ARCTICS II Virtual Industry Day - Recording Transcript.pdf

ARCTICS II Virtual Industry Day-20261022_100020-

Meeting Recording

October 22, 2026, 8:00PM

1h 1m 19s

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP started transcription

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 0:03

It is the top of the hour, so we are going to go ahead and get started. Aloha and welcome to the RTX 2 Industry Day. We just want a quick couple notes. We are going to be recording this meeting, and we do ask that please everybody mute themselves while the briefing is going on. Next, we are just going to go through some quick introductions around the room. Here inside of the room, we have people from the center.

766 ESS, also the folks from the 354th Rands. I will go ahead and get started. My name is Fabian Luna from the 766 ESS. I will be one of the contract specialists for this requirement.

I'm Lieutenant Turner. I will be another contracting specialist for this requirement with the 76. Hello, everyone. My name is Ruben Mendieta. I'm happy to be here, proud to serve. I will be the lead contract specialist for this action.

Oh, good afternoon. Good morning, everybody. Captain Core Arthurs. I will be the core on this requirement for the 354th rants.

Good morning, I'm Captain Powley. I'm one of the program managers here at the

354th Rance. Good morning, Major Seibel. I'm an ADO at the Rance.

And if we have any other people online from either the 766 ESS or the 354th ranch, can you please give a quick introduction?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 1:27

Yeah, hello, this is Major Tuful at the 354th rands in the room. I have myself, we have

Giga Giggenheimer, Eddie Robinson, Chris Dawkins, and Heather Fletcher.

KING, TREVOR D CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKZ 1:38

And I'm Trevor King, I'm gonna be the PCO actually signing this thing at the end.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 1:43

Sweet. I appreciate that, guys. We are going to go ahead and get started. So I will turn it over to Lieutenant Turner, who's going to start us off with the rules of engagement.

Before we begin, we just have a brief disclaimer. The information that follows reflects the government's current intent for victims too. Requirements are still in draft and may change as they are refined. Nothing in this brief should be interpreted as by the government to purchase or procure the services described.

A few rules of engagements for today's virtual industry. The slides will be posted after the event. No classified information will be shared during this briefing. Please submit all questions to the chat. Questions will be recorded and answers will be made available to the group. And finally, the government reserves the right to table questions as needed.

This session will provide an overview of Arctics 2 program and outline the government's expectations. We will also address contractual and technical questions, including those related to the unclassified performance work statement. Our goal is to help industry better understand and further define the requirement while providing an Ave. for questions related to the JPAR.

And then now we can turn it over to the 350. All right, as I said, I'm Captain Pally, one of the program managers at the 354th Rands. So I will lead the intro into this slide deck and I will hand it off to some of our SMEs as we go forward. First, we want to go over the JPARC mission.

build, operate, and maintain the JPARC as an offensive counter-error center of excellence, providing realistic IADS replication for the joint warfighter. This is essentially our guiding light, and this largely provides the vision of what the contractor will be expected to provide.

Form to.

I'm not going to read through all these individually. Essentially, this is to highlight the importance and critical nature of the JPARC and the 354th RANS mission. There's a lot of high level interest and oversight. We frequently have distinguished visitors in the RANS for being such a small base. We have a very large mission.

Eric Mathewson - Nisga'a Tek / CIOPS 4:23

Slides.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 4:34

Uh...

Being a being a small squadron and a small base, we have an extremely important and critical mission. Make sure he can see.

Oh.

With that, we provide daily training and exercise support, integrating foreign partners in order to train like we fight.

Slide, please.

This is to just show the sheer size of the JPARC's airspace. We're home to Alaska's and the Air Force's premier 5th Gen. fighter fleet.

We're a premier training environment in the PACF, and we do host joint mission partners across the Department of Work.

D. Brashear - Altus 5:17

Yes.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 5:27

So.

I want to foot stomp some of the key challenges to the JPARC. Keeping pace with the adversary threats, access to special use airspace and the airspace expansion. Securing funds. Alaska is a challenging place to operate.

Eric Mathewson - Nisga'a Tek / CIOPS 5:30

And.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 5:51

and maintain some of our remote threat systems. And with that, the long periods of severe weather in the interior of Alaska, we see temperature swings from the 90s in the summer all the way down to negative 50 to negative 60 in the winter.

D. Brashear - Altus 5:54

Thank you.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 6:09

Along with remote site access, we'll get into this a little later on, but some of the sites are only accessible via helicopter.

Limited infrastructure. A lot of our sites do not have access to shore power. So there's a lot of diesel generators and all the maintenance that comes along with those that supports our remote threat systems and comm equipment.

D. Brashear - Altus 6:21

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 6:39

Slide.

Just to breeze over this, this is largely some of the standout requirements that are listed in the PWS. As you can see the bumper there.

Everybody needs to check out the most recent version of the PWS. And they can't see on the slide. No, if someone can't see the slides. Just pausing quick, so I think some folks might have trouble viewing the slides.

Can we get a quick like thumbs up just to make sure people can see the slides?

Tim Fitzpatrick 2 7:21

Yep, good to go.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 7:21

Thank you.

All of us, everyone, you can, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so I'm not going to go through this list. As you can see, request that you review the PWS. Next.

Just to give, you know, a very high level overall expectation of operating locations, primarily at Eielson Air Force Base, we have a small contingent down at Joint Base

Elmendorf-Richardson in the Anchorage area, as well as all the various remote sites and sites across Alaska.

D. Brashear - Altus 7:59

Yeah.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 8:08

And I turned it over.

D. Brashear - Altus 8:08

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 8:13

Again, if you're joining the meeting, please ensure that you mute your mics.

I'm going to turn it over to Major Spector Stibel to go over the airspace.

Slide.

As you can see here, pictures speak 1000 words, right? So Alaska is roughly half the size of the contiguous 48, and depicted is the current size of the airspace that we have activated for exercises and for daily use. Roughly takes up about a third of

Alaska, so largely than most countries.

Most people are familiar with the knitter and you can see how the size in comparison, just to scope what the airspace, the size and locations is. Slide.

Yeah, a little bit more description of it in text. I won't go through all of it, but we do support live and air to ground weapons employment, going from JDAMs to laser guided bombs to dumb bombs as well as along with strafe. And we support that via

Amanda target facility management, I guess.

And then we are working to enhance the emitters and their structure and the networks. I'm not going to get into that at all. And basically the comms and link associated with it. Slide.

Daily training airspace is roughly depicted on the left. That's Red Flag Airspace. And then Northern Edge Airspace, you can see use the entirety of the airspace available, which roughly is 1/3 the size of Alaska. Slide.

I'm not going to hash this out, the words kind of speak to the picture.

Give you a couple of seconds.

Slide.

So we are working on an airspace expansion. What you see is the pre-decisional and not the full picture of what we may get, but bottom line is the airspace itself will expand beyond what you have previously seen as that massive airspace and establish that overwater airspace. Really along with that, it's just comms and networking to have full reach to the fiber community and then the maintenance of said systems.

Alright, now, uh, hey, Giga, are you are you prepped to brief the threats section?

Uh, Rand's contract is, is Giga there? We can't hear you.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 11:18

Can you hear me now?

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 11:19

Yes, sir.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 11:21

All right, sweet. Yep, I am good. Major Giga Gingenheimer over here, the threat section manager. You can go next slide.

Sweet. So you see kind of on the left of what we are trying to get to for the Jay Park versus what we are trying to emulate an example, obviously on class of what a

Chinese coastline type defense could look like. Next slide.

Sweet. So here are some of our systems. We have the Tipsy 77s. There's 2 of them.

Chris, they're on Murphy Dome and he'll...

Field 3265 and what? Taylor Mountain. Mainly used for safety of flight, not really used as threat specific type systems. Next slide.

We have the very MG, a fully passive system, 1 to 18 gigahertz. It sees all of the emissions coming off of aircraft and uses geolocation to triangulate positions off of that, normally used for early warning radar. Next slide.

The Molina, we also have another one you might see on here called the Mast, essentially doing the same thing, giving a UV signature, trying to get some type of missile warning from a UV plume to hit on an aircraft, normally simulating A

MANPAD sized missile.

Next slide.

Hi, Jacks, technically not owned by the 354th Rands. Actually, the 353rd CTS actually owns this one, but it's a SAR-based or a SAR jammer in the X-band. Next slide.

The Lazarus, it is a laser typically used to obscure targeting pods for aircraft, requires clear line of sight for the operators, but the operators can get a track by using an

EOIR camera. The EO camera lets them find the aircraft and then the IR camera actually takes the track and maintains the track after that.

and it can fire off a laser that is safe to aircrew. At that point, usually a summer only.

Summer only asset just because it has a very high operating temperature of around

45 to 50 degrees before. It just does not work anymore. We can't get the chiller quite warm enough for it. Next slide.

Sweet, the Yetis. These are some of our bread and butters. We currently have slides a little outdated. We have a CS and an X band, so now three of them. They can do long-range SAM replication. We can do some medium-range SAM replication as well.

We'll put, when it says operating with four tels, we'll move the TMOs as required based on the site.

layout is normally in the site constraints that we have on size roadways will kind of be the determining factor of what type of site we build for it. It does have some five-by restrictions, some closed-loop restrictions for being able to operate with threat-specific waveforms.

that we're working with the Australian government to overcome. This is bought and purchased from the Australian government.

And some of that data of where they're currently located is stale data, but we are moving these things, trying to move them more frequently so that pilots don't always just see it at the exact same site and just learn the site layout. We want to keep challenging the 5th Gen. pilots we have here. Next slide.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 14:38

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 14:57

these quite old systems. Most were purchased in the 80s and 90s, but we are able to put them in more austere environment. So some of them are accessible by Rd. but there are a few that are accessible by helicopter only that kind of give us a depth component getting off the Richardson Highway, which is pretty much just following the Tanana River.

From.

from Austin Air Force Base all the way down to Delta Junction.

Mainly old former Soviet Union equipment, so SA2s through SA15s. Next slide.

XM11 and 15, if you recognize the pictures, that's what they are. They are a full closed loop system. They do require operators. I think right now we're operating it with about three people in the vehicle. They are a summer only asset as well. They just can't survive the Alaskan winters. Next slide.

T1, also a closed-loop system.

normally operated with two to three operators.

as well. Next slide.

And then for that T1 as well, you don't have to go back a slide, but that one is on its last legs. We're not getting support anymore for that one. So next time we have a hard break on it, we're probably never going to get it online again.

Sweet digital spoon rest, target acquisition and early warning, just like a spoon rest does, it does require...

physical operators of it as well. Next slide.

Sweet, the Niners, some of our newer assets, it's a lower cost threat emitter. They're all in the X-band currently. We currently have two that require a manned team at it. It just requires one person or sometimes two people if you're doing the buddy concept in the winter. We've got three more currently that are fully remote, and then we're expecting three more next spring or summer. So that'll be a total of eight Niners that we're expecting to get have in the next year.

It looks like we've got a question.

That normally means they're removed from the field and put into warm storage.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 17:20

Giga, we're holding questions to the end.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 17:22

Okay, sounds good.

Ed Emig - GHG 17:26

Hey, Heather.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 17:27

Right.

Next slide.

Sweet the Elite, it's basically a low-cost boat radar. We initially bought them for the idea of being able to actually put bombs on target.

Ed Emig - GHG 17:38

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 17:43

But, uh...

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 17:43

Hey, hot hot hot mic, please ensure that you are muted.

Ed Emig - GHG 17:44

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 17:52

But they're currently on the no strike list. We've got three of them. They just admit at

9.4 gigahertz. Aircraft can program whatever they want these to look like in there.

Hot mic.

Ed Emig - GHG 17:53

No, I no, I told I told Dwayne I'll be happy to join if he gives me a dial-in number, but

I haven't heard back from him. If you want.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 18:04

Hi, Mike.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 18:06

Can we pause for a second?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 18:21

Got him muted. Can everyone hear me?

Now, everybody else.

Gerald 18:29

Yes, sir, we can hear you. Going back on mute.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 18:31

All right, sweet. Thank you. All right. Fight through that hot mic. All right. Yeah, currently on the no strike list, it emits at 9.4 gigahertz can be used via solar panels in the summer. If we wanted to use it in the winter, I would expect we'd need to use a generator. Not requested a ton because it kind of has a funnel up feature.

So fighters can't find it until about 25 miles just because the trons are not going in their direction until they're that close. Next slide.

Sweet the math, talked about this earlier, basically does a very similar function as the

Molina, except this one requires an operator to just stand out there pointing the man pad at an aircraft normally used by slow movers, so C-130s or helicopters.

for low and slow movers. Next slide.

Smokey sam's, basically smokey fireworks that get shot up into the air. Normally used same thing in conjunction with that Molina or the mast by our C-130s, helicopters, low and slow type gas.

We've got inflatable decoys, normally not requested outside of exercises.

Next slide.

Dark metal objects, a lot of movements go on with these TMOs. We've got low fidelity, medium fidelity, high fidelity throughout the JPARC. But we're kind of moving these sites as we're moving the emitters more than anything to give the fighters just different looks so they don't get too used to one thing being at the same exact place in the same exact site layout. For sites that are not co-located with emitters, we normally are okay with leaving those more static and not moving them around as much as fighters will just use them for basic surface attack type missions, more lower threat missions.

Next slide.

And those are future Yetis that we are getting.

Next slide. Some funded, some unfunded.

Arts, we are scheduled to get an Arts V1 in the spring of 27. And then the next Arts

V3s, I don't believe are till 2028, Chris, 2029, 2030. Yeah, so a ways away. They can be remotely operated or with a man in the loop.

Next slide.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 21:09

And this is Major Seibel. I just wanted to just add on like a foot stomper. We went through that portfolio of threats just to illustrate that we have a diverse array of threats that for going from IR, passive, active radar, closed loop, man in the loop, and then the associated TMOs.

for a threat representation as we move along. It's not all-encompassing, but it's going to span the spectrum of threats. I just wanted to foot stomp that.

Over.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 21:45

Matt, do you want me to take in these questions now, or?

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 21:47

Yep, you.

No, we'll address them in the Q&A portion at the end, Giga.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 21:55

Sounds good.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 21:55

Um...

Eddie, are you good to brief the sights? If not, I have Spectre on standby.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 22:04

Yes, sir, I can breathe, and that's fine.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 22:07

Alright, thank you.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 22:10

Read it.

So, in line with what Giga just presented, this is our thread.

arrival timeline or projected threat arrival timeline, understand that some of those timelines may shift as funding becomes or is not available.

The sites on the right hand side, TA 501, Charlie Battery, Firing Point 10, Gerstle River, Blair Lakes.

are all currently established sites. The other sites not named are construction projects that will occur between now and 2030, 2031 time frame with various

Site location, this isn't completely up to date. We've run into some troubles with the picture on the right hand side about where those sites are going to be developed. So your 2031s that are a little bit further out, we're still looking for money for those sites.

and some of the other sites have kind of cost a little bit more. Slide.

For DTA, so this is a 501 pad. There's one of, this is one of three sites. You can see it in the lower left-hand corner. All sites have power and fiber hookups. There's a maintenance shelter, which is on the, is the white structure on the top of the left picture.

that has enough storage that you could put multiple Yeti systems inside of there.

Think tractor trailer type size systems when they're hooked up.

along with it's heated and has.

Roll rolling stock doors on the on either side.

Gerstel River, this is our newest construction. That is the site design itself. There is projection that we will probably place some sprung structures down here, funding dependent. There is power and fiber to this system. Well, there's power to this to the site right now, the fiber we're currently working with through AT&T.

Additional 27 projects. So contract award for these projects through the Army Corps of Engineers.

Actually, not these projects. Apologies. Bridge to Terabithia, Blair Lakes, Towkill, our

TBD, I don't expect for them to be awarded in 27, but they are in the docket to be built.

So for the 2030 goal, kind of like what Specter had briefed, you're looking for a two-lane fight. We're going to try and provide as much depth and width with different types of threat systems kind of laid all along that corridor there to provide the most realistic representation that we can for our

Coalition in the United States.

Exercise offs tempo. So traditionally, Ielson holds three to four red flag exercises per year. Every other year we go to four. But the 4th one is really more like a northern edge type exercise. So with the red flag dash one is more of your counter air, offensive counter air type exercise. Two is supposed to be more calf centric. And then three is more of your air to air, near peer type exercise that they execute. In addition to the red flag exercises, which are

Air Force run. We also have special operation force exercises like Arctic Edge, along with some others. Jaded Thunder was looking to come up here, which is JSOC's premier CAS exercise. In addition to that, 11th Airborne Division and

INDOPACOM, have the JPMRC exercise, which is a force on force army exercise, which is shifting more to the aviation integration with Air Force assets along with rotary wing, H-64 type aircraft, and counter or UAS encounter UAS operations.

Site access, it's kind of already been briefed. The Alaska Highway System is our predominant in and out for all of these sites.

When we are off the highway system on military installations like Donnelly Training

Area or Yukon Training Area, it's a compacted gravel Rd.

And in the wintertime, we were just driving over compacted snow.

For Blair Lakes, specifically, the 2 10th Rescue Squadron can and will does support infill and exhale operations into Blair Lakes. It normally comes at a no cost to the government.

as we pair it up with their training initiatives.

Other than that, the range squadron has a commercial helicopter and fixed wing contract to go to the remote sites along with into Blair Lakes.

Need anything else, Cat Pally?

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 28:15

Are you good to go through the weapons employment as well, Eddie?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 28:17

Yeah, yeah, send it. Let's go. Slide, please.

So up in the Jay Park, in the northern airspace, well, pretty much in the entire state of

Alaska, there are three impact ranges. The first one with the red arrow, that's

Donnelly Training Area. It's supposed to be a tactical range. It offers our largest airspace and our largest variants of weapon employment. We have one live area, which is the Oklahoma Live in the lower portion of the left screen. Somebody's hot mic typing on a computer.

Need your mic, please.

In addition to that, we have other tactical targets ranging from AAA pieces, surface-to-air missiles, building structures, and those structures are built out of CONEX boxes, as well as other various fabricated.

Aircraft, foreign aircraft.

Adversarial aircraft, I should say. Slide.

Stewart Creek Impact Area sits inside the Yukon training area. This has both a live and a NERF component to it. We perform, well, we're not talking about that.

Weapons employment, yeah, live and inert on these areas. Slide.

Sorry, just to back it up. DTA and YTA are Army-owned ranges. So all of the coordination for weapons employment on those locations, we work either through the Donnelly Training Area Installation Range Officer or the Fort Wayne Wright

Range Control Installation Range Officer.

Both of those entities are commanded by 11th Airborne Division.

impact area. This is our man 365 24 7 facility. It's more of a conventional target set with four low angle or long range straight pits along with one high angle straight pit.

It has two circular conventional targets, which can be scored. And then you have the nuke circle, which is

It's kind of dilapidated right now because of some other issues. In addition to that, there's a moving target strafe pit. That's in the upper left-hand portion of your screen there. This is where Class A operations occur with two, well, the contract has two

Range control officer positions that are built in accordance with AFMAN 13212. Slide.

It's just some more pictures of the facility.

Just another picture to show the...

Stewart Creek targets. So during each summer, As funding is available, we go out either to Stuart Creek or...

Oklahoma impact area, and we'll refabricate these targets. So in the center there, you have a mock-up of a J-10 or J-20 type aircraft. That's culvert with plywood and metal shaving paint to provide reflectivity for targeting sensor pods. The reason for that is because we have a problem with MPPEH, materials potentially presenting explosive hazard. And that's something that we have to work through. But all of our mock-up sites are either connex boxes or plywood type structures.

Slide.

Oklahoma targets, you can kind of see, you know, some of these targets are pretty dilapidated. We haven't been to Oklahoma in a couple of years. That speaks more to funding issues than it does for the want to go out there. Slide.

Cycle of operations, so range maintenance and the range squadron pretty much operate off of this build structure. So if you kind of go

In the center there, Oklahoma Winter Trail build, really, actually, that's not a good starting point. Let's start with the Blair Lakes. We'll start at fiscal year. So at the beginning of the fiscal year, normally by the middle of October, we will start constructing the Winter Trail. The Winter Trail runs from the Tanana River to Blair Lakes. As we said, that is a remote bombing range.

And we create a 27 mile ice Rd. that runs out to that location. The purpose of that ice

Rd. is to give us the ability to refuel that site. I have a 400,000 gallon diesel fuel capacity out at that location. And normally we transport anywhere between 1 and 200,000 gallons of fuel in the wintertime out to that location.

Once we're done with the winter trail construction, we shift our focus over to the

Oklahoma winter construction. That is a little bit shorter of a distance, not as many water passages that we have to go over for that one.

And the purpose of that is to provide refueling opportunities to like OP26, 27, 28, which are some of our camera systems and weather radar systems.

From there, for our arranged maintenance personnel, that's when they work on, from

April to May timeframe is when they work on any of their programmatics and then any type of leave that they've accrued up to that point. That's our time that we allow them to take leave. And then we go into summer prep, which we just talked about, Oklahoma, Stewart Creek, or Blair Lakes if we're flying out there performing construction, or any one of the construction projects that we have funding and authorization to build a threat site.

That's when they will do their prep and then summer build June to August, which is really the prime construction season in Alaska.

Once they're done with the summer bill, normally that's middle of August or around the 1st of September, then they go on their programmed leave. Obviously, living in

Alaska, hunting is a big draw for a lot of people. And the people that live in Alaska like to hunt.

So that is essentially why that is built into that location. And in addition to that, it also helps us get rid of any excess or use or lose leave prior to October 1st. And then we just start.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 35:38

Thank you, Eddie.

Moving on, Chris Dawkins, our range engineer, will be briefing this section.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 35:53

I will be covering command control and communications. As it's already been said, this doesn't cover everything that's in the PWS or the appendices, so just make sure you review that or the statement of work. But I will cover top-level information.

So first I'm going to talk about the op center. This is where basically the command and control happens.

We have the main building up to the collateral level. I operate the blue, red, and white force workstations. These are separate networks, so they will have their equivalent RMF packages and ISOs and ISMs and

Sysadmins and network admins.

As you can see, I have MSCT. We have columns that gets fed in there. We have BC3 and Angel displays. I have some examples of those. All of these things are just examples and not all-encompassing. We feed in the radar feeds that you saw with the Tipsy 77s, along with IFF, ACMI.

In week 16.

Most of our workstations or run on the LMOC stack.

which stands for the Live Mission Operations Center. These are virtual machines that operate in a server stack, so you will need somebody that's familiar with VMs and how they work and how to administrate them properly.

There are some automated functions, however, at the end of the day, whoever owns the contract is still on the hooks to be able to handle those automated functions if those functions fail.

We do run a dyads. So this is a software representation of my ads. The again, there is a there is some support for that. However, it is still on the contractor to perform the functions as requested.

Slide.

So some examples of the displays, and again, this is not all-encompassing. We have an ICAS display that's still a legacy, but however we still have it. We use an Angel display, we have a BC3 display, and TACView. These are all displays that are mostly used. However, there are other displays that could be used upon request.

Slide.

So for calm, I just on this image here on the right, I'm just trying to show how the how it's spread across the entire state. So at the bottom of that image, you can see

Jaber, that's by the Anchorage area. You can see a little bit of the coastline down there. And at the very tippy top, you can see the little star that is our furthest north

Site, these sites have anything from...

A couple servers and they and routers and radios to being more developed to transport as a com hub.

So again, all these sites are part of the statement or the PWS, and it should be listed in the appendices. Just make sure you are familiar with them. Some of these flights do require commercial travel, so you will have to fly out to it and arranging with the contractors at those sites.

On the left, this is closer to the Isleton Air Force Base area. We have a fiber infrastructure that runs out to the range. Again, this is going to be where you will have more network infrastructure that is part of the PWS and statement of work. All these sites should be, or all these, this information should be listed in the appendices and the

South.

Slide.

And just to kind of show you what the sites look like, on the right is more of a common site you would drive up to. You can see that we, this is one of the tipsy 77 sites. It has a radome, has generators and automatic transfer switches, has towers.

Again, make sure you understand the style. They're part of that.

requirement is to have certified tower climbers to climb those towers. We have different, we'll have different types of shelters. You can see the kind of the differences between on both sides. The one, the image on the left is going to be one of the sites that is only flyable by helicopter.

That's all I got.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 40:26

So this is Major Stibel. So for the Jay Park Range Operations Center or the JROC, so this slide is a bit of an eye chart and you will have a chance to review it when you see the slide deck. But really the why is the why, what and when is the important parts that we're going to talk about. So the why is that we've been directed by senior leadership to modernized to the modern range, as we talked about before. Part of that is going to be the classification of the current range operation center at the collateral level is inadequate for the way forward. So what will be being built is a TS SAP SCIF accredited facility to host all that networking and information processing.

to get the J Park to the requirement to meet the requirements. And then when you can see the phase and milestones and where we roughly lie here and where it should be completed, we're that it is the end piece to make the Jay Rock the premier 5th Gen. and beyond range.

So I have to say about that.

All right, just to wrap it up, kind of the way forward and our goals as an organization are the airspace expansion, the threat modernization, and the construction and occupation of the JROC. This concludes the RANS portion of the briefing. So long as the ESS is ready to move into it, we can go into Q&A.

Okay.

Did we want to address the chat questions first? Yeah.

All right, we'll start by going through all the chat questions and try to try to answer them. Then I would ask that you please raise your hand and the ESS will bring you off mute to ask your question. Thank you.

Race to do it now.

And just as a reminder, we may need to table some of the answers for a later date.

So just make sure you route them to the ESS contracting officers, and we will work to get you a response.

The first question that we have is, when you say summer only and can't survive the winters, does that mean they stay put and just aren't operated or are they removed from the field for winters?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 43:00

That depends. This is Giga again. It depends on why they can't operate well in the winter. If there are fluids inside of them that will freeze below whatever temperature we're expecting, making negative 30 and below, then they'll be removed and put in warm weather storage.

If they do not have those fluids that are susceptible, it depends. Sometimes they go into warm storage, sometimes they don't. But most things that get put away for the winter go into warm storage.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 43:33

All right, our second question is, does the government have a plan for the legacy

Russian emitters to be replaced when replication or procurement of parts are no longer possible?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 43:46

For the XM11s, XM15, and the digital spoon rest, those do get support for parts. That

T1 will no longer get support. So if we cannot easily fix a part via something like local manufacturing here, such as like a Klystron goes out, then the T1 is done.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 44:09

I also pile on it sometimes the answer to that is it depends. If there is a way forward that we can source parts or things like that, then the RANS will coordinate the sourcing of parts and then the maintenance would then fall in line with that. So it's kind of an unfortunately, and it depends if the parts are no longer available and it's reached end of life, then

It's kind of clear-cut.

Thanks for that. The next question that we have is, do you see mobility as an infrastructure problem, like lack of roads, prepared sites, or a lack of logistics capability, like trucks, cranes, and manning?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 44:49

Yeah, so from the threats perspective, It's both, all of the above. Lack of roads can be difficult. It depends on the threat system you're talking about. A Niner or an Umpty, for example, can be helicoptered

in. They're light enough. A Yeti will always require a Rd. It's 38,000 pounds. It doesn't have to be a paved Rd. It can still be a dirt Rd. but it does require a road to get there.

My biggest challenge is normally prepared sites, the amount of funding that takes on the government side to get those sites built up and then getting that depth component. So you kind of saw everything follows the Tanana River because that follows the Richardson Highway. So getting depth out into deeper into the airspace is just a challenge of getting a site on, you know, whether that be state Alaska land or federal land, and being able to get resources, fuel, components, maintenance in and out of them.

So overall, Alaska is a difficult environment to work with.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 45:52

Thank you. Next question. When supporting Army training, is threat layout direction or guidance relayed through the RANS, or does the Air Force Range Operations

Liaison conduct that coordination?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 46:06

Yeah, so that's a two-part question. The Air Force Range Operations Liaison Position serves as the one of the scheduling authorities in the range squadron. They are responsible for developing and helping proliferate the WDZ profiles. They also serve as our range control officer out at Blair Lakes. For threat specific layout, guidance, and direction. Normally that runs with our exercise planners, which are active duty personnel, who do take contracted personnel to the planning conferences. And then when the Army says, hey, we would like X, Y, or Z threat emitter at these locations, then a plan is developed on what the Air Force can and cannot support, and then that is related to the Army.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 46:46

See.

Yeah.

As A follow-on, for the cycle of operations, can you restate your leave discussion section?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 47:12

Yeah, so.

For that, so that range build cycle is what our current wage grade, wage supervisor, and wage lead positions, which our federal employees, work off of.

I don't think that there's any real intent to say that, you know, the future contracts needs to abide by that structure, but it is something that is kind of tried and true and does work for us, but we leave that up to however you want to manage it.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 47:49

Yeah, and I'll just state again for that, if there is a requirement for that, again, this is

Kevin Arthur's, that would be in the most up-to-date PWS independency cycle when those are released.

Thanks for that. The next question that we have is for the 68 miles, is the fiber existing?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 48:07

Correct. The fiber does exist. It drops off in the buildings. As far as for the contractor, they are not on the hooks for the actual physical fiber lines. However, where it drops is where your responsibility gets picked up. And reporting any fiber breaks, etc.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 48:33

On the JPARC communication slide, you mentioned the commercial travel and contractors at site. Can you clarify what you mean by commercial travel and what contractors are there?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 48:45

Stopping.

So when I talk about commercial travel, there's some places such as Barger Island or

Port Yukon that will require coordination with one of the air carriers in town. Up to the contractors how to get out there. It's very likely you'll probably just use one of the commercial entities in town to get out to those sites.

The.

For the next question, what was it again? What was the second part?

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 49:16

Oh.

What contractors are there?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 49:19

Oh, contractors at the site. So not all these sites are owned by us. Again, make sure you check the appendices and check the statement of work to determine which sites are owned by the Air Force and on the hooks of the contractor. Some of those sites, we are just leasing space or we are borrowing space. So that coordination would occur with those entities to get to our pieces of equipment with the agreements we have in place. Over.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 49:46

Great, thanks for that. The next questions we have from Gerald, we are going to table those. We'll just send those out whenever we do have a better answer and kind of just a better answer to kind of answer all of your questions, sir. Next, we have, what is the acquisition strategy? Right now, it's just still to be determined.

And then the next question we have from Gerald, do you have ATO needs for the force stations and other systems?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 50:19

So if we're talking about authority to operate, I have ATOs for my networks. The contract, the statement of work will define what the requirements is of that contractor to perform those ATO functions. If you're talking about the other ATO, then I guess

Specify that.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 50:39

The second part of the question is a follow-up directed to the internal group here, asking specifically, who are you with, Phil Lancaster? And I will defer to Phil to communicate with Gerald for such.

Just moving on to the next question by John B, who is the best POC to contact regarding offerings for range emitters? The contract.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 51:06

That would be Major Giggenheimer.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 51:12

The next question we received from Becky is, will this be a SATOC-MATOC IDIQ?

Becky, to answer it in uncertain terms, that is still pending development and market research.

From James, we have for fueling in the austere areas are FARPs established.

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 51:42

Yeah, so it depends on the site. If you're talking about a forward arming and refueling point, no. Normally what happens, helicopters will, under on the helicopter contract, will transport fuel blivets and then they'll fuel those fuel those austere locations. If you're talking about Blair Lakes, We build a winter trail and then it is contracted through, I guess, DLA, through our civil engineering squadron and liquid fuels folks. And that is line hauled out to Blair.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 52:20

Our next question comes from David, and it is, have you finalized the acquisition schedule? To answer it, David, it is still in development and any updates of such will be posted to sam.gov.

Next question, is there an established on-hand ready spares inventory?

Stacey Alvarado 52:36

I miss Stacey.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 52:42

Yeah, so just for that answer, again, when the finalized, we just refer to the PWS and the relevant appendices. That will give you the most up-to-date information.

Anything kind of mentioned in this brief, we wanted to just give you the full range of the spectrum and an idea of what we're looking at. But again, the truth, the source of truth data will come with the PWS and appendices.

The next question comes from Bill. What is the current acquisition forecasted timeline? Unfortunately, we cannot give you a direct answer at this time, Bill, but be on the lookout for alerts on sam.gov.

The next couple of questions come from both Phil and Gerald, their internal communications, and we will go forward to Bill's follow up question, which is the previous acquisition was awarded in a small disadvantaged business. Will this be a small business set aside acquisition? That is pending internal coordination and any updates as such will be posted on Sam.gov.

And our last question in the chat, would you encourage contractors to use their own training radar jammers?

ROBINSON, EDWARD G III CIV USAF PACAF 354 RANS/RSC 53:49

No, pretty much all assets being used are owned by the government.

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 54:13

If there's any other questions that anybody wants to type in the chat really quick, we can kind of wait a couple minutes and kind of see. Okay.

They had a question.

Do you anticipate, next question comes from Robert. Do you anticipate an extension to the current contract? Yes, that is internal communications only, but we do.

And the final remark comes from Mr. George, just thanking the team. Pinning any saved lounge. Oh, we got another question from Brian. May have missed it, but the timeline. That is still under development and any updates Brian will be posted on sam.gov. So please sign up for alerts and follow such.

If there's any last-minute questions, just please type them in the chat.

We will just, if you guys have questions, we're just going to wait till the top of the hour. So please have your questions in before then so we can go ahead and answer that. After our 11 o'clock Hawaii time, we will just end the briefing and then just any other questions, just please e-mail them or I believe there was a spreadsheet that with the questions that you can submit.

Greg Urban 56:04

What are we gonna do?

LUNA, FABIAN CIV USAF AFMC 766 ESS/PKP 57:03

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for an attendance and taking time out of your busy day to, you know, tune into our industry day to really kind of convey to our mission partners' overall mission view. And with that, we'll go ahead and address the final questions that we received, which is from Tunista. Is the government open to one-on-ones?

Please reach out to our Director of Business Operations to coordinate a one-on-one brief if you'd like to introduce yourself or the team to our Director of Business

Operations. The next one is, are you extending the current contract? Currently that is the government's anticipation.

Next one is just thanking Phil. Phil, we thank you in return. And that concludes today's meeting. And again, thank you. And look for updates to be posted on

Sam.gov, which include the transcript, these slides, dependencies, list of attendees, et cetera. Thank you.

I just want to thank all the presenters today. Thank the 354th Rams for their overview and their briefing. Thanks to guys for the 766 and we're going to end the virtual industry day. I appreciate you guys' time. Thank you.

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