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12 -- FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT SOL N00024-00-R-5133 DUE 021500 POC Contract Specialist, John Gamble, 703-602-8000x539 E-MAIL: John Murray, murrayjm@navsea.navy.mil. The Naval Sea System Command has a requirement for three (3) Ship Self Defense Systems (SSDS) MK 2. The SSDS MK 2 equipment is being developed based on the SSDS MK 1 baseline. The SSDS MK 2 provides enhanced capabilities for Mission Force Protection in support of the AAW Capstone Requirements against ASCM threats. It also incorporates certain critical command and control functions that currently exist in the Advanced Combat Direction System (ACDS). Raytheon Naval and Maritime Systems (NAMS) of San Diego, California is the design agent and only qualified producer of SSDS MK 1/MK 2 and ACDS. The SSDS MK 2 requirement is an evolutionary development of the SSDS MK 1. The MK 2 development effort was contracted with Raytheon on a sole source basis under Contracts N00024-97-C-5466 and N00024-99-C-5108. The preliminary design of the SSDS MK 2 hardware was completed in September 1998 and the critical design was finalized in January 1999. The MK 2 design is of a complex nature and would require a substantial investment in both time and money to qualify another source. Raytheon NAMS is also the only company that can meet the 12-month hardware delivery schedule by leveraging off their earlier MK 1/MK 2 production experience. Therefore, the SSDS MK 2 hardware requirement will be solicited from Raytheon NAMS. See Numbered Notes(s) 22.******** Posted 02/03/00 (A-SN421365). (0034)

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