SSC Pacific Analysis Test and Engineering 2018-2023

The SSC Pacific Analysis Test and Engineering 2018-2023 Master Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract is a multiple-award vehicle established by the Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific), focused on providing comprehensive analysis and test engineering services for tactical data link systems. The contract supports advanced technical and engineering efforts related to command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, with a specific emphasis on resolving military tactical data link interoperability challenges for U.S. and Coalition/Allied military applications. The original solicitation anticipated a total estimated level of effort of 946,400 hours, structured with a two-year base period and three potential one-year option periods.

Task orders under this contract frequently involve sophisticated naval and defense engineering support, with values typically ranging from approximately $500,000 to $14.6 million and performance periods spanning one to three years. The prime contractors consistently include Tactical Engineering & Analysis Inc. and Koam Engineering Systems, Inc., both small businesses based in San Diego, California. Common task order scopes include tactical data link test and engineering analysis, ballistic missile defense support, command and control processor engineering, and international foreign military sales technical assistance. The predominant funding agencies are the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Most task orders are cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts and do not utilize specific small business set-aside designations, with performance consistently located in San Diego, California. These task orders collectively support critical naval information warfare, systems development, and technical integration efforts.