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B -- HISTORICAL COMPARISON OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT IN THE USAF SOL 98QS231 DUE 033198 POC Point of contact -- Michelle Thompson, Contract Specialist, or Lt Cote, Contracting Officer The 11th Contracting Squardron intends to procure a historical monograph written that compares Systems Management in the USAF Ballistic Missile and Air Defense Programs, covering the period 1945-1965. A brief hisotry of this subject will permit Air Force historians and government officials to assess the approaches, accomplishments and failures of Air Force systems management as it was created and employed over a twenty year period. It should also identify management procedures devised for these two programs that may benefit contemporary Air Force acquisitions managers of aeronautical and space systems. The study is to be completed on a short schedule, within eight months after contract award. At a minimum, research for this monograph will require examiniation of documents in the Air Force Historical Agency at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, and at the Lincoln Laboratory, MITRE, and MIT in the greater Boston area. The contractor must be an accomplished historian who has specialized int he study of systems management, and who possesses a thorough understanding of science and engineering. The SIC code is 2721. Firms requesting a copy of this solicitation may do so in writing, including name, address, telephone number and business size. If you company is a small business, speciafy the type of small business (e.g., woman owned, minority owned, etc.). Requests maby be faxed to Michelle Thompson at (202) 767-7887. (0064)

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