C4ISR Emerging Navigation Technologies

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded a Master IDIQ for technical services in support of emerging navigation technologies applicable to air and shipboard C4ISR systems, with ordering closed as of May 5, 2018. This vehicle is no longer active; it was succeeded by C4ISR Emerging PNT Technologies in August 2018.

Over its five-year ordering window, the vehicle generated 83 task orders with combined potential value of $65.6 million, of which $65.4 million has been obligated—effectively 100 percent of the vehicle's capacity. Ordering velocity declined steadily from a peak of 22 orders in 2014 to eight orders in the final year (2018), reflecting the vehicle's maturation and planned transition to its successor. The first task order was issued the same day the vehicle was established (May 6, 2013); the last order came April 30, 2018.

Competition is highly concentrated among two prime contractors. Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services, LLC holds 59 percent of all orders (49 of 83) and 80 percent of combined potential value ($52.5 million). Coherent Technical Services, Inc. accounts for the remaining 41 percent of orders (34) and 20 percent of potential value ($13.1 million). All 83 task orders were unrestricted competitive actions with no set-aside designations.

Customer funding is similarly concentrated. The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (the contracting office itself) placed 35 orders (42 percent) with $19 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Air Force Space Command Space and Missile Systems Center issued 23 orders (28 percent) representing the largest share of potential value at $39.7 million. The Navy Naval Air Systems Command, Army, and Office of the Secretary of Defense account for the remaining 13 orders and roughly $3.2 million combined. Approximately 87 percent of all ordering activity concentrates in these five customer organizations.

Task orders ranged from small analytical efforts in the $25 thousand to $35 thousand range through development and engineering support contracts in the $3 million to $4 million range, with most falling between $200 thousand and $500 thousand. All orders employed Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing. Work encompassed GPS enterprise engineering, test vectors and simulator datasets, positioning and timing systems verification, anti-jam antenna modernization, C-130 aircraft navigation systems engineering, F-35 ALIS (Autonomic Logistics Information System) support, and advanced maritime detection analysis.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR Systems CenterPacific) in support of Systems of System and Platform Integration Branch has awarded a Master IDIQ for technical services in support of Emerging Navigation Technologies for Applicability to Air and Shipboard C4ISR System Applications.