ASTRO Draft Section C February 5 2020.docx

SECTION C – DESCRIPTION / SPECIFICATIONS / STATEMENT OF WORK

C.1. BACKGROUND

ASTRO is a Multiple-Award (MA), Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract sponsored by the Department of Defense. This vehicle will be awarded and administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Assisted Acquisition Service (AAS), Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM).

ASTRO is available for use by the GSA FAS AAS FEDSIM organization and any Contracting Officer granted a delegation of procurement authority specifically authorized by the ASTRO Contracting Officer(s).

ASTRO is a family of multiple (10 at initial contract award) separate MA-IDIQ contracts that span multiple North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes and NAICS Code Exceptions.

C.1.1. Authority Under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act (40 U.S.C. 501), GSA is authorized to award and administer contracts such as ASTRO for personal property and non-personal services.

C.2. SCOPE

The scope includes operations, maintenance, readiness, development, systems integration, support, and research and development for manned, unmanned, and optionally manned systems, robotics, and platforms, as well as the services that support those systems, robotics, and platforms. These requirements include the following domains:

· Operations

· Maintenance/Readiness

· Development/Systems Integration

· Support

· Research and Development The scope of ASTRO spans many areas of expertise and includes any and all components required to formulate a total solution to a requirement, except for those services and products specifically prohibited in this contract. Solutions may include Ancillary Support Services and/or Ancillary Support Products as defined in Sections C.4. and C.5. Requirements may call for solutions that cross over multiple disciplines; include ancillary support services and/or products; require commercial and/or non-commercial items; require professional and/or non-professional labor; and use a variety of contract types including fixed-price (all types), cost reimbursement (all types), time and materials/labor hour, or a hybrid mix of contract types. These systems, robotics, and platforms may be based on land, air, sea, and/or space.

C.2.1. DOMAINS

ASTRO may be used to provide a total solution for any organization’s requirement in any of the identified ASTRO Domains.

Definition: Data Operations includes all data collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities associated with manned, unmanned, and optionally manned systems, robotics, and platforms supporting mission performance.

Examples: Service areas that are included under the Data Operations Sub Domain include, but are not limited to, the following (listed in alphabetical order):

EXAMPLES

1. 3D Terrain And Structure Mapping

2. Aerial Surveying

3. Air Quality Monitoring And Measurement

4. Airfield Damage Assessments

5. Anti Drug Trafficking

6. Anti-Piracy Monitoring

7. Asset Tracking

8. Asset Verification

9. Atmospheric Data Collection And Analysis

10. Battle Damage Management

11. Blue Force Tracking

12. Border Management

13. Border Security Monitoring

14. C4 ISR Operations

15. C5 ISR Operations

16. Captured Enemy Material Analysis

17. Change Detection

18. Coalition ISR

19. Common Operational Picture (COP) Support

20. Counter Terrorism

21. Crime Scene Situational Awareness

22. CUI Surveys (Corrosion Under Insulation)

23. Detection and Tracking of International Terrorism

24. Data Analysis

25. Data Compression

26. Data Dissemination

27. Data Visualization

28. Detection and Tracking of Narco-Trafficking

29. Detection and Tracking of Alien Smuggling

30. Detection and Tracking of Human Trafficking

31. Detection and Tracking of Weapons Of Mass Destruction

32. Earth Exploration

33. Earth Gravity Information Gathering And Analysis

34. Emergency Preparedness And Assessments

35. Exercise Support

36. Fire Detection

37. Forest Health Protection

38. Friendly Force Tracking

39. Geospatial Intelligence

40. Global Climate Information Gathering And Analysis

41. Ground Traffic Monitoring

42. Health Sciences

43. Humanitarian Relief

44. Homeland Security

45. Hurricane Analysis, Tracking, And Modeling

46. IED Detection

47. IED Forensics

48. Image And Video Capture

49. Inspections

a. Dams and Wells

b. Flare Stack

c. Infrastructure

d. Offshore Platforms

e. Pavement

f. Pipeline And Row

g. Runways

h. Solar Farms

i. Tank & Vessel

j. Water Crossing

k. Wind Turbines

50. Intelligence Processing and Collection

51. ISR Demonstrations

52. ISR Exercises

53. Investigation Support

54. Joint Operations ISR

55. Land Mapping

56. Law Enforcement Operational Support

57. Leak Detection

58. Mapping

59. Maritime Security

60. Mine Detection and Tracking

61. Mining Support

62. Monitoring Illegal Dumping

63. Natural Disaster Response

64. Natural Resource Management

65. Navigation

66. Oceanic Data Collection And Analysis

67. Photography & Film Production

68. Population Density Analysis

69. Powerline Intelligence Gathering

70. Precision Agriculture Support

71. Radar Operations

72. Reconnaissance

73. Safety

74. Scientific Research

75. Seabed Mapping

76. Sea Life Research Data Gathering And Analysis

77. Search Operations

78. Security

79. Space Exploration

80. Space Operations

81. Submarine Detection and Tracking

82. Surface Ship Detection and Tracking

83. Supportability Analysis and Implementation

84. Surveillance

85. Surveying

86. Tradecraft

87. Traffic Flow Analysis

88. Technical Intelligence Collection

89. Undersea and Seabed Surveillance

90. Urban Planning

91. UxS Detection and Tracking

92. Video/Image/Audio Analysis

93. Weather Analysis And Monitoring

94. Wildlife Monitoring, Research, And Preservation

95. Wildlife Surveys

2.2.1.1.2 SUB DOMAIN: DATA OPERATIONS AS A SERVICE

Definition: Data Operations As a Service includes all data collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities associated with manned, unmanned, and optionally manned systems, robotics, and platforms supporting mission performance performed exclusively or predominantly with contractor owned, contractor operated platforms, robotics, and/or systems for land, air, sea, or space. For clarification, the term “contractor owned” does NOT mean that the prime contractor must technically own the hardware involved. This may be performed through subcontractors, teaming partners (at the task order level), leasing (not naming the Government as the leasee), or any other business mechanism that allows for mission performance, but indemnifies the Government client. These services are normally provided on a consumable basis.

Examples: Examples for this Sub Domain are identical to the examples provided in the Data Operations Sub Domain.

2.2.1.1.3. SUB DOMAIN: MISSION OPERATIONS

Definition: Mission Operations includes all non-data collection and analysis services associated with manned, unmanned, and optionally manned systems, robotics, and platforms supporting mission performance.

Examples: Service areas that are included under the Mission Operations Domain include, but are not limited to, the following (listed in alphabetical order):

EXAMPLES

1. Air Drop Operations

2. Air Traffic Management

3. Battlefield Support

4. Biological Prediction

5. Command and Control

6. Contingency Operations

7. Electronic Spectrum Management

8. Fire Fighting

9. Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief

10. Launch Services

11. Manned and Unmanned Cargo Transportation

12. Manned and Unmanned Personnel Transportation

13. MEDEVAC

14. Medical Supply Delivery

15. Natural Disaster Response

16. Non-Combatant Evacuation

17. Personnel Recovery

18. Search And Rescue Operations

19. Special Event Response

20. Target Activities

2.2.1.1.4. SUB DOMAIN: MISSION OPERATIONS AS A SERVICE

Definition: Mission Operations As a Service includes all non-data collection and analysis services associated with manned, unmanned, and optionally manned systems, robotics, and platforms supporting mission performance performed exclusively or predominantly with contractor owned, contractor operated platforms, robotics, and/or systems for land, air, sea, or space. For clarification, the term “contractor owned” does NOT mean that the prime contractor must technically own the hardware involved. This may be performed through subcontractors, teaming partners (at the task order level), leasing (not naming the Government as the leasee), or any other business mechanism that allows for mission performance, but indemnifies the Government client.

Examples: Examples for this Sub Domain are identical to the examples provided in the Mission Operations Sub Domain.

2.2.1.2 MAINTENANCE/READINESS DOMAIN

Definition: Maintenance/Readiness includes all services related to the maintenance, repair, overhaul, reconditioning, or servicing of manned, unmanned, and/or optionally manned platforms, robotics, or systems to ensure their continued operations. This includes support functions for these platforms, robotics, and/or systems.

Examples: Service areas that are included under the Maintenance/Readiness Domain include, but are not limited to, the following (listed in alphabetical order):

EXAMPLES

1. Aircraft Repair and Maintenance

2. Armored Vehicle Repair and Maintenance

3. Coalition Logistics Management

4. Equipment Repair and Maintenance

5. Floating Drydock Repair and Maintenance

6. Industrial Equipment Repair and Maintenance

7. Life Cycle Sustainment

8. Logistics Maintenance

9. Machine Calibration Maintenance

10. Overhaul

11. Predictive Maintenance

12. Preventive Maintenance

13. Prognostics and Diagnostics

14. Radar Ground Station Repair and Maintenance

15. Runway Repair and Maintenance

16. Satellite Servicing

17. Ship Repair and Maintenance

18. Supply Chain Logistics

19. Supply Chain Optimization

20. Tank Repair and Maintenance

21. Test Bed Repair and Maintenance

22. UxS Repair and Maintenance

2.2.1.3 DEVELOPMENT/SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DOMAIN

Definition: Development includes all services related to the improvement or enhancement of the overall system or platform or improvement or enhancement of any sub-system or component of a platform.

Systems Integration includes all services related to the process of bringing together component systems/sub-systems into one system (an aggregation of systems/subsystems cooperating so that the system is able to deliver the overarching functionality) and ensuring that the component systems/subsystems function together as a single system.

These services are performed within the framework of manned, unmanned, or optionally manned platform, robot, and/or system.

Examples: Service areas that are included under the Development/Systems Integration Domain include but are not limited to the following (listed in alphabetical order):

EXAMPLES

1. 3D Audio Technology

2. AI-Enabled Autonomy

3. Acoustic and Sonar

4. Advanced Technology Pilots and Trials

5. Alternative Energy Sources System Integration

6. Artificial Intelligence

7. Augmented/Virtual Reality

8. Automated Information Sharing

9. Automation

10. Baseline (Configuration) Management

11. Big Data Analysis

12. Biometrics

13. Coatings

14. Communications

15. Concept Development

16. Configuration Management

17. Cyber Security

18. Data Analytics

19. Data Management

20. Data Protection

21. Design Documentation and Technical Data

22. Detect and Avoid

23. Electromagnetic Spectrum Optimization and Allocation

24. Energy Services to include Management Planning and Strategies, Audit Services and Metering

25. Engineering (Aeronautical, Astronautical, Chemical, Communications, Electrical, Mechanical, Metallurgy/Materials, Optical, Radar, Safety, Sensor, etc.)

26. Engineering Process Improvement

27. GEOINT

28. Human and Machine Symbiosis

29. Human Factors/Usability Engineering

30. Human Interfaces

31. Human-Machine Interfaces

32. Human-Swarm Interfaces

33. Human Systems Integration

34. Hydro-Electric Propulsion

35. Identity and Access Management

36. Independent Verification And Validation

37. Information Assurance

38. Integration

39. Interoperability

40. Launch Processing and Verification

41. Limited Run Initial Production

42. Machine Learning

43. Machine Vision

44. Mesh Networks

45. Modeling and Simulation

46. Mission Assurance

47. Natural Resources Management

48. Navigation

49. Neural Networks

50. Platform Optimization

51. Power

52. Process Automation

53. Predictive Analysis

54. Propulsion

55. Prototyping and Fabrication Support

56. Quality Assurance

57. Remote Sensing

58. Reverse Engineering

59. Risk Management

60. Sensor Creation, Enhancement, Optimization And Development

61. Signal Intelligence

62. Software Development (for non-IT requirements)

63. Software Independent Verification and Validation (for non-IT requirements)

64. Specialized Tool Development

65. Swarming Modules

66. Stealth

67. System Design

68. System Effectiveness and Analysis

69. System Life Extension Program

70. System Security and Information Assurance

71. System Verification and Validation

72. Systems Engineering

73. Technical Intelligence

74. Technical Planning

75. Technical Requirements Analysis

76. Thermal Management

77. Undersea Navigation

78. Wargaming

2.2.1.4 SUPPORT DOMAIN

2.2.1.4.1 SUB DOMAIN: BUSINESS SUPPORT

Definition: Business Support Services includes all the programmatic and training services required for successful execution of a product, program, project, or process regarding platforms, robotics, and/or systems for land, air, sea, or space.

Examples: Service areas that are included under the Business Support Sub Domain include but are not limited to the following (listed in alphabetical order):

EXAMPLES

1. Acquisition Support

2. Assessments

3. Budget/Financial Support

4. Business Case Development Support

5. Business Process Re-engineering

6. Change Management

7. Concept Development and Requirements Analysis

8. Configuration Management

9. Consultation

10. Cost/Schedule/Performance Improvement

11. Communication Management

12. Courseware Development

13. Curriculum Development

14. Customer Relationship Management

15. Financial Analysis

16. Flight Training

17. Insurance Providers

18. Interface Management

19. Knowledge Based Acquisition

20. Knowledge Management

21. Life Cycle Management

22. Logistics Management

23. Long-Range Planning, Futures, and Forecasting

24. New Technology and Trend Identification

25. Organizational Readiness

26. Other Training

27. Relations and Coordination with Law and Policy Making Entities

28. Risk Management

29. Safety Case Analysis

30. Supply Chain Analysis

31. Supply Chain Management

32. Technical Advisory Services

33. Technical Data Management

34. Workforce Transformation

2.2.1.4.2 SUB DOMAIN: MISSION SUPPORT

Definition: Mission Support Services includes all the services required for successful operational execution of a product, program, project, or process regarding platforms, robotics, and/or systems for land, air, sea, or space; the planning necessary to support operational missions, and the resultant analysis of the results of an operational mission.

Examples: Service areas that are included under the Mission Support Sub Domain include but are not limited to the following (listed in alphabetical order):

EXAMPLES

1. Command and Control Analysis and Assessments

2. Counterintelligence Support

3. Data Strategy and Management

4. Decision Analysis

5. Front End Analysis

6. Horizontal Protection Assessment

7. Information Analytics

8. Intelligence Analysis

9. ISR Capability Assessment

10. Kill Chain Analysis

11. Knowledge Management

12. Long-Range Planning, Futures, and Forecasting

13. Mission Planning Support

14. Requirements Management

15. Strategic Forecasting

16. Strategic Planning

17. Strategy Development

18. Tactical and Readiness Planning

19. Technical Data Management

20. Technical Documentation

21. Threat Analysis

22. Use Case Analysis

23. Vulnerability Assessment

2.2.1.5 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN

Definition: Research and Development Services include all services conducted for the innovation, introduction and improvement of products and procedures regarding platforms, robotics, and/or systems for land, air, sea, or space.

Service areas that are included under the Research and Development Domain include but are not limited to the following:

EXAMPLES

1. Advanced Technology Pilots and Trials

2. Airworthiness

3. All Applicable Scientific Services

4. Blockchain

5. Data Sciences

6. Developmental Testing

7. Existing Product or Process Updates

8. Information Assurance

9. Innovation

10. Joint Test and Evaluation

11. New Product or Process Development

12. Quality Checks

13. Product or Process Enhancement

14. Prototyping

15. Regulatory Compliance

16. Test and Evaluation

17. Verification and Validation

C.3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND NON-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Information Technology (IT), by legal definition, means any equipment, or interconnected system(s) or subsystem(s) of equipment that is used for the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the agency. For purposes of this contract, equipment is used by an agency if the equipment is used by the agency directly or is used by a Contractor under a contract with the agency that require its use; or to a significant extent, its use in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product.

IT is considered an ancillary support service or product on ASTRO task orders and may be performed only when the service or product is integral and necessary to complete a total integrated solution under a requirement within the scope of ASTRO.

“Non-IT” includes any service or equipment that is acquired by a Contractor incidental to a contract or contains imbedded IT that is used as an integral part of the service or product, but the principal function of which is not the acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information. (For example, HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) equipment, such as thermostats or temperature control devices, and medical equipment where IT is integral to its operation, is non-IT).

Non-IT also includes any equipment or services related to a National Security System. The term “National Security System” means a telecommunications or information system operated by the Federal Government, the function, operation, or use of which involves intelligence activities, cryptologic activities related to national security, command and control of military forces, equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or weapons system; or, is critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions, not including a system to be used for routine administrative and business applications (including payroll, finance, logistics, and personnel management applications).

Non-IT may include imbedded IT components including software, IT hardware, and other items and services traditionally considered IT on IT requirements.

Non-IT services and equipment may or may not be considered ancillary, depending on circumstances.

C.4. ANCILLARY SUPPORT SERVICES

Ancillary support services are services that, on their own, are not within the scope of ASTRO. However, these services are allowed to be included in ASTRO Task Orders when they are integral and necessary to complete a total integrated solution under a requirement within the scope of ASTRO.

Ancillary support services may include, but are not limited to professional and/or non-professional services; commercial and/or non-commercial items; IT services and/or components; administrative support; data entry; and subject matter expertise.

The OCO may allow and the Contractor may propose a labor category or labor categories at the task order level not identified in Section J.1., provided that the Contractor complies with all applicable contract clauses and labor laws, including the Service Contract Act or the Davis Bacon Act, if applicable.

C.4.1. Information Technology Ancillary Support Services When providing ancillary support in the form of IT services and/or components, the Contractor shall promote IT initiatives and best practices that support Federal Government operational requirements for standardized technology and application service components. This shall facilitate integration requirements for broad Federal IT and E-Gov initiatives, as well as promote the sharing, consolidation, and re-use of business processes and systems across the Federal Government. The Contractor shall promote the use of open source solutions and open technology development where practicable to enable this re-use.

C. 5. Ancillary Support Products Ancillary support products are defined as any product deemed to be integral and necessary to complete a total integrated solution under a requirement within the scope of ASTRO. Ordering activities are authorized to include products in their requirements so long as the products are required for the performance of the services being ordered.

C.6. FORBIDDEN SERVICES

The Contractor shall not accept or perform work for the following services:

1. Inherently Governmental Functions as defined in FAR Subpart 2.101 For the purposes of this contract, any action that directly and actively engages in the intentional destruction or disabling of enemy personnel or property is considered an Inherently Governmental Function. For example, UAS Mitigation services (the act of defeating an enemy UAS) are considered Inherently Governmental Functions. However, support services like UAS detection and tracking are not considered Inherently Governmental Functions and may be performed under this contract.

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