Sev1Tech wins 5-year, $262M contract to support Army radios
The Va.-based company won a “full and open” recompete of the original 2022 Material Fielding & Integrated Product Support (MF & IPS) contract to support the Army’s tactical radios.
Kosse Hampton, an expert defense contractor and trainer with Sev1Tech, provides one-on-one coaching to U.S. Army Sgt. Andres Aguero, an infantryman assigned to the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), during a training exercise on the AN/PRC 14 Delta and AN/PRC 170 radios at Mihail Kogălniceanu Airbase, Romania, Aug. 28-29, 2024. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jason Sessions)
WASHINGTON — Sev1Tech will hold onto its leading role supporting the Army’s battlefield radio systems for another five years, the company and the service’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, & Communications (Network) told Breaking Defense.
The Woodbridge, Va.-based IT services firm has beaten its (undisclosed) rivals in a “full and open” recompete of the Materiel Fielding & Integrated Product Support (MF & IFPS) 2.0 contract it initially won in 2022, Sev1Tech and the Army said. Like the ’22 award, the new MF&IPS contract is structured with one base year of guaranteed work and four one-year options; its maximum value, if all options are exercised, is $262 million.
It’s important to understand this is services contract to support radios (awarded under the Army’s Rapid Strategic Sourcing for Services vehicle), not a procurement. Sev1Tech doesn’t build radios; a host of other firms do that.
Instead, the company supports the complex process of fielding a wide variety of tactical radio systems in the right numbers to the right units across the Army, then making sure they all actually work and all work together. That covers all sorts of tasks, from mundane but laborious packing and transportation, to highly technical network integrations, to extensive hands-on training for Army personnel. In essence, Sev1Tech’s role under the new contract — which, the company told Breaking Defense, is increased in “scope and complexity” from the 2022 version — starts when the radios leave the factory and ends only when they’re officially handed off to fully trained soldiers.
Sev1Tech has worked on Army tactical radios for over 15 years and prides itself on its expertise in tactical radio frequency technologies. Its partners on this contract include Augustine Consulting Inc. (ACI), JHT, and NetSEA.
