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A New Travel System Is Coming to Replace the Antiquated DTS

The Department of Defense has approved a new contract to replace its current Defense Travel System, or DTS, reporting process.

The new system, scheduled to be fully online by fiscal 2025, will be known as "MyTravel." It will allow military travelers to buy plane tickets, make hotel reservations and file for travel reimbursement from one online location.

The cloud-based system will be created, administered and hosted by Concur Technologies, which, according to contract documents , has experience working with the DoD and has "worked on integration [and] DoD cybersecurity compliance for the past three years."

The current DTS travel system was created by the DoD and has been around in one form or another since 1998. There have been several modifications and updates throughout the years, but the costs of maintaining it are becoming prohibitive, according to contract documents.

FedScoop.com reported that the new contract is worth $374 million.

The DoD predicts that migrating from the current system to the new subscription-based civilian designed system will give taxpayers overall cost savings and provide improved usability.

The new travel system will be phased in over the next three years. The DoD anticipates that all leave, medical, training and exercise travel will be processed through it by 2025. When fully operational, the travel system should process more than 3.8 million transactions annually, according to the contract documents.

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DOD inks $374M contract for new travel management system

By Jackson Barnett

September 15, 2021

The Department of Defenses ‘ human resources branch has inked a $374 million contract with Concur Technologies to modernize its legacy travel management system that processes about four million trips each year.

The deal, signed Monday, should result in a new system dubbed “MyTravel” that will manage the full range of the department’s travel expenses and operations by fiscal 2025. The system will replace the legacy Defense Travel System (DTS) which has received poor user ratings and the department appears eager to replace, according to the contract document .

“The Government requires a secure, efficient, and effective commercial travel solution to book travel, provide travel fulfillment service, manage travel-related expenses, and initiate travel-related financial transactions,” the contract award states.

The system will cover travel across the globe, the document states. By replacing DTS with a software-as-a-service system, the DOD hopes to be able to maintain a modern system that keeps pace with tech changes. The DTS office was launched in 2006 , but recently the system has faced poor reviews from users. The contract award states DTS is a “legacy system that continues to incur technical debt through poor usability, low customer satisfaction and improper payment of travel entitlements.”

The system design was sparked by a cross-functional team of staffed by the CIO’s office and the now-defunct Chief Management Officer’s office , which was dedicated to increasing business efficiencies.

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Lawmaker summons Pentagon official over canceled travel software

WASHINGTON ― The Pentagon’s abrupt decision to cancel a new travel management system meant to replace its antiquated software has drawn scrutiny from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who chairs the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, invited the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, Gilbert Cisneros, to testify before her panel on July 18. She wants him to explain why the Defense Department suddenly scrapped implementation of the MyTravel software.

“The rapid reversal on MyTravel ― a system being developed for [the department] for over four years at a direct cost of more than $20 million ― is troubling,” Mace wrote in a letter to Cisneros on Friday. “It inevitably raises broader questions about [the department’s] ability to manage its finances and information technology.”

Mace, who also sits on the Armed Services Committee, also asked Elizabeth Field, director of the Government Accountability Office’s defense capabilities and management team, to testify at the same hearing.

The $374 million MyTravel contract, initially awarded to SAP Concur in 2018, would have replaced the Pentagon’s 25-year-old Defense Travel System. An internal Defense Department memo in May noted that offices would no longer be required to use MyTravel and that the Pentagon would stop using the software altogether on Sept. 13.

The Mace letter points to a 2019 GAO study, which found the Defense Travel System “generated nearly $1 billion in improper payments” from fiscal 2016 through fiscal 2019.

Pentagon officials briefed House Oversight and Accountability Committee staff on the MyTravel cancellation in June. Mace’s letter notes the Defense Department was unprepared to implement the new software because of a delay in integrating it with financial management system upgrades.

“Absent this integration, the officials said, forced adoption of MyTravel would reduce the auditability of those components,” Mace wrote. The Pentagon has never passed any of the five audits it’s undergone .

Mace has also asked Cisneros to provide more details on the cancellation, including the issues with financial management system integration, in writing by July 14.

Bryant Harris is the Congress reporter for Defense News. He has covered U.S. foreign policy, national security, international affairs and politics in Washington since 2014. He has also written for Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor, Al Jazeera English and IPS News.

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Pentagon preparing sole-source contract to replace Defense Travel System

Following an apparently successful pilot project, DoD plans to start negotiations with SAP Concur on the price tag to fully replace its existing system.

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The Defense Department appears ready to move ahead with a full-scale replacement for the much-maligned Defense Travel System, the aging IT platform DoD personnel currently use to make official travel arrangements.

The Pentagon is about to start negotiations with Concur Technologies on a sole-source contract for the replacement system, called Defense Travel Modernization, according to a notice the department published April 30.

That yet-to-be-determined price tag would go toward fully implementing what began as a “prototype” project in August 2018, when DoD awarded a $9.3 million other transaction agreement to Concur, a subsidiary of the global software giant SAP. Officials said at the time that the firm qualified for an OTA because it met the legal criteria as a “nontraditional” Defense contractor.

The most recent notice and prior documents indicate DoD has spent $15 million to integrate SAP Concur’s commercial travel software with the military’s business processes and IT systems, including the Navy’s enterprise resource planning system and the Army’s General Fund Enterprise Business system.

It added that DoD plans to award the full-scale production contract without competition because Concur, having completed the prototype, is the “only responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.”

The notice gives competing vendors until May 17 to argue otherwise – but strongly hints they’re unlikely to make a successful case because of all the work that’s already been conducted during the “prototype” phase. An alternative to the Concur system would, for example, need to integrate with DoD personnel databases, support types of travel that are unique to the military, and have the system certified with a high-level authority to operate (ATO) from the Defense Information Systems Agency.

DoD officials have previously said they expect DTM to dramatically simplify the current system, which relies on complicated interconnections between private travel management companies delivering ticketing services and individual military services’ personnel and finance accounting systems. When the prototype OTA was awarded, the department predicted it would save 10 million labor hours per year, and reduce its travel administration costs “exponentially.”

The extent to which the original prototype award was subject to competition isn’t clear, because DoD handled the procurement through a private consortium , the Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace (C5). In that structure , the government makes the award on the basis of white papers it receives from consortium members, and its solicitation documents and the number of offers it receives are not made public.

The statute that authorizes DoD to use OTAs also gives the department permission to award a follow-on production contract to the same firm that won the prototype contract, as long as “competitive procedures” were used for the prototype. DoD is not leveraging that authority for DTS, and relying instead on the fact that Concur is the only “responsible source” that can meet its needs at this point. —JS

Air Force says it needs to fill top space acquisition role soon 

Congress and the Department of the Air Force are concerned that space acquisition isn’t coalescing fast enough after the creation of the Space Force.

One of the main selling points of the new service was that it would be a centralizing agency for the Defense Department’s previously disparate space acquisition organizations.

Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said last Friday that she was concerned about the continued vacancy of the space acquisition executive position created by Congress in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.

Acting Air Force Secretary John Roth, said he, too, was concerned that the position was not filled in the last administration, and continues to lay fallow. However, he said the Department of the Air Force is working on priming the office for the best possible results.

“We haven’t sat on our hands, we’ve taken a look at that office and we’ve organized it in a way that whoever comes in, can hopefully hit the ground running,” he said. “That person will obviously need to influence that where we go forward.”

The position technically does not switch over to the space acquisition executive until October 2022. Until then, it remains a vestige of the Air Force’s space acquisition and integration office.

Roth said the Air Force is considering asking Congress to change the law so that the position must be filled no later than October 2022, to add more urgency to filling the position.

Whoever takes the job would work with the Air Force service acquisition executive on space systems. They would also be in charge of the Space Development Agency, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space and Missile Systems Center.

“A big part of what we’re doing now is preparing ourselves and posturing ourselves for that new responsibility that will be coming,” Shawn Barnes, who is performing the duties of Air Force assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration said in January. “We’re working very closely with Air Force acquisition to determine what sorts of capability and capacity that this office will need in terms of people, in terms of facilities and networks and clearances and all those kinds of things, so that we can do that service acquisition executive job once that responsibility moves over.”

Since the creation of the Space Force, Roth said service has had some acquisition issues.

“Cost, schedule and performance are the keys to any acquisition program and are a management imperative,” he said. “We’ve had issues on both the air and space side in terms of staying on schedule and performing. It takes attention across the enterprise. Across the Department of the Air Force  enterprise, we are taking a new approach, a new modern, more aggressive, more accelerated approach to try to eliminate bureaucracy. We are trying to focus people on goals and coming up with meaningful metrics, and making sure we manage risk in a way that makes some sense. Too often we over promise and underperform, and we need to fix that.”

Roth said Frank Kendall, the nominee as the next Air Force secretary, will bring in much needed acquisition experience. — SM

Marine Corps pushing for more time for new mothers

The Marine Corps is pulling some strings so that new mothers can take up to five months of maternity leave.

The new policy doesn’t explicitly give mothers the whole five months; maternity leave is capped at 12 weeks.

However, the directive from Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger encourages commanders to allow mothers to take sick leave and other forms of leave after their maternity leave is used up.

“Commanders are strongly encouraged to approve annual leave in conjunction with Military Parental Leave Program (MPLP),” the directive states. “Circumstances that may cause leave to be denied include factors associated with the unit’s mission or specific operational requirements. MPLP must be exhausted before annual leave can be used for the purpose of primary caregiving after a birth event or adoption. If a Marine has not accrued 60 days of annual leave, requested advance leave up to 45 days may be authorized if those days can be accrued before the Marine’s end of contract.”

Since taking the top position in July 2019, Berger has championed changes to personnel issues within the Corps. In his first published planning guidance he called for a year of maternity leave for new mothers.

Berger’s planning guidance called out the current manpower model as based on producing mass over quality and stated that the Marines currently look at time and experience, rather than talent, performance or future potential.

“While performance is factored into promotion selection, it is narrowed to a slim cohort, roughly based on year groups — an antiquated model,” the guidance states.

Those policies, he said, separated Marines from the service at critical points.

“Current policies drive increased permanent change of station costs, throw away talent at the point it is most productive and highly trained, and discourage performers who would like to continue serving, but may be less interested in promotion or constant disruptive moves of questionable personal and professional value,” Berger said.

All of the military services have been trying to give new parents a break. In recent years the branches have expanded maternity leave and parental leave to allow service members more time to adjust. — SM

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DoD Awards $374M Contract to Modernize Travel Management System

The Department of Defense (DoD) has signed a seven-year, $374 million contract with Concur Technologies that makes the company the sole source for DoD’s Defense Travel Modernization (DTM) project, DoD announced Sept. 15 on SAM.gov .

The award anticipates that the DTM will be managing nearly four million transactions per year by Fiscal Year 2025.

“The primary purpose of the DTM is to improve travel performance outcomes by delivering state-of-the-art, industry-leading travel and expense management to the entirety of the DoD,” the award states . “DTM is a web-based travel-as-as-service system provided through cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) and will provide world-class industry standard travel capabilities to the DoD through a streamlined travel system.”

Concur won the contract after previously producing a successful prototype for DoD via an Other Transaction Authority award in 2018 . This award is structured as a follow-on to that with a one-year base period, followed by six option contract years.

Currently, the prototype is expected to handle approximately 2,000 users and 1,000 transactions this fiscal year. The award expects a ramp-up to approximately 30,000 transactions in FY2022, then a steady ramp-up to achieve the expected annual volume by FY2025.

The DoD announced it was proceeding and negotiating with Concur as the sole source for this modernization effort towards the end of April of this year. Concur will be responsible for the full implementation of the DTM, as well as sustaining and supporting the system.

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Pentagon replacing Defense Travel System, says savings and user satisfaction will result

A U.S.-bound plane is parked at a gate at Narita International Airport in Japan in 2019. The Defense Department will roll out a replacement to the Defense Travel System over the next three years. (Aaron Kidd/Stars and Stripes)

The Defense Department soon will begin a three-year rollout of a cloud-based system intended to replace the aging Defense Travel System, which has been beset by costly inefficiency for years.

Dubbed MyTravel, the new system will let users book travel and process expense reports online.

The Pentagon previously projected the upgrade would lower the price of airline tickets and reduce the time spent by DOD military and civilian personnel on booking travel by more than 10 million hours a year.

The new system is expected to be fully operational by fiscal year 2025 and will eventually handle some 3.8 million transactions a year.

The system is being developed by Bellevue, Wash.-based Concur Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Germany’s SAP SE. DOD and Concur signed a $374 million contract last week.

Under a contract signed in 2018, Concur developed a prototype of MyTravel. In awarding that contract, the Pentagon said it was spending about $9 billion on travel, about 70% of that for temporary duty assignments.

Passengers arrive at the Ramstein Air Base, Germany, passenger terminal in 2016. The Defense Department will roll out a replacement to the Defense Travel System over the next three years. (Jonathan Stefanko/U.S. Air Force)

The government has seen a per-trip savings through limited use of the prototype, but the dollar amounts for the costs of about 4 million annual trips under the legacy system and the projected savings under MyTravel at full implementation were redacted from the contracting documents.

DTS, which has been around in some form for over two decades, continues to incur technical debt “through poor usability, low customer satisfaction and improper payment of travel entitlements,” according to a document justifying the contact award.

MyTravel's “modern, easy-to-use interface” is expected to improve usability and customer satisfaction, the document states.

A built-in artificial intelligence engine identifies possible irregularities in travel expenses and already has shown that it could significantly reduce improper payments, the contracting document states.

MyTravel is expected to ramp up from processing some 1,000 transactions this fiscal year to 30,000 next year, the document says. It currently has a user base of about 2,000 people, it says, a small fraction of DOD's nearly 3 million personnel.

The prototype project took three years, adding DOD-specific capabilities to Concur’s commercial product in over 30 rapid-development cycles known as “sprints,” the contract documents state.

It can currently handle temporary duty travel, local travel, travel to military installations and overseas travel, the document states.

As the contractor shifts from development to production, more sprints will be used to configure it for processing leave, medical, training and deployment travel in compliance with DOD rules.

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The US military is stuck with the widely-hated Defense Travel System until 2025

"One does not simply submit a travel claim in DTS."

By Paul Szoldra | Published Sep 22, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

The U.S. military travel and expense booking service known to service members as the Defense Travel System (DTS) and also as perhaps the most frustrating piece of software imaginable is finally getting an upgrade, according to Stars & Stripes, though it won’t be fully operational until 2025.

The new-and-improved system dubbed “MyTravel” will allow Department of Defense users to book trips and manage travel-related transactions. The travel software company SAP Concur was awarded the $374 million contract on Sept. 13 to develop the system, which “combines industry-leading travel technology and Travel Management Company services to deliver a ‘travel as a service capability’ based on a subscription pricing model,” according to the contract description.

The modern cloud-based system will provide an easy-to-use interface and relies on artificial intelligence to audit expenses, the contract justification states. It will also mean the government will no longer need to maintain its own travel-booking system, which is not “as user-friendly” as the alternative.

That’s a nice way to characterize a system that’s often described with profanity. As news articles, online memes, and even official military press releases can attest, service members have long despised DTS. One “Lord of the Rings”-inspired meme , for example, shows actor Sean Bean making a ring shape with his hand along with the caption, “One does not simply submit a travel claim in DTS.” Others feature a teacher in front of a full chalkboard which sarcastically proclaims, “that’s how you sign a voucher on DTS.” One Army first sergeant even uploaded a cartoon titled “DTS Nightmare” to the military’s official imagery portal in 2016.

“As a military writer, I know words; generally, they don’t intimidate me,” Tech Sgt. Andria Allmond wrote in a 2016 Air Force news release. “Yet, there are particular words that make me shudder: CBT (computer-based training), MOPP (Mission-Oriented Protective Posture) and DTS (Defense Travel System).”

And then there are the personal accounts from current and former service members who have slogged through the jungle of digital paperwork that is DTS, only to file their forms and then find out at the eleventh hour that there was a problem.

That was the case for a pair of Army veterans who spoke to Task & Purpose in May and described how they arrived at the airport in South Korea with all their belongings, including their pet cat, and found that their tickets to their next duty station in Germany had not been paid for.

“We had to use a nice Korean man’s cell phone to make about 67 phone calls, and got it straightened out and the cat ok to leave the country and enter Europe with literally 5 minutes to spare before our plane closed the doors,” said former Army Staff Sgt. Victoria Chamberlin. “I am remembering language barriers, and we had 3 carts worth of bags with us that would have made it hard to turn around and leave – plus the cat. Oof.”

Of course, contract documents describe the problems more mildly: “DTS is a legacy system that continues to incur technical debt through poor usability, low customer satisfaction, and improper payment of travel entitlements.”

The Defense Department anticipates transitioning about 2,000 users and 1,000 travel transactions to the new system in Fiscal Year 2021, according to the documents. That number is expected to increase to 30,000 transactions the following year until reaching a “steady state” of 3.8 million transactions by 2025.

The Department of Defense first began the process of replacing the “aging and inefficient” Defense Travel System in August 2018 after awarding a $9.3 million contract to SAP Concur to develop a prototype. Then in May 2021, negotiations began for the final contract that was signed last week.

Still, it couldn’t arrive soon enough. As retired Army Col. Arnold Strong told Task & Purpose earlier this year, he found DTS so complicated and difficult to use that he nicknamed it the “Don’t Travel Service.”

“It’s been challenging for soldiers, leaders, NCOs, officers, and lower enlisted alike to navigate how to actually get from Point A to Point B,” Strong said. “I would usually run everything by an E-5 clerk that I had – even though it’s supposed to be very autonomous – I always wanted to make sure that I had expertise. Otherwise, you end up having long layovers, having poor connections, because it’s designed to find the cheapest source available for the government. So you end up going in sort of chaotic directions.”

It’s almost fitting that a replacement for DTS will be slow to arrive, considering that one of the main complaints about the legacy system is that it’s so cumbersome and hard to use, it often results in delays.

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Contracts For April 15, 2024

General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $296,861,979 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for M10 Booker system technical support. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 14, 2029. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the contracting activity (W912CH-24-D-0001). 

Marrero, Couvillon & Associates LLC,* Baton Rouge, Louisiana (W911S7-24-D-0008); Bales Construction Co. Inc., Waynesville,* Missouri (W911S7-24-D-0007); Reese Equipment Co. LLC, Dixon,* Missouri (W911S7-24-D-0006); Olgoonik Specialty Contractors LLC,* Saint Robert, Missouri (W911S7-24-D-0005); and SDJV,* Seymour, Missouri (W911S7-24-D-0004), will compete for each order of the $42,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for sustainment, reutilization and modernization construction projects. Bids were solicited via the internet with 10 received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 14, 2029. Army Field Directorate Office, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is the contracting activity. 

Veolia Technical Solutions LLC, Boston, Massachusetts, was awarded a $29,625,435 firm-fixed-price contract for hazardous waste disposal services. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of April 14, 2029. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity (W56ZTN-24-D-0007). 

GaN Corp., Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a $12,796,045 modification (P00022) to contract W31P4Q-21-F-B005 for technical services support for Program Executive Office Aviation. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 14, 2026. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement, Army funds in the amount of $12,796,045 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity. 

AeroVironment Inc., Simi Valley, California (M67854-24-D-1027); Anduril Federal, Washington, D.C. (M67854-24-D-1026); and Teledyne FLIR Detection Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma (M67854-24-D-1028), were each awarded a hybrid, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the production, delivery, test, and maintenance support of the Organic Precision Fires – Light system, up to a combined value of $249,000,000. AeroVironment Inc. was awarded $8,931,148; Anduril Federal Inc. was awarded $6,458,187; and Teledyne FLIR Detection Inc. was awarded $12,084,866. Work will be performed in Simi Valley, California (86%); and Corinne, Utah (16%), for M67854-24-D-1026; Washington, D.C. (10%); Costa Mesa, California (40%); Santa Ana, California (10%); and Mountain View, California (40%), for(M67854-24-D-1027; Stillwater, Oklahoma for (M67854-24-D-1028). The work is expected to be completed by April 2026. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $27,474,201 will be obligated on the first delivery orders immediately following contract awards. The requirement was competitively procured through full and open competition and solicited through the System for Award Management website, with eight offers received in response to solicitation number M67854-23-R-1037. Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia, is the contracting activity. (Awarded April 9, 2024)

W. G. Yates and Sons Construction Co., Philadelphia, Mississippi, is awarded a $103,305,221 firm-fixed-price construction contract for a facility project located at Corpus Christi Army Depot, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. The work to be performed provides for, but is not limited to, construction of a new powertrain engines assembly facility to house rotary wing component rebuild activities. The contract also contains two unexercised options, which, if exercised, would increase the cumulative contract value to $148,368,658. Work will be performed in Nueces County, Texas, and is expected to be completed by October 2026. Fiscal 2024 military construction (Army) funds in the amount of $103,305,221 are obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the sam.gov website, with one offer received. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting activity (N69450-24-C-0024).

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Owego, New York, is awarded a $46,037,391 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001924F2604) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001923G0002). This order provides non-recurring engineering for the development, integration, testing, and deployment of the MH-60 aircraft product line system configuration 26 fleet release for all MH-60 air platform variants, to include baseline management integrated management planning, integrated development environment support, support equipment baseline management, software architect, core lab support, problem trouble report legacy support, engineering tools support and development aircraft support for the Navy, Australia, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Norway, and Greece. Work will be performed in Owego, New York, and is expected to be completed by September 2026. Fiscal 2024 research, test and development (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,023,001; and Foreign Military Sales customer funds in the amount of $35,014,390, will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Eagle Systems Inc.,*, California, Maryland, is awarded a $19,500,905 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development support for digital integrated electronic warfare simulations. The contract does not include options and has a cumulative value of $19,500,905. A $2,664,209 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order was issued concurrently. This task order includes options and has a cumulative value of $5,390,960. Work for the initial task order will be performed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, D.C. and is expected to be completed by April 2025. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $150,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with one offer received via Contract Opportunities on SAM.gov . The NRL, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N0017324D2005, N0017324F2014).

DCS Corp., Alexandria, Virginia, is awarded an $9,688,777 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the research, development, and application-oriented activities in the generation, propagation, detection, and use of radiation in the wavelength region between near-ultraviolet and far-infrared wavelengths to meet naval visible, electro-optic/infrared (VIS/EO/IR) advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems and technology challenges. This contract includes options, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $49,751,099. Work will be performed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, D.C., and is expected to be completed by April 2025. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,521,102 will be obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with one offer received via Contract Opportunities on SAM.GOV . The NRL, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N0017324C2008).

DRS Laurel Technologies, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is awarded an $8,199,902 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to a previously awarded contract (N0002422C5235) for Ship Self Defense System Technical Insertion 2016 hardware production and engineering services. Work will be performed in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed by April 2025. Fiscal 2024 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $808,108 (100%) will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., McLean, Virginia, has been awarded a $58,273,692 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for strategic planning, business analysis, and program management. Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be complete by Sept. 15, 2029. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with one offer received against a Fair Opportunity Proposal Request. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation appropriations; fiscal 2023 Air Force procurement appropriations; fiscal 2024 Air Force procurement appropriations; and fiscal 2024 Defense Procurement Act Title III appropriations in the amount of $3,223,836 are being obligated at the time of award . This is a multi-year contract with one base year, four option years, and an option to extend services up to six months. Funds. The contracting activity is Air Force Research Laboratory, Enterprise Acquisition Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (FA2396-24-F-B089).

The University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract task order modification (P00007) of $35,000,000 to previously awarded contract FA8651-20-D-0003. This modification will explore the phenomenology of energetic materials and quantify the factors, which could affect a material's sensitivity to shock, electrostatic discharge, friction, aging, temperature, mechanical loading and other environmental or operational factors. This modification will increase the total contract value to $60,000,000. Work will be performed at Dayton, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by April 7, 2025. This contract will be funded by research, development, test and evaluation funds and no funds are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity.  

Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, has been awarded an $11,007,700 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research and development, to include advanced compact pulsed-power, pulse-forming networks, pulse-forming lines, linear transformer drivers, hybrid pulsed-power topologies, nonlinear transmission lines, solid-state switches, gas switches, capacitors, transformers, insulating dielectrics, varactors, resistors, magnetic and dielectric conducting and structural materials. Research will include design, development, engineering, fabrication, assembly, analysis, and testing of pulsed and prime power topologies and components.  Location of performance is primarily at the contractors' facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with additional performance at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. This contract is the result of a competitive acquisition and is expected to complete by April 2028. This contract will be funded by fiscal 2024 research development test and evaluation funds, and $609,232 will be obligated at the time of award. The contracting activity is Air Force Research Laboratory/RDKP at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico (FA9451-24-C-X011).

Lead Builders Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract totaling $8,869,543. This contract will provide setup and installation of utilities for a test measurement facility at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Work will be performed at Edwards AFB, California, and is expected to be complete July 25, 2025. The contract is funded by fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance funds and $8,869,543 is being obligated at the time of award. The contracting activity is Edwards Air Force Base, California (FA9301-24-F-0068).

Serco Inc., Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded an option modification of $8,850,096 (P00025) to previously awarded, firm-fixed-price contract FA2517-20-C-0003. This modification will provide operations and maintenance support for the ground-based, electro-optical deep space surveillance system. Work will be performed at various continental U.S. and outside of the continental U.S. locations. Pending all future option periods are exercised, work is expected to be complete by Oct. 31, 2027. This option modification is funded with fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance funds. This option modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $39,829,661. The contracting activity is the Space Force, Space Operations Command, Space Acquisition, and Integration Office, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY

ATP Gov LLC, Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Ecotech Imaging, San Diego, California; JTF Gov, Springfield, Virginia; New Tech Solutions Inc., Fremont, California, have been awarded a maximum $45,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for providing interactive flat panels, smart TVs, and peripherals for use in classroom spaces, meetings spaces, and other collaborative areas in schools and offices located inside and outside of the continental U.S, to include shipping and installation. These are five-year contracts with no option periods. Ordering period is from April 15, 2024, through 14 April 2029.  Location will be determined by the individual delivery orders. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2024 through 2029, operation and maintenance funds. The contracting activity is Department of Defense Education Activity, Alexandria, Virginia.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

Aerojet Rocketdyne, Coleman Aerospace Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc., Orlando, Florida, is being awarded a $33,415,038 modification P00209 to a previously awarded contract (HQ1047-14-C-0001) to address Lot 3 Hardware Obsolescence. The value of this contract is increased from $1,520,510,911 to $1,553,925,949. Under this modification, the contractor will update hardware obsolescence on contract line item number 0095 in accordance with the performance work statement. The work will be performed in Orlando and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The performance period is from April 15, 2024, through December 2029. Fiscal 2024-2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $2,500,000 are being obligated on this award. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

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