Small Unmanned Aircraft System IDIQ

The Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Aviation established this Master IDIQ for long-range and medium-range small unmanned aircraft systems and parts on December 21, 2012, with a final ordering deadline of May 19, 2018—now closed for over eight years. This vehicle is no longer active; no new orders can be placed against it.

During its five-year ordering window, the IDIQ generated 90 task orders totaling $231.8 million in combined potential value, of which $230.5 million (99%) has been obligated. Award activity peaked in 2014 with 25 orders, then declined sharply to 7 orders per year by 2018, signaling waning demand in the final two years of availability.

Aerovironment, Inc. dominates the prime contractor base with 54 orders worth $211.4 million combined potential value—roughly 91% of the vehicle's total value. Teledyne Flir Detection, Inc. is the distant second with 11 orders valued at $12.7 million. Innovative Automation Technologies, LLC holds 17 orders but only $2.9 million combined potential value. The remaining two primes (Lockheed Martin Corporation and one unresolved vendor) account for negligible activity. This extreme concentration around a single prime severely limits competitive opportunity.

Essentially all orders fund Army programs, with 86 of 90 task orders and $229.8 million directed to PEO Aviation itself. The remaining four orders (totaling roughly $2 million) went to Army Central Command, Army Materiel Command, and Army Test and Evaluation Command.

Task orders are overwhelmingly unrestricted (97% without set-aside). Only three small-business-set-aside orders appear in the portfolio. Orders procure systems, assemblies, gimbal payloads, and repair parts for the RQ-11B and RQ-20A platforms. Recent orders before the May 2018 cutoff covered RQ-20A batteries, RQ-11B repair parts, and gimbal systems, with individual order values typically in the low millions and firm-fixed-price terms. The largest single order on record was delivery order W911QY13D0073-0065 for $7.8 million (RQ-11B gimbal payload, awarded June 7, 2016).

With the ordering period closed and 99% of potential value already obligated, this vehicle offers no procurement opportunity for new work.

Department of Defense IDIQ for long range and medium range small unmanned aircraft systems and parts.