Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems II (MEUAS II)

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) awarded a Master IDIQ for Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems II (MEUAS II) worldwide intelligence gathering, target surveillance, and reconnaissance services on January 25, 2013, with ordering closed as of August 31, 2016—nine years and ten months ago. This vehicle is no longer open; it was succeeded by Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems III, awarded in June 2017.

The vehicle contracted planning, coordination, certification, installation, pre-deployment, deployment, logistics, maintenance, flying, and post-deployment operations for UAS ISR missions worldwide. Task orders covered UAS ISR services paired with travel, pre-deployment site setup, and post-deployment closeout, with firm fixed-price structures and performance periods typically running six months to two years.

Activity peaked in 2014, when seven orders were placed; subsequent years saw declining volume, with four orders in 2015 and ordering concluding by March 2015. The 21 task orders issued generated a combined potential value of $260.3 million, with all funds fully obligated. Two primes dominated the vehicle: Insitu, Inc. held 13 orders totaling $188.8 million in combined potential value (roughly 73 percent), while Textron Systems Corporation held 8 orders totaling $71.5 million (roughly 27 percent). All task orders funded USSOCOM operations exclusively. All 21 orders carried no set-aside designation, reflecting unrestricted competition at the task-order level.

Individual order values ranged from $4,000 for a pre-deployment effort to $25.2 million for full-cycle ISR services including pre-deployment and site operations. Most production orders fell in the $11 million to $24 million range. Because this vehicle's ordering window has been closed for nearly a decade and was succeeded by MEUAS III, pursuit would require demonstrating unique capability gaps under a successor vehicle or identifying recompete opportunities in related USSOCOM UAS ISR contracts.

The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded a Master IDIQ for world-wide Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS) II Intelligence Gathering, Target Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Services. The required UAS ISR services require the contractor to conduct all planning, coordination, certification, installation, pre-deployment, deployment, logistics, maintenance, flying, and post-deployment efforts necessary to successfully conduct worldwide missions.