Contract Award: Systems Engineering Associates Corp. (Middletown, Rhode Island) – $24,522,689

Systems Engineering Associates Corp.,* Middletown, Rhode Island, is awarded a $24,522,689 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare Modular Suite (EMWMS). This contract provides for the development of EMWMS as a mobile, configurable experimental and operational unit geared towards specific EMW capabilities and missions. It will be suited for long-term use in a single location or for "roll-on/roll-off" deployable missions aboard manned and unmanned air, land and sea platforms. The EMWMS will be centered around a Container, Express (CONEX) box design focused on scalability, modularity, reliability, maintainability and security. The CONEX box infrastructure will also address space, weight and power requirements to support Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)/Counter-ISR hotel service capabilities. Work will be performed in Middletown, Rhode Island (88.8%); Norfolk, Virginia (5.4%); McLean, Virginia (2.9%); Rochester, New York (1.6%); and Narragansett, Rhode Island (1.3%). Work is expected to be completed for the base period by May 18, 2023, and if all options are exercised, work will continue until Sept. 19, 2027. The contract also includes four 12-month option periods and one 4-month option period, which if exercised would increase cumulative contract value to $79,033,482. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,271,536 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under the Office of Naval Research Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) (N00014-21-S-B001). Since proposals are received throughout the year under the Long Range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-22-C-1070).