Advanced Systems
Technology, Inc.
Advanced Systems
Technology, Inc.
Advanced Systems Technology, Inc. (AST) was founded in 1984 in Lawton, Oklahoma, by former military professionals with a mission to provide engineering and technical support services for Army combat systems. From its earliest support of U.S. Army fire support missions, AST established a reputation for delivering responsive, mission-focused solutions to the Department of Defense and other federal customers.
Today, AST is an SBA certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), bringing the agility of a small business together with decades of operational and technical expertise. Our team includes highly experienced Subject Matter Experts, Combat Developers, Systems Analysts, Software Engineers, logisticians, and technical professionals whose knowledge of Army concepts, systems, training, and operational requirements is unmatched within the small business community.
AST supports customers across the full lifecycle of training, simulation, range operations, logistics, systems integration, and sustainment. With operations throughout the United States, including a regional office in Orlando, Florida, AST continues to provide innovative, reliable, and mission-ready solutions that directly support warfighter readiness and operational success.
AST was awarded an OASIS+ Prime contract as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) in the Technical & Engineering and Logistics domains, reinforcing its position as a trusted federal partner. Through GSA’s premier governmentwide services contract vehicle, AST is uniquely positioned to deliver innovative, mission-critical solutions that help federal agencies achieve their operational objectives efficiently, effectively, and at scale.
AST has been officially certified as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) following the transfer of the certification process from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to the Small Business Administration (SBA), effective January 1, 2023, under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA 2021). Firms that were previously verified by the VA’s Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE) as of the above date have automatically received SBA certification for the remainder of their eligibility period.
AST won PRIME contract positions on the GSA One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) in the Technical and Engineering (T&E) domain for Total Small Business and HUBZone, and the Logistics (LOG) domain for HUBZone, under multiple Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs). In addition, AST is a SUB for the Technical and Engineering (T&E) and Logistics domains, under an 8(a), WOSB, and SDVOSB PRIMEs. OASIS + is a suite of governmentwide, multiple award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (MA-IDIQ) multi-agency contracts (MAC). designed to support federal agencies’ procurement requirements for services-based solutions. OASIS + is a 10 year contract with a 5 year base + one 5 year option period, with no contract ceiling or cap on awards.
AST is a SUB to Cathexis on the Personnel and Readiness Infrastructure Support Management (PRISM) contract. PRISM is designed to provide the OUSD Personnel & Readiness (P&R), its Directorates and Strategic Partners with innovative and cost-effective services that incorporate industry best practices to meet the demands associated with a dynamic global threat and security environment. This will be a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) to provide enterprise solutions to enhance P&R capabilities that will enable soldiers and strategic partners to increase readiness and meet mission requirements through more efficient collaboration and integration. The MATOC will have two (2) separate pools, the Personnel and Readiness (P&R) Pool, and the Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS) Pool. This will be a multi-tenant vehicle utilizing strategic tools, like contract type flexibility (Firm-Fixed Price (FFP), Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) or Hybrid task orders), accelerating task order Procurement Acquisition Lead Time (PALT) through Streamlined Task Order Ordering Procedures (STOOP), and the robust use of Technical Direction Letters (TDL).
AST is a SUB to V2X on the Warfighter Training Readiness Solutions (W-TRS) effort. WTRS focuses on TADSS related maintenance, training, and services. This includes, but not limited to, TADSS maintenance, Synthetic Training Environment (STE) maintenance, Test & Evaluation support, instructor/operators (I/O), TADSS New Equipment Training (NET), Training Support Center (TSC) operations support/warehouse operations, Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) mission command support, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) TADSS maintenance, training exercise support, training network support, range operations support, and leader training program support. The Period of Performance for WTRS is August 29, 2024 – August 28, 2029.
Sheppard Aircraft Maintenance (SAM) | Subcontractor to M1 Support Services: AST currently provides comprehensive aircraft maintenance and flight operations support for the 80th Flying Training Wing (FTW) at Sheppard Air Force Base under the Aircraft Maintenance Enterprise Solution (ACES) contract. Our team performs fleet management, launch and recovery operations, organizational and intermediate-level maintenance, inspection, repair, and sustainment of T-6A Texan II and T-38C Talon aircraft, engines, and associated ground support equipment, ensuring safe, reliable, and mission-ready aircraft for one of the Air Force’s highest operational tempo training environments. As home to the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program—the world’s only multinational pilot training program, staffed and managed by 14 NATO member nations—the 80th FTW depends on AST’s maintenance expertise to sustain continuous flying operations and produce the next generation of combat-ready NATO pilots.
Sheppard Trainer Maintenance (STM) | Subcontractor to M1 Support Services: AST provides comprehensive trainer maintenance and sustainment support for the 82nd Training Wing (TRW) at Sheppard Air Force Base, ensuring the availability, reliability, and readiness of aircraft trainers, training devices, Ground Instructional Training Aircraft (GITA), historical static display aircraft, Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE), munitions storage facilities, and associated support equipment. Through inspection, maintenance, repair, and sustainment services, AST delivers mission-ready training assets that enable the Air Force to meet its technical training objectives and maintain a highly effective training environment.
Today, AST continues to innovate and provide expert solutions for military systems, training, and operations across a wide spectrum of projects, including TADSS-related maintenance and support for NATO’s Euro-North Atlantic Treaty Organization Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.
AST successfully pursued and attained certification as a Small Business Administration (SBA) Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) entity in September 2023.
AST won a PRIME contract under PEO-STRI and ACC-Orlando for the Tactical Communication Tower Replacement at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Technology Refresh at Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) effort. This contract was to build five (5) tactical communications towers at the JRTC and to refurbish two (2) tactical communications towers at the JMRC. This included the demolition and removal of those previous towers. FIBER OPTICS CTC range operations infrastructure support (CONUS/OCONUS) conducting structural integrity inspections and analysis of existing tactical communication towers, construction of new towers (free standing, lattice and monopole) and shelter buildings (electrical/electronic), refurbishment, technology refresh, including installation of supporting utilities, electrical/electronic support equipment, backup power, fencing and security systems, tactical radio and commercial radio systems, microwave systems, Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems, Army Aviation Data Management System (AADMS) – for both BLUFOR and OPFOR aircraft tracking, fiber optic network (FON) cabling and infrastructure, TV systems and antennas. Our support includes decommissioning, demolition and removal of condemned towers, support shelters and outdated infrastructure.
AST was a SUB to Yorktown Systems Group in support of the thirteen (13) task orders in support of the Fires Center of Excellence; all commands on Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and Army Futures Command, to develop and produce training strategies, doctrine, concepts, instruction, and products for the current and future force. Provided Training Aids Device Simulator and Simulation (TADSS) operator support for the 30th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE) training support including setting up, operating, and maintaining various training simulators, task trainers, virtual trainers, and associated Air Defense Artillery TADSS systems. Assisted in the development of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system train-the-trainer training objectives for instructors and students. Assisted in the coordination and delivery of simulation driven student exercises, facilitated pre-briefing and post-training briefings, developed troubleshooting resources, lesson plans, and recommended integration of simulations into organizations training initiatives, and after-action reports.
AST won a PRIME contract position on the SEAPORT Next Generation (NxG) MA/IDIQ. SeaPort-NxG is a 10-year, $50B contract that will split the 23 areas of work into two categories: engineering services and program management. The engineering services category covers 12 functional areas, including systems engineering, safety, and process engineering; software development, engineering, programming and network support; research and development; system design documentation and technical data support; and biochemical engineering support. The program management category includes 11 functional areas such as financial analysis and budget support; quality assurance; computer systems analysts; configuration management; database administrators; information systems development and information technology support; and logistics support.
AST teamed with Raytheon (now V2X) to support the Army’s National Training Center Training Support (NTCTS) contract, providing Combat Training Center (CTC) Training Analysis and Feedback Facility (TAFF) support to include planning, execution, monitoring and tracking, computer operations, training analysis, real-time data collection and assimilation, and input into after-action reviews to capture key lessons learned for rotational training units (RTUs). Data is also provided to the Combined Arms Center (CAC), Centers for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) to help resolve gaps and enhance readiness of the force. Additionally, we provide Heavy Equipment Operators (HEO) to perform movement setup and integration of Mobile After-Action Review Van (MAAR) and Mobile Video Unit (MVU) equipment in support of AAR development and training events of RTUs during each rotation. We also provide critical and on-demand custodial support and conduct health, safety and sanitary checks for both permanent and temporary facilities, and maintenance support (operator thru depot level repair) for light commercial and tactical wheel vehicle fleets including ancillary equipment, generators, light sets, smoke generators, and other battlefield effects systems.
AST teamed with GDIT on the United States Army Health Care Activity, Health Readiness Contracting Office (HRCO) in support of the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) Training, Maintenance, and Administrative Support Services for Regional Training Site – Medical (RTS-MED) contract to provide equip and train individuals/teams/medical units in the establishment and reconstitution of the Deployable Medical System (DEPMEDs). Provide face-to-face training of deploying soldiers, refreshing medical skill sets for non-deploying soldiers, bio-medical equipment maintenance and combat support hospital training sets. Establishment and reconstitution of the Deployable Medical System (DEPMEDs) for medical units. Provide sustainment, New Equipment Training (NET), and collective face-to-face training of deploying soldiers, refreshing medical skill sets for non-deploying soldiers, bio-medical equipment maintenance and field hospital training sets. AST provided personnel in support of the RTS-MED, Ft. McCoy, WI and RTS-MED, Ft. Gordon, GA.
AST pursued and attained verification as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE).
AST won a PRIME contract under the PEO-STRI, PM-TRADE STRI Omnibus Contact (STOC) II, Tactical Communication Subsystem Technical Refresh of the Joint Operations Center Element at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), delivery order. This entailed building a 250ft tactical communications tower, installing new equipment back to building 1560 through building 7840, and providing technical refresh of the Tactical Communication Subsystem at the JOC element, and then demolishing and disposing of the old tower.
AST teamed with CACI on the Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Software Engineering Directorate (SED) task order for systems and software engineering support services. This work was performed at the Fires Post Deployment Software Support (PDSS) center located at Fort Sill, OK. providing PDSS software test engineering and analysis support at the Software Engineering Center (SEC) Fires System and Software Engineering Support Services Computer Engineering Lab under the FIRES Task Order on the Software and Systems Engineering Services (SSES) Next Generation (NexGen) contract at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. AST personnel develop test plans and procedures, conduct tests, and develop the test reports for four systems, the Forward Observer System (FOS), Q-36/37 Firefinder radar, Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), and the Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS). Our current testing of the Q-36/37 Firefinder radar will soon be replaced with testing of the Q-53.
AST teamed once again with CACI under the FORSCOM Operations, Planning, Training, and Resource Support Services (OPTARSS) II contract as the sole subcontractor, to provide training support to FORSCOM and USARC by conducting individual and collective training in support of the 75th Training Command. AST provides training support and technical assistance at, and distributed from, five geographically dispersed Army Reserve Mission Training Complexes (MTC) within the 75th Training Command, covering a wide spectrum of fielded Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC) – Entity Resolution Federation (ERF) and Multi-Resolution Federation (MRF) components. In addition, AST provides training support for a myriad array of digital Army Mission Command Systems (MCS) and their integration into MCST simulation exercises which provide the execution fidelity during training that Brigade and Battalion commanders and their staff’s desire. This training linked Live, Virtual, Constructive and Gaming (LVC-G) systems that simulate Army Decisive Action operations, and the simulation/stimulation of collective digital Mission Command training.
AST became a SUBCONTRACTOR on the Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support (FOCUS) (WFF) contract as part of Raytheon’s “Warrior Training Alliance,”. Around 80 positions were assigned to AST to provide exercise and mission sustainment at Fort Irwin, CA; Fort McCoy, WI; and Fort Stewart, GA. WFF was designed to provide comprehensive and world-wide on-site technical support to military units in the field, encompassing a wide range of activities including equipment troubleshooting, maintenance training, logistics assistance, and rapid response to operational issues related to deployed military systems and technology, essentially acting as a direct point of contact for resolving technical problems faced by troops during active operations.
AST teamed with CACI (PRIME) on the FORSCOM Operations, Planning, Training, and Resource Support Services (OPTARSS) contract, as the sole subcontractor, continuing our work providing personnel and supervision in support of the U. S. Army Reserve Command (USARC) Battle Command Training Program to conduct computer-driven battle simulation exercises for the five Army Reserve BPCs. AST staffed 57 positions (to include the five site managers). Training support and technical assistance covered a wide spectrum of fielded Army Constructive Training Federation (ACTF) components and a myriad array of digital Army Mission Command Systems (MCS) and their integration into Mission Command Staff Training (MCST) simulation exercises.
Additionally, AST provided software engineering and development facility support for the development of the Warfighters’ Simulation (WARSIM) training system. AST personnel used both manual and automated methods to perform software and systems engineering tasks. They researched and analyzed system and module requirements and specifications, designed computer code to satisfy requirements, wrote computer code to meet approved software designs, performed unit and system tests, and developed and wrote system and module documentation. They also developed, collected and analyzed software metrics to aid LMIS management in evaluating and developing an on-time, quality product. Work was performed as an integrated development team.
AST won a PRIME contract on the Army Atlanta Contracting Center, U. S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) Contractor Support of Computer Driven Battle Simulations effort to supply comprehensive personnel and supervision for conducting computer-driven battle simulation exercises across the five Army Reserve Battle Protection Centers (BPCs) as part of the USARC Battle Command Staff Training Program. Strategically situated throughout the continental United States (CONUS), AST was tasked with supporting the development of simulation exercises for the five Battle Command Training Divisions, encompassing the U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC) CONUS training regions.