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JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

FOR USE OF OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

1. Contracting Activity.

Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific).

2. Description of the Action Being Approved.

Award of a sole source firm-fixed-price (FFP) commercial purchase order using Simplified Acquisition Procedures, under FAR Subpart 13.5 to Metamagnetics, Inc. for RFeye Nodes, injectors, and maintenance support for Own Force Monitoring (OFM) hardware in support of the Real Time Spectrum Operations (RTSO) program.

3. Description of Supplies/Services.

Request for 12 P/N NOD-EYE0004-GEN RFeye Node 100-18 9 kHz � 18 GHz, 100 MHz IBW.

Includes NCP license. Fitted with GNSS receiver module, 12 P/N ACC-PSU0008 POnE injector PSU 90W, and 12 P/N SWS-NOD1210 One year of Tier 2 SSUS for the individual node or array only. These RFeye Nodes are part of the US Navy RTSO OFM system. Under this effort, RTSO project provides for shipboard RF planning and OFM. For this procurement, the contractor is to provide the analyzers in support of Ship�s Signal Exploitation Equipment Increment F (SSEE INC F) Classic Reach Project.

The estimated cost of the procurement is and is anticipated to be funded with Other Procurement Navy (OPN) appropriations.

4. Statutory Authority Permitting Other Than Full and Open Competition.

The statutory authority for this requirement is 41 U.S.C. § 1901, as implemented by FAR Subpart 13.5, Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

5. Rationale Justifying Use of Cited Statutory Authority.

OFM represents a solution to a requirement of blue force monitoring. It represents a capability for ships and as such, there is no standard hardware designed to support this capability.

The CRFS RFeye Node is part of the OFM system, which is on US Navy ships.

The RTSO engineering team (led at the time by NSWC Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD)) selected the CRFS RFeye Node analyzer in FY17 for initial demonstration of this OFM capability. Since that time, significant investment has been made to prepare the CRFS analyzer for shipboard use. A large body of software was developed to integrate this spectrum analyzer with existing systems and databases.

Additionally, the CRFS RFeye Node has received cybersecurity authority to operate on U.S. Navy ship networks.

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

NAVAL INFORMATION WARFARE CENTER PACIFIC

53560 HULL STREET

SAN DIEGO, CA 92152-5001

J&A No. 25-519

CERTIFICATIONS AND APPROVAL

TECHNICAL/REQUIREMENTS CERTIFICATION

I certify that the facts and representations under my cognizance which are included in this Justification and its supporting acquisition planning documents, except as noted herein are complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

TECHNICAL/REQUIREMENTS DIVISION HEAD (Review > $750K):

LEGAL SUFFICIENCY REVIEW

I have determined this Justification is legal sufficient.

CONTRACTING OFFICER

COMPETITION ADVOCATE APPROVAL (>$750K to <$15M):

Upon the basis of the above justification, I hereby approve, as the NIWC Pacific Competition Advocate, the solicitation of the proposed procurement(s) described herein using other than full and open competition, pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1).