Global Application Research, Development, Engineering, and Maintenance (GARDEM)

The Department of the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a multiple-award Master IDIQ for Global Application Research, Development, Engineering, and Maintenance (GARDEM) on September 16, 2019, with a shared ceiling of $427 million and an ordering period that closed September 16, 2024. The vehicle is no longer active; no new orders may be placed.

GARDEM supplies a software toolkit providing data visualization, analysis, and collaboration capabilities for temporal, spatial, entity, and association information to the Air Force, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and other federal agencies. The platform includes Web-Enabled Temporal Analysis System Enterprise, Combined Information Data Network Exchange, International Distributed Uniform Reporting Environment, and Runway applications. Task orders fund research, development, prototyping, engineering, integration, testing, deployment, and operations and maintenance across worldwide locations including United States Central Command sites. All work is performed by U.S. contractors; foreign entities are ineligible as primes.

Parsons Government Services Inc. dominates the vehicle, holding nine of 18 awarded task orders with $290.6 million combined potential value—roughly 66 percent of the $441.2 million combined potential across all primes. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. holds five orders for $125.5 million (28 percent); General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. holds two orders for $25 million; American Systems Corporation and Polaris Alpha, LLC each hold one order under $100 thousand. All 18 task orders carry no set-aside designation.

The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) in Rome, New York is the primary customer, with five orders totaling $135.7 million potential value. Other significant customers include Air Force Air Combat Command (three orders, $114.7 million potential) and Air Force Central Command (four orders, $88 thousand potential). Eight distinct federal agencies have placed orders. All task orders employ cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing except the four post-award kickoff orders in September 2019, which were firm-fixed-price. Of $441.2 million potential value, $280.2 million (64 percent) has been obligated. Most recent task-order awards range from $10.7 million to $54.1 million ceiling values, with completion dates extending through September 2026.

The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome NY (AFRL/RI), has a requirement to perform research, development, prototyping, integration, testing, demonstration, deployment and maintenance of innovative technologies and concepts in support for Global Application Research, Development, Engineering and Maintenance (GARDEM) software baselines. GARDEM provides Air Force, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community (IC) and other Federal Agencies with a software toolkit that provides a general data visualization and analysis infrastructure for the analysis of temporal, spatial, entity, and association information, report generation, incident reporting, workflow, and query/search. Web-Enabled Temporal Analysis System (WebTAS) Enterprise (WE), Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE), International Distributed Uniform Reporting Environment (INDURE) and Runway make up the primary software applications in the GARDEM toolset. The flexible toolset architecture provides access to multiple data sources, data mining, information fusion, and collaboration tools that facilitate trend, link, pattern, and distributed analysis to support activity prediction and customer unique capabilities. This effort will perform research and development, design, analysis, studies, engineering, integration, test, evaluation and operations and maintenance support for current and new users of the GARDEM software toolset.