Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Analysis, Research & Development, and System Engineering Support

DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES: The Office of the Secretary of Defense
(OSD) requires continued contract support to establish and/or maintain essential engineering,
research, development, test and evaluation, and analytic capabilities using operational
knowledge of the national defense, intelligence and security environments. JHU/APL shall
establish and/or maintain essential and critical engineering, research, and development
capabilities and services. These capabilities and services include:
 Systems Engineering Support: Leading, conducting, and/or supporting special
studies, performance assessments and evaluations; participating in global-regional
weapons systems development, acquisition oversight, design reviews and meetings;
evaluating concepts and unsolicited proposals, as well as performing component and
system-level analysis;
 Test and Evaluation Support: Providing independent quantitative performance
evaluations of the test architecture and complex weapons systems, assessing
alternative and modified concepts, planning test operations and developing test
architecture to include test assets and instrumentation;
 Advanced Concepts and Technologies Support: Providing research, design,
development, and/or assessments of advanced concepts and technologies, and
critical demonstrations, modeling, analysis tool development and testing, which
includes full-scale experiments;
 Simulation, Modeling and Operations Analysis: Verifying, validating, developing,
and/or applying simulation, models, and operations analysis techniques;
 Cost Analysis and Analysis of Alternatives: Providing development and/or
assessment of proposed costing data for weapons systems and defense programs.
Evaluation of alternatives, including tradeoffs.

Per FAR 5.705 Publicizing postaward, this contract is not fixed price, but rather, cost plus fixed fee (CPFF), and the contract was awarded without competition, as authorized under 10 U.S.C.
2304(c)(3)(B) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-3. Industrial
Mobilization; Engineering, Developmental, or Research Capability; or Expert Services.
Specifically, as implemented at FAR 6.302-3(a)(2), "Full and open competition need not be
provided for when it is necessary to award the contract to a particular source or sources in
order - (ii) to establish or maintain an essential engineering, research or developmental
capability to be provided by an educational or other nonprofit institute or a federally funded
research and development center."

. Awarded Vendors: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Contract Award Dollar Amount: $873,000,000.00. Contract Award Date: 2019-03-25.