Affigent Wins $65 Million Marine Corps Operational Command Post–Light (OCP-L) Contract

Affigent LLC of Herndon, Virginia, won a $65 million firm-fixed-price Marine Corps contract for Operational Command Post–Light (OCP-L) hardware and licenses. The equipment will provide modular, deployable information technology infrastructure that lets Fleet Marine Forces host secure services at the tactical edge, including in environments with limited or intermittent connectivity. Work will be performed in Herndon and is expected to be completed by March 29, 2027.

Operational Command Post–Light Details

Affigent will provide the hardware and licenses for a scalable command-post architecture. The Marine Corps describes OCP-L as infrastructure that can be deployed rapidly to host enterprise-grade services for tactical forces, including when connections to other networks are disrupted. The contract covers the equipment and licenses; the award notice does not identify a quantity of command-post kits.

The purchase sits within a broader effort to make command posts more capable in dispersed operations. The Navy’s fiscal 2026 Marine Corps procurement justification describes planned Operational Command Post enhancements that include wireless access to NIPRNet and SIPRNet, improved tactical chat, connections to 5G infrastructure, cyber resilience, situational-awareness displays and updated audiovisual systems. Those are broader capability plans, rather than a list of items assigned to Affigent in the award notice.

Operational Command Post–Light Background

The procurement justification identifies continued OCP-L purchasing, fielding, kitting and training as part of the reason for a higher request under its broader communications switching and control systems budget line. The Marine Corps requested $100.7 million for that line in fiscal 2026, compared with $39.4 million in fiscal 2025. The line also covers other work, including a Combat Data Network equipment refresh, so its total is not an OCP-L-specific budget.

The Marine Corps’ Ground Combat Element 2040 plan identifies operational command posts at echelon as a command-and-control requirement, alongside distributed processing, data resilience and cross-domain information transfer. That emphasis provides context for the service’s investment in deployable infrastructure that can sustain information services for dispersed forces.

Award and Contractor Background

The Marine Corps awarded the contract on September 21, 2026, after a competition through NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle. It received three offers. The Portfolio Acquisition Executive Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

This award was disclosed by the DoW in its daily press release. Additional contract details will be available on HigherGov in approximately 90 days under M6785426F0154 after the contract is formally disclosed by the government.