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A -- HARDENING MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ADDITIONS SOL AIC5005 POC Negotiator -- David Nemerow -- 703-325-6627, Contracting Officer -- Donald Shires -- 703-325-6684 WEB: Click here to learn more about DTRA, http://www.dtra.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via, David.Nemerow@DTRA.MIL. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) proposes a 14.5 month effort, to commence o/a 15 DEC 1999, to Mission Research Corporation, without using full and open competition, for an effort entitled "Hardening Microwave Integrated Circuits Additions." This effort with MRC provides for hardening of sensitive receiver components. MRC has made unique advances in the development of protection technology and hardening design rules for the sensitive front-end of receivers. The front-end of the receivers is the section that amplifies the weak signals collected by the antenna for further processing and demodulation further down the chain of circuit elements. Another firm will not likely be able to duplicate MRC's unique understanding of the phenomenon of substrate conduction without significant additional expenditures. A new contractor would have perform significant duplication of effort to achieve a correlation between the theory and the lab measurements. MRC is therefor the only contractor that can perform the effort. See Note 22. For further information contact David Nemerow, (202) 325-6627. Posted 11/01/99 (W-SN396699). (0305)

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