U.S. Navy Procures Data Analysis Tool for Deployed Submarines

Systems Engineering Associates Corp., Middletown, Rhode Island, is being awarded a $19,778,516 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering services for the continued development of the Extensible Markup Language Test Data Analysis Tool (XTDAS) on all Navy submarines currently deployed. The XTDAS tool provides a portable, adaptable and cost effective means for collecting, analyzing, verifying and validating the required combat system data. Work will be performed at Middletown, Rhode Island (30 percent); Newport, Rhode Island (10 percent); Port Canaveral, Florida (10 percent); West Palm Beach, Florida, and Andros Island, Bahamas (10 percent); Groton, Connecticut (5 percent); Kings Bay, Georgia (5 percent); Norfolk, Virginia (4 percent); Manassas, Virginia (4 percent); Washington, D.C. (4 percent); Newport News, Virginia (2 percent); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (2 percent); and onboard Naval ships and submarines (14 percent). Work is expected to be completed by May 2020. Fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $545,000 will be obligated at time of award, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This sole source requirement is a Phase III SBIR follow-on contract. A synopsis was posted September 2014 to the governmentwide point of entry and no inquiries were received. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center–Division Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, is the contracting activity (N66604-15-D-0131).