Navy chooses 29 for $400M operational exercise support contract
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By
Ross Wilkers
The Navy set up the contract to hire a pool of companies that can help design and build out exercises that primarily focus on cyberspace operations.
The Navy has awarded 29 companies positions on a potential seven-year, $400 million contract for broad technology and professional services in support of operational exercises.
Cyberspace operations are the primary focal point of this contract, which the Navy set up to hire a pool of companies that can help design and build out the exercises. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific received 50 proposals, according to the Pentagon’s Aug. 13 awards digest.
The contract’s full name is Cyberspace Science, Research, Engineering and Technology Integration Unrestricted Multiple Award Contract. Its period of performance covers an initial five-year base period followed by a single two-year option.
Awardees are as follows:
- Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary
- ActioNet
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- CNF Technologies
- Cole Engineering Services, a By Light subsidiary
- Core4ce
- CSA Global
- Deloitte
- DLH
- Dynamo Technologies
- Epsilon C5I
- ExpediteInfoTech
- General Dynamics’ IT services unit
- Highbury Defense Group
- Invictus International Consulting
- LATG
- Leidos (incumbent)
- Maximus
- Parsons Corp. (incumbent)
- Quiet Professionals (now Endurion)
- REDLattice
- Resource Management Concepts
- Saalex
- Science Applications International Corp. (incumbent)
- Scientific Research Corp. (incumbent)
- Sentar
- Solute
- Tharros Defense
- VSolvit
The contract is the follow-on to the C4ISR Cyberspace Science Research Engineering and Technology Integration 2019, which was awarded that year to nine companies.
GovTribe data indicates the Navy has obligated $337.9 million in task order volume to date against the current contract.
Solicitation documents from February describe how the recompete’s awardees will compete for task orders in areas such as operational exercise design and construction, operations and requirements analysis, concept formulation and development, feasibility demonstrations, and operational and technical support.
The scope of work also includes analyzing and engineering operational, functional and system requirements to establish national, theater and force-level architecture.
Other efforts will cover requirements verification and validation, engineering analysis, technical documentation, software and hardware design and implementation, systems integration, testing and evaluation and demonstration.
The Navy wants awardees to apply a systems engineering approach to development while ensuring secure development practices through methodologies associated with the DevSecOps software practice.