ATTACHMENT B.docx

ATTACHMENT B

Organizational, Intermediate, and Depot level CoE for Corrosion and Finish Training General Description

A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a team of dedicated individuals managed from a common central point, to support a specific need. The CoE for Corrosion and Finish Training will be a turnkey organization of highly skilled personnel tasked to design, develop, sustain and deliver performance-based corrosion and paint training. Members of the CoE must also have the capability and capacity to provide the manpower (number of personnel), personnel (skills) and infrastructure to deliver all courses. Infrastructure will include classrooms, laboratories, paint booths, and tactical training equipment/stricken aircraft high bays, as well as the ability to provide training outside using actual aircraft.

For the purposes of answering the RFI questions provided, please use the following “sample” courses to answer questions having to do with capacity and capability to perform. There is no expectation that these are the actual courses. After selection of an approach, the selected organization will design and develop corrosion and finish course in support of aircraft agnostic training for Organizational, Intermediate, and Depot level Corrosion and Finish Training for military and civilian maintainers. The design of this training will be problem-based, vice familiarization, and will target the attainment of KSAs extracted from the current version of NAVAIR corrosion and paint technical manuals.

The design of each course shall be tailored to a specific target audience, level of practice, and proficiency level based on Apprentice, Journeyman and Master levels of performance. Each course shall be designed to target a specific audience. Trainees will be assessed on their ability to perform to a required level of proficiency. All maintainers will be tested in three ways – a knowledge exam, oral exam and a performance exam. All tests will be conducted by executed by a Subject Matter Expert, independent from the instructor and the organization delivering the training. Trainees, passing all three exams, receive a certification.

The CoE effort is a major change from how corrosion is currently trained in the Fleet. Using a cross-platform maintenance task and Knowledge Skill and Attitude (KSA) list, corrosion courses, in the Table below were designed to transition from familiarization to performance / proficiency based training. This change requires implementation of new instructional strategies, assessment strategies, and delivery methods. The need to include content currently missing from fielded courses will be divided across seven courses to support flightline personnel in performance of work assigned in the prevention, elimination, and repair of damage caused by corrosion. The contractor will teach and sustain these courses to balance limited time away from the flightline while still providing the detailed knowledge and skills needed in the context of performance.

The courses will use eBook technology, a form of interactive multimedia instruction. Each eBook developed for a typical area will employ quizzes, tests, simulations, animations, scenarios, and/or case studies to reinforce the application of knowledge, in the context of performance. eBooks will be xAPI compliant. eBooks will be part 1 of a course. All knowledge, and the application of the knowledge, will be via the eBook.

Part 2 of each course will be 100% hands-on. Part 2 of each course will use Facilitator Handbooks and align as closely as possible to the flightline. Trainees will be assigned work in the form of Maintenance Action Forms (MAFs). Each MAF will align with a scenario described in the Facilitator Handbook. Facilitators will coach when required. Trainees will be executing the corrosion work required by the MAF, using stricken aircraft, tools, materials, consumables, and NAVAIR-01-1A-509 Volumes 1-4. Trainees will work in teams of two. Four full-time facilitators will be available to observe and coach each team of two trainees. Facilitators will use a Performance Checklist, delivered via a tablet, to ensure they evaluate the trainees in a standardized manner. All scenarios will require a completed Performance Checklist. Each Facilitator will brief the trainees prior to the scenario, observe during performance, and conduct a debrief upon completion of each MAF. The brief and debrief will require the facilitator to present oral questions to the trainees. In the brief, trainees will need to explain what they are going to do to execute the MAF, how they will perform the procedure, and explain why the performance is needed. In the debrief, trainees will critique their performance and answer questions about any noted performance deviation.

NOTE 1: There are no Instructor or Trainee Guides. Part 2 of each course will use a Facilitator Handbook.

NOTE 2: Stricken aircraft training devices will be developed and delivered under a separate contract.

All courses will execute knowledge, oral, and performance tests. Completion of all three tests will result in trainee certification. Certificates will be disseminated by the CMB training site. Graduation (certification) will be documented in CeTARS. Completion of the course, without certification, will documented in CeTARS.

Each course will have a Training course Control Document. These courses are NAVAIR owned and executed for five years. Data will be collected to communicate efficiency and effectiveness of the courses. The CMB will establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Corrosion and Finish Training and manage the execution of the training Table 1 provides estimated courseware hours based on a previous conducted gap assessment: