C4ISR Emerging PNT Technologies

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded a Master IDIQ on August 22, 2018, for engineering services supporting emerging positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies for C4ISR applications. The vehicle's ordering period closed on August 20, 2023. The vehicle carried a 100% small-business set-aside structure at the vehicle level and funded a shared ceiling of $120.4 million across the awardees.

The vehicle is no longer active for new ordering. As of August 2023, the vehicle had issued 30 task orders over nearly five years, with ordering momentum declining sharply in the final years: 8 orders in 2019, 7 in 2020, 4 in 2021, 2 in 2022, and 5 in 2023. The most recent task order was issued on August 21, 2023, with ultimate completion dates extending into 2024.

Work centers on GPS-based positioning, navigation, and timing systems integration and engineering support. Task orders address military GPS user equipment integration and test, GPS-based positioning navigation and timing service platform integration for unmanned surface vessels, advanced threat analysis, and non-GPS-aided positioning systems for surface and subsurface platforms.

Competition is severely concentrated. Coherent Technical Services, Inc., holds 24 of 30 awards worth $20.9 million in combined potential value—roughly 92% of all task-order value. Riverside Engineering LLC and Solute hold 3 and 2 orders respectively, worth $1.1 million and $542 thousand combined potential value. Despite the small-business set-aside at vehicle level, 90% of task orders carried no set-aside designation, with only 3 orders (10%) designated Total Small Business in actual execution.

Customers are concentrated within Navy. The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command placed 29 of 30 orders worth $22.3 million; the Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research placed 1 order worth $240 thousand.

Combined task-order potential value stands at $22.6 million, with $21.7 million obligated (96% of potential value). Awarded task orders range from approximately $25 thousand to $3.8 million in ceiling value, with typical CPFF orders spanning $300 thousand to $1.6 million. Work performance occurred across multiple Navy installations and operational environments supporting shipboard and airborne C4ISR platforms.

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.