Engineering Manufacturing and Development and Production and Deployment

This contract will be for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and Production and Deployment (P&D) phases of the Airborne Launch Control System Replacement (ALCS-R) program. The Government intends to utilize limited competition for the ALCS-R EMD/P&D contract. This acquisition follows a fully-competed Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) effort. ALCS-R is the ICBM survivable airborne launch capability. The Legacy ALCS for Minuteman III (MMIII) requires recapitalization. The ALCS-R will provide current and future ICBMs with a survivable airborne launch capability. The approved Acquisition Strategy dictates a full-and-open TMRR competition resulting in an award of up to two contracts. The strategy further dictates a down-select between the two TMRR contractors at Milestone B (MS/B). This strategy was communicated to industry in the solicitation for the TMRR contracts. In accordance with the approved Acquisition Strategy, the TMRR source selection utilized full-and-open competition and resulted in the award of two contracts. The TMRR effort requires demonstration of a competitive prototype and design efforts to reduce as much EMD risk as possible for the available budget. The Government intends to use risk reduction and the results of the prototype demonstrations as part of the source selection criteria for the down-select. As a result of the EMD/P&D source selection, one design will be selected and one contract will be awarded for the EMD and P&D phases. The Government anticipates that the current contractors (Lockheed Martin and Rockwell Collins) will be the only potential sources for this acquisition. For consideration as a new potential source, an interested party would have to prove they have met all TMRR requirements, to include providing and demonstrating a competitive prototype, without causing delay of schedule or duplication of costs to the Government.