IBM Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, is being awarded a $14,600,000 firm fixed price contract for four computer processors. Work will be performed at Fort Meade, Maryland, and is expected to be completed by September 15, 1996. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on October 26, 1995. The contracting activity is the Maryland Procurement Office, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland (MDA904-93-G-0034).

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Interstate Electronics Corporation, Anaheim, California, is being awarded a $35,346,455 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering, logistics, and operational support services for the C4 Backfit, TRIDENT (C4), and TRIDENT (D5) Test Instrumentation Program that includes the flight test support systems (FTSS), SSBN digital and radio frequency system, and underwater acoustics and sonar tracking systems. The major tasks are systems and liaison engineering, locists and manufacturing support, maintenance, engineering investigations of future flight test instrumentation requirements, design and implementation repair parts. Work will be performed in Anaheim, California, and is expected to be completed by March 1997. Contract funds in the amount of $26,615,155 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00030-96-C-0015).