Attachment 04 Mission Engineering TO01 Seed Task.pdf

RETS IDIQ T0 0001

Mission Engineering Seed Task

Purpose: USD (R&E) requires mission engineering, analysis, and integration expertise to produce objective insights and analytic justification to inform future technology and capability investment decisions within the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Execution (PPBE) process and aid in the prioritization, alignment and validation of requirements within Joint Capabilities Integration and

Development System (JCIDS) to deliver modernized capabilities that enable an all domain joint force aligned with future Joint Warfighting Concepts.

Scope:

A. Mission Integration Management - The contractor shall develop, manage, and maintain mission engineering capabilities. This effort includes:

1. Mission Engineering Activity Coordination & Planning – The contractor shall develop and maintain a network of mission engineering points of contact within the Department to facilitate communication and integration of mission engineering activities. The contractor shall canvass the community to establish and maintain a list, schedule, and USD(R&E) engagement strategy for ongoing and future mission engineering studies and activities across the Department.

2. Stakeholder Integration - The contractor shall support engagement and integration of mission engineering activities across a range of stakeholders and customers. Integration activities involve: reviewing stakeholder artifacts and staff packages, meeting preparation for government officials, participating and representing USD(R&E) interests in meetings, monitoring and reporting on external activities, sharing USD(R&E) mission engineering products, integrating plans, and soliciting input for USD(R&E) mission engineering activities.

Integration venues and anticipated workload include:

i. Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) – participate in up to four working level meetings per week, prepare government officials for one to two meetings per week, review and prepare recommendations for up to four JCIDS documents per month, and provide input and review of CBAs.

ii. Joint Force Integration Cell (JFIC) - participate in three to four working level meetings per week, prepare government officials for one to two meetings per week, track four supporting concepts groups, review and prepare recommendations for up to two associated Joint Warfighting Concepts documents per month.

iii. Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) – participate in three to four JADC2 working meetings per week, provide weekly highlights to government officials, assist with development of talking points / info papers to senior R&E leadership.

iv. Wargaming / Table Top Exercises (TTX) – Support the development of joint CONOPs / CONEMPS to include participating in one workshop event per month; assist with scenario development and technology/capability content; attend exercises and help develop AARs / POAMs to address findings/results – assess impact to plans, policies, strategy, procedures and incorporate outcomes into mission engineering analysis.

v. Service / COCOM Engagement – participate in two meetings per month to understand/coordinate Services and COCOMs mission engineering requirements;

work with COCOMs to understand and discuss submitted integrated priority lists

vi. Industry Engagement – support the government officials with one or two industry engagements per month to discuss mission engineering; help prepare government officials for six conferences / symposium and/or division meetings per year hosted by military/industrial associations.

vii. USD(R&E) Modernization Assistant Directors (AD) – Engage with ADs on a periodic basis to understand and help develop their technology roadmaps; determine ways how mission engineering can support ADs with future gap/tradeoff analysis and studies and align mission analysis plans.

3. Government Reference Architecture – the contactor shall develop, maintain, and curate government reference architectures used to communicate and guide analysis efforts, document and communicate results, and set the basis for subsequent engineering and prototyping activities. The contractor shall support Red Team activities used to validate each

GRA.

4. Knowledge Management Data Base – the contractor shall develop, maintain, curate, and administer access for the content of a cloud-based knowledge management system.

Content includes models, architectures, and other mission engineering artifacts.

5. Graphics/Presentation and Visualization products – the contractor shall produce presentation material on mission engineering artifacts as required and develop and maintain a visualization capability to communicate mission engineering products.

6. Mission Engineering War Room – the contractor shall populate and maintain a mission engineering workspace in the Mark Center for the purposes of interfacing and communicating with the government customer and stakeholders on planning activities, mission design, and mission engineering products. The contractor shall ensure the war room has access all products created or maintained under this task.

7. Mission Engineering Guide – the contractor shall develop and refine the content/material used to explain the “Mission Engineering” concept, and how it can be used to support the requirements of the services.

8. Digital Engineering – the contractor shall understand the fundamental enablers that digital engineering can provide to support Mission Engineering activities. The contract will ensure that digital engineering/modeling and simulations tools are available and used when required during mission analyses to synchronize and validate impacts of system changes on the mission.

9. Chief Engineer Support – the contractor shall coordinate and support a weekly Mission Engineering team meeting – collect input from team members to track action items and status of projects. The contractor shall assist government lead with Weekly Activity Report (WAR) feedback, and responses to USD (R&E) front office and congressional tasks.

B. Mission Engineering and Analysis - The contractor shall construct, manage, and conduct discrete mission engineering and analysis study tasks to evaluate the efficacy of legacy architectures and new technologies and capabilities applied in new mission concepts of employment to meet evolving joint mission objectives. The contactor shall produce a comprehensive mission blueprint that documents and communicates the ways and means to achieve the recommended joint mission solution and the analytic justification for the value it provides. The contractor shall conduct three mission engineering and analysis study tasks. Each study effort includes:

1. Study Planning –The contractor shall develop a study plan for government approval that establishes:

Mission context, mission objectives, and system boundaries and constraints

Mission level MOEs, MOPs, and TPMs as mission success criteria

Study approach and schedule

Stakeholders, teaming approach, and external data, previous analysis results, model, and simulation needs

2. Concept Exploration and Alternative Solution Development – The contractor shall work with the Joint Staff, to explore new concepts of employment, and research labs and the modernization communities and use critical thinking to explore and develop alternative and innovative solutions for study.

3. Mission and Scenario Characterization – The contractor shall develop and coordinate a study framework for stakeholder coordination and government approval that guides the study and establishes:

Mission scenarios / vignettes

Red force definitions, and environments

Blue force alternatives under study

Assumptions and constraints on mission, blue force and red force employments

Analytic methods, and necessary virtual elements to establish the analytic baseline

4. Analysis and Synthesis – The contractor shall develop/acquire models and data, and use simulations to analyze the performance of legacy and alternative solutions against mission success criteria. Outputs will show the value and efficacy of alternative and preferred solutions in terms of measures of mission effectiveness, return on investment in terms of cost, schedule and performance, and identify key findings, sensitivities, and areas of future study.

5. Mission Blueprint – The contractor shall develop a mission blueprint that documents the recommended approach to accomplish joint warfighter mission objectives consisting of:

1. Mission, concept of employment, and description of the complete to-be architecture

2. Analytic results that demonstrate the performance of the complete architecture in meeting mission objectives and return on investment beyond competing alternatives

3. The programmatic plans for the architectural elements which include an integrated schedule and investments adjustments needed to achieve the architecture for all involved systems

4. Engineering-level architecture products that include digital models and data to enable the necessary changes in the capability and affected systems, identify system interfaces and requirements to inform a more integrated joint requirements process, and support the development of architecture standards needed to achieve the architecture

6. Communicating Results – The contractor shall prepare executive summaries and briefings of the study outcomes and present results to stakeholder. The contractor shall also present the findings in a computational tool of choice that shows the salient features of the results.

7. Archiving Results – The contractor shall document and deliver all study results in a government-defined format on a cloud-based knowledge management database.

Key Skills and Expertise: The contractor shall maintain the ability to access personnel with the following key skills and expertise to execute activates within this task.

A. Analysts/Engineers with demonstrated experience and capability to:

1. Structure, design, and manage engagement and campaign level analyses

2. Digitally model and execute simulations to analyze end-to-end weapon system fire control chains, sensor and communication networks, weapons effects, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance system support

3. Formulate and execute operations research analysis

4. Estimate materiel solutions and operations cost

5. Characterize and digitally model threat systems and their effects

6. Perform analytical computation functions, perform mission, gap, risk, and sensitivity analyses

B. Subject matter expertise in technologies; system capabilities, performance, and operations; and joint force operations, including:

1. Joint force application and integration, concepts of employment, concepts of operations, and operational constraints

2. Land, sea, air, and space platforms

3. Offensive, defensive, kinetic and directed energy weapons from all domains

4. Sensors for ISR and fire control

5. Cyberwarfare

6. Communication networks;

7. Electromagnetic Spectrum Management – to include EW and 5G

8. Automation applications

9. Command, Control, and Battle Management

10. Fires – close air support, long range fires, targeting, air and missile defense

Key Personnel: The contractor shall identify and maintain the following key personnel for the life of the task:

A. Task Order Project Manager B. Mission Analysis Lead (Senior Engineer) C. Mission Architect (Senior Engineer) D. Stakeholder Integrator (Senior Engineer) E. Force Operations Subject Matter Expert (SME I) F. Technology and Capabilities Subject Matter Expert (SME III) G. Operations Research and System Analysis Lead (Analyst/Operations Research)

Deliverables:

A. Management

1. Mission engineering community map (initial ATP + 30 days, updates monthly)

2. Integrated mission engineering activity forecast (initial ATP+ 30 days, updates monthly)

3. Activity and accomplishment report (weekly)

B. Per Study

1. Draft study plan for government approval (ATP+ 10 days)

2. Study architecture framework for stakeholder approval (ATP +30 days )

3. Interim Results (per study plan)

4. Final Study Report (at completion)

5. Digital tool chain description (Integration of tools, ver # & data flows)

6. Results demonstration (at interim results delivery and final report delivery)

7. Briefing Presentations (per study plan)

8. Mission Blueprint (draft as per study plan, final at completion)

C. Contract resources and artifacts

1. At government request upon contract completion, the contractor shall transfer all tools, licenses, computer resources, data and artifacts produced or acquired under this contract to the government.

Place of Performance: The contractor shall supply all facility, workspace, and computing resources up to TS/TK/SCI needed to accomplish the task independent of government facilities. Contractor shall maintain a facility located in the proximity of the Pentagon/Mark Center with walking access to public transportation that allows transport between facilities nominally within 30 minutes. The contractor will maintain a dedicated video teleconference capability up to Secret level across all workspaces under this contract. The government will furnish the facilities, workspace and computing resources for the mission engineering war room in the Mark Center that will include up to five hot desks, and limited hot desk access in the Pentagon for use by the contractor. The government may require daily or persistent presence of Key Personnel within the Mark Center or Pentagon spaces to facilitate interaction with government customers and stakeholders.

Travel: Contractor travel is required to perform the tasking of the PWS. Contractor trip reports shall be provided within 5 days of travel and shall summarize the purpose, activities and work performed.

Licenses: Contractor may be required to procure software licenses for tools to perform the tasking of the PWS.

Period of Performance: One year

Schedule: The contractor shall maintain the mission engineering capability over the period of performance. Within the period of performance, the contractor shall complete each of the three discrete study tasks within 5 months. No more than two individual study tasks will substantially overlap one another at any given time.