Tactical Mission Command Applications (TMCA)

The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command awarded a Master IDIQ for software engineering, software verification testing, and systems engineering services supporting Tactical Mission Command Applications on February 19, 2016, with ordering authority that closed on February 21, 2021 — the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle contracted services spanning software implementation, requirements definition, software coding across multiple environments, test planning and execution, requirements analysis, system architecture and design, and support for Army and Joint Interoperability. Task orders reveal actual work concentrating on command post applications, core infrastructure and utilities integration, geospatial imagery support, and training and reach-back operations. All 15 task orders issued under the vehicle carried firm fixed pricing and no set-aside designation.

Two primes captured the entire award portfolio. Polaris Alpha Advanced Systems Inc. won five orders valued at $27 million combined potential value; General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. won ten orders valued at $21.3 million combined potential value. General Dynamics dominated by order count while Polaris Alpha held slightly higher combined value, reflecting a concentration of work split between two competitors rather than a broad field.

The Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical placed eleven orders worth $40.2 million combined potential value — roughly 83 percent of all task-order funding. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command and Communications Electronics Command collectively funded the remaining orders. This customer concentration around a single Army program office defined ordering patterns throughout the vehicle's life.

Ordering activity peaked in 2018 with five task orders, then declined sharply: three orders in 2019, one in 2020, and no new awards after February 13, 2020. The vehicle's combined task-order potential value of $48.3 million had been fully obligated by the end of ordering, with $48.8 million in actual obligation slightly exceeding the stated potential. Typical task-order values ranged from roughly $200 thousand to $7.7 million, with performance periods of six to twelve months and firm fixed-price contracts throughout.

The U.S. Army U.S. Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) has awarded a Master IDIQ for software engineering services in support of Tactical Mission Command Applications (TMCA). Services include three components: software engineering, software verification testing, and systems engineering. The software engineering support includes implementation, changes and improvement to software requirements, and software coding which requires domain experience in developing software code in various environments. The software verification testing support includes planning, assistance in developing, and conducting software verification test of software to ensure conformance, and testing support such as requirements analysis, test planning, test documentation development, test execution and reporting, and analysis. The systems engineering support shall include, but is not limited to system architecture and design, requirements definition and analysis, quantitative and qualitative analysis of system performance and reliability and support Army and Joint Interoperability.