Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC)

The Department of the Air Force established the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a master IDIQ with a shared ceiling of $46 billion, to rapidly develop novel weapons technologies and capabilities across the full lifecycle from concept development through production, fielding, operations, and sustainment. Ordering authority runs through September 9, 2031, providing approximately five years of remaining obligation window.

The vehicle remains actively used, with 427 task orders awarded since September 2021 and $3.53 billion obligated against a combined potential value of $7.37 billion (48% commitment). Order activity accelerated in 2025 with 152 task orders, then moderated sharply to 6 orders in early 2026; recent awards (April 2026) include Modeling and Simulation Vistas framework modeling work, Small Diameter Bomb II program management reviews, and Next Generation Penetrator data recorders, alongside multiple on-ramp administrative orders of $1,000 each.

Raytheon Company holds decisive market concentration, capturing 16 orders worth $2.9 billion in combined potential value — nearly 40% of the top five primes' combined value. Lockheed Martin (5 orders, $1.53 billion), Northrop Grumman Systems (6 orders, $766.7 million), Integrated Solutions For Systems (5 orders, $202.3 million), and Dynetics (8 orders, $167.9 million) form a tighter competitive tier. Beyond these five, 293 other primes have won orders, but concentration remains high; the top five primes hold approximately 76% of combined potential value. All 427 task orders carry no set-aside designation, competing unrestricted.

Customer concentration mirrors prime concentration. The Department of the Air Force accounts for 206 orders worth $3.88 billion in potential value, with the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base issuing a further 172 orders worth $304.2 million. These two organizational units capture 94% of ordering activity. Remaining orders fund the Air Force Materiel Command, Aeronautical Systems Center, and Ogden Air Logistics Complex, each issuing single-digit order counts.

Awarded task orders span weapons system development, program management, manufacturing, systems engineering, and modeling and simulation. Representative work includes Long Range Standoff (LRSO) B-52H carriage equipment production (obligated $189 million), Missile Defense Agency threat simulation development ($26.5 million obligated against a $606.5 million ceiling), Advanced Airborne Threat Target Control System software support ($2.88 million obligated against $26.3 million), and Next Generation Penetrator engineering ($47.4 million, firm-fixed-price). Cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price pricing dominate; cost-plus-award-fee appears on larger integration and modeling efforts. Task-order ceilings range from under $1 million for tactical items to over $600 million for multi-year modeling and simulation enterprises, with typical durations extending one to seven years.

Provide the ability to: a) rapidly develop technologies of novel weapons capabilities, b) apply unique solutions and innovative ideas, and c) characterize new technologies and system concepts that provide evolutionary, revolutionary, and disruptive capabilities for the United States Air Force through weapons systems requirements development, studies and demonstrations. The primary objective is to provide rapid response applicable to all areas and lifecycle phases of weapons development to include weapons concepts, concept development, concept demonstrations, weapons system procurement, production, fielding, operations, and sustainment to quickly meet current and future weapons system requirements.