Joint Force Development Services for the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

DOD Washington Headquarters Service established this Master IDIQ on May 1, 2019 to procure joint force development services for the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, including cybersecurity, exercise and event design, simulation architecture and operations, intelligence, scenario development, courseware development, and facility operations. Ordering closed April 29, 2024 — the vehicle is no longer active.

The Master IDIQ succeeded a prior NAVSUP joint force development contract (2014–2019). Activity peaked at award with 14 task orders in 2019, then contracted sharply to one order in 2020 before recovering modestly to 4–5 orders per year in 2021–2022. The most recent award was July 1, 2022. Twenty-four task orders have been issued under the vehicle with a combined potential value of $315.8 million; $252.1 million (80%) has been obligated to date.

Competition is highly concentrated. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation dominates by potential value, holding six orders worth $217.6 million — roughly 69% of total vehicle value. CSA Global LLC placed the most orders (8) but holds only $44.2 million in combined potential value. Science Applications International Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton each hold four orders worth $35.8 million and $16.1 million respectively. The top four primes account for 96% of task orders; General Dynamics Information Technology holds a single $1.2 million order.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Office of the Secretary of Defense placed 22 of 24 orders (97% of potential value at $300.7 million). The Defense Contract Management Agency issued two orders worth $15.1 million combined. All awards carry unrestricted (non-set-aside) competition designations.

Task orders range from roughly $0.4 million to $74.8 million in ceiling value, with durations typically through mid-2024. The largest order by far is a collective joint training support and operations and maintenance contract (N0018919DZ006-N0018922FZ030) awarded January 16, 2022, with a $74.8 million ceiling and $62.4 million obligated. The second-largest is a joint knowledge online operations and maintenance contract (N0018919DZ006-N0018919FZ730) with an $51.7 million ceiling and $38.3 million obligated. Pricing is split between firm fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee structures, with cost-plus dominating larger orders.

Tasks include, but are not limited to: cybersecurity, exercise and event design, planning, execution and analysis, concept development, capabilities and solutions, planning, scheduling, logistics, modeling, simulation architecture design, simulation model management and operations, around-the-clock simulation pipeline operations, intelligence, scenario development, database builds and tests, distributed learning, courseware development, event response and control cells, assessment, and facility operations, as well as development of future joint training environments, and the test and evaluation of proposed new equipment using the existing joint training environment resources