Agile Cyber Technology 2 (ACT2)

The Air Force Research Laboratory established Agile Cyber Technology 2 (ACT 2) on April 12, 2018, as a Master IDIQ to support rapid development, prototyping, demonstration, and operational deployment of cyber technologies across eight capability areas including cyber threat avoidance, full-spectrum cyber operations, cyber network exploitation, situation awareness, command and control, modeling and simulation, infrastructure, and mission assurance. The vehicle's ordering period closed on April 11, 2023, and is no longer accepting new task orders.

ACT 2 is inactive and no longer available for new pursuits. The vehicle generated 17 task orders over its lifetime, with most activity concentrated in 2018 and 2019. The most recent order awarded in April 2021. Combined potential value across all orders reached $1.05 billion, with $905.7 million obligated (87% of combined potential). Task orders were predominantly unrestricted (94%), with one small-business award.

Assured Information Security, Inc. dominates the prime contractor base, holding six orders valued at $418.9 million in combined potential—roughly 40% of the vehicle's total. Global Infotek Inc. and CNF Technologies Corporation follow with four and three orders valued at $225.5 million and $219.6 million respectively, together accounting for an additional 42%. Invictus International Consulting LLC and Radiance Technologies Inc. each held two orders. Air Force Research Laboratory commands held ten orders valued at $392 million, dominating customer concentration at roughly 37% of combined potential value, with the Army Intelligence and Security Command placing two large orders valued at $291.2 million.

Awarded task orders typically ranged from $51.7 million to $241.5 million in ceiling value. Pricing across all orders used cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-fixed-price structures. Named programs included INFINITE REACH ($241.5 million ceiling), CPAC-D ($95.2 million ceiling), CPAC-C ($139 million ceiling), CPAC-A ($115.1 million ceiling), RCATT ($123 million ceiling), and CPAC-B ($96.6 million ceiling), predominantly supporting Air Force cyber technology experimentation and transition initiatives.

The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome NY (AFRL/RI) awarded ACT 2 to support the activities necessary to achieve AFRL's vision of cyber superiority. Emphasis is placed on: a) development of technology capability solutions that address specific user requirements; b) delivery of prototype technologies for evaluation and feedback in the context of the user's operational environment; and c) provision of a mechanism for user acquisition of limited product quantities required for operational introduction of technologies. The technical requirements encompass rapid development, design, prototyping, demonstration, scenario development, experimentation and evaluation, integration, testing, technical installation, transitions through initial operations and cyber technologies, and support in the following areas: 1) Cyber Threat Avoidance and Cyber Defense, 2) Full Spectrum Cyber Operations, 3) Cyber Network Exploitation, 4) Cyber Situation and Mission Awareness, 5) Cyber Command and Control, 6) Cyber Modeling, Simulation, and Wargaming, 7) Cyber Infrastructure, and 8) Cyber Mission Assurance.