16 -- UTILITY TRAILING WIRE ANTENNA (UTWA) REMOVAL

The U. S. Navy intends to procure, on a sole source basis from Rockwell Collins, nonrecurring engineering to design, develop, manufacture and install 16 modification kits to remove the Utility Trailing Wire Antenna (UTWA) in U.S. Navy E-6B aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command intends on issuing a FFP order under Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) N00019-04-G-0020 to accomplish this effort. Rockwell Collins is the sole designer and developer of the E-6B UTWA and posses the unique test capability to verify through their facility the functionality of the modified system prior to aircraft modification. See Numbered Note 22.