DOD adds 13 to $48B tech research vehicle
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Ross Wilkers
The Defense Department now has 41 companies involved in this program focused on the preservation and sharing of information and knowledge related to military technology.
The Defense Department has added 13 companies to one of its main contract vehicles for broad technology research-and-development services that has a $48 billion ceiling.
DOD made this round of awards for its IAC-MAC vehicle as part of an on-ramp process for new companies to join the group with the selections focused on pools one and two of the contract.
Pool one is the unrestricted track and pool two is small business set-aside. A total of 13 companies submitted proposals for the unrestricted piece and eight bids were turned in for the set-aside portion, the Pentagon said in its Monday awards digest.
New members of the unrestricted portion are as follows:
- American Systems
- Barbaricum (small business)
- DCS
- Parsons
- Peraton
- Serco Group’s North American subsidiary
- Systems Planning and Analysis
- Torch Technologies
The small business track now includes:
- Apogee Engineering
- Joint Research and Development
- KIHOMAC
- MORSECORP
- PeopleTec
With those additions, the roster of companies involved in the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract grows to 41 from the original number of 28 chosen over the course of 2018.
IAC-MAC’s ceiling was $20 billion at the time of that first round of awards, then DOD raised the ceiling to $48 billion in June 2023 ahead of its release of the on-ramp’s final solicitation later that September.
The vehicle’s third track is reserved for nonprofit organizations and was not part of the on-ramp.
Awardees compete for task orders to support the Defense Technical Information Center, DOD’s field activity responsible for the preservation and sharing of information and knowledge related to military technology.
DTIC manages the Information Analysis Center network that provides technical analysis and data support to the service branches, combatant commands, DOD agencies and senior Pentagon civilian leadership.
Work under IAC-MAC will take place through Sept. 29, 2027.
GovTribe data pegs the overall task order spend as approximately $9.8 billion to-date with HII, Booz Allen Hamilton, KBR, ManTech and CACI International as the top five recipients.
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., Battelle Memorial Institute, Science Applications International Corp., Amentum and Leidos round out the top 10.