A pair of long-term contracts for missile intelligence and lunar nuclear power taking shape at the Defense Department and NASA underscore a growing trend of requirement rollups and public-private partnerships in federal procurement.
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s $14.1 billion Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing (COMET) and NASA’s Fission Surface Power (FSP) opportunity, estimated by Bloomberg Government at $6.2 billion, are decades-long, multiple award R&D programs that combine the development of military and civilian technology using multi-stage solicitation and deployment strategies.
If successful, they could offer long-term models for complex requirements bundling and private sector ...