Joint Multi-INT Precision Reference (JMPR)

The Air Force Research Laboratory established this Master IDIQ on May 4, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $24 million to research, design, test, and transition advanced technology in precise timing, frequency, position, velocity, and attitude for military platforms. Ordering closed on April 24, 2023, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle is effectively exhausted as a pursuit opportunity. All $11.8 million in combined potential value across eight task orders has been obligated, representing less than half the shared ceiling. The most recent task order awarded on December 30, 2023, occurred after the vehicle's ordering deadline, indicating final close-out activity. Task-order awards have slowed substantially since the 2023 surge: three orders in 2018, declining to one per year in 2019–2021, then two in 2023. With the ordering window closed for over three years and all committed funding already obligated, no new ordering activity is projected.

Scope has centered on coherent sensing and electronic warfare exploitation. Task orders span collaborative decentralized reconnaissance, frequency/timing reference systems, and position/attitude determination for ISR and bistatic-SAR applications. All eight orders are unrestricted, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders, with durations typically ranging from one to three years. Individual task-order ceilings have ranged from roughly $470,000 to $3.5 million.

Competition consolidated among three primes. Microsemi Frequency And Time Corp holds the largest share with three orders totaling $6.3 million in potential value (53% of the portfolio). Rockwell Collins, Inc. captured three orders for $4.4 million (37%). RTX BBN Technologies, Inc. holds the remaining two orders for $1.1 million. All orders have funded the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory with no cross-agency ordering. All work carried cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing; place of performance is not specified in the source material.

This vehicle offers no current pursuit path. New vendors should monitor whether the Air Force establishes a successor IDIQ for precision reference technology and multi-INT sensing platforms.

The objective for JMPR is to research, design, test, and transition advanced technology in precise timing, frequency, position, velocity, and attitude on military platforms to demonstrate enhanced coherent sensing (ISR, bistatic-SAR, etc.) and electronic effects (collaborative Electronic Warfare). Additionally, it is an objective of this effort to design these systems to provide situational awareness to the user on the performance and threat environment in which they are operating.