DHS Aerial Remote Sensing 2013-2018

The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Information Officer established a Master IDIQ for aerial remote sensing services, with the last opportunity to place orders against it on May 20, 2018—the vehicle is now closed to new work.

The vehicle is no longer active for pursuit. Ordering closed over eight years ago, and the combined task-order potential value of $3.4 million has been fully obligated. The 32 task orders awarded under the vehicle show declining momentum: ordering peaked in 2016–2017 (18 orders over two years) but dropped to a single order in 2018 before the May 20 deadline. This was a five-year ordering vehicle from its May 21, 2013 award date, and no successor vehicle is indicated in the source.

The scope centered on incident-response imagery and analysis: vertical and oblique aerial acquisition, LiDAR, photogrammetric processing, rapid dissemination, and associated data interpretation for damage assessments and situational awareness. The most recent task orders (2017–2018) reflect heavy use for natural-disaster response, including Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Matthew, wildfire impacts, and regional flooding—orders typically ranged from $40 thousand to $300 thousand and closed quickly after deployment events.

Competition was concentrated among five primes. Dewberry Engineers Inc. led with 11 orders worth $1 million combined potential value, followed closely by Dewberry Consultants LLC (8 orders, $958 thousand) and NV5 Geospatial, Inc. (8 orders, $951 thousand). BAE Systems held two separate contract vehicles with 4 and 1 orders respectively, accounting for $461 thousand. The Dewberry entities collectively held 19 of 32 orders and roughly 56% of combined potential value. All 32 task orders carried no set-aside designation—the vehicle was fully unrestricted.

Customer demand came primarily from Federal Emergency Management Agency Incident Support Section (11 orders, $1.1 million), DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (8 orders, $778 thousand), and FEMA Information Technology Section (4 orders, $736 thousand). Together these three units drove 84% of awarded orders. Work was performed nationwide.

Services include readiness reporting, deployment exercises, vertical and oblique aerial image acquisition, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), photogrammetric data processing, and electronic dissemination of imagery data for DHS.