ALE-50 Traveling Wave Tube Shelf Life Study

This is a notice of award that the Electronic Warfare Division at WR-ALC has completed for an engineering services study to support the ALE-50 Towed Decoy program. The purpose of this effort is to conduct an extensive technical investigation into the overall health and reliability of the Helix Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT) found in the ALE-50 to scientifically determine whether the TWT's reliability is impacted by age, inactivity, and/or environmental conditions experienced while in storage. The effort is a definitive C-type contract with a period of performance of 8 months. The contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government solicited sole source to CPII MPP, CAGE Code 99313 under authority of FAR 6.302-1, Only one source is capable of satisfying the government's requirement. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice was solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received was considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Foreign participation was not permitted at the prime contractor level.