Ramsey Su,
There is a great post on Yahoo this morning regarding WIND and our military. It looks like WIND is about to sell 10,000 VxWorks seats for guided missile work. What's your sense of this? Is a significant sale or just one of many ...
--alan
[Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on August 19, 1999]
[Printed Issue Date: August 23, 1999]
From the Commerce Business Daily Online via GPO Access
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PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS
SUBPART: SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL
CLASSCOD: 14--Guided Missiles
OFFADD: U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Acquisition Center,
Bldg 4488, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280
SUBJECT: 14--VX SOFTWARE LICENSES
SOL DAAH0199R0391
POC Crystal S. Blackburn, Contract Specialist, AMSAM-AC-TM-C,
(256) 842-6381
DESC: The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Multiple Launch
Rocket System (MLRS) currently has a requirement for the acquisition
of 10,000 VxWorks Software Licenses for support of the M270A1
and HIMARS Launcher Systems. Offers must be approved and qualified.
This proposed contract action is for supplies or services for
which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with
only one source. The RFP shall be issued to Wind River Systems,
903 Corley Drive, Huntsville, AL 35802. Wind River Systems
is the designer, developer, and producer of the VxWorks Software.
Potential offerors are encouraged to pursue qualification for
future buys in accordance with the AMCOM Pamphlet 702-1 available
through the internet. See numbered notes(s): 22.
EMAILADD: cblackbu@redstone.army.mil
EMAILDESC: crodrig@redstone.army.mil
CITE: (W-231 SN370002) |
