Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES)

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded a Master IDIQ for Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) on August 20, 2014, with a shared ceiling of $2.529 billion and a last date to order of January 8, 2023 — the vehicle is no longer accepting new orders as of that date, which closed over three years ago.

CANES supplies secure afloat networks for naval and joint operations through consolidation of multiple shipboard network systems into a Common Computing Environment using cross-domain technologies. Awarded task orders span production units, sub-assemblies, components for specific vessel classes (DDG, CG, SSN platforms), spares, and related support. All 117 orders issued under the vehicle are unrestricted (no set-asides). Task orders are priced firm fixed price and range from under $100,000 to approximately $26 million in obligated value, with durations typically between six months and three years based on recent orders.

Ordering momentum declined sharply in the vehicle's final years: 26 orders in 2018 fell to 8 by 2022, with the last task order awarded on December 13, 2022. Combined task-order potential value totaled $931.5 million, of which $927.3 million (100 percent) has already been obligated, leaving negligible remaining capacity.

Three primes dominate the vehicle. Serco Inc. holds 43 orders valued at $375.4 million; Laurel Technologies Partnership holds 28 orders at $288.1 million; and BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. holds 19 orders at $202.5 million. These three firms account for approximately 92 percent of all task orders and 97 percent of combined potential value. Management Services Group, General Dynamics Mission Systems, and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation together hold the remaining 7 percent. All orders fund the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command exclusively; no other federal agencies place work under this vehicle.

The vehicle is a Navy-only, mature production program in a closed ordering state with virtually all available value already committed. Pursuit is not viable for new entrants or additional work.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), on behalf of the Program Executive Office - Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO-C4I), Tactical Networks Program Office (PMW 160), has awarded a Master IDIQ for the Common Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) of full deployment production units. The primary goals of the CANES program are to: 1) Provide a secure afloat network required for Naval and Joint Operations; 2) Consolidate and reduce the number of afloat networks through the use of a Common Computing Environment (CCE) and mature cross domain technologies; 3) Reduce the infrastructure footprint and associated logistics, sustainment and training costs; and 4) Increase reliability, security, interoperability and application hosting to meet current and projected Warfighter requirements.