Leading the Edge: Global Technical Systems to Revolutionize Computing with $7.94M Contract

Management Services Group, doing business as Global Technical Systems, Virginia Beach, Virginia, was awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a ceiling of $7,943,505 for a Hyperconverged Edge Computing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) III. This contract provides the transition of flexible infrastructure concepts and technologies developed in prior SBIR initiatives and to enable an optimized design approach for the integration of all required system components to address identified Space Force capabilities and/or as applicable to other SBIR Phase III commercialization. This effort will deliver requirement definitions, design information, fabrication, production, and demonstration of space systems for rapid decision and command action delivery. Work will be performed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by July 30, 2026. This contract was a competitive acquisition, and one offer was received. Fiscal 2023 congressional funds and research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the total amount of $7,943,505 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Lab Space Technology Branch, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, is the contracting activity (FA9453-24-C-X024).