Attachment 2 - EIBSC DRAFT Performance Work Statement (PWS).docx

Attachment 1

PWS

2026 Contract Version 1.2 Performance Work Statement (PWS) For HQ AFMC/A4N Enterprise Integration Branch (EIB) Logistics Information Technology and Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Date: 26 August 2024

PWS 2026 V1.2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2.1 Data Management

2.2 Enterprise and Integration Branch (EIB) Liaison

2.3 Governance Management………………………………………………………………………………... 9

2.4 IT Security and IT/Data Security

2.22 Authoritative Data Source Service

8.0 CONTRACTING OFFICER REPRESENTATIVE 44

9.0 CONTRACT DATA REQUIREMENTS LIST.…………………………………………………44

10.0 ACROYNMS ……………………………………………………………………………………. 45

1.0 BACKGROUND

Headquarters (HQ) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) is continuously reengineering and transforming its logistics businesses processes, systems and organizational structures as part of the broader Department of Defense (DoD) effort to better support the Warfighter. The AFMC Logistics, Civil Engineering, Force Protection, and Nuclear Integration directorate (AFMC A4/10) seeks to continue work stream integration efforts that support core Air Force Logistics, Civil Engineering and Force Protection (AF A4 Enterprise) and AFMC information technology (IT) functions as well as promote transformative initiatives. These initiatives are designed to simplify management and deliver enhanced warfighting capability to the AF Chief Data Officer (AF CDO), the Logistics Domain Data Officer (A4 LDDO), the AF A4 Enterprise, AFMC and functional customers.

The AFMC/A4/10 Systems Integration Division (AFMC/A4N) is reengineering the AF A4 Enterprise (as defined by the AF A4 Data Strategy) to become a data-driven organization that transforms data to increase operational agility for positioning of forces, supporting the Great Power Competition (GPC), maintaining a secure supply chain, and global and joint resource allocation and adjudication for the next fight. AFMC/A4N will manage the transformation and sustainment of effective, efficient enterprise systems capable of supporting expeditionary, net-centric operations; manage the strategic alignment of logistics business systems and logistics processes to equip and enable current and future force support. This effort will provide AFMC/A4N with the functional and technical resources required to successfully provide enterprise architecture (EA) and centralized data management (DM) for the AF A4 Enterprise Domain.

The Enterprise Integration Branch (AFMC/A4NE) has been charged, by the A4 Data Strategy to lead the AF A4 Enterprise by ensuring standardization throughout the enterprise, processes, procedures, new IT tools and measurements, standards; as well as overall DM needs throughout the Logistics IT enterprise. This support will provide for the system engineering and professional services required to (1) establish, execute, and sustain an integrated EA and DM processes, standards, tools, and metrics, (2) provide support for data analytics tools and services, and (3) assist IT legacy and capability initiatives with EA and DM needs.

Because of the highly technical nature of modernizing the AF A4 Enterprise IT domain, skilled contractor support is required to provide the skills necessary to successfully enable and integrate EA, DM, analytics and future transformational objectives. The focus is on modern IT and related AF data systems and support that is required to enable legacy remediation and potential modernization and/or replacement with specific emphasis on EA and DM. Proposed new ideas and indicative’s that can be used to support the LDDO’s.

AFMC A4NE envisions a near-term future in which there are increasing mission demands to:

Support rapid, effective decision-making, using VAULTIS (visible, accessible, understood, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure) data available by means of dramatically expanded data-sharing capabilities, enabled by robust tools and various services in a data environment Deliver the architectural products and services to ensure portfolio management decisions directly support strategic outcomes required by AF leadership.

1.1 SCOPE

This effort supports the AF A4 Enterprise, consisting of Logistics, Security Forces and Civil Engineering across all AF Major Commands (MAJCOMs). This effort includes providing support to the Logistics portfolio. This support will provide for the systems engineering and professional services required to establish, execute, and sustain an integrated EA and DM team, analytics for legacy and transformational capability initiatives.

This requirement supports the A4 CDO, and the A4 Data Strategy which focuses on achieving the goal of making data VAULTIS to outpace adversaries and enhance operational agility to meet current and future operating needs across the AF A4 Enterprise. The AF A4 CDO, is charged with leading responsibility to ensure enterprise processes, standardized IT tools and measurements, as well as overall DM is consistent throughout the AFMC Logistics IT enterprise.

This effort requires a wide range of support services to AFMC/A4N, to more efficiently and effectively support the following work streams:

· EA Support and Sustainment

· Reference Architecture Support and Sustainment

· Enterprise DM Support and Sustainment

· DM Support and Sustainment

· Execution Services

· Infrastructure Support

· Data, Business and/or System Analytics This requirement is for continuation of support for the AFMC/A4NE DM and EA teams. The requirement supports executing the AF A4 Data Strategy across the AF A4 Enterprise, the implementation of the AF/A4 LDDO roles and responsibilities; and maintains alignment with the SAF/CO Data Strategy. This requirement supports execution of the EA strategy outlined in public law, DoD, and AF policies and regulations. This requirement provides support for the Enterprise Architecture (EA) services for the AFMC/A4 portfolio.

The work streams indicated herein require DM/IT/EA professionals and engineering services at both the programmatic and enterprise level, to include DoD, MAJCOM, Centers, and other entities.

The Contractor shall support the Government’s effort to integrate and coordinate all activities needed to execute this effort successfully. The Contractor shall be responsible for maximizing the timeliness and quality of problem identification, risk/issue mitigation, corrective action plans, prompt and accurate identification of controversial issues, and maintaining the professional and ethical behavior of contracted employees. The Contractor shall only provide personnel that can accomplish the assigned work by employing and utilizing qualified personnel with appropriate combinations of education, training and experience.

The EIB execution services include providing support to execute, implement, or apply Data Management and Enterprise Architecture principles, functions and activities across the Logistics Domain.

1.2 OBJECTIVE

The objective of this effort is to acquire a full range of systems engineering, architectural and professional services required to establish and execute an integrated EA and enterprise DM strategy to achieve the goals and objectives of the AF/A4 Data Strategy and the EA team. The EA team has a goal to standardize all architectural information for the AF A4 Enterprise capabilities (products/services) using Laws/Regulations/Policies (LRP), an approved Logistics Reference Architecture and Reference models (logistics business, application, data, infrastructure, and security architectures), providing architectural professional services – across its operational systems, capability initiatives, modernizations/enhancements, and concept discovery. The architectural information will be used to perform technical/business risk assessments to enable key leadership decisions across the AF/A4 portfolio involving cost, schedule, performance, and business/technical risk reduction.

The focus is to assist AF A4 Enterprise systems in achieving DM and EA objectives by consulting, creating/updating processes, performing, and sustaining DM and EA efforts, as defined by Government policies and procedures. This effort will need to sustain data integrity and enable system integration in accordance with (IAW) DoD, AF, AF CDO, A4 LDDO and Command directives.

Support is required to assist in the development, implementation and sustainment of policies, procedures, standards, and metrics throughout the data lifecycle, to include how data is defined, shared, stored, protected, retrieved, and purged. Support for the Enterprise data quality requirements so that data used for decision-making is relevant, accurate, complete, timely, and consistent. Support is required for creating and sustaining end to end IT solutions, to include cloud solutions for migration strategies, hosting solutions, and security solutions.

2.0 REQUIREMENTS / DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC TASKS

The Contractor shall perform the following tasks:

· Perform technical investigation and analysis to create processes, procedures and standardization of documentation

· Plan, coordinate, facilitate and provide input at Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) with A4NE and appropriate system technical and functional subject matter experts (SMEs)

· Accept all customer request for data and any related questions pertained to that data for all LogIT systems. This will include architectural information, authoritative data sources, etc. The contractor will track these requests and provide status on the various requests until properly closed

· Provide guidance to the AF A4 Enterprise community on commercially approved standard processes, procedures and governances, and recommend industry best practices as requested by the Government

· Develop and maintain a schedule of deliverables and provide metrics on the services provided and status of ongoing activities

· The AFMC/A4NE efforts must have methods to measure success of its mission. An approach will be developed to ensure each of the objectives are measured and controlled.

· Provide support to assist in responding to taskers

· Communication - written and verbal in a professional manner

· Support data preparation requirements

· Establish, test, and operate data transformation between stakeholders and customers

· Work with service leads to create standard processes to gather migration/transformation requirements from customers to include transformation, validation, and error handling rules

· All positions within this PWS shall ensure compliance with appropriate DoD, AF, and local policy guidance and directives

· Support DOD and AF initiatives as requested by the Government

· Provide support for Ingesting data from various Logistics IT systems

· Assist AFMC/A4N to manage architectural information and manage data as an asset

· Designs, presents and administers integrated solutions, architecture, strategies, policies and standards

· Plans, organizes, manages the execution of the DM and LogIT EA functions

· Ensures functional & technical efforts are integrated and in sync with timelines and activities

· Collaborates with cross-functional teams and customers to ensure compliance with business & operational processes and define, design and deliver technology requirements, enhancements, and solutions

· Publish and provide guidance to the Logistics community on Government approved standard processes and governances

· Organize material and completes writing assignment according to set AF standards (AF Tongue and Quill) regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, terminology, correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling The Contractor shall apply integration, communication, coordination, organizational and planning expertise to technical and program efforts across a broad spectrum of functional disciplines in order to effectively implement program direction.

The Contractor shall ensure continuity of operations during periods of personnel turnover and long- term absences. Long-term absences are considered those longer than one week in duration.

2.1 Data Management

AFMC/A4N is actively taking a larger role in centralized Logistics data management and stewardship. Support is required to assist in the management and performance of data lifecycle requirements to ensure attainment and sustainment of desired data integrity for AF logistics systems. Support of DM processes, procedures, governance and enforcement are more stable efforts; whereas performance of technical tasks is a more dynamic workload and thus requires flexibility.

· Assist in developing and identifying data warehousing and business intelligence business needs at the local level and for the business intelligence portfolio

2.2 Enterprise and Integration Branch (EIB) Liaison

The Contractor shall support the role of liaison for the A4N and A4NE Directors to drive standardization and efficiency.

The contractor shall perform the following:

· Support the Enterprise Integration Branch’s DM and Architecture operations as required by the various projects

· Monitor, analyze, develop and maintain business analytic, such as EA reports associated with the development, production, demonstration, operation, exercise, and sustainment of logistics Information Management (IM) and IT systems and processes

· Collaborate with AF management and stakeholders to evaluate PfM issues

· Research and analyze new IT tools which would benefit the various AF A4N PfM programs

· Support EA development (such as operational views, system views, and technical views)

· Prepare presentations conveying the A4N Enterprise requirements for various working groups and related meetings as required

· Provide management support to processes including evaluating portfolios, recommending functional mapping to EAs, business case analysis, migration planning, refinement of functional taxonomies, and integrating with legacy systems

· Monitor the transformation progress programs within other agencies and industry and notify A4N leaders of potential pitfalls and opportunities for improvement in the implementation and planning process

· Assist with system and process analysis on portfolios of systems to identify capability duplication, define impact of consolidations, and assess mission impact of consolidations

· Support out-of-cycle and ad-hoc analysis of portfolio characteristics (system, process)

· Work closely with the Organizational Change Manager to ensure uniformity of change throughout the AF A4 Enterprise as opportunities arise

· Deliver as requested by the Government, findings reports and briefings with recommendations

2.3 Governance Management

· Knowledge of business models, roles and responsibilities (to include hierarchies and stewardship models), policies and best practices

· Ability to work with the technical development team to ensure the governance and the technical requirements are aligned

The Contractor shall:

· Provide specialized support in managing the governance decision-making process between all internal and external stakeholders

· Create and maintain governance to support the development, operation, and sustainment of policies, procedures, processes, and standards, that must continue to align with DoD/AF/Logistics policy

· Work with external and internal stakeholders and customers to assist in the development and compliance of local governance

· Assess, develop, communicate, and implement principles, procedures, process, metrics, tools, and responsibilities

· Monitor and guide policy compliance for architectural information, data usage and management activities

· Monitor and ensure regulatory compliance with DoD/ AF/ AF CDO/ A4 LDDO and other related regulations, to include DoD policies,

· Support implementation of the Data Stewardship Framework for the Logistics Domain to include identification of the Data Stewards and provide training as needed

· Maintain and identify process improvements for the Logistics data governance process.

· Draft new governance or process improvements for Government approval

· Assist with implementation and maintenance of Data Governance tracking processes

· Perform data management assessment activities associated with the Logistics IT Change Control Process and Authoritative Data Source (ADS) identification.

· Maintain and update the documented processes at a minimum annually

2.4 IT Security and IT/Data Security

Data Security Management is the collection of policies, processes, and technical measures that assure data assets are made available to consumers who are authorized access to it, and, conversely, protected from access by unauthorized individuals. Data Security Management involves identifying the assets, threats, vulnerabilities, and taking protective measures, which if not done may lead to unintended use of computing systems.

The Contractor shall support Functional IT Security for Logistics information system security activities. This specialized security performance shall:

· Lead the development and implementation of security requirements/policies across the A4N mission to include data/information management, architecture, IT enablement support, compliance and program management

· Provide current expert knowledge on IT security with regards to current AF cybersecurity policy, guidance, processes, and procedures, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad

· Provide current expert knowledge on Information Assurance activities described in DoD 8570.01-M and Air Force Instruction (AFI) 33-285

· Provide support for planning, implementation, management of Risk Management Framework (RMF) tasks IAW AFI 17-101. Assist in achieving and maintaining Authority to Operate (ATO), Authority to Connect (ATC), and Certification & Accreditation (C&A)

· Provide expert knowledge/skill in applying IT operations and service management principles, methods, techniques, and procedures, particularly those related to secure operations and maintenance of systems, e.g., access control, audit and accountability, secure configuration management, physical and environmental protection, information security, system protection and information integrity

· Advise on applying a wide range of IT security principles, methods, techniques, and procedures related to access control; application development; contingency planning; governance and risk management; laws, regulations, and compliance; networking security; information security; and secure systems operations and maintenance

2.5 Document, Content and Communication Management

Document management encompasses the processes, techniques, and technologies for controlling and organizing documents and records throughout their lifecycle. It includes storage, inventory, and control, for both electronic and paper documents. Content management incudes the processes, techniques, and technologies for organizing, categorizing, and structuring information resources so that they can be stored, published, and reused in multiple ways. Communication Management team is responsible to communicate the A4 LDDO and AFMC/A4NE vision, purpose, and status to senior leadership, internal and external stakeholders and customers. This is done by creating content about the organization, including but not limited to, key messaging, reports, speaking points, white papers, blog posts, service descriptions, and website.

The Contractor shall:

· Comply with AFIs and customer expectations regarding records management ensure effective and efficient storage, retrieval, and use of documents and content ensure integration capabilities between structured and unstructured content

· Manage the lifecycle (documentation created/developed) of documents, including implementation, maintenance of document storage system, publishing, delivery

· Coordinate document review(s) (drafts and final version) with internal and external customers

· Create ready to send email, or communication and coordination tracking system(s) and other correspondence, to include electronic Staff Summary Sheets (eSSS) to send out for comments on the document for final document release

· Manage the AFMC/A4NE SharePoint on-line site

· Provide expert SharePoint services which facilitate knowledge sharing and disposition of working documents

· Maintain and update SharePoint functionality, working with the Government to determine how SharePoint could be leveraged to meet business needs

· Maintain and implement functionality in SharePoint using standard features, third-party

· solutions or developing custom solutions to meet defined business requirements

· Create, maintain, update, and implement a Strategic Outreach and Communication Plan

· Create, maintain and update training materials, for the internal and external stakeholders and customers, such as, but not limited to the following: instructions, job aids, help files, and information needed to perform data management or enterprise architecture; using various media as approved by the Government

· The contractor shall provide training to new personnel (government and contractor) on processes, methods, procedures and tools specific to the operations associated with this contract

· Provide professional tech edit on all documents that will be released outside of the A4NE. Documents will have no more that 2 errors per document.

2.6 Establish Outcome Measurement

The AFMC/A4N data management efforts must have methods to measure success of its mission. An approach will be developed to ensure each of the objectives are measured and controlled.

The Contractor shall:

· Maintain and update measurements and metrics as needed

· Modify measurements and reported metrics processes as needed

· Maintain measurement/metric documentation

· Operate measurement service – including executing and providing the results of the required measurements

2.7 Program/Project Management

The Contractor shall:

· The Contractor shall provide the necessary resources to manage and administer this contract. The Contractor shall provide a single point of contact (Prime Project Manager) between the Government and Contractor personnel assigned to support the contract. This single point of contact assigns and prioritizes work as well as ensures the work is completed on time and IAW the performance objective set herein. The Contractor shall maintain proper/accurate time keeping records of personnel assigned to work on the contract and ensure the resources are not working at a rate that creates a gap in service

· The Contractor shall create, maintain and execute an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) or like system for AFMC/A4NE activities designated for tracking by the Government. During times of increased workload volume, the Government will collaborate with the Contractor to prioritize and plan capabilities/work to ensure compliance with the contract scope, cost, terms and conditions

· Contractor will provide a project risk assessment any time they are concerned on a task accomplishment

· Utilize Agile program/project management skills, tools and methods

· Help teams implement agile ceremonies, identify the roles, manage the respective artifacts

· Facilitate Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and other Scrum ceremonies

· Provide mentoring and training for A4NE team members on the Agile process

· Provide technical support to provide risk/issue management support

· Provide project administrative support

· Support all duties and responsibilities as required to include meeting preparation, conference room coordination, travel planning, records management, etc.

· Support AFMC A4/10 Leadership with Strategic Communications across multiple stakeholder groups

· Review existing processes and job aids and update to reflect current operating environment

· Engage with technical staff and SMEs - capturing key concepts and ideas and write them in clear and concise manner

· Translate concepts into easily understandable text and graphics, rewrite and review documents

· Participate in content and materials development

2.8 Metadata Management

Metadata is data that describes other data. Meta is a prefix that in most IT usages means an underlying definition or description of the data. Metadata summarizes basic information about data, which can make finding and working with data easier. Metadata is comprised of data elements which are "associated with" a data element being delivered in response to a request to provide the consumer with information about the data being delivered. Metadata can provide information about any of several aspects of the data being delivered, including but by no means limited to its quality parameters, its lineage, it points of creation, the authority for it, its technical aspects, including how it should be decoded to be properly understood, its business context, to enable the end-user to understand it properly and the identification of other data assets which may be useful in placing it in context.

Metadata management is a customer service that is provided by the DM team to external and internal customers of the DoD.

The Contractor shall:

· Document and manage organizational knowledge of data-related business terminology to ensure people understand data content and can use data consistently

· Collect and integrate metadata from diverse sources to ensure customer/stakeholders understand similarities and differences between data from different parts of organization

· Plan, implement and control activities to enable access to high quality integrated metadata by using standard processes to document all customer metadata requirements in retrievable data store

· Work to identify/declare authoritative data sources for metadata data purposes across the A4 Enterprise by creating and updating a prioritized list of systems and proactively identify metadata authoritative data sources

· Update/Maintain metadata strategy at the local level

· Maintain/sustain the standard metadata management processes to determine metadata attributes, review frequencies, and maintenance requirements from customers

· Maintain/sustain the metadata process to manage the establishment of common definitions, standards, and operating guidelines for enterprise data

· Provide recommendations on IT requirements to support metadata management services

· Work with A4NE customers to identify, validate, and populate metadata in the retrievable data store; as applicable

· Assist in developing and identifying data warehousing and business intelligence business needs at the local level and for the business intelligence portfolio

· Work with Data Governance Team to ensure metadata management processes are accomplished IAW established standards

· Assist in determining metadata storage and data exchanges

· Draft configuration management processes for all metadata

2.9 Data Integration and Interoperability

The Contractor shall:

· Assist in defining data integration and lifecycle requirements

· Perform data analysis– to include reviewing Interface Control Document (ICD)

· Work with System Technical and Functional SMEs to review and validate data integrity business rules (BR) to ensure currency, completeness and accuracy

· Perform data profiling, analysis and recommend inputs; profile data against defined BRs; identify factors driving data integrity anomalies; and provide recommendations and supporting documentation for changes to policy, instructions, procedures, training, and/or system Change Requests (CR) and/or Discrepancy Reports (DRs)

2.10 Data Quality Management

Data quality activities use business rules to identify data anomalies, assess their impacts, work with SMEs to determine their causes, and monitor their remediation. Data quality is the planning, implementation, and control of activities that apply high quality management techniques to data to assure it is fit for consumption and meets the needs of data consumers.

The Contractor shall:

· Assess, develop, standards, requirements, and specifications for data quality controls as part of the data lifecycle

· Assess, develop, and implement processes to measure, monitor, and report on data quality levels

· Identify and advocate for opportunities to improve the quality of data, through process and system improvements

· Create and implement standard processes to document information for A4NE customers on legacy data/documentation acquisition system, data quality business rules and cleansing requirements, and data transformation/standardization rules in retrievable meta-data store

· Work with System Technical and Functional SMEs to perform and initial data quality assessment, identify and prioritize potential improvements

· Develop data quality reporting

2.11 Data Discovery & Interface Management

Data Discovery is the identification and recording of system process/standards information and the metadata about the structure of data, its content, its contextual use, its source(s), information exchanges, and the business data stewards associated with it. Once identified, this information is documented in a data store/tool that facilitates easy retrieval of the information and re-use by multiple parties for analysis purposes. Data discovery also includes the acquisition and storage of sample data from its original source(s) into a data store/tool where it is loaded and available for testing and analysis by team members, capability initiatives, and others with access to the data store/tool. Data discovery encapsulates data/documentation acquisition and system profiling, data profiling (including updating enterprise data dictionaries).

The Contractor shall perform the following tasks:

· Support the management and performance of data integrity lifecycle requirements to ensure attainment and sustainment of desired integrity levels for AF Logistics systems

· Obtain system data information based on transformation, data integrity, and understand the customer interface

· Store and maintain system processes, standards, and archived data requests on government approved medium

· Research interface requirements and propose Interface Control Document (ICD) design and associated documentation

· Review ICD related data elements for compliance with quality/integrity standards (e.g. complete and accurate references, definitions that match the reference, complete and accurate code values, and accuracy of other metadata)

· Provide data and system profiling

2.12 Data Pipeline, Modeling and Analytics

Data pipeline architecture organizes data events to make reporting, analysis, and using data easier to use. A data pipeline architecture is a system that captures, organizes, and routes data so that it can be used to gain insights – while maintaining a scalable enterprise data pipeline that maintains optimal performance balance with business needs. Data Modeling and Analytics (DMA) is the process of discovering, analyzing, and scoping data requirements which then can be presented and communicated in a form called a data model. The collection and analysis (Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization) of many different types of data are performed to find answers and insights for questions that are not known at the start of the analysis.

The contractor shall:

· Assist external and internal customers to evaluate infrastructure; design, construct, to sustain highly scalable data management systems

· Advise and provide recommendations for the portfolio on new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures

· Partner with customers and stakeholders to develop, document, or review data rules and pipelines that support a range of enterprise and government projects

· Enabling and running data migrations across different databases and different servers, or on-premises to cloud

· Perform validation to support the accuracy of data transformations and data verification used in any service, e.g., reporting, visualizations, machine learning models

· Analyze complex data elements and systems, data flow, dependencies, and relationships to contribute to & define conceptual physical and logical data models

· Acquire and ingest data sources, integrate and align data for analysis

· Develop data hypotheses and methods by exploring other data models

2.13 Reference and Data Management

Reference and Data Management (DM) is focused on managing shared data to meet organizational goals, reduce risks associated with data redundancy, ensure higher quality, and reduce the cost of data integration. Reference and DM enable the master and reference data to be shared across enterprise functions and applications, thus lowering the cost and reducing the complexity of data usage and integration through standards, common data models, and integration patterns.

Master data is the consistent and uniform set of identifiers and extended attributes that describes the core entities of the AF A4 community.

Typically, master data assets are data assets which meet two criteria:

· They are fundamental to the operation of the business domain in that they are critical to the execution of several core business processes

· They are inherently stable; because of their nature, they don't change often

· The Contractor shall:

· Assist in the deliver legacy system information in an electronic format that is accessible by the A4NE team and external users

· Take data sources (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data) from operational systems, to include third party and external systems (non-DoD systems) into an ingest zone of a data environment

· Understand how to store files unaltered, apply security policies, perform ad hoc profiling and discovery, establish a service level agreement (SLA), and ensure sensitive data is masked

· Be able to apply logical schema, standardizers and validators, global cleansing, and metadata tags to data

· Be able to establish a relationship for enrichment and transform data into fit for purpose data objects so that data can then move into the consumption zone of a data environment using tools

· Be able to apply business specific queries on curated datasets and preform dataset sampling for advanced prototyping Understand how to set data up in the consumption zone for analytical use in artificial intelligence, visual analytics, self-service analytics and mobile analytics using tools platforms, and analysts and data scientists

2.14 Logistics Capability Initiatives

Support Logistics Capability Initiatives (LCI), and operational systems integration throughout modernizations, enhancements, dev/mods, and transformations, including, but not limited to:

· Identifying current ADS and mapping to projected ADS as new capabilities come on-line and legacy is subsumed or turned off

· Providing End-to-End architecture at the ICD and data element level

· Evaluating health of systems for business case analysis

· Providing interface information / ICDs for evaluating course of action

· Orchestrating data migration tasks associated with extract, transform, and load (ETL) activities

· Providing architectural information to be used by business mission areas to analyze how best to validate requirements coming into the portfolio and update plans / roadmap for portfolio improvements

· Assist with planning, implementing, and integrating data environments and/or services

· Review and evaluate evolving or innovative technologies for potential use in the Logistics remediation, operations, and/or transformation efforts

2.15 Data Architecture

Data architecture sets the standards and policies for an enterprise's data systems and their data entities and relationships. Data architects define the end-state vision and work alongside developers during project lifecycles to ensure alignment.

The contractor shall:

· Define the enterprise data architecture standards and policies surrounding DM

· The EA team will review source material and produce any EA artifact including any of the 24 DODAF 2.02 views i.e., All Viewpoints (AV), Capability Viewpoints (CV), Data and Information Viewpoints (DIV), Operational Viewpoints (OV), Service Viewpoints (SvcV), Standards Viewpoints (StdV), and System Viewpoints (SV).

· Develop and maintain enterprise information model (EIM)

2.16 Logistics Enterprise Architecture

The Contractor shall develop, manage, analyze, and sustain enterprise architectures and analyze architectural compliance to support AFMC/A4’s EA and DM responsibilities. Oversight, coordination, collaboration and continuous integration activities, processes and communication between DM, PM, PfM and EA are critical in supporting A4NE.

The Contractor shall have the following baseline knowledge and experience:

· Have the experience and knowledge of the most recent version of DoDAF and all viewpoints, DoD and AF EA policy, guidance, processes and reference models

· Have working-level experience of the portfolio management tools

· Provide EA SME support to internal and external stakeholders

The Contractor shall support the following activities to develop and maintain governance and standards:

· Establish procedures and guidelines for oversight of logistics business architecture activities and develop/consolidate logistics EA standards

· Maintain, enhance, and scale a logistics reference architecture’s document, models, and the documented sustainment processes

· Provide architecture expertise to sustain, enhance, and/or modernize a logistics reference architecture document

· Maintain the processes and procedures to sustain (through changes, enhancements, modernizations, scaling, etc.) the reference architecture documents, and the reference architecture models

· Develop and maintain “As-Is” and “To-Be” architectures

· Document “As-Is” and “To-Be” processes and conduct gap analysis between the two states of architecture

· Provide EA SME to LCIs in the development of the To-Be architecture

· Maintain configuration control and interoperability of the logistics EA

· Provide SME and EA Configuration Management System Support for the AFMC/A4N logistics EA portfolio

· Participate in and support the AFMC/A4/10N EA efforts to integrate and ensure consistency across the LCI architectures by supporting EA meetings and providing input, including review, to the architecture artifacts

· Identify and recommend expansion of IT system architecture documentation

· Develop and maintain logistics EA artifacts

· Provide EA and enterprise information model creation/sustainment for an enterprise logistics data environment, which will be in alignment with the AF CDO enterprise information model

· As necessary, review and provide comments to documentation/policy provided by AF/A4 Data, Architecture Analytics Working Group (DAAWG) and other data or architecture similar groups as requested by the government

· Assist users and other architects with understanding the logistics architecture

The Contractor shall support an array of enterprise architecture analytics and compliance activities:

· Follow EA policy, laws, and regulations in development activities and review architectural documentation to determine compliance with policy

· As directed, maintain content in the current business environment tool, or similar tool if directed by government leadership to use and perform analysis

· Utilize the prescribed business environment to capture and analyze architectural information or other tool if directed by the government leadership

· Provide architecture-specific technical expertise to review and develop DoDAF-compliant architecture artifacts

· Identify and create reports, as needed, to support analysis within the logistics portfolio

· Support analysis of proposed system changes and modernization approaches to determine proposed enterprise changes to the logistics portfolio

· Facilitate the development, review, analysis, and reporting of architecture artifacts IAW DoDAF and business process model and notation standards

· Provide architectural artifact review/development assistance to IT system functional owners within the A4N mission area when requested for system development/modification package approval

· Ensure architectural integrity and consistency occurs across the logistics enterprise as new artifacts are being produced by legacy systems and/or transformation initiatives

· Comply with the AFMC Architecture Standards and support architecture compliance requirements and the AF standard portfolio management solution

· Collaborate with architects, program offices, working across logistics portfolio to ensure all work complies with logistics enterprise architecture standards and the Logistics Reference Architecture, document/standards/patterns and Reference Models

· Support Capability Initiative integration

· The Contractor shall provide centralized oversight, coordination and collaboration among EA, DM and PfM

· Strategic thinking, advisement, and leadership for a diverse architecture team, to include Enterprise/ Business/ Application/ System/ Data/ Security/ Infrastructure architectures, to support HQ AFMC/A4 mission success through effective IT investments.

· Extensive subject matter expertise for the broad, strategic-level architecture activities as well as EA configuration management for the logistics portfolio system support.

· Develop the AFMC/A4 logistics portfolio architectural vision with deep and broad logistics domain knowledge, communicate the vision to stakeholders, implement the vision within the EA and PM teams, and provide technical leadership and recommendations to the Government.

· Provide diverse architectural expertise and effective logistics domain guidance to architects on the EA team and the DM support team for the AF/A4 LDDO. In addition, provide guidance and expertise to the A4NE and the Architecture lead for EA, regarding processes, practices, standards, metrics, and tools.

· Provide EA support and analysis for PfM’s cloud migration efforts

· Develop best practice artifacts, models, standards, architectures to help the A4 enterprise transition and implement a cloud-based data environment strategy

2.17 Logistics IT Configuration and Sustainment

The Contractor shall support development/configuration and sustainment of DM Technology Enablement; as well as utilize to perform complete duties. This effort could include providing recommendations on IT requirements and solutions, tracking progress, issue resolution, testing and documentation creation (tool enabler process guides and job aids to include software configuration documentation). The Contractor shall provide skilled resources with experience (working knowledge) of various platforms. The Contractor shall also support the Government in the configuration of potential hosting environments. The Government may request variable skilled resources to support efforts that don’t include the current IT platform listed herein.

Systems may require sustainment of data integrity processes until expected levels of data compliance are achieved.

The Contractor shall support:

· Operationalizing the Logistics Data Environment

· Requirements development and prioritization by making recommendations based on military and industry best practices

· Business model creation

· Roll out efforts; education, training and onboarding for the Log community Support data preparation/ingest

· Data analytics

· Testing; creation of functional user test plans, executions, regression testing and reporting of result

· Metrics creation, collection and reporting

2.18 IT Configuration and Sustainment of Data Environment Service

This service support development, configuration and sustainment of DM Technology Enablement; as well as utilize to perform complete duties. This effort could include providing recommendations on IT requirements and solutions, tracking progress, issue resolution, testing and documentation creation (tool enabler process guides and job aids to include software configuration documentation).

Additionally, this service provides expertise to assist and advise customers on the building, managing, and optimizing of data pipelines to execute the effective movement of data through the data pipelines into a production environment. This service provides expertise to understand key data to be used for analytics for consumer’s requirement for data and analytics uses cases. Expertise is required to ensure compliance with data governance and data security requirements while creating, improving, and operationalizing integrated and reusable data pipelines.

2.19 Data Analytics and Data Science Enablement Service

The service focuses on providing the infrastructure and tool sets needed to support the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data, and the process of applying those patterns toward effective decision making within an organization. The service will include a set of data science tools that are available for a small, highly trained customer to implement Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and/or Natural Language Processing focused on the trusted and curated stages. Will eventually offer both NIPRNet and SIPRNet capabilities.

Work products that could be created for the government or customer include but are not limited to: All data analytics and data science tools sets will constitute work products.

2.20 Data Integration Service

This service assists and advises customers on best practice enterprise data integration processes and procedures and executes data ingestion, transformation, and exposure activities on behalf of customers and the enterprise. Data Integration should mature to also provide publish and subscribe services for Logistics and Materiel Readiness (L&MR) data sources including topic trees. Involves collaboration with architectural team to ensure alignment of data integration solutions with enterprise logical models, data relationships, and enterprise metadata.

Work products that could be created for the government or customer include but are not limited to: Ingestion and transformation reports and documentation. Publish and Subscribe (topic trees) web services; authoritative master and reference data self-service; and Reusable data push of refreshed data.

2.21 Data Acquisition Clearinghouse (DACH) Service

This service centralizes and standardizes the facilitation of data acquisition requests for A4 Enterprise data.

The Contractor shall:

· Maintain the data acquired from systems during the…