By Ann Roosevelt
Boeing [BA], teamed with Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC], submitted a comprehensive proposal Oct. 2 responding to the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) request for proposals for the potential $5 billion Special Operations Forces Support Activity (SOFSA).
Boeing and CSC announced their teaming agreement in April (Defense Daily, April 11).
“Boeing already supports special operations aircraft types and provides logistics services and has expertise working with depots,” Dennis Muilenburg, president Boeing Global Services & Support, said at a roundtable Oct.1.
Boeing provides SOCOM with the majority of its rotary-wing fleet, including the MH-47G, the AH-6 Little Bird, CV-22 Osprey and A-160 Hummingbird.
CSC provides experience supporting the warfighter on the ground and through logistics systems. It has business systems and is the Logistics Information system provider for the Army.
“Our team is bringing together tremendous capabilities that exist without companies to support the SOF warfighter,” he said later in a statement. “Our proven success in improving processes in both the technical and human aspects of sustaining customer readiness are something no other team can match.”
SOFSA is a 10-year program to provide comprehensive logistics support services to ensure SOF readiness requirements are met. It includes support of virtually any product or item unique to SOF.
“A successful win will expand Boeing’s footprint into its new and strategically significant services market,” Muilenburg said. In the past two weeks, Boeing formed a new Defense & government Services division to penetrate the estimated $1.5 trillion services market (Defense Daily, Sept. 23).
“The combination of our skills and focus on the customer [makes SOFSA] an example of the kind of area where we can expand,” Muilenburg said.