Human Performance Optimization (HPO)

The Department of the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service established a multiple-award Master IDIQ for Human Performance Optimization services on April 1, 2024, with ordering authority extending through March 31, 2034. The vehicle carries a $988 million shared ceiling and remains active with 7 years 8 months of ordering authority remaining.

The contract funds education and training, management support, program management, engineering and technical services, professional services, and administrative services focused on optimizing aircrew and warfighter cognitive performance, emotional resiliency, physical capacity, and occupational injury reduction. Work spans physical and cognitive performance optimization, return-to-duty acceleration, and combat readiness enhancement across Air Force communities.

Thirteen task orders totaling $173.2 million in combined potential value have been awarded since vehicle inception, with $28.6 million obligated to date. Activity slowed in 2025 (5 orders versus 8 in 2024), though recent awards include two significant programs: a $70.6 million ceiling order to Air Education and Training Command for CRAFT (Comprehensive Readiness for Aircrew Flying Training) and a $68.8 million ceiling order supporting multi-command optimization efforts across Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command, Pacific Air Forces, United States Air Forces in Europe, and Air Force Reserve Command.

LMR Technical Group LLC dominates the vehicle, holding 5 of 13 awards representing $142.6 million of the $173.2 million combined potential value—roughly 82 percent of the contract's economic footprint. Reef Systems Corp holds 3 awards ($21.9 million), and Laredo Technical Services, Inc. holds 2 awards ($8.7 million); the remaining two small-business primes together account for $2 thousand. Air Combat Command placed 9 of 13 orders but represents only $24.6 million of potential value; larger orders cluster under Air Education and Training Command, United States Air Forces in Europe, and multi-command programs.

About 69 percent of orders carry no set-aside designation; the remainder (31 percent) are small-business set-aside. Task-order ceilings range from $505 thousand to $70.6 million, with durations typically 24–36 months and fixed-price level-of-effort pricing structures.

Human performance optimization provides the agility and capacity to improve performance and extend longevity of the human weapon system, improves cognitive performance, strengthens emotional resiliency, and increases physical capacity and durability.