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This Request for Information is a market research tool being used in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 15.2 to determine potential and eligible businesses capable of providing the services described herein.

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIRSYSCOM) Program Executive Office, Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, PEO(U&W), PMA-263, at Patuxent River, Maryland, announces its intention to broaden industry partnership and to procure, on a competitive basis, COCO services necessary to provide UAS ISR services for the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (STUAS) Program Office (PMA-263) in support of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Other Government Agencies (OGA).These services will support domestic and coalition military partners in combat and contingency operations. Currently, these services are being delivered under performance-based Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) issued in March 2021 to Insitu, Inc. of Bingen WA, and Textron Systems of Hunt Valley MD, for land-based and sea-based ISR services. The existing BOAs, N0001921G0007 and N0001921G0008, respectively, are Firm-Fixed-Price type and expire March 2026. Detailed information on the existing BOAs can be obtained via the following website: https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia. This Request for Information is issued with the intent to award BOA(s) to onboard additional qualified vendor(s) to compete for future ISR COCO Services.

2.0 OBJECTIVE

PMA-263 is seeking to identify additional contractors capable of providing COCO ISR services in support of DoD, OGA, and combat and contingency operational requirements. This Request for Information is related to support for land-based and sea-based operations to provide reliable delivery of Sensor Data. Contractors would be responsible for resources to produce Sensor Data, such as trained personnel, non-developmental UAS equipment, certifications, operation and maintenance, spares and product support. Contracted services would be in direct support of ISR missions requiring around the clock imagery and other sensor capability in support of those missions. Contractors shall be capable of providing ISR services on a normal and surge basis, day and night, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment support would be required, and would entail execution of a variety of responsibilities inherent to execution of such support, including but not limited to, equipment transportation, export control licensing, insurance, personnel travel, processing for overseas movement and accountability, visa coordination, compliance with requirements at DFARS 252.225-7040, compliance with DoDI 3020.41, etc.

3.0 REQUIREMENTS

PMA-263 is specifically interested in UAS ISR services capable of the following performance parameters. The following parameters constitute mandatory minimum requirements:

• Technology Readiness Level (TRL):  TRL 8 per DOD Deskbook 5000.2 
• Operational range: at least 75 nautical miles (nm) from the ground control station located at the launch site, with a single air vehicle, for both sea-based and land-based UAS operations
• Datalink range (communications and Full Motion Video (FMV)): Line-of-Sight with Type-1 Encryption utilizing the Bandwidth Efficient Common Data Link (BE-CDL) waveform
• On Station Time: 10 hours Time-on-Station (TOS) at maximum range
• Simultaneous, multi-intelligence (multi-INT) capable with FMV senso