AFICA Cyber Security Technical Area Task (CS-TAT)

The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service awarded the AFICA Cyber Security Technical Area Task Master IDIQ on November 1, 2015, with ordering closed as of November 30, 2020. This vehicle is no longer open to new task orders. The Master IDIQ carries a combined potential value of $1.81 billion, of which $1.25 billion (69%) has been obligated across 64 task orders. All awards under the vehicle are unrestricted—no set-aside designations apply.

Task-order activity peaked in 2017 (18 orders) and declined thereafter, with the final award issued August 29, 2019, six years and ten months ago. The vehicle demonstrates moderate competitive concentration. HII Mission Technologies Corp leads by combined potential value at $392.5 million across eight orders, followed by KBR Wyle Services, LLC at $373.4 million across eleven orders and Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp at $341.4 million across four orders. The top five primes (also including Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and Battelle Memorial Institute) hold 84% of combined potential value, while the top four capture 66% of task order count, indicating that a small set of contractors dominates the vehicle.

Customer concentration centers heavily on the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which placed 33 orders worth $394.3 million combined potential value—roughly half of all orders by count. The remaining orders distribute across the Navy (Naval Air Systems Command, Fleet Forces Command Atlantic and Pacific) and Air Force commands. Most awarded work falls into cybersecurity systems engineering, software development, IT infrastructure analysis, and modeling and simulation support. Representative mega-orders include cybersecurity support for U.S. Pacific Fleet operations (ceiling $279.6 million, obligated $77.1 million), research and development for cyber effects and synthetic training technologies for the Office of Naval Research (ceiling $134.6 million, obligated $59.4 million), and space security program threat assessment and vulnerability analysis (ceiling $47.7 million, obligated $43.5 million). Task orders typically employ Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing and carry ceiling values ranging from roughly $3 million to $280 million. Since this vehicle is no longer accepting orders, pursuit is not viable.

The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency (AFICA) Information Analysis Center (IAC) Program has awarded a Master IDIQ for all cyber security and information systems-related research, development, test and evaluation (RDT & E) services and/or analyses that will generate Scientific and Technical Information (STI) in support of building on the cyber security and information systems (CS) knowledge base and obtaining a wide range of cyber security and information systems-related research, development, studies, evaluations, analyses and similar services.