Sonic Blaster Makers Rebuffed

(Производителям звуковых бластеров отказано)

Sharon Weinberger

15.01.2008

wired.com

The Government Accountability Office has rejected claims by sonic blaster competitors that the U.S. Navy unfair selected the Long Range Acoustic Device over competing designs for an acoustic hailing device. IMLCORP LLC and Wattre Corporation filed protests over the award but GAO sided with the Navy, which selected American Technology Corporation:

We do not agree with the protesters that they were treated unreasonably in the shout-off test, even though the agency did not use the same message, or set of messages, to assess the voice intelligibility of the firms’ devices in the shout-off tests and only used recorded messages. The protesters have not shown the agency’s explanation for doing so to be unreasonable. We also find that the Navy otherwise equally tested the firms’ devices, given that these products were evaluated at the same time and place, operated by the same individuals, and evaluated by the same group of evaluators.

There were other complaints – also rejected by the GAO – made by IMLCORP and Wattre, but many weren't considered, the office says, because they weren't filed within the required ten days.

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