PS-ISR Analytic Software (PS-ISR AS)

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded this Master IDIQ on May 5, 2016, but ordering closed on May 5, 2021, making this vehicle inactive for pursuit. The vehicle is not accepting new task orders.

Applied Research Associates, Inc. dominates the vehicle, holding three of seven task orders with $150 million in combined potential value—93% of the Master IDIQ's total $161.4 million ceiling. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. holds two orders valued at $11.4 million combined; Leidos, Inc. and Polaris Alpha Advanced Systems Inc. each hold one order valued at $3 thousand. All seven awards went unrestricted; no set-asides were used. The Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command placed six orders totaling $86.4 million in combined potential value, while the Defense Contract Management Agency placed one order for $75 million.

Task-order activity was front-loaded: four orders awarded in 2016 (three as $2,500 minimum-guarantee kick-off meetings and one substantive order), one in 2017, one in 2018, and one in 2020. The most recent order, issued to Applied Research Associates on September 30, 2020, carries a $75 million ceiling for Geospatial Intelligence software development and support services spanning up to three years. Another large Applied Research Associates order, also focused on GEOINT architecture services, carried a $74.9 million ceiling. The vehicle contracted analytic software design, development, testing, and operations support across persistent surveillance, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, multi-source data fusion, signal processing, and counter-IED technologies aimed at counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations. Of the $161.4 million combined potential value across all task orders, $104.3 million has been obligated to date (65%).

Successor vehicle PS-ISR Technology Research and Development was awarded on June 23, 2016, and should be evaluated as the active follow-on contracting mechanism for this work.

The objective of the Persistent Surveillance - Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (PS-ISR) Analytic Software Master IDIQ is to provide the requisite operational, program management, technical, engineering, integration, and program/product support services. The services to be provided by the Contractor encompass a wide variety of technology support to include design, fabrication, demonstration, and implementation of Analytic Software. The services to be provided by the Contractor(s) encompass the integration of large sets of data and the redeployment of new and existing sensors in an effort to create an ecosystem which allows the effective and efficient gathering and use of information. These technologies form a holistic approach to locating terrorist networks and insurgent activities through Persistent Surveillance (PS), Open Source Intelligence, identification and localization of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) systems, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). Technologies include sensors, cloud computing, multi-source data fusion, munitions detection systems, signal processing tools and concepts, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) tool automation capabilities, and Counter-IED (CIED) technologies and systems in asymmetric, counter-terrorism, and counter-insurgency warfare scenarios. These technologies will convert sensor and intelligence data to actionable intelligence and enable the local commander to make informed real-time decisions based on all available intelligence.