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Department of the Air Force: Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition

APPROVALS ( RFO 6.104-2(a) Table 6-1 & R-DFARS 206.104-72 Table 206.1) See J&A Template Guidance (https://usaf.dps.mil/sites/AFCC/AQCP/KnowledgeCenter/SitePages/DAF-Contracting-Compass/ Part-6---Competition-Requirements.aspx#exceptions-to-full-and-open-competition-mandatory) - Justification Approvals tab NOTE 1: A signature block will appear here (replacing these notes) based on the "Dollar Value of this Acquisition" selected above. Since most digital signatures that include date/time-stamps are redacted before they are made publicly available, always insert the date in the “Date” cell when affixing a digital signature to this document.

March 2026

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Department of the Air Force: Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition I. Agency and Contracting Activity (RFO 6.104-1(a)(1)): Agency: AFMC
Contracting Activity: AFNWC/PZU

II. Nature and/or description of the action being approved (RFO 6.104-1(a)(2)): This document approves the award of a modification to Task Order FA873022F8506 to extend the period of performance and increase the overall ceiling price on a sole source basis to Peraton, Inc. The National Desired Ground Zero (DGZ) List Integrated Development System 4 (NIDS 4) contract supports the maintenance and sustainment of two legacy NIDS applications N3 and Early Plan Design (EPD), as well as developing their replacement applications, Strategic Nuclear Aimpoint Planning System (SNAPS) and EPD v2 (EPD2), respectively. The users of these applications are from USSTRATCOM Strategic Nuclear Targeting Section (J5311) and the War Plan Analysis Branch (J591). This justification is made on Individual basis.
III. Description of supplies/services required to meet agency needs (RFO 6.104-1(a)(3)): The requested extension and ceiling increase allows for continued maintenance and sustainment activities, ongoing software development activities, ongoing on-site support requirements, and integration efforts to the new Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES) environment. This extension will allow for the following technical in-scope efforts: 1. $4M (estimated) for maintenance and sustainment activities and on-site support. Primarily, the Government will use these resources to maintain, deploy, and support the NIDS software. This includes Contractor Development Test and Evaluation (CDT&E) in which the Contractor is required to conduct functional, validation and verification, performance, security, and