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Statement of Objectives (SOO)

Hypersonic Ground Testing, Test & Evaluation (T&E)/Science & Technology (S&T) High Speed Systems Test (HSST) Technology Development

Revision 5

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT D: Distribution authorized to U.S. Government Agencies and U.S. DoD contractors, critical technology, April 2024. Other requests for this document shall be referred to the TDH Lead Engineer, Hypersonic Systems Test Branch and/or Executing Agent (EA) for High Speed Systems Test (HSST), Test & Evaluation/Science & Technology (T&E/S&T), Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC), 676 Second Street, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee 37389.

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Controlled by: United States Air Force (USAF)

CUI Category: Controlled Technical Information, Exempt (CTI, EXPT) Distribution Statement D

POCs: Jonathan Katzman (931) 581-8103, Tyler Neale (931) 434-8229

AEDC/TDH

676 Second Street

ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, TENNESSEE 37389

Contents

In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 37.602(c), the Contractor shall use this SOO to develop and propose a basic Performance Work Statement (PWS) to be incorporated as an attachment to the contractual award.

1. Operating Constraints

1.0 The technology within this effort is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services.

1.1 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT D: Distribution authorized to U.S. Government Agencies and U.S. DoD contractors, critical technology, April 2024. Other requests for this document shall be referred to the Executing Agent for High Speed Systems Test, Test & Evaluation/Science & Technology, Arnold Engineering Development Complex, 1478 Fifth Street, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee 37389-7001.

1.2 At the minimum, Distribution Statement D applies to the methodology, testing, and/or resultant data produced under this contract wherein: Distribution authorized to Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. DoD contractors only, (Critical Technology), (date of determination); additional requests for this document shall be referred to AEDC/TDH Program Manager.

1.3 All material, work, and subsequent data shall be performed and collected at the UNCLASSIFIED level unless testing involves models or data requiring higher classification levels. If this is the case, the data acquired will be appropriately classified per the applicable Security Classification Guide (SCG).

1.4 The Contractor shall require up to Secret facility clearance and provide personnel at the Secret level. The Contractor shall receive, generate, store, and/or control up to Secret material at this facility for this effort.

2. Background

2.1 The Contractor shall provide research, testing, and evaluation of high-speed and hypersonic vehicle concepts, and analysis of supersonic and hypersonic vehicles and their components at true design conditions. This includes the evaluation of aerodynamic, aerothermal, aero-optics, aero-propulsion, jet interaction, and complex separation effects under relevant loads and at relevant scales.

3. Purpose

The Contractor shall provide a research facility for evaluation of aero-optical, aero-propulsion, aero-thermal, and aerodynamic effects on missile seekers and airframes. The Contractor’s research facility shall be capable of flight duplication over a large range of conditions. The Contractor’s research facility shall also be capable of flight duplication over a large range of conditions, including true flight enthalpy, and long duration clean air testing.

4. Period and Place of Performance

4.1. The Contractor shall propose a period of performance (PoP) for a five (5) year/sixty (60) month indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.

4.2. The Contractor shall realistically propose individual task order periods of performance to be issued under the IDIQ contract, based on task order requirements, facility availability, and existing task orders.

4.3. The Contractor shall propose periods of performance sufficiently detailed and realistic to accomplish all performance objectives and testing requirements of each task order, including the furnishing of all analyses, reports, or other deliverables.

4.4. The Contractor shall specify the place of performance for model installation, testing operations and removal, and analyses required by each task order.

5. Scope of Test Requirement/Technology-Test Technique development

5.1. This enterprise IDIQ contract will primarily support the United States Air Force (USAF) and may support other military branches of the Department of Defense (DoD), its agencies, other Federal agencies, and research institutions within fiscal regulations, and at the discretion of the Air Force (AF) Program Manager (PM).

5.2. This enterprise IDIQ contract is anticipated to support approximately five (5) to eight (8) test runs per year and fifty-three (53) to eighty-nine (89) test runs over the five (5) year IDIQ’s period of performance (PoP). The scope of this enterprise IDIQ includes technical planning, integration, and checkout of all necessary components, systems and sub-systems, coordination, facility modifications, test article design, fabrication, and instrumentation, installation, testing operations, and removal, test data reduction, analysis, and reporting.

5.3. Task orders will be issued specific to the needs of the requiring activity.

6. Performance Objectives/Required Results

6.1. The Contractor shall propose a basic IDIQ Performance Work Statement (basic PWS). The basic PWS shall outline all necessary tasks/work to be performed to achieve specific and minimal outcomes and/or results of each task order including test reports to be provided and their format, minimal elements, objectives, and outcomes of all tests to be performed.

6.1.1. The proposed basic PWS shall address:

6.1.1.1. Ground testing of hypersonic systems.

6.1.1.2. Development of high speed and hypersonic test techniques and technologies.

6.1.1.3. The Government will formally incorporate the technically acceptable basic PWS into the awarded IDIQ contract as an attached basic PWS.

6.1.2. The Contractor shall propose firm-fixed-price (FFP) task orders. Each task order proposal shall define, address, and include:

6.1.2.1. Task Order Performance Work Statement (task order PWS).

6.1.2.1.1. Task order PWSs shall outline, in a detailed, consistent, and standardized format all necessary tasks/test work to be performed to achieve clear, specific, and objective test outcomes and/or results, elements of the tests, and their periods of performance for each task order.

6.1.2.1.2. All personnel, their role(s)/title(s), hours, and hourly compensation while assigned to the task order.

6.1.2.1.3. All test reports and their format, data, drawings, etc. to be provided as part of the task order.

6.1.3. Task Order Test Work to-be Performed

6.1.3.1.1. The Government will formally incorporate a technically acceptable task order PWS into each awarded task order as an attached task order PWS.

6.1.3.2. A task order Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in a standardized format of the task order.

6.1.3.2.1. The Government will formally incorporate a technically acceptable task order WBS into each awarded task order as an attached task order WBS.

6.1.3.3. The Contractor shall identify in its proposed Performance Work Statement specific, performance-based, quantitative terms of the tests to-be-done, in the form of, to satisfy the requirement in accordance with (IAW) this Statement of Objectives (SOO) Test Performance Parameters.

6.1.4. Milestones

The Contractor shall plan and propose a schedule for all significant milestones in the PWS:

· Model Installation

· Test Execution (first run)

· Test Completion

· Delivery of Final Data Package

6.1.5. Data Deliverables

6.1.5.1. Integrated Master Schedule – Initial submission shall be due with proposal and – updated as required.

6.1.5.2. Work Breakdown Structure – Government will have fifteen (15) calendar days for review and acceptance or rejection of each submission. The Contractor shall have up-to ten (10) calendar days to incorporate the Government’s comments.

6.1.5.3. Progress and Financial Status Report – The Contractor shall deliver monthly status reports on the 10th day of the first month after Contract award and the 10th day of each month thereafter through the entirety of the period of performance.

6.1.5.4. Reports, Record of Meeting/Minutes – The Contractor shall provide meeting records/minutes no-later-than ten (10) calendar days after meetings. The Government will have fifteen (15) calendar days for review and acceptance or rejection of each submission. The Contractor shall have up-to ten (10) calendar days to incorporate Government comments.

6.1.5.5. Presentation Material – The Contractor shall submit slides at least five (5) calendar days before meetings. The Government will have 3 days for review and acceptance or rejection of these documents. The Contractor shall have up-to two (2) calendar days to incorporate Government comments.

6.1.5.6. Technical Report, Studies/Services – The Contractor shall deliver technical reports, studies/services, and other information to the Program Manager (PM) and Contracting Officer Representative (COR).

6.1.5.7. Test Plans – The Contractor shall prepare and deliver test plan documentation to the Government no-later-than five (5) calendar days prior to conducting the associated test(s).

6.1.5.8. Developmental Design Drawings/Models and associated lists – The Contractor shall provide design drawings, models, and associated lists or information in a format accessible and editable by the Government, in accordance with standard engineering practice and design codes.

6.1.5.9. Scientific and Technical Reports – The Contractor shall provide scientific and technical reports no-later-than thirty (30) calendar days before due.

6.1.5.10. Final Report – The Contractor shall provide a draft of Final Reports no-later-than forty-five (45) calendar days prior to the end of the task order period of performance (PoP).

6.1.5.11. Data Package – The Contractor shall provide a data package no-later-than fifteen (15) calendar days after test completion. The Contractor shall provide not separately price (NSP) data for each task order no-later-than forty-five (45) calendar days prior to the end of each task order’s period of performance (PoP).

6.1.5.11.1. This data package shall include measured trajectory data, high speed video, set/achieved tunnel conditions, and tangible and intangible data items produced as a result of any work performed under the task order.

6.1.5.11.2. Other data to be identified, observations, findings as defined in each task order.

6.1.5.12. Facility schedule

6.1.5.13. Contract Financial Updates

6.1.5.14. Status Reports (Monthly and Annually)

6.1.5.15. The Contractor shall propose specific anticipated testing periods of performance, data delivery dates as ‘on or before ‘YYYY-MM-DD’, method of delivery, format, and quantity for all data in the package.

6.1.5.16. The Contractor shall provide Quick Look Reports (QLR) containing preliminary data and a summary of initial results to on-site Government personnel within 24 hours, or as otherwise required.

6.1.6. Data Rights

6.1.6.1. The Government retains Unlimited Data Rights to all technical data and reports (i.e., data deliverables) produced in the performance of the basic and task order PWSs, this Contract, and its task orders.

6.1.6.2. The Contractor shall furnish to the Government all technical data and reports (i.e., data deliverables) produced in the performance of the PWS and this Contract.

6.2 Program Management Objectives

6.2.1 The Contractor is encouraged to propose with maximum creativity and flexibility to innovatively manage schedule, performance, risks, warranties, subcontracts, and data to satisfy the Air Force’s performance requirements (see SOO Attachment 1 – Test Parameters).

6.2.2 The Contractor shall maintain unobstructed Air Force visibility and oversight of the schedule, performance, and risks.

6.2.3 The Contractor shall document in a pre-test Test Readiness Review (TRR) all known technical risks associated with facility capabilities to achieve desired conditions, instrumentation capabilities to collect required data, or other technical challenges to successful test execution.

7. Quality Control Plan (QCP)

7.1. The Contractor shall develop, propose, and maintain a Quality Control Plan (QCP) to responsively ensure all testing requirements are met IAW the PWS.

7.2. The Contractor shall develop and implement procedures to meet all milestones.

7.3. The Contractor shall develop, propose, and implement procedures to ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken when milestones are not met.

7.4. The Contractor shall permit on-site Air Force and other authorized Government personnel to observe test executions.

7.5. The Contractor shall provide and permit the review of any and all test data by Air Force personnel within one business day (24 hours) of any test run completion.

7.6. The Contractor shall, at no additional cost to the Government, re-run any and all test runs completed outside defined tolerances. If the Contractor’s proposed test conditions become unfeasible or undesirable with the current capability of the test facility, the Contractor may adjust the test matrix in coordination with the Air Force and test team members.

8. Small Business Subcontracting Plan

8.1 If applicable, the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to find opportunities for small business subcontractors in the performance of this contract. The Contractor should contact the local Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), the local Office of Small Business Programs, and utilize the Small Business Dynamic Search Website to assist in finding small business subcontractors capable of performing the work to be subcontracted.

8.2 Small Business Opportunities

The Contractor shall support small business opportunities throughout the period of performance of the contract. The Contractor shall make a good faith effort in identifying opportunities for small business subcontractors including all socio-economic small business categories. The Contractor shall make a good faith effort to meet or exceed the proposed subcontracting goals/targets listed above or explain why the above goals cannot be met for this effort. The list of subcontractors shall be submitted with the proposal and revisions to the list may be made, with approval of the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO), throughout the period of performance of the contract. The list of subcontractors will become part of the resultant contract once accepted by the PCO. The Contractor shall pay small business subcontractors within 15 days of receiving the subcontractor’s invoice and provide proof of payment to the COR.

8.3 Competition in Subcontracting

The contractor shall comply with FAR 52.244-5 “Competition in Subcontracting”. In accordance with FAR 52.244-5(a), “The Contractor shall select subcontractors (including suppliers) on a competitive basis to the maximum practical extent consistent with the objectives and requirements of the contract.” As part of the list of subcontractors per DI-MGMT-80368A, the Contractor shall report the level of competition in subcontracting achieved or percent of subcontracts that are competed.

9. Government Furnished Property (GFP)

9.1. The Contractor shall adhere to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 45, Government Property, and its applicable supplements contained in Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Part 245, Department of the Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DAFFARS) 5345, DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5000.64, Accountability and Management of DoD Equipment and Other Accountable Property, and DoDI 4161.02, Accountability and Management of Government Contract Property, for managing GFP and Contractor Acquired Property (CAP) if/when CAP is applicable. At the conclusion or termination of this IDIQ contract, all GFP/CAP will remain at the Contractor’s facility until disposition is provided by the Contracting Officer or their appointed Contracting Officer Representative (COR). The Government retains ownership of all Government-furnished material and equipment upon contract completion.

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