Engineering and Support Services for Network and Information Systems Technology Programs

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded this Master IDIQ on July 12, 2021, to procure engineering and technical services for networks, communication systems, sensors, applications, and information systems across naval platforms and infrastructure. Ordering authority extends through July 11, 2028, leaving approximately one year and eleven months of ordering window available.

The vehicle contracts cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost pricing delivery orders with a combined potential value of $19.5 million against a vehicle ceiling of $68.0 million. To date, $13.5 million has been obligated (69% of combined potential value). Activity peaked in 2021 with twelve orders, but has cooled considerably—only one order was placed in 2025, and ordering momentum shows a four-year downward trend: 12 orders in 2021, four in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, and one in 2025.

Awarded task orders span tactical airborne networks (E-2D Advanced Hawkeye integration), Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) software sustainment, Battle Force Tactical Network (BFTN) engineering, and general network architecture and systems engineering support. Ten orders represent minimum-guarantee obligations of $3,500 each, issued at vehicle award in 2021; remaining orders deliver value-based engineering work ranging from $600,000 to $5.5 million in potential value.

Competition concentrates among four prime contractors. Booz Allen Hamilton holds the largest share with $7.8 million in combined potential value across three orders. Noblis MSD follows with $6.1 million across two orders. Science Applications International Corporation and Effecture each hold between $1.8 and $3.7 million. Seven additional small-business and mid-market firms round out the twelve-awardee population. The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command is the sole customer agency across all twenty orders. All task orders are unrestricted (no set-aside designations).

Typical order durations run eighteen to thirty-six months. Most orders use cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing with obligated amounts representing partial drawdown of ceiling values, signaling continued performance and potential follow-on work within existing order ceilings before new orders are placed.

Engineering and technical services in support of networks, communication systems, sensors, applications and information systems that are currently operational, under development, requiring upgrades or theoretical evolutions.