PWS 26-6D6 - MIL-PRF 19500 Obsolescence.pdf

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

DMEA 26-6D6

30 Mar 2026

Project Engineer:

Contract Officer Representative:

1.0 SCOPE:

1.1 TITLE: Microchip Sustainment Plan for Maintaining Access to MIL-PRF-19500 Parts

1.2 APPLICABILITY: Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), United States Army, United States Navy, and other Department of Defense entities.

1.3 BACKGROUND: The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) identifies the "Supercharging of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base" as a primary line of effort essential to national security. The NDS mandates a generational investment in our nation's defense through the revival of American industry, the re-shoring of strategic manufacturing, and the bolstering of organic sustainment capabilities. The assured access to critical microelectronics underpins this entire strategy, as our military's warfighting advantage is directly linked to the ability to securely develop, field, and sustain its systems. Obsolescence and vulnerabilities within the microelectronics supply chain represent a direct threat to this strategic imperative. DMEA's mission to deliver microelectronics solutions directly supports the NDS by engaging government and industry to address these critical technology sustainment and obsolescence issues.

1.4 PURPOSE: The purpose of this requirement is to directly execute the objectives of the National Defense Strategy by investing in the domestic manufacturing infrastructure for MIL-PRF-19500 certified devices. This effort will mitigate critical obsolescence issues, reduce reliance on fragile supply chains, and restore industrial capacity within the United States, thereby ensuring the long-term, secure, and uninterrupted availability of essential semiconductor devices for Department of Defense weapon systems.

2.0 REFERENCED GOVERNMENT PROVIDED RESOURCES:

2.1 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS:

Document No. Date Title

MIL-PRF-

19500R

24 Jul 2021 Semiconductor Devices, General Specification for Department of Defense

QML-19500 Qualified Manufacturers List of Products Qualified Under Military Specification MIL-PRF-19500

QPDSIS-19500 10 May 2023 DLA Land and Maritime – VQ Supplemental Information Sheet for Electronic QML-19500

3.0 REQUIREMENTS:

3.1 MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT: The Contractor shall perform program, administrative, technical, and financial management during the course of this effort and shall maintain a status of their effort towards achieving the PWS objectives, including all technical activities and efforts, problems/deficiencies, impacts, and recommended solutions. (A001)

3.2 The contractor must be a Qualified Manufacturer certified to MIL-PRF-19500 as listed in QML- 19500.

3.3 Mitigate current obsolescence issues and mitigate the risk to future obsolescence of one or more MIL- PRF-19500 qualified components.

3.3.1 Purchase of needed equipment upgrades.

3.3.2 Purchase of facility upgrades.

3.3.3 Bringing raw material supplier operations in-house.

3.3.4 Qualification of a second facility.

3.3.5 Qualification of second qualified manufacturer for certain components.

3.3.6 Process Transfer to more readily available wafer substrates.

4.0 OPERATING CONSTRAINTS

4.1 Sustainment activities cannot consist of performing an ‘End-of-Life’ buy or increasing inventory of the component(s).

4.2 Sustainment funding cannot be used to fund activities outside of the United States.

4.3 Funding is limited to what is provided in this contracting action.

4.4 Completion of all activities for sustainment must be completed within 5 years or less.

4.5 Sustainment activities must be a long term solution. It cannot be a stop gap measure that extends component life by less than one year.

5.0 POINTS OF CONTACT:

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