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Salient Characteristics

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I have evaluated the commercial marketplace and determined that all of the salient characteristics documented below are available in products/services offered in the commercial marketplace.

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Technical Requirements for Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) The Advanced Electronics Branch at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in service of the Gordian TOPS program requires one (1) Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) with the following minimum characteristics:

· Four (4) ports

· Maximum operating frequency of at least 40 gigahertz (GHz)

· Minimum operation frequency of at most ten (10) megahertz (MHz)

· Dynamic Range of at least 95 decibels (dB) over the entire frequency range stated above

· Trace noise at zero (0) decibels-milliwatt (dBm) source power and zero (0) dB reflection of less than a hundredth (0.01) dB root mean square (RMS) at 10 kHz Intermediate Frequency Band Width (IFBW) for 40 GHz

· Trace noise at zero (0) dBm source power and zero (0) dB reflection of less than four thousandths (0.004) dB RMS at ten (10) kHz IFBW for ten (10) MHz

· Temperature instability of less than twenty-five thousandths (0.025) decibels per Kelvin (dB/K) at negative (-) ten (10) dBm source power over the entire frequency range stated

· Maximum output power of at least positive (+) two (2) dBm at 40 GHz, with typical operation of at least positive (+) ten (10) dBm over the frequency range between ten (10) MHz and ten (10) GHz

· Minimum output power of at most negative (-) 30 dBm

· Power level inaccuracy of at most two and a half (2.5) dB over the entire frequency range stated

· Power linearity of less than two (2) dB referenced to negative (-) ten (10) dBm over the entire frequency range stated

· Third harmonics at zero (0) dBm of at most negative (-) 17 dBc over the entire frequency range stated

· Typical noise floor of at most negative (-) 115 dBm over the entire frequency range stated

· Future (or included) options for pulse modulation.

· On-site support for upgrades and software updates, as well as email and phone access to applications experts on an as-needed basis for at least two (2) years

· Instrument fundamentals and operations starter shall be included

· Shall integrate with 2.4 millimeter (mm) SubMiniature version A (SMA) connections of an existing Government-owned Lakeshore vertical field probe station (CRX-VF) located at Adelphi Laboratory Center

· Intuitive user interface core software shall be provided with future options for time domain analysis and harmonic analysis

· Shall include at least two (2) years of warranty

· Shall include at least one (1) day of in-person training for standard users and functionalities of the software, as well as initial setup and standards testing with ground-signal-ground (GSG) probes.

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