Over the next three years, the U.S. Air Force plans to recompete some software application contracts for U.S. Strategic Command’s (STRATCOM) future Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES).
The latter is to use flexible funding–so-called “colorless” money–that the Air Force may shift between research and development and procurement accounts, for example. The Aerospace Industries Association has advocated a similar, flexible funding approach for DoD’s Joint All Domain Command and Control architecture.
SMPES is a follow-on to Increment 5 of STRATCOM’s Integrated Strategic and Analysis Planning Network (ISPAN). The Air Force has called ISPAN “one of the Department of Defense’s most complex classified computer systems, and the only national force-level planning system” for nuclear and conventional arms.
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Combatant Command C2 division (AFLCMC/HBC) at Offutt AFB, Neb., is to hold the virtual industry day for SMPES on July 10.
“Over the next three years, AFLCMC/HBC will be recompeting several of the software application contracts within the acquisition portfolio,” a June 24 business notice said of the upcoming industry day. “The purpose of this event is to conduct market research and to provide industry with current technical, programmatic and contract information regarding these acquisitions and to solicit feedback and questions in all three of the areas.”
The industry day is to involve a number of software applications, including the Nuclear Planning & Execution System, the Air Vehicle Planning System, the Global Adaptive Planning Collaborative Information Environment 2.0, and the National Target Base Desired Ground Zero Integrated Development System.
Contractors for ISPAN over the years have included Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT]; BAE Systems; Northrop Grumman [NOC]; and Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC].