Space Force awards 12 seats on 'Hemisphere' advisory contract

Space Force has made 12 awards on a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract vehicle for advisory and assistance services focused on weapons systems.

The Hemisphere program is broad in scope as it tasks awardees to support all phases of program lifecycles via management, engineering, logistics, contracting, administrative and operations support work.

A total of 40 companies submitted proposals for the contract that covers current and future programs of unclassified and classified natures, the Pentagon said in its Wednesday awards digest.

Winners are as follows:

• Axient (acquired by Astrion in July)
• BryceTech
• BTAS
• KBR
• LinQuest (acquired by KBR in September)
• Modern Technology Solutions Inc.
• NTSI
• OBX-MCR joint venture
• Quantech Services
• Science Applications International Corp.
• Sigmatech
• Solutions Through Innovative Technologies

Multiple incumbents currently provide this type of work to the Space Force across several standalone contracts, but the branch has not named those companies nor described how the services are broken out.

Space Force established the new contract to aid in its development of space situational awareness systems, defensive and offensive space control tools, and test range assets.

These systems require support across different phases that include technology and system development, procurement, integration, test and analysis, training, program protection analysis, sustainment, mission assurance, anomaly resolution, operations, and contract administrative support.

Hemisphere’s period of performance covers one initial base year followed by up to nine individual option years.