Trainer Developer II

The Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command awarded this Master IDIQ on July 1, 2019, to provide IT and engineering-based research, design, development, fabrication, and maintenance of DoD flying, ground, sea, and technical training systems, with ordering closed on June 30, 2024. The vehicle is no longer accepting new orders; the last task order was awarded December 28, 2024.

This IDIQ contracts the design, development, and sustainment of trainer platforms and simulation systems. Recent task orders span aircraft trainers (T-45 Mission Computer Alternative Support; F-16C Multitask Trainer Guard; 767 In-Flight Aeromedical Trainer Fuselage; Flight Attendant Fuselage Trainer), heavy-aircraft communication and avionics trainers, virtual simulation environments (Distributed Training Operations Center Virtual Desktop Environment), and enterprise support systems (Work Order Requirements and Kitting System database management). Scope aligns closely with what the 2018 RFI solicitation advertised: computer systems design and development of training courses, including emerging modalities such as augmented reality.

J.f. Taylor, Inc. dominates the vehicle, holding seven of sixteen total task orders and $101.3 million of the combined potential value across the portfolio. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. holds five orders worth $15.8 million; Applied Visual Technology Inc. holds three orders worth $5.6 million; and MES Simulation & Training, LLC holds one order. All 16 task orders are unrestricted (no set-aside designations).

Naval Air Systems Command and its subordinate Naval Air Warfare Center account for the largest customer share, with combined potential value of $89.4 million across four task orders. Air Education and Training Command (the originating customer for this vehicle) placed nine orders worth $15.4 million combined. The remaining funding derives from Air National Guard, Materiel Command Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, and other DoD customers.

The vehicle has obligated $93.1 million against combined task-order potential value of $122.7 million, a utilization rate of 76 percent. Task-order values range from minimum guarantee amounts of $2,500 to individual ceilings exceeding $50 million; typical non-guarantee orders range from $2.1 million to $10.4 million. Ordering momentum tapered after 2019–2020, with only one to three orders per year placed during 2021–2024. The shared ceiling across the vehicle is $300 million.

GSA Region 7 has awarded a Master IDIQ to provide information technology (IT) and engineering-based efforts to support the 502d Trainer Development Squadron (502 TDS). 502 TDS researches, designs, develops, fabricates, and maintains the systems it produces. These systems currently support DoD flying, ground, sea and technical training, as well as current and future systems (prototyping, proof of concept, low rate production) which are either already in service or destined to support client agency activities.