TGS REQUESTS UPDATED EADSIM SOFTWARE

UNCLAS ANKARA 002556 SIPDIS STATE FOR EUR/SE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: MASS MARR TU SUBJECT: TGS REQUESTS UPDATED EADSIM SOFTWARE ¶1. Deputy PolMilCouns on May 3 received an original letter from Colonel Ziyaeddin Ipekkan, Deputy Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Scientific Division for forwarding to the US Missile Defense Agency Modeling and Simulation Program Director. The letter requests US provision to TGS of EADSIM version 12 software per the June 2001 Memorandum of Understanding regarding Missile Defense Modeling and Simulation. We will pouch the original to MDA. ¶2. BEGIN TEXT OF LETTER: REPUBLIC OF TURKEY TURKISH GENERAL STAFF ANKARA 13 April 2005 Mr. Richard S. MATLOCK Program Director, Modeling and Simulation Missile Defense Agency 7100 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-7100 Mr. MATLOCK, The TGS Scientific Decision Support Center (SDSC) currently uses Extended Air Defense Simulation (EADSIM) version 11 R-06 for NATO Missile Defense (MD) Studies as a member of Modeling and Simulation Team (MST) and Bilateral MD Architecture Analysis Study under the terms and conditions of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between our governments in June 2001. The aforementioned MOU enables TU to acquire and get necessary services for current version of EADSIM until June 2008 via the consent of Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Within this context, I kindly request the release of new version of EADSIM (v.12) to the TGS SDSC. Please note that the administrative paperwork e.g., user information request, user site registration, MOU and Software Utility Agreement for release of EADSIM, has already been completed and sent to Teledyne Brown Engineering. Sincerely, // S // Ziyaeddin IPEKKAN Colonel (TU Army) Deputy Chief, TGS Scientific Decision Support Center END TEXT. EDELMAN