Family of Weapon Sight - Individual - Full Rate Production (FWS-I)

The Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Soldier established this Master IDIQ for production of the Family of Weapon Sights - Individual (FWS-I), an uncooled, lightweight, long-wave infrared imaging device for surveillance and target acquisition on individual weapons (M4, M249) in daylight, darkness, adverse weather, and dirty battlefield conditions, with ordering authority through April 27, 2027—nine months remaining.

The vehicle is substantially exhausted. Combined potential value across ten task orders totals $494.2 million, with $491.7 million already obligated (100% of combined potential). Only two primes hold awards: DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC dominates with seven orders and $418.8 million in combined potential value, while Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc. holds three orders and $75.4 million. All ten awards are unrestricted, competitive procurements with no set-aside designations. The Army is the sole customer, placing all orders.

Ordering momentum has slowed. The vehicle issued four orders in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, and two in 2025, with the most recent award on September 10, 2025. Recent orders carry substantial values: a September 2025 order to DRS for $63.8 million and a June 2025 order to DRS for $76.1 million. Task-order ceilings are firm fixed price, ranging from $1.95 million (OLED effort) to $134.4 million (17,013 FWS-I systems to DRS). At least two orders—one to Teledyne Flir for $31.3 million and one to Teledyne Flir for $2.46 million—were terminated for convenience as of September 3, 2025.

The FWS-I system provides wireless Rapid Target Acquisition capability through compatibility with Intra-Soldier Wireless interface devices and interconnects with Direct View Optics. All awarded work is firm fixed price production of systems, spares, repair parts, maintenance, and system technical support. The originating solicitation (posted January 2020, RFI due February 7, 2020) contemplated full rate production from fiscal years 2022 through 2026 targeting approximately 120,000 systems total—a significant increase from the prior production contract's 36,443 systems.

Production of the Family of Weapon Sights - Individual (FWS-I), associated spare and repair parts, maintenance, and system technical support. The FWS-I is an uncooled, lightweight, infrared imaging device of medium to high resolution used for surveillance and target acquisition on individual weapons during daylight, darkness, adverse weather, and dirty battlefield conditions. The FWS-I, when used in conjunction with an Intra-Soldier Wireless (ISW) Interface Control Document (ICD) compliant device, shall provide a wireless Rapid Target Acquisition (RTA) capability. The FWS-I, when used in conjunction with a Direct View Optic (DVO), shall provide interconnectivity such that the FWS-I displayed output scene imagery serves as the input for the DVO.