Network Management Reference Implementation Laboratory Engineering Services (NM RIL)

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command established this Master IDIQ on September 19, 2018, to provide Network Management Reference Implementation Laboratory (NM RIL) engineering services supporting SSC Pacific's Communications Division in developing and sustaining command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systems and information-dominance capabilities for the Navy and broader DoD. The vehicle's ordering period closed on September 17, 2024, and is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle contracts engineering support across management, software development, signal processing, RF data acquisition, information assurance, and related technical assistance for communications systems spanning very low frequency through laser spectrum applications on afloat, ashore, airborne, submerged, and space-based platforms. Work supports evaluation, implementation, integration, and sustainment of existing and developing communications technology, with particular emphasis on the Joint Enterprise Network Manager (JENM) product and associated platform integration.

Only two prime contractors share the vehicle's workload: G 2 Software Systems, Inc. holds eight of fifteen task orders worth $40.7 million in combined potential value, while Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. holds seven orders worth $29.1 million. This concentrated two-firm structure means competition for new orders under the vehicle was limited. All fifteen task orders carry unrestricted, full-and-open competitive designations with no set-asides.

Fourteen of fifteen orders fund the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command, with one order supporting the Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research, reflecting tight customer concentration within Navy programs. Task orders deploy as Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee delivery orders with typical ceiling values ranging from approximately $700,000 to $14 million, and durations of one to four years. The vehicle obligated $55.4 million of its $69.8 million combined task-order potential value, or 79 percent. Ordering momentum slowed considerably after 2022; the most recent order awarded in September 2023, nearly three years before the vehicle expired.

The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific (SSC Pacific) has awarded a Master IDIQ for Network Management Reference Implementation Laboratory (NM RIL). Services will support SSC Pacific in the goal of assisting the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Navy in identifying, implementing, developing, improving and enhancing the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (C4I) and network centric warfare concept called Information Dominance.