FY26 Navy Reentry Systems Technical Engineering Services

Active

Contract Opportunity

Navy Reentry Systems Technical Engineering Services (non-DA/PA)

Synopsis

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE (SSN) announcement. SSNs are issued to assist the Agency in performing market research to determine industry interest and capability. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this synopsis. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. Therefore, no proposals are being requested or accepted in response to this SSN.

5.0 Purpose

In accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10, SSP is conducting market research to determine if sources are capable of successfully performing the requirements identified in this SSN. Specifically, SSP is seeking capable firms for engineering and technical services with an emphasis on Navy Reentry Bodies (RB) Vulnerability and Performance, Systems Analysis and Effectiveness, Nuclear Weapons Surety and System Safety, Radiological Health and Radiation Control, and future Navy Program development as cited in paragraph 8.0 below.

The contract type will include Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Level of Effort, Term Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINS). The Period of Performance (POP) will include a FY26 effort from 1 October 2025 – 30 September 2026.

NOTE: Given the highly technical nature of SSP’s mission set as a major weapons systems command and corresponding technical requirements, respondents must provide recent and relevant past performance data (as detailed below) to demonstrate and substantiate the respondents ability to successfully execute requirements detailed in this SSN.

6.0 White Paper Capability Statement Credentials

a. SSP is seeking detailed, complete, and thorough White Paper capability statements from interested firms who can demonstrate and document, with evidentiary support, that they 1) possess the minimum qualifications and experience identified in paragraph 7.0 which are critical to the successful execution of the requirements, and 2) demonstrate recent and relevant experience, as the Prime contractor (or subcontractor) performing the same/similar efforts of the same/similar scope, size, and complexity to the requirements identified in paragraph 8.0. Interested firms must demonstrate their existing capability, or potential to acquire the capability, to meet the requirements identified in paragraph 8.0 requirements by the time of contract award, estimated to be 1 October 2025.

6.1 Small Business Concerns

IAW FAR Subpart 19.2 Polices, SSP seeks to provide maximum practicable opportunities in its acquisitions to small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns. Small Business Concerns who possess the minimum qualifications and experience identified in paragraph 7.0 and who can demonstrate its concerns’ capability (or ability to obtain the capability by the contract award date) to execute the complete requirements identified in the requirements identified in paragraph 8.0, as well provide the requisite past performance experience detailed in Section 9.0, are encouraged to respond to this SSN.

If a small business concern intends to partner with another entity, the small business concern must identify which specific requirements identified in paragraph 8.0 efforts/tasks it intends to perform, as well as the specific efforts/tasks the partner will perform, with the substantiating data required in this SSN supporting the identified partnering roles and responsibilities. NOTE: 100% of the requirements identified in paragraph 8.0 structure and SSN requirements must be addressed in any submitted partnering submittal, if obtainable.

NOTE: In the event this contract is set aside for small business concerns, the small business concern agrees that it will be in strict compliance and conformance with the percentage payment limitations for services, supplies, or construction (as applicable) to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities in accordance with FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting and state such in their response.

7.0 Minimum Qualifications / Experience Requirements

Interested firms shall document and submit specific and evidenced / demonstrated possession of the minimum qualifications and experience requirements in the technical areas identified in bullets a through z below which are critical to the successful execution of the requirements in paragraph 8.0. This experience shall be documented as specified in paragraph 9.0. Potential sources must have the ability to, or have a thorough understanding of the following:

1. Hostile environments, natural space environments, fratricide environments, and intrinsic radiation environments relevant to Navy RBs and their applicability to vulnerability and performance. Hostile environments include, but are not limited to: nuclear weapons, electromagnetic radiation, kinetic energy weapons, and directed energy weapons. Natural space environments include, but are not limited to: cosmic radiation, trapped protons and electrons, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections.


2. Navy RB’s vulnerability and performance concerns including accuracy perturbations resulting from exposure to hostile environments, natural space environments, and/or fratricide environments.


3. Vulnerability and effectiveness of Navy RBs and RB components in the following environments: Mechanical, electrical, and/or electromagnetic effects.


4. Conduct hostile and fratricide radiation transport calculations for Navy reentry systems.


5. Calculate personnel dose rate in both the existing Ohio Class submarine and the planned Columbia class submarine.


6. Conduct performance and vulnerability assessments for normal, abnormal and hostile environments in support of a new Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) Development Program for Navy RBs


7. Calculate electromagnetic attenuation, signal degradation, or radio frequency signal blackout brought on by reentry plasma sheathing.


8. Conduct independent assessments of hypersonic reentry plasma sheathing and subsequent effects on electromagnetic signal transmission.


9. Conduct ground based hostile blast analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models.


10. Assist SSP with intrinsic radiation (INRAD) studies at both SSP facilities and on board SSBN’s, and radioactive waste characterization, storage and disposal.


11. Analyze biological effects of radiation from plutonium, tritium and uranium including emitter effects. Analyze the effects of postulated radiological events.


12. Analyze results of site contamination surveys to ensure a safe working environment to include gamma and neutron test/surveys.


13. Evaluate, monitor, review, and update all Navy related documentation such as Special Weapons Ordnance Publications (SWOPs), Directives, Instructions, Ordnance Documents (ODs), etc.


14. Conduct independent assessments of the transporting, processing, handling and maintenance procedures and the monitoring techniques (air and surface) that apply to hazardous materials (radioactive and mixed waste) and gamma and neutron personnel exposure.


15. Produce and/or coordinate requirements documents including Military Characteristics (MCs), Stockpile-to-Target Sequences (STSs), and Technical Objectives and Guidelines (TOGs). Provide input regarding the DOD Nuclear Weapon System Surety Program Key Elements as detailed in DODM 3150.02: DOD Nuclear Weapon System Surety Standards, DOD Nuclear Weapon System Surety Policy, DOD Nuclear Weapon Safety Design Criteria, Positive Measures, Safety Rules and Technical Procedures.


16. Conduct evaluations of deployed and advanced/future system options including ballistic and non-ballistic, strategic and tactical, nuclear and conventional reentry systems. These evaluations shall include but not be limited to assessments of the survivability, military utility and effectiveness, and dynamics of these systems and concepts in normal, abnormal and hostile environments against the full spectrum of targets.


17. Evaluate and support all facets of Nuclear Weapons Surety. Nuclear Weapons Surety is defined as policies, procedures, controls and actions that encompass safety, security and control measures, which ensure there will be no nuclear weapons accidents, incidents, unauthorized detonation, or degradation of weapons effectiveness during its stockpile-to-target sequence.


18. Advise SSP on the impact of DOD, NNSA, NRC, Code of Federal Regulations, DON, state, and local radiological regulations affecting Navy’s nuclear weapons.


19. Conduct independent reviews/assessments and evaluate both conventional and nuclear weapon system safety policies, directives, standards and proposed changes pertinent to conventional/nuclear weapon system surety/safety for SSP HQ Staff, field activities (e.g. NOTU, SWFLANT, SWFPAC, SWS Ashore, SPF), SSBNs (including US Columbia class SSBN and UK Dreadnaught SSBN), and SSGNs, including, as directed, activities associated with the United Kingdom TRIDENT program.


20. Conduct independent reviews of SSP Alterations (SPALTs), Change Requests or other modifications, new developments, lightning protection and grounding systems, electrostatic discharge (ESD), SSP Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) efforts, Operational Safety Reviews (OSR), Special Safety Study (SSS), and Independent Assessments of system safety policies and practices IAW DODI and DODM 3150.02, SSP 5100.6, SSPINST 5100.2 (series) and other SSPINST, Ordnance Document (OD), SECNAV/OPNAV directives or other UK TRIDENT guidance.


21. Provide expert advice regarding the analysis and interpretation of overarching statutes, policy, directives, regulations, instructions, etc. as they specifically apply to SSP’s classification & declassification management efforts based on knowledge of organizational stakeholders and past, current, & planned future states of the programs.


22. Provide expert classification determination support based on knowledge of security classification guides that relate to all aspects of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Weapon System.


23. Calculate the responses of US components in the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body to Stockpile- to-Target-Sequence (STS) level hostile environments, consider both single and multiple exposures in their calculations.


24. Perform fratricide evaluations for the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body that will identify potential differences in the stay-out regions caused by UK unique constraints, and assist the UK in understanding and/or adopting the current US common fratricide methodology.


25. Conduct evaluations of the aerodynamic performance of the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body using data from U.S. Demonstration and Shakedown Operation (DASO) flight test, Follow-on Commander Evaluation Test (FCET) flights, and other experimental flight test for these evaluations Conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body Provide electronic file transmission support between the UK, the US Navy and DOE/NNSA information system repositories and databases.


26. Advise SSP on the proficiency of the operations at UK TRIDENT facilities. This activity will include participation in inspections and evaluations, preparation of associated supporting reference materials, evaluation of UK proposals, and participation in compatibility assessments or slow run-through activities.

8.0 Description of Requirements

REQUIREMENT: SSP is seeking responsible sources for engineering and technical services with an emphasis on Navy Reentry Bodies (RB) Vulnerability and Performance, Systems Analysis and Effectiveness, Nuclear Weapons Surety and System Safety, Radiological Health and Radiation Control, future Navy Program development, and be familiar with ARTICLE VI of the Polaris Sales Agreement (PSA) . Potential sources must have the ability to, or have a thorough understanding of the following:

1. Hostile environments, natural space environments, fratricide environments, and intrinsic radiation environments relevant to Navy RBs and their applicability to vulnerability and performance. Hostile environments include, but are not limited to: nuclear weapons, electromagnetic radiation, kinetic energy weapons, and directed energy weapons. Natural space environments include, but are not limited to: cosmic radiation, trapped protons and electrons, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections.


2. Navy RB’s vulnerability and performance concerns including accuracy perturbations resulting from exposure to hostile environments, natural space environments, and/or fratricide environments.


3. Vulnerability and effectiveness of Navy RBs and RB components in the following environments: Mechanical, electrical, and/or electromagnetic effects.


4. Conduct hostile and fratricide radiation transport calculations for Navy reentry systems.


5. Calculate personnel dose rate in both the existing Ohio Class submarine and the planned Columbia class submarine.


6. Conduct performance and vulnerability assessments for normal, abnormal and hostile environments in support of a new Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) Development Program for Navy RBs.


7. Calculate electromagnetic attenuation, signal degradation, or radio frequency signal blackout brought on by reentry plasma sheathing.


8. Conduct independent assessments of hypersonic reentry plasma sheathing and subsequent effects on electromagnetic signal transmission.


9. Conduct ground based hostile blast analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models.


10. Assist SSP with intrinsic radiation (INRAD) studies at both SSP facilities and on board SSBN’s, and radioactive waste characterization, storage and disposal.


11. Analyze biological effects of radiation from plutonium, tritium and uranium including emitter effects.


12. Analyze the effects of postulated radiological events.


13. Analyze results of site contamination surveys to ensure a safe working environment to include gamma and neutron test/surveys.


14. Write, evaluate, monitor, review, and update all Navy related documentation such as Special Weapons Ordnance Publications (SWOPs), Directives, Instructions, Ordnance Documents (ODs), etc.


15. Conduct independent assessments of the transporting, processing, handling and maintenance procedures and the monitoring techniques (air and surface) that apply to hazardous materials (radioactive and mixed waste) and gamma and neutron personnel exposure.


16. Produce and/or coordinate requirements documents including Military Characteristics (MCs), Stockpile-to-Target Sequences (STSs), and Technical Objectives and Guidelines (TOGs). Provide input regarding the DOD Nuclear Weapon System Surety Program Key Elements as detailed in DODM 3150.02: DOD Nuclear Weapon System Surety Standards, DOD Nuclear Weapon System Surety Policy, DOD Nuclear Weapon Safety Design Criteria, Positive Measures, Safety Rules and Technical Procedures.


17. Conduct evaluations of deployed and advanced/future system options including ballistic and non-ballistic, strategic and tactical, nuclear and conventional reentry systems. These evaluations shall include but not be limited to assessments of the survivability, military utility and.effectiveness, and dynamics of these systems and concepts in normal, abnormal and hostile environments against the full spectrum of targets.


18. Evaluate and support all facets of Nuclear Weapons Surety. Nuclear Weapons Surety is defined as policies, procedures, controls and actions that encompass safety, security and control measures, which ensure there will be no nuclear weapons accidents, incidents, unauthorized detonation, or degradation of weapons effectiveness during its stockpile-to-target sequence.


19. Advise SSP on the impact of DOD, NNSA, NRC, Code of Federal Regulations, DON, state, and local radiological regulations affecting Navy’s nuclear weapons.


20. Conduct independent reviews/assessments and evaluate both conventional and nuclear weapon system safety policies, directives, standards and proposed changes pertinent to conventional/nuclear weapon system surety/safety for SSP HQ Staff, field activities (e.g. NOTU, SWFLANT, SWFPAC, SWS Ashore, SPF), SSBNs (including US Columbia class SSBN and UK Dreadnaught SSBN), and SSGNs, including, as directed, activities associated with the United Kingdom TRIDENT program.


21. Conduct independent reviews of SSP Alterations (SPALTs), Change Requests or other modifications, new developments, lightning protection and grounding systems, electrostatic discharge (ESD), SSP Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) efforts, Operational Safety Reviews (OSR), Special Safety Study (SSS), and Independent Assessments of system safety policies and practices IAW DODI and DODM 3150.02, SSP 5100.6, SSPINST 5100.2 (series) and other SSPINST, Ordnance Document (OD), SECNAV/OPNAV directives or other UK TRIDENT guidance.


22. Provide expert advice regarding the analysis and interpretation of overarching statutes, policy, directives, regulations, instructions, etc. as they specifically apply to SSP’s classification & declassification management efforts based on knowledge of organizational stakeholders and past, current, & planned future states of the programs.


23. Provide expert classification determination support based on knowledge of security classification guides that relate to all aspects of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Weapon System.


24. Calculate the responses of US components in the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body to Stockpile- to-Target-Sequence (STS) level hostile environments, consider both single and multiple exposures in their calculations.


25. Perform fratricide evaluations for the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body that will identify potential differences in the stay-out regions caused by UK unique constraints, and assist the UK in understanding and/or adopting the current US common fratricide methodology.


26. Conduct evaluations of the aerodynamic performance of the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body using data from U.S. Demonstration and Shakedown Operation (DASO) flight test, Follow-on Commander Evaluation Test (FCET) flights, and other experimental flight test for these evaluations.


27. Conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of the UK TRIDENT Reentry Body.


28. Provide electronic file transmission support between the UK, the US Navy and DOE/NNSA information system repositories and databases.


29. Advise SSP on the proficiency of the operations at UK TRIDENT facilities. This activity will include participation in inspections and evaluations, preparation of associated supporting reference materials, evaluation of UK proposals, and participation in compatibility assessments or slow run-through activities.

8.1 Place of Performance

Within walking distance (less than ½ mile) of the Washington Navy Yard DC, United States: Host an ESN terminal and ESN VTC capability. ESN is the only classified conduit to discuss Secret RD/FRD or CNWDI data with NNSA as well as Secret Atomic and Secret Atomic Principle data with the United Kingdom. SSP does not house this capability.

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   1. Classified conference rooms for meetings between Department of Navy and Department of Energy.
   
   
   
   


2. Within driving distance (less than 10 miles) of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, United States:
   
   
   
   1. ESN terminal and ESN VTC capability.
   
   
   2. Classified conference rooms for meetings between Department of Navy and Department of Energy.
   
   
   
   


3. Within driving distance (less than 10 miles) of Colorado Springs, CO
   
   
   
   1. Maintain Hostile and Vulnerability test capabilities.
   
   
   
   

9.0 Evidentiary Qualifications/Experience Documentation Requirements

Interested firms must possess the requisite minimum qualifications and experience identified in paragraph 7.0 and demonstrated relevant and recent experience as it relates to the requirements in paragraph 8.0. White Paper Capability statements must include all of the content and details identified below:

9.1 Minimum Qualifications / Experience Requirements Validation

White Paper Capability statement submissions shall include a discrete section with the heading “Minimum Qualifications / Experience Requirements” and document, with specific information, each of the minimum qualifications identified in paragraph 7.0. This section may cite contract reference efforts detailed in Table A of paragraph 9.2 below provided that respondents provide context and rationale as to how that contract reference effort(s) demonstrate possession of the applicable Minimum Qualifications / Experience requirements of bullets a through z identified in paragraph 7.0 – or have capability of obtaining by contract award.

9.2 Relevant & Recent Experience / Supporting Narratives

In addition to demonstrating possession of the requisite Minimum Qualifications / Experience requirements identified in paragraph 7.0 above (or have capability of obtaining by contract award), interested firms shall demonstrate relevant and recent experience performing the same or similar efforts and or completion tasks (as applicable) to the requirements in paragraph 8.0. Relevant experience is defined as performing efforts/tasks similar in scope, size, and complexity as the SSN CLIN structure with an annual incurred cost/expense of at least $10M. Recent experience is defined as work performed within 5 years of the SSN posting date. To substantiate the performance of relevant and recent efforts/tasks to the SSN CLIN requirements, White Paper Capability statements shall provide a list of current or previous contract references and the efforts/tasks performed thereunder detailing and evidencing a direct correlation of the contract reference efforts/tasks to the SSN CLIN structure using the specific outline provided in Table A below. Submitter’s responses to the Table A SSN CLIN outline shall include the following information per individual contract reference:

1. Summary of relevant work performed and how that specific work demonstrates capability to perform the specific requirements identified in the SSN CLINs;


2. Current / Prior Contract Number(s) and Customer/Agency Supported;


3. Identification of your role as the Prime or Subcontractor;


4. Contract Type: Cost Plus Fixed Fee LOE


5. Period of Performance of the specific contract reference effort performed;


6. Quantity of FTE personnel utilized on the specific contract reference effort, per annum, with distinction and FTE quantities identified between the respondents FTE employees and any subcontractor FTE employees;


7. Net Dollar value (base and options) for each contract reference and the Annual Incurred costs for each contract reference provided which demonstrates the magnitude of those contract references in comparison to the annual estimated value cited in paragraph 9.2 above. NOTE: solely citing an IDIQ ceiling amount or base and all options aggregate value without the annual incurred costs for the submitted contract reference(s) is NOT acceptable – amounts must be specific to the actual incurred costs for a Contract CLIN(s) or Individual Task Order(s), for the contract reference(s) cited in Table A below; and


8. Customer Point of Contact (POC) with valid phone number and email.

TABLE A – SUMMARY OF RELEVANT & RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE

SSN CLIN Requirement Contract Reference(s) Summary – Document the specific correlation of the contract reference efforts/tasks to the SSN CLIN efforts/tasks

0001 0001- SYSTEM ASSESSMENT AND VULNERABILITY

0002 0002- REENTRY SYSTEMS MK4B DEVELOPMENT

0003 0003- W93/Mk7 REENTRY SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT

0004 0004- SP20124 WEAPON SYSTEM SAFETY

0005 0005- UNITED KINGDOM (UK) MK4A SUPPORT

0006 0006- UNITED KINGDOM (UK) TRIDENT PROGRAM SUPPORT

0007 0007- UNITED KINGDOM (UK) A21/Mk7 PROGRAMMATIC AND TESTING SUPPORT

0008 0008- WEAPONS SYSTEMS REFURBISHMENT / MODIFICATION PROGRAMS

0081 0081- WEAPONS SYSTEMS REFURBISHMENT/MODIFICATION PROGRAMS

0009 0009- FUTURE FLEXIBILITY

0010 0010- FUTURE SEA-BASED STRATEGIC WEAPON (FSSW) PROGRAM

0011 0011- MISSILE ASSESSMENT AND SURVIVABILITY SUPPORT

0012 0012- LE2 MISSILE DEVELOPMENT SURVIVABILITY SUPPORT

0013 0013- SLCM-N DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

0131 0131- SLCM-N ESN AREA CONSTRUCTION

0014 0014 - MISSILE LIFE EXTENSION PROGRAMS (D5LE2)

0015 0015- SP202 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND EFFECTIVENESS

0016 0016- SP28 INTRINSIC RADIATION (INRAD) SURVEY

10.0 Company Information and Deadline for Submittal

White Paper Capability statements shall be submitted in PDF format and are due no later than January 10, 2025 1700 eastern. The White Papers shall not exceed 20 pages in total, using 12-point Times New Roman and 1” margin and shall be submitted via e-mail to Kurt.Geisinger@ssp.navy.mil.

ALL White Paper Capability submittals shall include the following information “not” included in the aforementioned maximum 20-page limit:

1. Company Administrative Information
   
   
   
   
   • Company Name:
   
   
   • Company Point of Contact (email and phone) and Title:
   
   
   • Company Address:
   
   
   • Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) No:
   
   
   • Cage Code:
   
   
   
   


2. Size of business, including; total annual revenue, by year, for the past five years and number of employees;


3. Ownership, including whether: small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns;


4. Number of years in business;


5. Identification of the current security clearance held at your facility that will provide support to the CLIN structure. NOTE: Work to be performed under this contract shall require the contractor to have a facility clearance of TOP SECRET and a computing facility that is cleared to process TOP SECRET data.

Respondents to this SSN shall indicate which portions of their response are proprietary/business sensitive and should mark them accordingly. It is the responsibility of the SSN respondent to monitor the sam.gov website for additional information pertaining to any potential acquisition.

11.0 Government Assessment

The White Paper Capability statement responses to this SSN must meet the requirements stated in the SSN and will be reviewed to determine whether each respondent is capable of performing the requirements. This review will be based solely on the specific data and supporting content provided by the respondents in their White Paper Capability statement submissions and responses to any follow on clarification inquires submitted by the Government. Incomplete or generalized White Paper Capability statements, without specificity as it relates to the SSN content requirements, omitted content, or content which fails to address all of the requirements of this SSN, will have a direct affect upon the Government’s assessment of the White Paper submittal. The Government’s assessment will include, but is not limited to, the following:

(1) The respondent’s specific and evidenced / demonstrated possession of the Minimum Qualifications / Experience requirements identified in paragraph 7.0;

(2) The respondent’s demonstrated ability to manage, as a Prime or Subcontractor, the types and magnitude of requirements identified in the SSN CLIN structure based on their relevant and recent performance of same/similar efforts/tasks in terms of scope, size, and complexity;

(3) The respondent’s demonstrated technical ability, as a Prime or Subcontractor, to execute the SSN CLIN structure based on their relevant and recent performance of same/similar efforts/tasks in terms of scope, size, and complexity; and

(4) The respondent’s demonstrated capacity to execute the CLIN structure based on their relevant and recent performance of same/similar efforts in terms of scope, size, and complexity, the quantity of personnel required, and the contract award date.

12.0 SSN Disclaimer

This SSN is issued solely for Market Research purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) nor a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This SSN does not commit the Government to solicit or award a contract. The information provided in the SSN is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. Respondents are advised that ALL costs associated with responding to this SSN, including any requests for follow-up information, will be solely at the interested parties’ expense and the Government will not pay for any information or costs incurred or associated with submitting a SSN White Paper Capability statement or follow-on responses.

The Government reserves the right to consider a set-aside for small businesses or one of the small business preference groups. (e.g., small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, 8(a), HUBZone small business, and women-owned small business programs).

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