Attachment 4 - Personnel Qualifications.pdf

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Attachment 4 – Personnel Qualifications

A. Personnel Qualifications The following paragraph sets forth the Government’s minimum education, certifications (if required) experience, and security clearances deemed necessary to perform the tasks set forth in the Statement of Work. The Contractor should be capable of providing the personnel according to the requirements in the labor categories listed in Table 2.

B. Non-Key Personnel The Government expects the Contractor will make a good faith effort to assign non-key personnel, listed in Table 2, to this effort that meet the minimum desired qualifications. The Government is not requesting resumes for these positions and resumes should not be provided.

The desired qualifications are provided to assist the Contractor from a cost estimating standpoint.

Table 1 – Minimum Labor-Level Equivalency Matrix

Minimum Level Educational Degree

From an Accredited Institute in an Area Applicable to the Position

Minimum Years of Relevant Experience in Addition to Education Level

Level IV - Senior PhD 5

Level IV - Senior Master’s Degree 8

Level IV - Senior Bachelor’s Degree 10

Level IV - Senior High School Diploma/GED 15

Level III - Mid PhD 0

Level III - Mid Master’s Degree 3

Level III - Mid Bachelor’s Degree 5

Level III - Mid High School Diploma/GED 10

Level II - Junior Master’s Degree 0

Level II - Junior Bachelor’s Degree 1

Level II - Junior High School Diploma/GED 4

Level I - Entry Bachelor’s Degree 0

Level I - Entry High School Diploma/GED 0

Table 2 – Non-Key Personnel

Non-Key Personnel Labor Category Desired Qualifications

Program Manager IV - A

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline (see experience stipulations below)

Experience:

• Ten years of related Systems Engineering experience if a Bachelor’s Degree is held; OR eight years of related Systems Engineering experience if a Master’s Degree is held.

• Experience in managing a team of systems engineering support personnel.

• Familiar with DoD and USN Systems Engineering practices.

• Familiar with DoD processes for Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) of simulations.

• Experience in managing and directing analysis of large distributed simulation projects employing the High-

Level Architecture (HLA).

• Experience with managing combined hard kill/soft kill (HK/SK) Naval self-defense distributed simulation systems and working with Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR) for VV&A of these simulations.

• Experience planning and managing complex projects.

• Experience in identifying and evaluating architectural and technology alternatives, and identifying and quantifying their related risks.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Program Manager IV - B

Education: Master’s Degree in Physics, Management, Systems Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Experience:

• Eight years of experience in leading and managing scientific/engineering projects for the U.S. Navy surface warfare community

• Experience in planning, directing, and coordinating technical and administrative activities including, but not limited to: naval techniques, tactics and procedures, and their application against real world adversaries.

• Experience in project management and supervising tasks/task managers in the execution of major programs and their assigned duties.

• Experience in reviewing and maintaining quality of technical work performed.

• Experience making technical judgments and providing advice on resolutions to technical problems.

• Experience assuring and monitoring the timeliness and quality of work products inclusive of: work planning, control of budget, schedule, task execution, contract and subcontract management, and personnel management.

• Experience executing inline with major programmatic milestones ensuring quality of work inclusive of: data analysis, operational relativeness, and strategic planning.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Program Manager IV - C

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Degree in Engineering and or Physics

Experience:

• Ten years of experience at the Navy’s ship change process (SHIPMAIN and SHIPALT process) and managing and executing industrial work aboard US Navy Combatants.

• Experience running large at sea multinational electronic warfare experiments and test events.

• Experience managing Information Assurance (IA) requirements, Combat System Authorization and

Certification Processes.

• Experience leading as an In-Service Engineering Activity (ISEA) for the AN/SLQ-62 EW system.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Systems Engineer IV - A

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics

Experience:

• Ten years of experience in Systems Engineering for U.S. Navy surface warfare applications

• Experience in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of simulations representing maritime surface warfare systems

• Experience in the development and analysis of metrics for the model to enable verification and validation

(V&V) of the model against real-world systems

• Experience with integration and testing of the model into a larger system-of-systems simulation framework

• Experience using C++ and Python in the development and execution of the model and framework in a Linux and

MS Windows environment

• Experience with implementation of an HLA (High Level Architecture) framework for a systems-of-systems simulation

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Systems Engineer IV - B Education: Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics

Experience:

• Eight years of experience in Systems Engineering for U.S. Navy surface warfare applications

• Experience in the development of requirements for surface warfare models and simulations

• Experience with verification & validation of models against real-world Navy surface warfare systems

• Experience with field testing to collect data to support V&V of models

• Experience with V&V to support Operational Testing requirements

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Systems Engineer IV - C

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics

Experience:

• Ten years of experience in the design, integration, delivery, setup, and evaluation of EW training systems including standalone and integrated battlegroup training

• Experience with systems engineering process including analyzing system requirements definition, system design, integration and test, delivery, maintenance, and technology refresh

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Systems Engineer IV - D

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering

Experience:

• Ten years of experience in Navy surface warfare experimental research and systems engineering programs including countermeasure, missile, signature technology, and deployed force protection systems

• Experience utilizing systems engineering techniques and procedures for the development of EO/laser/RF systems for the U.S. Navy

• Experience with sensors and systems, signature management, detection studies, and system hardware design, development, test and evaluation

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Software Engineer IV

Education: Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science

Experience:

• Eight years of experience in research and development for the U.S. Navy surface warfare applications including EO/IR/laser and RF

• Experience in the evaluation of IR detection and imaging systems for surface and air applications

• Experience with image and signal processing algorithm development and implementation

• Experience with sensor and image fusion techniques

• Experience with distributed development and collaboration tools

• Experience with parallel and multiprocessing programming techniques

• Experience with current programming languages including but not limited to C/C++, Java, Python and

Matlab

• Experience in laboratory and field testing.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Software Engineer III - A

Education: Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics

Experience:

• Three years of experience in software development for U.S. Navy surface warfare applications

• Experience in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of simulations representing maritime surface warfare systems

• Experience with execution and testing of the model in a larger system-of-systems HLA simulation framework

• Experience using C++ and Python in the development and execution of tools needed for execution and analysis of the HLA simulation framework in a Linux and MS Windows environment

• Experience utilizing the Git version control system

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Software Engineer III - B

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science

Experience:

• Five years of experience in research and development for the U.S. Navy surface warfare applications including but not limited to EO/IR/laser and RF

• Experience with distributed development and collaboration tools

• Experience with parallel and multiprocessing programming techniques

• Experience with current programming languages including but not limited to C/C++, Java, Python and

Matlab

• Experience in laboratory and field testing.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Software Engineer II Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science

Experience:

• One year of experience in research and development for the U.S. Navy surface warfare applications including EO/IR/laser and RF

• Experience with distributed development and collaboration tools

• Experience with current programming languages including but not limited to C/C++, Java, Python and

Matlab

• Experience in laboratory and field testing.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Software Engineer I

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science

Experience:

• Experience with distributed development and collaboration tools

• Experience with current programming languages including but not limited to C/C++, Java, Python and

Matlab

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

IT Systems Engineer III

Education: High School Diploma/GED

Experience:

• 10 years of experience in design, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance, secure computer network architectures, in unclassified, secret, and top-secret security levels

• Must have extensive experience with Windows servers, VMWare, and MS Exchange servers

Certifications: CISSP, Sec+, and MCSE 2000

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Electrical Engineer IV

Education: Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Experience:

• Eight years of experience in research and development for the DoD warfare applications

• Experience in the design and development of signal processing algorithms for sensor detection and identification applications

• Experience in the design, development, and fabrication of a wide array of electronic printed circuit boards and field programmable gate arrays

• Experience in laboratory and field testing

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Electrical Engineer II

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Experience:

• One year of experience in supporting various aspects of electronic components and system design to include: the design and development of electronics systems, signal processing electronics such as field programmable gated arrays, signal processing firmware development; and/or sensor and image fusion techniques

• Experience with the design and development of specialized electronics

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Mechanical Engineer IV

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Experience:

• Ten years of direct experience in the mechanical design of complex sensor and systems

• Experience in the design and development of military-qualified systems

• Experience with the design, development of EO/laser/RF sensors and platforms for military applications

• Experience using CAD software

• Experience with optical augmentation sensors and precision pointing and tracking systems

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Mechanical Engineer II

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Experience:

• One year of mechanical engineering design and development experience in supporting EO/Laser/RF sensors and sensor fusion developments

• Experience using CAD software

• Experience in the design and development of military-qualified systems

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret Electronics Technician III Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• Five years of experience in support of EO/IR system development programs

• Knowledge and experience in operating and maintaining support equipment such as EO/laser/RF sensors and systems, vacuum systems, gas systems, and other electronic, electrical, and optical equipment and instrumentation

• Experience in setting up and conducting EO/laser laboratory and field countermeasure tests

• Experience in the design and fabrication of electronic and electro-mechanical components and subsystems

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Electronics Technical II

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• One year of experience in the operation, troubleshooting, and repair of a wide variety of electronic and electromagnetic sensors and supporting instrumentation

• Knowledge and experience in operating and maintaining support equipment such as vacuum systems, cryogenic equipment, data analysis workstations, and electrical and electronic test equipment

• Experience in setting up and conducting laboratory and field tests; in the design and fabrication of electronic and electro-mechanical components and subsystems; and in the integration of measurement suites for land, ship, and air platforms

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

IT Systems Engineer III

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• Five years of experience in implementation and maintenance of high-performance, secure computer network architectures, in unclassified, secret, and top-secret security levels

• Experience with Linux servers, Linux systems administration, and VMWare

• Experience with Information Assurance (IA) accreditation and certification.

Certifications: Sec+

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret Radio Frequency Scientist

IV

Education: Doctorate Degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering

Experience:

• Five years of experience in leading and managing scientific/engineering projects for the U.S. State Department

• Experience planning, directing, and coordinating technical and administrative activities for an entire contract effort.

• Experience with anechoic antenna measurement chambers, Method of Moments antenna modeling software packages, and antenna design.

• Experience with Parabolic Wave equation, Finite Difference and/or Ray-Tracing numerical methods for Radio

Frequency propagation.

• Extensive knowledge of NRL’s Builder software and Vertical Plane Launch (VPL) shooting and bouncing ray code is highly desired.

Clearance: Final DoD granted Top Secret

Meteorology and Oceanography Scientist IV

Education: Master’s Degrees in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrography, National Security, Strategic Studies, and/or Education

Experience:

• Eight years of experience creating requirements-driven synthetic environments for Radio Frequency, Electro-optic and Infrared propagation simulation

• Experience with U.S. Navy MetOc operational objectives providing MetOc subject matter expertise for maintaining quality of technical work performed by non-MetOc personnel

• Experience providing reach back support to operational user's requests for information regarding Radio

Frequency, Electro-optic and Infrared propagation

• Experience providing MetOc test event support by coordinating test range clearance to launch radiosondes, generate mesoscale numerical weather model predictions and evaluate natural/synthetic environments

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Analyst III

Education: Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics

Experience:

• Three years of experience in EW modeling and simulation and/or high-performance computing

• Knowledge of current and projected anti-ship threats

Technical Writer II Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• One year of experience in the preparation, review, and formalization of technical reports

• Experience in the formalization of technical reports and conference proceedings for U.S. Navy applications

• Experience with security procedures and classified document tracking and maintenance

Clearance: Final DoD granted Secret

Administrative Support II

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• One year of experience with program support to for U.S. Navy programs

• Experience with functions evaluation and tracking technical, schedule, and cost risks; as program data preparation, review, and formalization; providing general support to field tests; and providing general administrative support