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Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Black Hawk

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JUSTIFICATION REVIEW DOCUMENT

FAR PART 6 JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN

FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

Program/Equipment: The Utility Helicopters Project Office (UHPO), Program Executive Officer, Aviation (PEOAVN) intends to obtain permission to award a new Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to procure support services for the H-60 Black Hawk.

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A) and (B) -- Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.

Amount: $91,291,064.33

Prepared by: Delvin Sullivan DSN: 645-0875 Contract Specialist Date: 28 March 2017 Email: delvin.l.sullivan.civ@mail.mil

Contracting Officer Frances R. Steel DSN: 788-2492 Contracting Officer Date: 28 March 2017 Email: frances.r.steel.civ@mail.mil

Technical Representative: William D. Jackson DSN: 645-8938 Project Manager Date: 28 March 2017 Utility Helicopters Email: William.d.jackson15.mil@mail.mil

Requirements Representative: William D. Jackson DSN: 645-8938

Project Manager Date: 28 March 2017 Utility Helicopters Email: William.d.jackson15.mil@mail.mil

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Black Hawk

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FAR Part 6 Justification and Approval for Other than Full and Open Competition

1. Contracting Activity: Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command – Redstone (ACC-RSA), CCAM-BHB, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898-5000.

2. Description of Action: The Utility Helicopters Project Office (UHPO) Program Executive Office, Aviation (PEOAVN) requests approval to award a new five year IDIQ Contract. Ordering periods will be established in the basic contract for a total of 60 months from date of award. The contract will contain provisions that allow for issuance of Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) and/or Firm Fixed Price (FFP) task orders. The new follow-on contract will be awarded to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation), 6900 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06614-1378 CAGE Code: 78286. The Government projects award for December 2018, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. Aviation Procurement Army; Operation and Maintenance Army; Army Working Capital Funds; Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Other Government Agencies (OGA) funds will be used. Task orders could potentially be awarded for OGA Customers, to include but not limited to, Air Force, National Guard, and State Department. It is anticipated that task orders will be awarded for Taiwan (FMS case numbers TW-B-YZC and TW-B-WZC, which are not source directed).

Additionally, but not limited to, 16 FMS countries could potentially require services under this procurement to include: Chile, Morocco, Indonesia, Latvia, Brunei, Panama, Czech Republic, Norway, Thailand, Bahrain, Slovakia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Sweden, and Mexico. Support Service Contract (SSC) requirements have not been identified for these countries, so it is unknown whether the SSC efforts will be source directed. In accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2017, Conference Report to Accompany S. 2943, all FMS task orders will be FFP and, if contract award occurs on or after 1 October 2018 all other task orders will be FFP. In the event the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) is not revised, as required by the NDAA, to establish a preference for fixed-price contracts, the predominant type for task orders issued under the new contract will continue to be

CPFF.

3. Description of Supplies and Services: The ACC-RSA proposes to acquire, utilizing an acquisition method other than full and open competition, engineering expertise from the H-60 Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. The contractor will be required to provide support to the UHPO for the various H-60 Black Hawk configurations in the areas of engineering; prototype manufacturing; program management; component and sub-system integration and qualification; product assurance; test; configuration management; and logistics. Due to the growing age of the Black Hawk fleet and the rapid advancement in war fighting technology, the pace of and need for change has increased significantly. This engineering service support effort is required to support these changes. Efforts anticipated under this contract are major efforts that require extensive facilities, tooling, manufacturing resources and a complete drawing package to include associated processes and procedures. Many of the components and subsystems in development are manufactured by other companies.

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Black Hawk

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This contract will provide the services and incidental material necessary to simultaneously integrate multiple components and subsystems into the weapon system.

The planned ordering period for the support services will be over a 60 month period.

Ordering Period: See chart below.

Estimated cost of basic IDIQ contract: $91,291,064.33 (see table below for breakout)

Each requirement under this contract will be unique, therefore the hours identified below are an estimate only, based on average historical total contract costs.

Ordering Period Cost Estimated Hours

Ordering Period 1 – 14 Dec 2018 – 13 Dec 2019

$19,117,297.86 108,954

Ordering Period 2 – 14 Dec 2019 – 13 Dec 2020

$19,499,643.82 111,134

Ordering Period 3 – 14 Dec 2020 – 13 Dec 2021

$19,889,636.70 113,355

Ordering Period 4 – 14 Dec 2021 – 13 Dec 2022

$16,229,943.54 115,623

Ordering Period 5 – 14 Dec 2022 – 13 Dec 2023

$16,554,542.41 117,959

Total $ 91,291,064.33 567,025 NOTE: During development of the IGCE it was assumed that all FMS cases will contain source direction.

The minimum value of this contract is $100,000 and the maximum value is $91,291,064.33. Task order 0001, to be awarded concurrently with the basic IDIQ contract, will obligate approximately $100,000.

4. Authority Cited: The statutory authority permitting the use of other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a) (2) (iii) (A) and (B),“Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements and award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements”.

5. Reasons for Authority Cited:

a. As described at FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(A) and (B) – “Only One Responsible

Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.” The proposed contractor for this effort is Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, 6900 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06614-1378, CAGE Code: 78286, a large business. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is the sole source designer, developer and manufacturer of the H-60 aircraft and is also responsible for integration of the UH/HH subsystems into the aircraft.

This has been the case since the competitive fly-off of the Black Hawk helicopter prototypes and subsequent award of the initial production contract in December 1976.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation participated in the initial hardware/software design, full qualification substantiation, UH-60A, UH-60Q, UH/HH-60L, UH/HH-60M, and MH-60 integration evaluation and flight testing and is currently under a five-year multiyear contract to produce the 36th through the 40th lot of UH/HH-60 aircraft for the Army, and the 14th through the 17th lot of MH-60S aircraft, and the 10th through the 14th lot of MH- 60R aircraft for the Navy. Additionally, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is responsible for the configuration baseline of the UH-60 helicopter and associated equipment. Likewise, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation claims significant limitations upon the Government’s rights to utilize UH/HH-60 subsystem interfacing control specifications and their applications such as for the wide chord blades, the main rotor blade, the spindle, the composite stabilator, and the tail rotor blade for competitive purposes. This includes their design, updates, and control specifications. The initial acquisition strategy report for the UH/HH-60 helicopter was approved prior to the Defense System Acquisition Review Council review of the Black Hawk program held on 30 November 1976. Since the strategy did not include subsequent competition, a Technical Data Package (TDP) suitable for competition was not included in the contract awarded in December 1976 for the FY1977 – 1979 production. This did not change in subsequent acquisition strategy reports including the last report approved by the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition Technology and Logistics on 16 December 2010. For similar reasons, the Army did not include a separately priced option to acquire the rights in the current or previous multiyear contracts. These claims of restrictions upon the competitive use of significant system data have not been fully investigated or challenged. The Government estimate to develop another source that is capable of providing the required support to the H-60 at this point is approximately $1,000,000,000. The estimated cost of $1,000,000,000 for the TDP was investigated during the Multi-Year IX Cost-Benefit Analysis (C-BA) process completed in March 2015 and verified by Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Cost and Economics) (DASA-CE) in April 2015. In order to compete the support services, the Government would either have to procure the TDP from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation at an estimated cost of $1,000,000,000 or allow time, which is not available, for another vendor to re-create the TDP and 40 plus years of expertise that resides with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. UHPO estimates that to develop a second vendor would require a 4 year competitive acquisition to determine the second vendor for TDP development which could result in a higher cost than the $1,000,000,000 estimate to acquire the TDP from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.

Thereafter, in accordance with the DoD Instruction 5000.2 the vendor would have to accomplish all development milestones to achieve Airworthiness Certification, which the UHPO estimates to require between 10 and 12 years. As an example, the H-60V cockpit upgrade, which is an avionics change from analog to digital, not greater than 20 percent of the overall helicopter design, initiated in 2012, completed first flight on 19 January 2017. It is estimated that the TDP will be delivered in early 2019. There could be other significant costs associated with certifying a second vendor, such as facilities and equipment upgrades, testing, training, etc., that will remain unknown until the second vendor is identified and appropriate cost assessments are undertaken. Both cost and schedule impact associated with acquiring the Sikorsky-owned TDP, for the purpose of awarding support services to any other source, is unacceptable in fulfilling the agency's requirements.

b. The UHPO conducted a C-BA for this requirement between 26 November 2014 and 29 October 2015. The C-BA addresses the costs and benefits of four Courses of Action that utilize various acquisition methods to obtain these support services either by sole source award to the OEM and Systems Integrator, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, or by full and open competition. Based on the results of the analysis, awarding a single IDIQ contract on a sole source basis to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation provides the greatest benefit at the lowest cost to the Government. The C-BA for this requirement was approved by the DASA-CE on 5 November 2015.

c. As the sole source supplier of the UH/HH-60 helicopter, Sikorsky Aircraft

Corporation is the only manufacturer familiar with the requirements peculiar to the UH/HH-60. Other aircraft manufacturers may have like-skilled personnel, some tools and test equipment. However, there is currently no other manufacturer which has the extreme specialized skills, familiarity with H-60, or tools and test equipment in the industry which has built an aircraft to the UH/HH-60 configuration and performance requirements. The UH/HH-60 requirements are delineated in the Acquisition Strategy Report, approved by the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition Technology and Logistics on 16 December 2010 and the Acquisition Program Baseline Agreement, approved by the Defense Acquisition Executive on 20 June 2011. There are no suitable alternatives available to perform the required services.

d. If authorization is not granted to award the new contract the UHPO and other H-

60 users will lose the ability to rapidly respond to critical safety, production, airworthiness, and issues related to combat. This loss would limit the UHPO and other H-60 users' ability to complete and execute their missions.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition:

a. Effective Competition: Upon approval of this Justification and Approval (J&A), the Contracting Officer shall publish the notices required by FAR 5.201 and any bids or proposals received shall be considered. The synopsis will be issued on or about 21 July 2017. Based on the reasons documented in paragraph five above, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is currently the only source possessing the knowledge, expertise, and experience necessary to meet the current mission requirements. Because this is a sole source action, effective competition is not anticipated at this time. This requirement was entered in the AMCOM Competition Advocate’s Shopping List (CASL) on 22 May 2013 and revised on 27 April 2017.

b. Subcontracting Competition: The U.S. Government supports competition at the subcontractor level when it is reasonable to expect that competition is feasible, and will produce equal or better performance with components at lower prices. To ensure that the contractor obtains competition in subcontracting, FAR 52.244-5, Competition in Sub-Contracting, FAR 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns, FAR 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan, DFARS 252.219-7003, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DoD Contracts), and all other required FAR and DFARS clauses regarding subcontracting will be included in the resulting solicitation and contract.

7. Actions to Increase Competition:

Examples of the actions taken to increase competition are delineated below:

a. Inclusion of FAR 52.244-5, Competition in Subcontracting in the Request for

Proposal.

b. Competition is promoted through the sustainment and maintenance of the weapon system by qualifying second sources for repair.

c. UHPO established initiatives to facilitate competition between spare parts producers and between Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and Army depots such as Corpus Christi Army Depot during full rate production.

d. Publication of procurement for spares and repair parts through the CASL as competitive actions.

e. Aggressive pursuit of rights in technical data and challenging assertions of proprietary rights for assemblies and/or components for which Government funding has been provided.

f. Acquisition Data Availability: The complete technical documentation resides solely with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and approximately 80-85 percent of the data is proprietary to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. The balance of the technical documentation resides with numerous subcontractors. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and subcontractors claim significant limitations upon the Government’s rights to utilize UH/HH-60 subsystem interfacing control specifications and their applications for competitive purposes. Whenever contractors assert less than unlimited rights to technical documentation, the Government reviews the assertions to determine if Government funding was used. Even though competition of the aircraft itself is not anticipated, the Government has, since 2011, aggressively pursued rights in technical data generated as a result of Government contracts and challenges assertions of proprietary rights to optimize the use of competition for spares and support efforts. As a result UHPO has in some cases obtained Government Purpose Rights when the contractor has asserted Limited or Restricted Rights.

8. Market Research:

a. Market Research has been conducted in accordance with FAR Part 10.002 and DFARS 205.205-71. The UHPO technical personnel knowledgeable of market conditions in the aerospace industry, including the Technical Management Division Chief; the Program Support Branch Chief; and the Program Integration Team Lead; met in various meetings and forums. All have performed on-going monitoring of the market place during the timeframe of March 2016 through March 2017. They used their personal knowledge in procuring supplies and services of this type. They researched technical literature and websites such as Rotor & Wing Magazine, Defense Daily Network, Jane’s Helicopter Markets and Systems, Army Aviation Association of America Magazine, Autorotate Magazine, The Helicopter Magazine, Rotorcraft Magazine, Aviation Today Magazine, Aviation Week.com, Journal of the American Helicopter Society Helicopters Magazine, and Rotocraft Professional. They participated in technical meetings and conferences such as the Army Aviation Association of America Summit in April 2016, the Association of the U.S. Army Global Force Symposium in March 2017, the American Helicopter Society National Convention in May 2016, the Association of the United States Army annual meeting in October 2016, and the TeamHawk meetings in December 2016. As a result of continuous surveillance of the market, UHPO has determined that Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation continues to be the only source that possesses the required background in the applicable technologies and associated technical and engineering disciplines to perform the required support services.

b. In accordance with DFARS 206.302-1(d), and DFARS Procedures, Guidance and Information (PGI) 206.302-1(d), a Sources Sought Notice for the new contract, W58RGZ-15-R-0108, was issued on 9 December 2014 with a response due date of 22 January 2015. Two responses were received on 22 January 2015: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, 6900 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06614-1378, CAGE Code 78286, and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), 3170 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042, CAGE Code 52939. Evaluation of the CSC response to the Sources Sought Notice showed that they had limited relevant experience supporting H-60 programs, especially in Army Aviation. Their technical support activities response was absent in the development of Engineering Change Proposals, supporting Airworthiness processes, and the engineering effort required to integrate, validate, or verify aircraft modifications. The contractor also lacks the TDP, Design Authority, Subject Matter Experts, and facilities to support the total lifecycle of the H-60, and listed no capability in conducting stand-alone Flight Test Operations. The contractor’s approach was to reverse engineer the TDP, as needed, and perform prototyping and design validation of that documentation. Critical Safety Items cannot be reverse engineered and reengineering would add significant time delays and costs. This proposed approach would prove to be infeasible in terms of both cost and schedule. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation detailed their current SSC as well as some current modernization efforts.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation indicated it has provided support services on five similar contracts supporting H-60 Mission Design Series and has executed over 235 delivery and task orders. The local Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation office has the capability to reach back into the appropriate organizations within Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation to assist in support services. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has provided engineering support for H-60 aircraft in production and programmatic roles for more than 16 years.

c. A second Sources Sought Notice for this action was issued on 7 July 2016 with a due date of 25 July 2016. Only one response was received from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation on 19 July 2016.

d. This requirement is a noncommercial item because it does not meet the definition of commercial item as stated in FAR 2.101. The lift, range, interoperability, and survivability requirements cannot be met by a commercial aircraft. The Government has expended millions of dollars each year to implement and sustain the production capability with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and, as stated in paragraph 5b, would have to spend approximately $1,000,000,000 to develop another source. Therefore, FAR Part 12 procedures will not be utilized. The Market Research Report, MRR-CD#171184 was concurred on by the Special Advocate for Competition on 28 April 2017.

e. Based on the Government evaluation of the responses received, Sikorsky

Aircraft Corporation is the only viable source to provide the required support services for the H-60 Aircraft.

9. Interested Sources: Any source expressing an interest in this requirement will receive due consideration as required by law. The notices required by FAR 5.201 shall be published as indicated in paragraph 6 above. To date, no other sources have written to express an interest.

10. Other Facts

a. Procurement History:

1) Contract Number: IDIQ Contract DAAH23-00-D-0148 Award Date: 28 September 2000

Competitive Status: Sole source to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation under authority of 10 USC 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii).

Description of Effort: Engineering services to support all versions and variants of the H-60 helicopters in the functional areas of engineering, prototype manufacture, program management, component and sub-system integration and qualification, product assurance, test, configuration management and logistics.

Approval Authority: Assistant Secretary of the Army Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology ASA(ALT)

Ordering Period: 28 September 2000 - 29 June 2005 Obligated Amount: $164,879,318.01

2) Contract Number: IDIQ Contract W58RGZ-05-D-0309

Award Date: 30 June 2005 Competitive Status: Sole source to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation under authority of 10 USD 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii).

Description of Effort: Support services to all versions and variants of the H-60 helicopters in the functional areas of engineering, prototype manufacture, program management, component and sub-system integration and qualification, product assurance, test, configuration management and logistics.

Approval Authority: Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC) Ordering Period: 30 Jun 2005 - 22 December 2005 Obligated Amount: $53,034,231.00

3) Contract Number: IDIQ Contract W58RGZ-06-D-0045 Award Date: 22 December 2005

Competitive Status: Sole source to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation under authority of 10 USC 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii).

Description of Effort: Support services to all versions and variants of the H-60 helicopters in the functional areas of engineering, prototype manufacture, program management, component and sub-system integration and qualification, product assurance, test, configuration management and logistics.

Approval Authority: ASA(ALT) Ordering Period: 22 December 2005 - 22 December 2011 Obligated Amount: $483,584,478.24

4) Contract Number: IDIQ Contract W58RGZ-12-D-0183 (Army only) Award Date: 20 September 2012

Competitive Status: Sole source to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation under authority of 10 USC 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii).

Description of Effort: Support services to all versions and variants of the H-60 helicopters in the functional areas of engineering, prototype manufacture, program management, component and sub-system integration and qualification, product assurance, test, configuration management and logistics.

Approval Authority: PARC Ordering Period: 20 September 2012 – 19 September 2015 Obligated Amount: $39,151,724.21

5) Contract Number: IDIQ Contract W58RGZ-13-D-0177 (initially awarded to provide support to FMS and OGA customers only. Mod P00005 awarded on 3 May 2016 was issued to authorize use of the contract by the Army.)

Award Date: 27 September 2013 Competitive Status: Sole source to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation under authority of 10 USC 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii).

Description of Effort: Procure support services for FMS/OGA customers for all versions and variants of the H-60 helicopters in the functional areas of engineering, prototype manufacture, program management, component and sub-system integration and qualification, product assurance, test, configuration management and logistics.

Approval Authority: PARC Ordering Period: 27 September 2013 - 26 September 2018 Estimated Amount: $84,000,000 Obligated Amount: $12,403,451.09

b. Summary of Actions to Increase Competition in Previous Justification: The J&A for contract W58RGZ-13-D-0177 anticipated no competition for UH-60 support services.

The J&A does, however, identify five ways that the UHPO maximizes competition at the subcontractor level. The examples presented aid in overcoming barriers to competition that are applicable largely to subcontracted Maintenance and Overhaul efforts, acquisition of spares for post production and efforts on the UH-60M production contract:

1) Inclusion of FAR 52.244-5, Competition in Subcontracting in the Request for

Proposal or solicitation and resulting contract. FAR 52.244-5, Competition in Subcontracting, was incorporated into the subsequent award of contract W58RGZ-13- D-0177.

2) Support of competition at the subcontractor level via providing funding to

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation for qualification of alternate sources. Competition is promoted through the sustainment and maintenance of the weapon system by qualifying second sources for repair. Over 30 qualified vendors have held or are performing under contracts awarded since 2012 for Maintenance and Overhaul.

3) UH-60M program strategy incorporating initiatives to facilitate competition between spare parts producers and between Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and Army depots such as Corpus Christi Army Depot during full rate production. Although W58RGZ-13-D-0177 targets areas of non-recurring engineering and other support that cannot be contracted to a second source due to the technical complexity of the work and expertise required, other areas of UH-60 non-recurring engineering and support are performed in Government facilities such as the Prototype Integration Facility (PIF) and Logistics Support Facility (LSF), both of which are located on Redstone Arsenal; Corpus Christi Army Depot and Rock Island Arsenal. The PIF utilizes competitively awarded contract W58RGZ-12-D-0089 (Redstone Defense Systems). At least 11 such task orders have been awarded at the PIF for Black Hawk efforts. For the LSF, two contracts, W58RGZ-13-D-0047 (Support Systems Associates, Inc) and W58RGZ-13-D- 0048 (Science and Engineering Services, LLC) are in use. At least 15 competitive task orders have been awarded at the LSF for Black Hawk efforts. Use of these ‘organic’ facilities as alternate sources to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation fosters a competitive climate. Typically the cost to use Government facilities for specific processes is lower than it would be to use the prime contractor when existing Government owned equipment is available. Government owned facilities are also self-insured and contracts performed in Government facilities may have lower labor and overhead costs than the prime contractor. Increased and more immediate interaction between Government and the contractor at Government owned facilities is advantageous for maintaining streamlined, efficient processes.

4) Publication of procurement for spares and repair parts through the CASL as competitive actions. A search of the CASL database for the Black Hawk Weapons System Code and Acquisition Method Reason Codes 1G and 2G was performed on 5 May 2016. Application of these codes means the Government has rights to the technical data, the data package is complete, and there are no technical data, engineering, tooling, or manufacturing restrictions. Requirements identified by these codes are suitable for competitive acquisition for the second or subsequent time. For FYs 2016 through 2018, spare parts covering 55 National Stock Numbers under the Black Hawk Weapon Systems Code are planned for competitive acquisition.

5) Aggressive pursuit of rights in technical data and challenging assertions of proprietary rights for assemblies and or components for which Government funding has been provided. Search of contract file records for the SSC has identified instances since 2014 in which Government Purpose Rights (GPR) have been asserted and incorporated on technical data and computer software. GPR and Government ownership of unlimited data inherently enhance competition. GPR allows the Government to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display or disclose technical data or computer software within the Government without restriction or outside the Government for Government purposes. GPR, therefore, made possible the use of organic facilities as identified in sub paragraph 3 above as well as permitting, under some circumstances, disclosure outside the Government for competitive purposes.

GPRs were obtained from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and also the following subcontractors: Canadian Marconi Corporation (CMC) Electronics; BVR Technologies;

Telephonics Corporation, and Simmonds Precision Products under the SSC.

Additionally much of the data delivered under the SSC is marked for unlimited rights and thus no assertions are incorporated. The UH-60V program was initiated in 2012.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and four other offerors competed with successful offeror, Redstone Defense Systems, for the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation efforts for the delivery of five UH-60V aircraft plus two test facilities. The UH-60V program will provide an electronics and avionics upgrade to the UH-60L version of the Black Hawk cockpit to be installed at Government facilities. The Acquisition Strategy for full rate UH-60V production will enable multiple vendors to compete for portions of the material and for support services under separate vehicles, maximizing opportunities for competition. Separation of high cost drivers on separate contract vehicles will enable remaining components to be manufactured by a broad business base, potentially including small business. Software data rights acquired will enable UHPO to compete software maintenance and improvements to multiple sources of supply. The application-based software environment of the UH-60V will allow for competition of future applications (communications and navigation control applications). By reducing the number of processing components on the UH-60V, competition will be increased for non-processing components like the Control Display Unit and Multi-Function Displays.

For UH-60 aircraft versions A, L and M, these components are sole source to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.

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