Digital Engineering and Cyber Resiliency BOA
G2 Ops, Inc. was awarded a 5-year Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with the U.S. Navy in September 2024.
What is a BOA?
A BOA is a written agreement negotiated between an agency, contracting activity, or office and a contractor that contains 1) specific terms and clauses pertaining to future contracts or orders, 2) a specific description of what services or supplies are to be provided, and 3) the method of pricing, payment, and delivery of orders. A BOA is not a contract.
A BOA is often used to expedite contracting when requirements are uncertain for supplies or services and when specific items, quantities, and prices are not known at the time the agreement is executed, but significant requirements for such supplies or services are anticipated.
Why Use a SBIR BOA?
The BOA provides a direct path to engineering, modeling and cybersecurity services and product development supporting systems development and sustainment for all government entities. The BOA reduces potential risks by shortening the procurement timeline, allowing for unlimited ceilings and removing Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) buying practices.
Additional Details
This initiative establishes a groundbreaking Systems Engineering enterprise approach that integrates systems, diverse data sets, and tool suites, enabling sophisticated cyber risk analysis, architectural design assessments, network flow evaluations, and mission resiliency monitoring. By leveraging digital engineering methods, this effort ensures seamless collaboration among all stakeholders and provides actionable insights.
These approaches will accelerate related entities alignment with key strategies like DoDI 5000.97 “Digital Engineering” (2023), the NAVWAR Digital Engineering Strategy (2023), and the Department of the Navy Cyber Strategy (2023) and the DoD Data, Analytics, and AI Adoption Strategy (2023) through the use of innovative Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), AI/ML-driven automation, and advanced SBIR technologies to enhance maritime dominance and digital transformation in Naval operations. The BOA allows customers access to the following:
- MBSE unified modeling for complex systems-of-systems
- MBSE for structured system analysis and optimization
- Cybersecurity and mission-based resiliency evaluation through comprehensive cyber risk and vulnerability modeling across systems
- Rapid weapon system fielding
- Cybersecurity analysis of control systems
- Enhancement of the decision-making process during key tactical data link system phases
- Elimination of costs associated with unnecessary or redundant cybersecurity capabilities
- Data analysis optimization and exchange for data enterprise systems
- System reliability and performance analysis leveraging MBSE principles
- MBSE across hardware, software, and network integration