58 -- ACU-1000 MODULAR INTERCONNECT SYSTEM

The Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) has a requirement for twenty-three (23) ACU-1000 Modular Interconnect Systems to support telecommunications interoperability among agencies that have differing radio systems operating in different radio frequency bands. The ACU-1000 is a communications switch that allows wireless communication systems to be combined at the audio base-band by using the received audio from one system as the source audio for one or more transmitters of differing technologies. The ACU-1000 modular interface/interconnect system can be configured to meet almost any interface application involving telephones and radios. The system is suitable for HF, Land Mobile Radio, Military, and SATCOM systems and offers essentially unlimited applications for interoperability. This procurement will be negotiated on a sole source basis with JPS Communications, Inc., Raleigh, NC. JPS Communications, Inc. is the sole designer, developer, and producer of the ACU-1000 Modular Interconnect System. As such, they alone possess the requisite corporate knowledge and technical expertise necessary to satisfy the Marine Corps requirement. This equipment is unique in that it is the only interconnect system that has the capability of allowing twelve or more previously incompatible communication systems to be directly connected providing real time interoperability. See Numbered Note 22.