Teledyne subsidiary wins $127M Navy health IT recompete

A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has won a five-year, $126.7 million contract to continue its work on IT applications for a Navy research organization that focuses on operational readiness and infectious diseases.

Teledyne Brown Engineering also helps the Naval Health Research Center develop medical manpower analytical methodologies that are used to assess risk and resource requirements for care.

Navy officials received two bids in total for this recompete, according to the Pentagon’s Wednesday awards digest.

Teledyne Brown Engineering has worked with NHRC since 2001, including the current iteration of the contract awarded in 2020 at a $83.6 million ceiling. NHRC also functions as one of the Defense Department’s primary health research center dedicated to deployment and other readiness-related issues for the military.

Both of the center’s primary software tools are mandated for use by the combatant commands in different aspects of their medical missions.

The Joint Medical Planning Tool works to model patient flow from initial injury-to-treatment, while the Medical Planners' Toolkit supports a range of military operations such as combat and humanitarian aid.

The contract’s new iteration has a convoluted full name -- Medical Modeling & Simulation Research Planning Tools (PT) Sustainment, Enhancement, and Application (SEA).

NHRC’s primary goals for it include enhancing the ability to determine the data elements and data relationships needed in forward resuscitative care and theater hospitalization. The idea is to facilitate a common user database where elements can be quickly added or updated, plus available to other users of NHRC’s tools.

One facet of the new contract will involve the migration of tools to a cloud computing environment. Some areas of work to continue include implementing algorithms, mapping capabilities, optimizing simulation engines, training and IT help desk services.