Attachment 1 - Statement of Work.pdf

MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY

RIDGE COLLEGE OF INTELLIGENCE STUDIES AND APPLIED SCIENCE

For the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC)

2nd Space Analysis Squadron (2 SAS) Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-5648

I. BACKGROUND

NSIC’s mission is to deliver game-Changning intelligence and unmatched technical expertise to empower national leaders, joint force warfighters, and acquisition professionals to dominate in the space domain. NSIC is the Nation’s Space Intelligence center – providing Progressive, Predictive, and Pioneering intelligence to outwit, out-reach and WIN in the space domain; Protecting America and its allies in Space now and into the future. The 2nd Space Analysis Squadron’s mission is to produce and deliver foundational intelligence on foreign threats to space operations to achieve national security objectives.

II. OBJECTIVES

The Contractor shall meet the following objectives:

a) Provide unclassified/open-source research and analysis on key intelligence questions identified by customer Principal Intelligence Analysts. Each task shall be comprised of a single overall intelligence questions which may contain multiple related sub-topics.

1) Student teams will evaluate the customer’s proposed intelligence topics and develop research and analysis strategies and a Terms of Reference for each topic.

2) Topics will generally focus on identifying one or more of the following:

foreign plans, programs, capabilities, forecasts, strategy, doctrine, intent, perceptions, reactions, redlines, thresholds for escalation, relative to identified US DoD, civil and/or commercial capabilities, institutions, published plans and programs.

3) Utilize open-source/Publicly Available Information (PAI) research/collection methods and intelligence analysis tradecraft including the capability to properly conduct managed attribution. Open-source shall include international media outlets.

4) Methodologies: Utilizing a variety of intelligence tradecraft Structured Analytic Techniques (SAT), produce estimative intelligence products and briefings to meet the needs of customers. Assessed indicators will include political, social, technological, and economic factors.

5) Analytic Products shall adhere to Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs).

6) The contractor will include a full list of sources utilized for analysis products.

7) Assemble written product, spreadsheets and briefing materials utilizing standard intelligence production methods.

8) Participants will be current on Intelligence Oversight Training, and research will be conducted in accordance with DODM 5240.1.

b) Utilize university faculty to provide periodic, classroom-based instruction on structured analytic techniques to NSIC analysts within NSIC facilities.

III. TASKS

Specifically, the Contractor will provide:

a) Written product booklet

1) PowerPoint presentation by analyst team

2) Geographic and GEOINT representations (if applicable)

3) Charts, graphs, spreadsheets and other supporting graphics

4) List of sources

Deliverables will be provided directly to NSIC and will not be publicly posted by the university or NSIC.

b) Classroom-based instruction to NSIC intelligence analysts focused on Structured Analytic Techniques.