Enterprise-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract adds 122 Awardees
3/20/25
The U.S. Air Force has added 122 companies to the $46 billion Enterprise-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), significantly expanding the procurement vehicle designed to accelerate the development of innovative weapons capabilities. This is the fourth on-ramp to the contract. The Air Force began soliciting proposals for this latest expansion in October, continuing to build upon the contract vehicle first established in September 2021. Initially, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Armament Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida selected 55 companies for this multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.
EWAAC is an IDIQ contract managed by the Armament Directorate at Eglin AFB. Its primary objective is to provide rapid response capabilities across all lifecycle phases of weapons development, from concept to sustainment. The contract aims to deliver innovative capabilities to warfighters with increased speed and agility by incorporating digital acquisition practices including Digital Engineering, Agile Processes, and Open System Architecture.
The technical areas of interest include planning activities for weapons development, weapons studies, application of agile enabling processes, and technologies that enable development in areas such as propulsion, guidance, navigation, sensors, and payloads. The contract focuses on five key capability areas: Reach (increased standoff technologies), Affordable Mass (large quantities of low-cost weapons), Autonomous Collaboration (weapons that adapt to the battlespace), Sensing and Communication Nodes (weapons as sensors for Multi-Domain Operations), and Non-Kinetic Effects (directed energy and electronic warfare).
Work elements under EWAAC include implementing the “Digital Trinity” (Digital Engineering, Agile Processes, and Open Architecture), supporting armament/weapons development activities from design through deployment, providing enterprise analytics using Business Intelligence tools, and operating an Innovation Hub. The Innovation Hub will serve as a collaborative space for experts and innovators throughout the DoD to conduct research, development, testing, and production activities.
The contract emphasizes the use of digital methodologies, requiring contractors to develop a Digital Ecosystem that integrates technical data, models, and associated digital artifacts as part of an Authoritative Source of Truth. Contractors must adhere to Government Reference Architecture, use commercially available software tools defined by the Government, and incorporate cybersecurity architecture from the beginning of development efforts. While security clearance is not required for the award of the basic contract, most delivery/task orders will require a minimum SECRET clearance.
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