JPALS NUCAS WFN AAR

Naval Air Warfare Center awarded this Master IDIQ on August 15, 2013, for engineering and integration support across Joint Precision Approach & Landing Systems (JPALS), Navy Unmanned Combat Aerial Systems (NUCAS), Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS), Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS), War fighter Networking (WFN), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)/Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA), and automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) programs. Ordering closed on August 14, 2018—this vehicle is no longer active. A successor vehicle, JPALS ATC Shipboard Integration 2019, was awarded in April 2019.

The vehicle supported contract program management, technical development planning, systems engineering, research and technical analysis, functional and design requirements definition, aircraft and ship integration analysis, test and evaluation requirements analysis, test planning and procedures development, prototype development, and testing across Navy unmanned and carrier aviation platforms.

Coherent Technical Services, Inc., and Engility Services, LLC, dominated the vehicle, capturing four and three orders respectively for combined potential values of $64 million and $62.6 million. Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services, LLC, and BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., each held two orders, with combined potential values of $33.4 million and $28.6 million. A fifth prime, Sierra Nevada Company, LLC, held one order valued at $10 thousand. These five firms account for all activity on the vehicle. All 14 task orders were placed by Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center; no other funding agencies ordered work under this IDIQ.

Nearly all awards were unrestricted (13 of 14 orders, or 93%); one small-business order accounted for the remaining 7 percent. Task orders ranged from $10 thousand minimum guarantees to ceiling values near $36.9 million. The combined potential value across all task orders was $188.6 million, with $169.3 million obligated (90% drawdown). The vehicle supported heaviest ordering from 2013 through 2014, with six and four task orders respectively; activity slowed to two orders per year by 2015 and 2018, the final ordering year. All task orders used cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing.

Master IDIQ for engineering and integration support for Joint Precision Approach & Landing Systems (JPALS), Navy Unmanned Combat Aerial Systems (NUCAS), Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS), Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS), War fighter Networking (WFN), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)/Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) and automated Aerial Refueling (AAR). Work under this vehicle includes a broad spectrum of support including: contract program management, technical development planning, systems engineering, research and technical analysis, functional and design requirements, aircraft and ship integration analysis, test and evaluation requirements analysis, test plans and procedures, prototype development and testing.