ME AOI 26-A005 final .pdf

Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic

Rapid Capabilities Cell (RCC)

Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)

N65236-26-S-0001

Prototype Title: Mission Engineering and Integration

Area of Interest (AOI) Number: 26-A005

Command Focus Area: Battlespace C2

Problem Statement:

United States naval and joint forces face unprecedented strategic competition, operating in an increasingly complex and lethal battlespace as near-peer adversaries rapidly evolve and increase their warfighting capabilities. Outpacing and maintaining a decisive advantage against near-peer adversaries are critical Department of War (DOW) imperatives. Mission engineering and integration are key enablers to achieve these objectives, providing the overarching framework to deliver holistic warfighting capabilities to naval and joint forces at speed and scale.

NIWC Atlantic seeks innovative and scalable solutions to modernize its mission engineering and integration outcomes. The objective is to rapidly and continuously manage and analyze complex missions to discover gaps and vulnerabilities in current and future naval and joint architectures and identify, engineer, and validate holistic capability solutions to mitigate those gaps and vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. The core challenge is transitioning from traditional, static program management and engineering support to dynamic, data-driven methodologies that increase mission effectiveness and readiness through improved mission-based decision support and delivery of the right holistic warfighting capabilities at the speed of need.

Desired Solution:

NIWC Atlantic is seeking vendor solutions from the commercial sector that provide a cohesive and enduring framework for a dynamic, scalable, and data-driven Mission Engineering and

Integration ecosystem, supporting execution of the end-to-end mission capability lifecycle from initial operational need and gap identification to delivery of holistic warfighting capabilities at the speed of need.

Compelling solutions must provide a robust, systematic, automated, and predictive capability to address the following:

• Continuously identify gaps and vulnerabilities in and across complex missions and associated mission threads and kill webs, delivering adversary threat informed, actionable mission system-of-systems (SoS) technical designs and solution recommendations that ensure all components align to maintain joint and naval force continuity and superiority

• Establish a persistent, scalable Digital Thread within and across complex missions and associated mission threads and kill webs, automatically generating the empirical data required to seamlessly execute Mission Engineering and Integration activities across the end-to-end mission capability lifecycle

• Map acquisition portfolios, roadmaps, and programmatic data and metrics to mission architectures, mission SoS technical designs, and outcome-driven metrics to enable investment and divestment decisions and synchronize actions required for coordinated, holistic warfighting capability delivery

• Automatically ingest experimentation, operational performance, and sustainment data into the Digital Thread, creating a continuous feedback loop with operators

• Analyze, evaluate, and validate the interoperability, survivability, and mission effectiveness of candidate materiel and non-materiel solutions against adversary threat profiles and parameters in operationally relevant and contested environments, leveraging human-in-the-loop wargaming and warfare analysis to drive Live-Virtual-Constructive

(LVC) experimentation

• Dynamically bridge cross-domain boundaries and orchestrate and validate the secure, bi-directional flow of data across multi-level security enclaves, moving data from low-to-high for analysis and from high-to-low for decision making

• Identify and manipulate high-volume, high-dimensionality structured and unstructured data and models and interpret and visualize intuitive outputs to reduce mission-based, decision-making timelines and increase decision confidence

Primary Attributes (Highly desired):

• Demonstratable ability to deploy appropriately cleared and qualified mission engineers, mission architects, mission integrators, warfare analysts, mission-based test and evaluators, and software developers

• Demonstratable experience applying digital engineering tools, software development, and analytical methods to the research, wargaming, analysis, assessment, design, development, experimentation, and testing of current and emerging operational needs and capabilities to achieve desired mission outcomes within projected operational environments

• Develops and maintains interoperable, composable, digital, Unified Architecture

Framework (UAF) compliant mission architectures capable of ingesting and aligning program architectures across time epochs

• Develops and maintains software-based products and models that utilize open standards and APIs and seamlessly integrate with a wide array of Government-off-the-shelf

(GOTS) and commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) tools, Government environments, data sources, and software programs and libraries

• Continuously analyzes and manages adversary threat, warfighting concepts, missions, mission threads, kill webs, mission SoS, and systems across time epochs capturing detailed data, such as technical system parameters, behavioral logic, and communication networks

• Continuously identifies, prioritizes, and tracks gaps and vulnerabilities and associated materiel and non-materiel solution requirements in and across complex missions, mission threads, and kill webs across time epochs

• Validates integration, interoperability, and mission effectiveness of end-to-end mission threads and kill webs in operationally relevant and contested environments

• Maps acquisition portfolios, roadmaps, and programmatic data and metrics to mission architectures, mission SoS technical designs, and outcome-driven metrics

• Provides a clear methodology for sourcing, verifying, and validating all data, models

(including artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)), simulations, and analytical processes to establish confidence and pedigree

• Operates in Government environments across multiple security enclaves with robust identity and access management and data classification markings

• Provides intuitive user interfaces, dashboards, and visualizations that allow users to easily interpret complex analytical results and make informed decisions

• Provides a highly automated, persistent, and scalable architecture capable of processing increasing volume and dimensionality of data and models across the end-to-end mission capability lifecycle, drastically reducing the timeline from gap identification to holistic warfighting capability delivery

Secondary Attributes (strongly desired):

• Provides a risk based methodology for managing materiel and non-materiel solution requirements across complex missions, projected operational environments, and time epochs balancing variables such as mission measures, cost, and probability of mission execution

• Utilizes mature DevSecOps pipelines for rapid, continuous, and automated integration and deployment of prototypes and updates across multi-level security enclaves and hosting environments

• Conveys underlying logic and confidence levels of analytical results, recommendations, and materiel and non-materiel requirements

• Provides comprehensive training methodologies, documentation, and transition support to rapidly upskill the Government workforce and drive widespread adoption

• Adheres to all relevant security and regulatory standards with a clear, rapid path to necessary security authorizations

Prior Demonstration and Experience:

Preference may be given to companies that can provide evidence demonstrating capability and experience in executing representative mission engineering and integration activities and successfully deploying scalable, dynamic, data-driven solutions that achieve the primary objective across classification levels.

DOD Contract Security Classification Specification (DD254):

Due to the accelerated nature of the CSO timeline, the Government is requiring offerors to demonstrate the required facility clearance level at time of submission of the Solutions Brief. The contractor shall possess a Top Secret (TS) Facility Clearance with eligibility for Sensitive

Compartmented Information (SCI) access to perform under this AOI. Solution Briefs must contain the Cage Code for the prime contractor that would be identified on any resulting agreement. NIWC Atlantic will use the cage code provided in the Solution Brief to determine if contractor facility clearance requirements are met. Contractors that do not hold the appropriate level may not be considered for a Phase 2 Pitch.

Potential Travel Locations:

The Government anticipates that travel may be required under any resultant award within the

Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS).

Potential locations include but are not limited to the following: National Capital Region;

Norfolk, VA; Quantico, VA; San Diego, CA; Honolulu, HI; Okinawa, Japan; Naples, Italy;

Stuttgart, Germany.

Solution Briefs:

Interested companies shall submit a solution brief within the Vulcan platform (vulcan-sof.com) no later than 2359 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) 22 June 2026. Solution briefs shall not contain

CUI and shall meet the requirements specified in CSO N65236-26-S-0001 paragraph 7.2. In addition, the solution brief shall detail how the nontraditional business participation as defined in

CSO N65236-26-S-0001 paragraph 6.2 will be met. If proposing a teaming partner to meet nontraditional requirements, that teaming partner must be identified by name in the solution brief and their cage code provided for verification. If an offeror is proposing to meet the requirements by providing a cost share, this must be explicitly stated in the solution brief.

Late submissions will not be considered.

The Government reserves the right to limit the number of entities invited to pitch based on the evaluation consideration in accordance with CSO N65236-26-S-0001 paragraph 7.2.2. Solution

Briefs that are selected for the Phase 2 Pitch will be notified in writing as soon as practicable.

Pitch:

The Government anticipates hosting an in person Pitch at NIWC Atlantic in Charleston South

Carolina for this AOI. Tentative dates for the pitches will be 8 through 10 July 2026. It is anticipated that the pitches will be one hour.

Vendors will be notified in writing as soon as practicable with additional details if they are invited to pitch.

Point of Contact:

Questions related to this AOI can be submitted to Jessie Rehwoldt at jessie.m.rehwoldt.civ@us.navy.mil. Solutions Briefs emailed directly to Jessie Rehwoldt will not be accepted for this AOI. Solutions briefs must be submitted via the Vulcan platform to be evaluated.

Potential for Follow-On Production Contract:

Companies are advised that any prototype other transaction agreement awarded in response to this AOI may result in the direct award of a follow-on production agreement without the use of further competitive procedures.

Restrictions on Public Announcements:

No press releases or public announcements regarding this AOI can be made ahead of notification from the Government regarding down select to Phase II pitches. Non-compliance with this policy may result in potential exclusion from further consideration in the AOI evaluation.

Enclosures:

See Enclosure 2 of the RCC CSO N65236-26-S-0001 for the TS/SCI DD254 applicable to this

AOI.

mailto:jessie.m.rehwoldt.civ@us.navy.mil