Network Integration Engineering Facility Production (NIEF)

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command established this Master IDIQ on December 11, 2020, but ordering closed on December 10, 2021, placing this vehicle outside its active ordering window. The combined task-order potential value is $23.5 million, with 100 percent obligated across 29 orders awarded between March 2021 and September 2025. Ordering momentum has declined sharply: after 10 orders each in 2021 and 2022, the vehicle received only 3 orders in 2023, 4 in 2024, and 2 in 2025, signaling the contract is in tail-end execution rather than active growth.

The scope covers rapid design and integration of COTS and GOTS products for military C4ISR systems, including environmental qualification testing, limited and full-rate production, systems engineering, integration, software loading, pre-installation testing, deployment, and life-cycle support. Task orders reveal heavy concentration in Command & Control Processor (C2P) system production for Navy shipbuilding and Coast Guard vessels, Cryptographic Universal Enclosure (CUE) production, and Communications as a Service (CAAS) integration, alongside smaller procurements for ANTS spare modules and ancillary systems.

Serco Inc. dominates with 13 orders and $14.5 million in combined potential value—roughly 62 percent of the total contract value. VT Milcom Inc. holds the second position with 6 orders and $5.6 million. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the other incumbent from the predecessor vehicle, received 8 orders but only $3.4 million combined value. Two smaller vendors hold $20 thousand combined. Customer concentration is extreme: 28 of 29 orders and $23 million fund the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command; a single order for $515 thousand went to Naval Air Systems Command.

All 29 orders carry no set-aside designation, issued as cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders. Task orders range from $10 thousand minimum guarantees to the largest single order at $3.5 million (Command & Control Processor systems for Navy FY21 nine-system procurement, obligated December 1, 2021). Recent orders through 2025 remain in execution, with ultimate completion dates extending into 2026. This vehicle is effectively closed to new entrants absent a re-compete or successor IDIQ.

Rapid design and integration of COTS/GOTS products for military applications, Environmental Qualification Testing (EQT) services and Limited/Full Rate Production (LRIP/FRP) including basic research, end-to-end system design, prototype development, systems engineering, integration, production, software loading, pre-installation testing and checkout (PITCO), deployment, and life cycle support of Command, Control, Communications, Computer (C4), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Major programmatic and technical thrusts are directed toward merging advanced technology and a variety of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) hardware and software into various C4ISR system variants and configurations, primarily supporting joint C4ISR and Cybersecurity needs of the military.