The 55th Contracting Squadron, Offutt AFB, NE plans to award a sole source contract to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), a DoD-chartered University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) for Engineering, Research, and Development tasks in support of United Stated Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) and associated DoD agencies supporting the USSTRATCOM mission areas. JHU/APL will support USSTRATCOM's mission of providing the nation with global deterrence capabilities and synchronized DoD effects to combat adversary weapons of mass destruction worldwide. JHU/APL will also further USSTRATCOM's role to enable decisive global kinetic and non-kinetic combat effects through the application and advocacy of integrated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); space and global strike operations; information operations; integrated missile defense and robust command and control. JHU/APL will provide services with specific taskings in Strategic Systems Test and Evaluation, Submarine Security and Survivability, Space Science, and Engineering, Combat and Guided Missile R&D, Theater Air Defense, Information Technology (C4ISR/IW) & Information Operations, Simulation, Modeling, and Operations Analysis, and other Mission-Related Research and Development projects. This effort will be a Cost-Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a five year ordering period, and a ceiling of $50,000,000. Award will be pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(3)(b) to maintain essential engineering research, or development capability to be provided by an educational institution. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals or capability packages.