ATF TAK server Draft PWS 3-4-2025.pdf

Draft Performance Work Statement

Statement of Objectives

ATF

Team Awareness Kit Server for Field Operations

Mission: The mission at ATF is to ensure the safety of American communities by combating violent crime. To accomplish this mission, the ATF employs approximately 5,000 personnel, including approximately 2,400 operational special agents and professional staff that require situational awareness tools.

Background: A few years ago, the ATF recognized the need to integrate Team Awareness Kit (TAK) into our day-to-day operations, as it provided an unmatched situational awareness capability. TAK Servers were added to connect isolated teams and to federate with other government agencies. ATF currently manages two servers in AWS Govcloud to include a TAK 4.3 instance on RHEL 7 and TAK 4.8 instance on RHEL 8 servers. All subscribers are on Android-based EUDs.

Performance Objectives: ATF is looking for professional support services in a multitude of areas from a company with exceptional past performance and subject matter expertise to collaborate with ATF and develop a solution that supports the unique mission of ATF. The professional services support and development listed below are not all inclusive.

1. Engineer a new or upgrade existing on on-prem or cloud-based TAK Server architecture, which can support the following:

a. 2,500 total users and up to 1000 simultaneous Users

b. Must allow for up to 30 individual channels, groups, sub-groups, and Interop channel groups to ensure secure data isolation of ATF’s field and operational divisions.

c. Incorporates necessary updates to newer and compatible versions of TAK, plugins and software patches.

d. Must be hosted in ATF’s accredited Gov-Cloud environment or on-prem solution.

e. Incorporates LDAP and/or username and password authentication with ATF’s network services.

f. Must allow for integration of video streaming from a multitude of sources, such as RTSP streams, HDMI-out from video viewer devices.

g. Must allow for integration with remote sensors such as game cameras and motion detectors.

h. Must allow federation with other government agency TAK servers through federation hub.

i. Must meet ATO standards.

j. Must support ATAK/iTAK/winTAK applications.

2. Engineer a software solution for incorporating ATF’s administration services:

a. Engineer a TAK API for:

i. Administration/MDM Portals.

3. Provide a technical information for the following:

a. TAK Server training

b. Technical support

c. (OPTION) Long term maintenance of custom plugins and server solutions.