Att 1 RFI - Campaign Modeling and Simulation Tool(s) for USCG Fleet Force Design.pdf

Request for Information (RFI)

Campaign Modeling & Simulation Tool(s) in support of United States Coast Guard Fleet Force Design

NOTE: THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is issued solely for information and market research planning purposes. This RFI shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government. This is NOT a Request for Quotations or Proposals.

No solicitation document exists, and the Government may or may not issue a formal solicitation as a result of the responses received to this RFI.

The Government will not pay for any response or demonstration expenses. All costs incurred responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party's expense. Failure to respond to this RFI will not preclude participation in any future solicitation. Any information received will become the property of the Government and will not be returned to the submitter. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or sensitive information.

The Government’s explicit intent, in this RFI, is to not receive from respondents any proprietary data, trade secrets, business sensitive information, or information considered CONFIDENTIAL under 18 U.S.C. §1905. The Government’s constraint does not in any way relieve contractors from their responsibility to properly mark proprietary data when it is provided, nor does it alleviate any requirement for the Government to protect marked data. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data.

The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government.

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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is issuing this Request For Information (RFI) in order to better understand the current marketplace, solicit additional information and search for possible alternative solutions for an upcoming requirement. This is NOT a solicitation and is only intended as an RFI.

United States Coast Guard Overview The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is part of the Department of Homeland Security team protecting America and one of the six military services and part of the joint force defending it. For over 234 years, the American people have depended on the Coast Guard as an instrument of national power to assure our economic prosperity and national security. With its people, ships, aircraft, boats, and technology, the Coast Guard controls the U.S. border and maritime approaches, protects America’s Ports and Waterways, and conducts military operations to defend the Nation every day. The Coast Guard also maintains the flow of maritime commerce to ensure America’s economic prosperity, enforces federal law, leads in national emergencies, and saves lives.

USCG Fleet Analysis Overview The Coast Guard plans to expand its current campaign-level modeling & simulation (M&S) toolset to support long-term fleet design and inform the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process. USCG will use these tool(s) to conduct campaign-level M&S of

Coast Guard Planning Scenarios (CGPS) (akin to Defense Planning Scenarios) supporting the design of future fleets beyond current Programs of Record (POR).

USCG currently uses Coast Guard Maritime Operational Effectiveness Simulation (CGMOES) as its primary campaign M&S tool. CGMOES uses the underlying code of the Naval Simulation System (NSS).

Fleet Analysis Objectives The USCG will build an authoritative and accepted tool(s) to evaluate USCG campaign-level M&S analysis. The fleet design tool(s) will:

A. Leverage Coast Guard Planning Scenarios (CGPS);

B. Utilize existing campaign frameworks, methods, and databases for analyzing Coast

Guard operations;

C. Expand the use of current Coast Guard campaign M&S tools; and D. Build upon the established cooperative and collaborative relationships for the development of analytical frameworks and M&S between the USCG and peer organizations in Navy (N81), OSD (CAPE), Air Force (SAF), United States Marine

E. Corps, Army (Center for Army Analysis), and others.

RFI Overview A. RFI Target Audience

a. This Request for Information (RFI) seeks vendors with experience implementing campaign-level M&S tool(s) for US military fleet design, supporting planning scenarios and fleet design or DoD or equivalent civilian efforts (surface, aviation, space assets, cyber, etc.).

B. RFI Objectives:

a. Identify state of the market campaign M&S tools to analyze future Coast Guard fleet design and model fleet performance.

b. Identify business partners that could support development, sustainment or operation of a modern fleet design toolset.

c. Identify operational and sustainment costs associated with a state of the market campaign M&S toolset.

d. Identify business partners and best practices for creating campaign M&S development roadmaps, employing rigorous agile software engineering processes and procedures that incorporate analytically driven enhancements to existing tools without compromising the conceptual model’s integrity;

i. Ability to, or ability to modify source code to, ingest/integrate digital asset models in SysML format; and

ii. Ability to output campaign M&S results data to business intelligence tools.

e. Identify and implement a strategy to develop, deploy, operate, and maintain campaign-level M&S tool(s) providing the greatest overall benefit to the USCG future fleet design efforts.

f. Identify best practices to support recurring planning, programming, and budgeting of USCG fleet design efforts for a Coast Guard fleet operating in the mid 2040’s.

g. Identify collaborative partnerships and with DoD, DHS, and other government agencies using current, validated for government use campaign-level M&S tools is highly encouraged.

C. Fleet Design Toolset Requirements:

a. Campaign M&S tool(s) shall be owned and operated by the USCG. Operation of the tool, input files, and simulation data shall operate on commercially available hardware and operating systems without the need for an proprietary support, equipment or licensing.

b. M&S tool(s) support for development, sustainment, and operation will be available for at least 8 years.

Instructions to Respondents Respondents to this notice are asked to provide a Point of Contact (POC) with an accompanying job title, company name and department, email address, and telephone number so that the Government team can follow-up with additional questions, if required. All responses MUST be submitted electronically (phone calls will not be accepted) directly to the Acquisition Technical Director no later than 4pm Eastern Time (ET) on July 15, 2025, to the following email:

AcquisitionTechnicalDirector@uscg.onmicrosoft.com

Interested parties are requested to address the following items in their response:

A. What M&S tool(s) does your firm have experience with that you believe would meet the needs of the United States Coast Guard?

B. How would the USCG campaign M&S tools fit within your company’s business strategy and corporate capabilities?

C. Has your company developed, deployed, and maintained campaign-level modeling and simulation tool(s) and/or capabilities for DoD or civilian organizations?

D. What information or details would your company need in a Request for Proposal (RFP) to submit a proposal for sustainment and/or operation of an existing tool?

E. What information or details would your company need in a Request for Proposal (RFP) to submit a proposal for development of a new campaign tool for USCG?

F. Are there specific processes or requirements industry will need to have in place to develop, deploy, operate, and maintain campaign M&S tool(s)?

G. What considerations should the Government provide to ensure that configuration and quality control are able to be established and updated for all software, middleware, and hardware assets that are directly used by the fleet design and campaign M&S tool(s)?

H. What considerations should the Government provide to ensure that the fleet design tools are cost-effective, scalable, and flexible to accommodate future changes and enhancements?

I. What contract structure do you recommend for continued tool sustainment, modification and operation versus ad-hoc improvement and issue support?

J. Are there any opportunities that you would recommend the Government explore to source campaign-level modeling and simulation tool(s)? It is anticipated that a high level of subject matter and technical expertise on the DoD, USCG, and DHS operational environment will be required.

K. USCG currently operates the campaign level analysis tools at the UNCLASS security level. How would operation and sustainment of a tool at the SECRET or higher-level effect your ability to support development or sustainment requirements?