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A -- AN/ALE-50 DEVELOPMENT HARDWARE SOL N00019-97-C-0016 DUE 102596 POC Contact, DEAN A. WALTER, Phone (703)604-6100 The Naval Air Systems Command intends to award a contract to Raytheon Company, Electromagnetic Systems Division, Goleta, CA, for engineering and manufacturing services to modify the AN/ALE-50 Airborne Multi-Platform Launch Controller (MPLC) to add the capability to provide control to the Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) Fiber Optic Towed Decoy (FOTD). The effort includes design, development and modification of existing AN/ALE-50 MPLCs, and production of new dual configuration MPLCs. The contract also provides for the estiblishment of Associate Contractor Agreements (ACA) between Raytheon and the aircraft platform manufacturers. Raytheon is the AN/ALE-50 system developer. As such, they are the only known source with the personnel, expertise and facilities required to perform this effort within the required timeframe. See note No. 22 - NAVAIR Synopsis No. 20169-96. (0270)

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