO SOL DAAB07-00-R-F408 POC Tom Taylor, Contract Specialist, (732) 427-1576/Ken Tedeschi, Contracting Officer, (732) 532-4846 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the point of contact by e-mail., taylort@mail1.monmouth.army.mil. The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) proposes to conduct noncompetitive negotiations with the Canadian Commercial Corporation for modification of Contract No. DAAB07-98-C-F505 to add a requirement for the contractor to conduct a study of use of an airborne communications node relay to extend the range of the AN/GRC-245 High Capacity Line of Sight (HCLOS) radio which it is producing under the contract. The study is to identify the required hardware, expected performance, and any limitations in use of a relay mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to extend the range of the AN/GRC-245 HCLOS radio. CECOM proposes to negotiate noncompetitively with Canadian Commercial Corporation for this work because its subcontractor for Contract No. DAAB07-98-C-F505, Canadian Marconi Company of Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada, is the developer and sole producer of the AN/GRC-245 HCLOS radio and has proprietary rights to the radio data which will be required to conduct the study. See numberedNote 22. Posted 10/26/99 (W-SN395143). (0299)

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