C4ISR Cyberspace Science Research Engineering and Technology Integration 2011-2016 (C4ISR Cyber 2011)

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command established this Master IDIQ for C4ISR and cyberspace RDT&E services on January 31, 2011, with ordering authority that closed on January 30, 2016—this vehicle is no longer active and no new orders can be placed. The C4ISR Cyberspace Science Research Engineering and Technology Integration 2016-2019 vehicle succeeded it in September 2016.

During its five-year ordering window, the vehicle generated 144 task orders with a combined potential value of $160.5 million, of which $151 million (94 percent) has been obligated. Ordering accelerated in the final two years: 2014 and 2015 each saw roughly 37–38 awards, compared to 21–23 annually in the earlier period. The most recent orders were placed on January 29, 2016, just before the deadline.

Booz Allen Hamilton and Leidos dominated the prime landscape. Booz Allen captured 57 orders worth $66.2 million in combined potential value, while Leidos held 62 orders across two distinct contract parents totaling $72.8 million. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, General Dynamics Mission Systems, and a single additional small business partner collectively held the remainder. These five primes account for substantially all awarded volume.

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command, as the sponsoring customer, placed 92 of 144 orders (64 percent) worth $102.6 million. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, and the Joint Staff J7 (joint training) environment accounted for most of the remaining activity across 24 distinct federal customer agencies.

All 144 task orders were awarded unrestricted—no set-aside designations appeared. Task orders ranged from under $100,000 to roughly $5 million in ceiling value; the largest single orders supported CANES (Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) engineering, information assurance services, and Joint Staff training environment architecture. Work spanned software development and prototyping, systems engineering, information assurance and cybersecurity support, network operations, modeling and simulation, and technical refresh services. Delivery orders typically carried cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structures with performance periods of 6–18 months.

SSC Pacific, as the principle Navy Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT & E) and Acquisition Center for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and Information Operations (IO is responsible for functions that include: mission analysis; assessment and development of technology base; basic and applied research; demonstration of technology; engineering in support of production; support to operating forces; supporting doctrine, policy, and strategy development; and integration of numerous National and Tactical systems in the area of Cyberspace Operations. To meet these responsibilities, SSC Pacific requires advice, assistance, coordination and products necessary to support operational planning, assessment, integration, execution and technology development to assure superiority for the warfighter in the cyberspace domain. The full scope of this requirement is anticipated to include: technology assessment, development and transition; requirements analysis; systems engineering; operational and technical support; exercise and experimentation support; software development and prototyping; hardware development and prototyping; modeling and simulation; training support; security engineering/cybersecurity.