Tactical Data Link Systems Support 2015-2020

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded a Master IDIQ for Tactical Data Link Systems Support on March 25, 2015, with ordering authority that closed on March 23, 2020; the vehicle is no longer active and no new orders may be placed.

The vehicle contracted engineering support, test and evaluation, maintenance, and operational support across a family of Navy tactical data link and command-and-control programs including Advanced Tactical Data Link (ATDL), Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS), Command and Control Processor (C2P), and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) initiatives. The vehicle succeeded a predecessor IDIQ awarded in 2010 and was structured for multiple awards across three prime contractors.

General Dynamics Information Technology dominates the vehicle, holding ten of 21 task orders with a combined potential value of $25.5 million—72% of the vehicle's total. Tactical Engineering & Analysis holds nine orders valued at $9.6 million (27%), with Odyssey Systems Consulting Group holding the remaining two orders at $29 thousand. Activity peaked in 2016 and 2017 with three orders per year; in 2019 the vehicle saw only one new order before four orders in 2020 during the final months before ordering closed.

The Navy Information Warfare Systems Command funded 20 of 21 orders for $34.3 million; a single Army order for $808 thousand represents the only customer outside Navy. All 21 task orders are unrestricted, competitive procurements without set-aside. Work was priced on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis across durations typically ranging from twelve to twenty-four months.

The vehicle obligated $34.7 million against a combined task-order potential value of $35.1 million (99% obligation), indicating nearly complete spend-down by the time the ordering period expired. The two largest individual orders were Advanced Tactical Data Link engineering support efforts to General Dynamics in 2017, valued at $7.3 million and $4.6 million respectively. The vehicle is expired and unavailable for new pursuit.

The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) has awarded a Master IDIQ for Tactical Data Link (TDL) Systems Support of the following Programs of Record (PORs) and similar programs that may be developed in the future: Airborne Tactical Data Systems (ATDS), Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD); Command and Control Processor (C2P), Common Data Link Management System (CDLMS), Common Link Integration Processing (CLIP), Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS), Next Generation C2P (NGC2P), Rehosted C2P (RC2P), Tactical Data Link (TDL) related Foreign Military Sales (FMS), and Tactical Command and Control Independent Verification and Validation (TAC C2 IV&V).