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L -- TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE SERVICES POC Tracey Logan, Contract Specialist, (301)757-5909, Anthony DeVico, Contracting Office, (301)757-5916 The NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND (NAVAIR) intends to award a contract and a basic ordering agreement (BOA), on a sole source basis, to TRW Data Technologies Division, Integration Accounting Segment, Carson, California. The contract will be for prime vendor support to the Hunter UAV Program. It will be a three year contract consisting of a base year with two one-year options. The BOA will also be in support of the Hunter UAV Program and will have a three-year period in which orders may be placed in support of the program. TRW, Inc., along with its major subcontractor, Israel Aircraft Industries, is the designer, developer, integrator and sole manufacturer of the Hunter UAV System. No current technical data package suitable for full and open competition of the technical support requirements exist. Under the proposed contract, TRW will provide logistics support (including technical manual updates and depot level supply and maintenance), flight operations support, engineering support (including configuration management, product assurance, and sustaining engineering), and program management. Additional options which may be executed are: a study for the enhancement of the Downsized Ground Data Terminal, providing a Mobile Training Team, training for an Institutional Mission Simulator and Instructor Operating System, evaluation of the Tactical Common Data Link, white papers on the initial design for the Laser Designator and the Common Integrated Avionics Group, evaluation of producibility for the Communication Relay package, and revision of ECPs for the Lens Doubler and the Automated Maintenance and Pre-flight Contact Test Set. Under the BOA, delivery orders may be awarded for: fielding of Hunter system(s) from storage; Communications Relay Payload hardware; Common Integrated Avionics Group hardware; Lens Doubler hardware; engineering and testing for (1) low level prototyping/brassboarding investigations and (2) various demonstration projects such as growth payloads; support for foreign military sales; flight line support; additional training simulators; spares and repair parts; Enhanced Mission Planner hardware; Automated Maintenance and Pre-Flight Contact Test Set hardware; and Downsized Ground Data Terminal hardware. Notes 22 and 26 apply. Posted 06/24/98 (0175)

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