Attachment J-01 TEAMS Next MDS Engineering Statement of Work 9.16.20.pdf

HQ0858-20-R-0014

Attachment J-01 MDS Engineering SOW

TEAMS Next Statement of Work

Missile Defense System (MDS) Engineering

16 September 2020

Approved for Public Release 20-MDA-10578 (18 Sep 20) i

Revision History

Author Date MR Number P00000 Reason For Change(s) SOW Version

1.0 Top Level Overview

1.1 Purpose

This Statement of Work (SOW) supports the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System (MDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight. The types of support required includes: 1) engineering and technical support; 2) studies, analyses, and evaluations, and 3) management and professional services.

1.2 Organizational Description

a. Engineering Directorate (MDA/DE) – Responsible for technical design and development of the MDS. DE oversees and integrates all activities associated with: system engineering and technical integration; Modeling and Simulation (M&S) in support of MDS requirements definition and capability verification; the performance of independent technical assessments; and, technical intelligence.

1) Director for Engineering (MDA/DE) – The MDA Single Technical Authority (STA) and engineering Functional Manager (FM). This ensures unity of effort in the development of subsystems and architecture designs to deliver system-level capabilities. The primary support under this contract is for the Engineering functional organization

a) Engineering Management (MDA/DER) – Manages personnel, business, contracts, and facilities and space allocation in support of the Engineering functional areas.

Primary responsibilities include managing Government and military personnel, business and financial operations, contracts, and facilities and space allocation;

developing and promulgating MDA/DE policies and procedures; and coordinating the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) and University

Affiliated Research Center (UARC) programs.

2) Chief Engineer (MDA/CE) – Ensures sound and integrated engineering and manufacturing processes and products; thorough element engineering controls, management, and verification; independent test, analysis, and assessment of failed and high risk events and engineering efforts; and industrial and manufacturing readiness. The Chief Engineer coordinates, controls, and manages MDS interface activities including definition, design, implementation, verification, traceability, interoperability, and issue resolution. The Chief Engineer leads Failure Review

Boards (FRBs) when primary test objectives are not met, participates in the Boarded

Discrepancy Reports (BDRs) process, chairs the MDA Risk Working Group

(MRWG) to ensure risks are dispositioned prior to flight tests and technical decisions, and is responsible for execution of the Failure Review, Analysis, and Corrective

Action System (FRACAS) to ensure performance shortfalls are identified and fixed prior to capability delivery.

a) Assured Design and Processes (MDA/CED) – Develops MDA policies and procedures for conducting failure investigations, provides charters & staffing for

MDA-level FRBs, provides Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for failure investigations conducted across the Agency, and develops MDA policies and procedures for conducting Engineering Technical Reviews (ETRs) consistent with

Department of Defense (DoD) policies.

b) Baseline Controls (MDA/CEF) – Delivers the principle products of MDA’s technical capability development processes; the Technical Baseline (TBL) and the

Operational Capacity Baseline (OCB), both of which are advanced through MDA program technical reviews.

c) Engineering Integration (MDA/CEI) – Lead agent for the integration of MDS technical development to include discrepancy resolution, reliability, interface, and

Link 16 interoperability management. These efforts will ensure MDA elements efficiently and accurately deliver capabilities and functionalities allocated in the

System Specification (SS) and System Description Document (SDD) with a desired end state of a more fully integrated MDS development process across

MDS programs and elements

d) Manufacturing Technology (MDA/CEM) – Conducts industrial base capability assessments, identifies industry trends and capabilities that affect the production of current and future MDS technologies, conducts program-centric technical value analyses, identifies industrial base risks and opportunities, and informs program decisions for acquisition strategies, oversight, and execution.

e) Risk Management (MDA/CER) –Provides integrated technical risk positions for flight test, technical, variance, cyber, and programmatic risks; which is critical in the decision-making process to determine the future path of any given flight test, ETRs, OCB, or Technical Capability Declaration (TCD) decision.

f) Software Engineering (MDA/CES) – Defines, assesses, and supports software engineering activities to ensure development of secure, reliable, and maintainable

MDA software. CES provides software acquisition expertise for missile defense solicitations; conducts independent software assessments; defines policies and establishes processes for software acquisitions; assesses mission critical and support software indicators; evaluates software independent verification and validation, software assurance, and software reliability efforts; documents lessons learned and best practices for future acquisition models; and provides software acquisition training.

3) Systems Engineer (MDA/SE) – Executes processes that produce the system-level engineering standards and technical documentation Program Directors (PDs) and

Program Managers (PMs) need to develop the various elements and components of the MDS, and develops and allocates requirements and interface requirements that define the MDS capability to be developed.

a) System Design and Specification (MDA/SED) – Implements and maintains a disciplined systems engineering process that enables production of system-level technical documents including the SDD, the SS, and the System Interface Control

Documents (SICDs) that are necessary to achieve MDA TBL performance objectives, and establishes the basis for element Program Offices to produce documentation required for successful subsystem engineering development.

MDA/SED also defines, manages, and leads execution of requirements traceability processes; manages and allocates Technical Core Standards (TCS) to support allocation and adherence planning; and leads the MDA Engineering

Requirements Group (MERG) to foster collaborative engineering technical interchanges across the MDA engineering community for requirements development.

b) System Assessment (MDA/SEG) – Conducts Capability and Limitation assessments of the MDS to enable well-informed decisions, ensure the system under assessment is correctly characterized, accurately document and understand capabilities and limitations, and provide recommendations on additions and improvements to the Missile Defense System.

c) System Engineering Test Requirements (MDA/SEF) – Leads the synthesis, allocation, prioritization, and implementation of systems engineering test requirements to support development and deployment of a layered Missile

Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight.

d) Discrimination (MDA/SEM) – Executes all system-level engineering functions required to evolve missile defense capabilities for improving identification of lethal objects and mitigating countermeasures.

e) System Verification (MDA/SEU) – Increases confidence in the performance of the MDS by developing comprehensive test requirements and developing and executing the System Engineering M&S processes; M&S Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A); and MDS verification processes.

4) Threat Systems Engineering (MDA/DEI-G) – Provides representations of adversary missile capabilities based on best available intelligence information; and develops, coordinates, and baselines system-level targets and countermeasures requirements to define target capabilities that support MDS flight test objectives.

5) Modeling and Simulation (MDA/DES) – Leads the agency's M&S enterprise by developing and sustaining the Agency’s M&S framework and core truth models; and by guiding, facilitating, and integrating all M&S components into virtual representations of the MDS that are credible, affordable, and provide MDA leadership with actionable data for decisions.

a) M&S System Integration and Engineering (MDA/DES-I) – Leads the integration and execution of real-time Hardware-in-The-Loop (HWIL) architectures to support the Agency's ground and flight test program as well as any other event type requiring the Agency's real-time HWIL capabilities; and co-manages and operates the Threat Modeling Center (TMC), which produces and delivers

Integrated Threat Packages (ITPs) and provides threat verification and validation evidence.

b) Enterprise M&S Engineering (MDA/DES-N) – Leads system-level M&S program integration to synchronize enterprise-wide efforts across the agency; provides

M&S program / project integration, system engineering, process engineering, and training support across M&S efforts; oversees system-level M&S design, development, verification, system test, sustainment, and upgrades; conducts system-level M&S architecture and design; coordinates system engineering efforts across M&S stakeholder and user communities; oversees and advocates for

Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and in-house research efforts; and provides long-range M&S and Technology Planning Roadmap.

c) M&S Operations (MDA/DES-R) – Provides M&S operations support to the warfighter; develops, sustains and maintains M&S products for concept evaluation, developmental engineering, assessment, training, and operational support; and co-manages and operates the TMC to establish the threat system data format, standards for Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP) and designated non-IMTP activities, and threat missile modeling.

d) M&S Production (MDA/DES-P) – Leads M&S acquisition efforts; provides contract development, sustainment, and management of M&S products; and develops and provides M&S frameworks, Core Truth Models (CTMs), and other assigned simulations, models, or representations.

b. Chief Architect (MDA/CA) – Leads architecture design, assessment, and strategic planning activities across the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Hypersonic Missile

Defense (HMD), and Cruise Missile Defense-Homeland (CMD-H) mission sets.

MDA/CA is the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Technical Authority (TA) and leads the technical warfighter interaction and international architectural analysis for the Agency to develop architectures to address new mission sets and to ensure capabilities maintain architectural intent and warfighter utility.

1) Architecture Design (MDA/CAD) – Identifies, defines, implements, and enables roadmaps for MDS evolution that result in integrated MDS architectures defined at the conceptual level, functional and performance needs that guide programmatic decisions, and technology development and experimentation for future MDS

Capabilities.

2) Architecture Assessment (MDA/CAY) – Defines, implements, and maintains a disciplined process that enables a roadmap for MDS evolution that results in alternative system architectures defined as concept level functional and performance needs that guide programmatic decisions as well as technology development and experimentation for future MDS Capabilities.

3) BMD Architect (MDA/CAG) – Identifies and defines BMD architecture and delivered capability gaps, challenges, needs, opportunities, and potential system mitigations; and develops future concepts and defines architecture level weapon, sensor, and command and control requirements to address those gaps and needs.

Develops the BMD Future Architecture and Roadmap, executes plans to integrate advanced capabilities into the BMD Architecture, develops architecture documents and top-level requirements for BMD architecture systems, conducts BMD-related analyses, and partners with the elements to develop initial plans and cost estimates to field the architecture.

4) Hypersonic Missile Defense Architect (MDA/CAH) – Develops the HMD Future

Architecture and Roadmap, executes plans to integrate advanced capabilities into the

HMD Architecture, develops architecture documents and top-level requirements for

HMD architecture systems, conducts HMD-related analyses, and partners with the elements to develop initial plans and cost estimates to field the architecture.

MDA/CAH uses world class resources and processes to integrate and synchronize

DoD and MDA HMD activities to accelerate the development and fielding of required defenses against advanced threats.

5) Cruise Missile Defense-Homeland Architect (MDA/CAN) – Identifies and defines

CMD-H architecture and delivered capability gaps, challenges, needs, opportunities, and potential system mitigations; and develops future concepts and defines architecture level weapon, sensor, and command and control requirements to address those gaps and needs. Develops the CMD-H Future Architecture and Roadmap, executes plans to integrate advanced capabilities into the CMD-H Architecture, develops architecture documents and top-level requirements for CMD-H architecture systems, conducts CMD-H -related analyses, and partners with North American

Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) / United States Northern Command

(USNORTHCOM) and the Services to develop initial plans and cost estimates to field the architecture.

6) Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Technical Authority (MDA/CAX) –

Defines and leads the engineering and integration of evolving Agency, Service, and

Combatant Command (CCMD) Joint IAMD capabilities through a consistent systems engineering process across multiple organizations. Defines and develops technical integration requirements to integrate candidate joint IAMD end-to-end kill chain capabilities.

7) Warfighter / International Integration (MDA/CAI) – Provides a single point of contact to the warfighter for all engineering and technical issues related to the MDS, and is the Agency engineering representative in all warfighter forums. Works with

CCMDs to define their MDS mission capabilities, collaborates with the warfighter to assist in defining capabilities and limitations, and manages the development of the

Agency Achievable Capabilities List (ACL) based on warfighter Prioritized

Capabilities List (PCL). Supports all engineering aspects of MDA international acquisition and international cooperative programs.

c. International and Policy (MDA/DI) – Develops effective homeland and regional missile defense and implements national security strategy through international cooperation.

Supports development and deployment of a layered MDS to defend the U.S., its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks of all ranges in all phases of flight.

d. Command & Control, Battle Management & Communications (MDA/BC) – Integrating element of the Missile Defense System (MDS) that supports a layered missile defense capability and enables a synergized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight.

Force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates, and synchronizes autonomous sensor, weapon systems, and operations to optimize performance; and is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests that verify and exercise all current and future MDS capabilities.

e. Ground Sensors (MDA/SN) – Develops, tests, acquires, deploys, and sustains MDS radars; conducts radar systems engineering and requirements development, radar hardware/software engineering, and radar sustainment engineering; conducts radar test planning, analysis, and performance assessment; implements radar tracking and discrimination improvements; and develops radar modeling and simulation capability.

f. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (MDA/GM) – Develops, integrates, tests, fields and sustains a reliable and cost-effective strategic defense capability to protect the homeland against current & future ballistic missile threats or attacks.

g. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (MDA/TH) – Develops, improves, produces, fields, deploys, and sustains a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) regional missile defense capability for America's soldiers and our allies.

h. Israeli Programs (MDA/IP) – Manages MDA cooperative missile defense development programs with Israel; assists the Government of Israel in upgrading its national missile defense capability to defend the State of Israel and deployed U.S. forces from emerging threats of increased range and complexity; develops interoperability between the Arrow

Weapon System and U.S. MDS; and shares technology development, data collection, and lessons learned from Israeli missile defense programs.

i. Sea-Based Weapon Systems (MDA/AB) – Delivers an enduring, operationally effective, and sustainable missile defense capability in Aegis cruisers, destroyers, and Aegis

Ashore; incrementally increases Aegis missile defense capability by delivering evolutionary spiral upgrades; and integrates Aegis missile defense capability with other missile defense elements to create a unified MDS.

j. Targets and Countermeasures (MDA/TC) – Develops threat relevant, cost-effective targets solutions for MDS testing by producing solutions based on common and flexible components; modifying a standard set of targets to meet specific threat requirements; and delivering reliable, threat representative targets to inventory.

k. Real Property Investments and Deployments (MDA/MSR) –Plans, executes, and manages siting, design and construction, facilities support, environmental compliance, and integration activities necessary to globally deploy, operate, and sustain MDA weapon systems, test, and administration facilities.

1.3 General Requirements

a. Non-Personal Services – The Government shall neither supervise contractor employees nor control the method by which the contractor performs the required work within the hours invoiced for each employee. It shall be the responsibility of the contractor to manage its employees and to guard against any actions that are personal services in nature, or give the perception of personal services as defined in Federal Acquisition

Regulations (FAR) 37.104. If the contractor believes that any actions constitute, or are perceived to constitute personal services, it shall be the contractor’s responsibility to notify the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) and Contracting Officer’s Representative

(COR) immediately.

b. Business Relations – The contractor shall successfully integrate and coordinate all activities needed to execute the requirements. The contractor shall manage the timeliness, completeness, quality of problem identification, and fraud prevention/reporting (i.e., obligation to ensure expenses charged to the contract are properly accounted for before submitting invoices to MDA). The contractor shall provide corrective action plans, proposal submittals, timely identification of issues, and effective management of subcontractors. The contractor shall seek to ensure customer satisfaction and professional and ethical behavior of all contractor personnel in support of the United States

Government.

1.4 Reference Documents

The following documents are applicable to this SOW:

a. Joint Travel Regulation (JTR), current version at https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/

b. Synchronized Pre-deployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT), current version at https://www.acq.osd.mil/log/PS/spot.html

Note: Support under this requirement will be completed using the referenced documents listed in this section. If any document referenced in this section is replaced or superseded, the replacement or superseding document shall be applicable to this SOW unless MDA provides other guidance. In addition, while this section provides documents to be used completing this requirement, work is not limited to these documents. Other documents may be provided by the Government, or required by the Government, for use in supporting this requirement throughout the life of the contract.

2.0 Government and Proprietary Information and Non-Disclosure Agreements

2.1 Government and Proprietary Information

In the performance of this contract, the contractor may be provided access to privileged

Government information. Government information may include items such as plans, policies, reports, studies, financial plans, or data which has not been released or otherwise made available to the public. The contractor shall ensure that all such information is protected in accordance with (IAW) any restrictions imposed on such information. The contractor agrees that without the prior written approval of the Contracting Officer, it shall not:

a. Use such information for any private purpose unless the information has been released or otherwise made available to the public,

b. Compete for work based on such information after the completion of this contract, or until such information is released or otherwise made available to the public, whichever occurs first,

c. Submit an unsolicited proposal to the Government which is based on such information unless such information is released or otherwise made available to the public, or

d. Release such information unless such information has previously been released or otherwise made available to the public by the Government.

The contractor agrees that, to the extent it receives or is given access to proprietary data, trade secrets, or other confidential or privileged technical, business, or financial information

(hereinafter referred to as "proprietary data") under this contract, it shall treat such information in accordance with any restrictions imposed on such information. The contractor further agrees to enter into a written agreement for the protection of the proprietary data of others and to exercise diligent effort to protect such proprietary data from unauthorized use or disclosure.

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2.2 Non-Disclosure Agreements

The contractor shall require all employees, and all subcontractor employees at all tiers, to sign the Missile Defense Agency Non-Disclosure Agreement (MDA NDA) set forth in

Section J Attachment 06 within 10 days of employment. The signed forms shall be submitted to the PCO and the COR within 10 days of employee signature.

The contractor shall obtain from each employee under this contract, a written MDA NDA

(Section J Attachment 06) which shall provide that the employee shall not, during his/her employment by the contractor or thereafter, disclose to others or use for their benefit, privileged Government information or proprietary data received in connection with the work under this contract. The contractor shall educate its employees regarding the philosophy of

Part 9.505-4 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) so that they will not use or disclose

Government information or proprietary data acquired in the performance of this contract.

The MDA NDA is required of all contractor employees and subcontractors supporting under this effort; however, there may be additional NDAs required dependent upon the support required at any given time throughout period of performance of the contract. The contractor shall certify completion of the MDA NDA requirement and other applicable NDAs for each employee via the Monthly Manpower Report (Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)

A004).

3.0 Scope of Work

3.1 TASK 1: Systems Engineering Technical Assistance

a. The contractor shall provide systems engineering technical assistance (SETA) support to all contract stakeholders.

1) Support meetings including Agency reviews, councils, working groups, technical interchanges, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), conferences, panels, boards, events, and audits.

a) Reserve meeting space; identify video-teleconference (VTC) requirements;

develop and maintain Point of Contact (POC) lists; prepare roll calls; draft, coordinate, and publish meeting notices and agendas; prepare information books;

and collect and distribute read-ahead materials.

b) Prepare and coordinate meeting-related products including technical assessments and reports, white papers, briefing materials, Courses of Action (COAs), contingency plans, implementation plans, technical concurrence memoranda, decision memoranda, audit responses, action item file responses, after-action reports, executive summaries (EXSUMs), meeting summaries, action tracking, and issue sheet comments.

c) Develop and maintain working group templates and corresponding instructions.

d) Participate in discussions; present briefings, status, issues, and positions; and provide recommendations.

e) Facilitate boards, councils, working groups, Technical Interchange Meetings

(TIMs), Agency reviews, and IPTs as secretariat. Maintain lists of representatives, invitees, and attendees; develop, update, and maintain forecast schedules; publish and post group information and meeting materials including meeting agendas and summaries to MDA Knowledge Online (MKO) and Classified MDA Knowledge

Online (CMKO) portal sites; and develop, consolidate, coordinate, and disseminate read-ahead materials. Develop and maintain action items including from working group meetings and breakout sessions. Prepare meeting notes for

Government signature, and post signed meeting notes to MKO and CMKO portal sites.

f) Produce meeting minutes, notes, and/or synopses; and track action items to closure.

g) Coordinate access, participation, and documentation for meetings and events that include foreign nationals.

2) Participate in formal tasking and staffing processes as action officers. Manage staffing process controls to ensure deadlines are met.

a) Review assigned actions for technical content, consistency, accuracy, and completeness.

b) Recommend, draft, and coordinate responses to assigned external inquiries including requests and taskings from Congress, Under Secretary of Defense for

Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), CCMDs, Joint Functional Component

Command Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC-IMD), Government Accountability

Office (GAO), international partners, and the DoD Inspector General (IG).

c) Develop and staff technical papers, briefings, and responses to Requests for

Analysis (RFAs) and Requests for Information (RFIs). Coordinate responses and supporting documentation for Agency senior leadership review and approval, and provide status updates.

i) Assess analysis requirements, and assist with identifying whether analysis results are consistent with baseline RFA assumptions.

d) Recommend, draft, and coordinate responses and supporting documentation to internal Agency taskings. Prepare staff packages including Staff Summary Sheets

(SSSs), briefings, white papers, and information papers coordinate with Offices of

Primary Responsibility (OPRs) and Offices of Collateral Responsibility (OCRs), monitor package progress through the coordination and approval process, and provide status and activity reports and briefings.

e) Assess internal and external executive correspondence and meeting materials.

Prepare technical correspondence and briefings for review and approval, and recommend improvements.

3) Perform routine office operations and activities and support development and staffing of recurring reports.

a) Provide Weekly Activity Report (WAR) inputs including status of key tasks completed during the week, action items, risks, issues, and schedule.

b) Provide status reports and briefing charts of tasks, action items, and projects.

Report risks, issues, and estimated completion dates.

c) Provide trip reports to document issues, tasks, action items, and risks.

d) Conduct security management, classified courier, Facility Security Officer (FSO), and Information Assurance Officer (IAO) duties and activities.

i) Monitor security programs; assist with developing and maintaining security processes; provide security assessments; prepare preliminary investigation reports; and monitor physical security planning, implementation, and assessment.

ii) Assist with collateral security duties including end of day security checks, burn bag disposal, and classified document accountability.

iii) Manage security documentation and assets, and process and manage access request forms.

iv) Review documentation for security markings in accordance with regulations and Agency disclosure instructions. Prepare and coordinate disclosure correspondence and supporting documentation, and secure approval for release.

v) Assist with preparation for and conduct of security inspections including office space, labs, computer networks, and security containers. Support security violation investigations.

vi) Assist with preparations for Information Security Program Reviews (IPRs).

e) Assist with emergency notification, safety, and block captain activities.

Implement, maintain, and execute Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

f) Assist with internal controls and property management. Prepare, staff, and brief mandatory Inter/Intra-Agency Acquisition Review (IAR), Manager’s Internal

Controls Program (MICP), and property accountability briefings. Assess compliance with DoD requirements and report discrepancies for Agency programs.

g) Maintain, update, and manage classified and unclassified shared drives, portal sites, content, and user and / or group portal access.

i) Promulgate maintenance and usage guidance, comply with records management policies and regulations, and merge shared on-line folders for

Agency portal sites and shared drives.

ii) Manage access to classified and unclassified MKO portal sites. Maintain portal design, data structure, storage, and retrieval.

4) The Government will provide access to Government property databases that are maintained in a Government facility including Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management (C3BM) analysis database; Dynamic Object Oriented

Requirements System (DOORS); System reliability and availability models and

Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) metrics; Model and Simulation

Support Tool (MSST) M&S catalog; RAM database; Test Resource Mission Planning

Tool (TRMP-T) database; and Sensors Countermeasures database.

5) Document software developed for Agency use or to support modeling, simulation, analysis, or engineering tasks in accordance with standard commercial and

Government best practices and standards. Deliver computer software and documentation upon request IAW CDRL A009.

a) Submit custom-developed software for evaluation including code analysis and risk mitigation.

6) Conduct analyses and comparative trade studies. Develop tools and prepare assessments, analyses, inquiry responses, recommendations, papers, briefings, and reports.

a) Analyses may require the WILMA modeling suite of tools, which consists of the

WILMA models and simulation suites, WILMA analysts, and developers. Access to the WILMA model will be granted through designated Government computers.

7) Assist with program and technical efforts for Special Access Programs (SAPs).

Analyze, assess, and assist in the production of SAP information, which contributes to the development of MDS capability increments, concepts, and performance requirements.

a) Obtain required clearances for personnel assigned to SAPs.

b) Prepare technical data, coordinate products, and secure approval for internal

Agency and external SAP reports, briefings, and associated documentation.

Prepare SAP presentations for Agency panels and boards. Prepare SAP technical data, information, and recommendations for responses to external entities including warfighter, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Oversight

Committee, and Congressional inquiries.

3.2 TASK 2: Engineering Functional Management

a. DE – The contractor shall assist the Director for Engineering (MDA/DE) with technical assessments and engineering analyses, technical and programmatic support for program integration with the MDS and related integration activities, failure investigations, ETRs, and responses and recommendations for external inquiries.

1) Conduct studies, analyses, and document reviews including quick response taskings, MDA/DE special studies, and joint studies with external partners. Report results and findings including trade study analyses, briefings, reports, and memorandums.

a) Conduct multi-discipline, multi-functional studies and analyses including technical, budget, and acquisition. Document findings, trends, issues, and recommendations.

b) Conduct MDS performance modeling utilizing the Government-provided

WILMA model, analysts, and developers. Assist with analyzing strategic and regional missions against potential future adversaries, and provide assessments including launch area denied and raid capacity. Assist with developing analysis reports and products including defended area maps, probability of engagement success, raid capacity plots, and depth of fire plots.

c) Assist with analyzing MDS performance impacts across the trade space for single threats and threat raids. Identify quantifiable benefits and assess the extent of required MDS element modifications. Provide analysis reports and briefings.

d) Provide synopses of TIMs, wargames, tests, exercises, technical project reviews and presentations; and assist with review and coordination of technical verification and operational validation event results.

e) Review technical products to ensure technical consistency throughout the MDS.

Conduct analyses to find causes of technical discrepancies in MDS technical performance, and benchmark information.

f) Review program audit response content and accuracy, coordinate responses, prepare comments, recommend comment adjudication, and track audit action items to closure.

2) Assist with strategic planning and strategic and technical communications.

a) Assess engineering products including resource plans, guidance, and correspondence from a strategic perspective for consistency with Agency mission, vision, goals, and objectives.

b) Identify and recommend alternative strategic approaches and visions for future execution.

c) Articulate strategic thinking and document results in briefings and other communication forums for the Engineering Functional Area (EFA). Analyze strategies, goals, and objectives for the EFA; and provide analysis results.

d) Engage in technical and engineering activities to assist with strategic planning, long and short range planning, and analyses of alternatives (AoAs) for activities and events. Develop plans, resource estimates, and schedules; assist with document development; and assist with directives, policies, memoranda, and

SOPs.

3) Assist with developing element and component MDS hardware and software integration plans and test schedules for inclusion in the Master Integration Plan (MIP) and MDS integration schedule. Identify potential conflicts; alternative resolutions;

and cost, technical, and schedule impacts. Identify integration risks and recommend

COAs.

a) Review, assess, and assist with developing deployment requirements; target turnover plans and inspections; test and deployment plans and inspections; and schedules. Review deployment plans and schedules, and conduct technical assessments including requirements, target plans, test plans and schedules, and missile launch procedure recommendations. Identify and document potential shortfalls, planning failures, conflicts, alternative resolutions, and risks.

b) Monitor production, delivery, and installation of hardware and software builds.

Review and evaluate objective evidence to verify entry and exit criteria readiness for Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs), and recommend corrective actions.

Provide production and pre-deployment readiness technical assessments and PRR entry and exit criteria readiness verification reports.

c) Review Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) plans including technical documentation and training. Identify and document potential ILS shortfalls, planning failures, conflicts, alternative resolutions, fix or fight updates, and test risks. Provide ILS plan technical assessments, ILS analysis, and ILS fix or fight updates.

d) Monitor establishment and refinement of element and program inventory management processes. Review the adequacy of inventory processes and documentation with respect to inventory accountability, location, condition, repair and rework, and limited life items. Identify issues, develop reports, and track progress of issues resolution. Provide part pedigree reports, limited life items inventory reports, spares quantity and condition reports, and inventory processes and documentation assessments.

4) Assess internal and external executive correspondence and recommend technical edits; prepare technical correspondence and briefings for review and approval; and analyze read-ahead material, meeting minutes, synopses, and executive correspondence. Provide executive review EXSUMS, End-of-Event Briefing

Packages, and analysis results.

a) Prepare and review technical and management positions for technical documentation including briefings, presentations, information papers, decision memoranda, talking points, and opinion articles; and provide briefings and briefing materials.

5) Participate in system- and subsystem-level Engineering Technical Reviews (ETRs) including System Requirements Reviews (SRRs), Preliminary Design Reviews

(PDRs), Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), and Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs).

Provide recommendations on entrance and exit criteria tailoring and objective evidence that supports the criteria.

a) Develop objective evidence products for requirements and design review packages, requirements, and design review plans.

b) Prepare entrance and exit criteria summary reports for design reviews including recommendations for corrective actions. Evaluate objective evidence, assess design review entry and exit readiness, and report findings.

c) Review, assess, analyze, and provide comments on complex systems reports.

Provide design review entry and exit readiness assessments, entrance and exit criteria summary and recommendations, and design review package objective evidence products.

6) Facilitate and participate in failure investigations, and coordinate technical documentation reviews. Provide smart books, web / portal pages, and POC lists.

a) Support Agency and element-level failure investigations. Assist with planning, scheduling, and coordinating Director for Engineering (MDA/DE)-approved FRB chairs and SMEs; and maintain documentation of approved and potential FRB chairs. Provide failure investigation charters, failure response plans, and smart books.

b) Provide FRB facilitator support. Coordinate data/information and products, develop investigation status reports, coordinate meetings, and assist FRB chairs with investigation reports and briefings.

c) Assist with creating fault tree diagrams, preparing fault tree analyses, identifying likely cause(s) of failure(s), providing recommendations for corrective actions, and documenting lessons learned for Agency and element-level FRBs. Provide failure investigation interim and final reports.

d) Assist with integrating Failure Investigation Status Report (FISR) inputs from

MDA elements. Track open, closed, and new failure investigations including

Agency and element-level FRBs and element issues; and compile weekly and annual FISR metrics.

7) Assist with preparing and staffing quick response engineering responses and recommendations for assigned external inquiries and taskings including

Congressional, GAO, international, DoD, and CCMD RFAs and RFIs.

a) Develop and staff technical papers, briefings, and responses to RFAs and RFIs.

Review the technical content of response packages for accuracy. Coordinate responses and supporting documentation for Agency senior leadership review and approval, and provide status updates.

b) Conduct technical analyses on assigned projects for external inquiries in coordination with the appropriate lead office, and provide analysis results.

c) Utilize the Government-provided WILMA model, analysts, and developers to assist with preparing red- and blue- force laydowns for RFI and RFA responses.

d) Collaborate with the warfighter to assess analysis requirements, adapt to emergent problems, form mutual expectations for product content, and assist with identifying whether analysis results are consistent with baseline RFA assumptions.

e) Obtain disclosure approval for products to be provided to foreign sources, and mark products in accordance with regulations and agency disclosure instructions including agreements. Prepare foreign disclosure approval request memorandums.

b. DER – The contractor shall support Engineering Directorate management including infrastructure and program controls. Provide technical assistance and analyses for personnel, business operations, and financial planning; and assist with developing and coordinating MDA/DE policies and procedures.

1) Conduct annual EFA infrastructure reviews to determine labor category and skill set

(competency) requirements. Perform gap analyses and provide analysis results.

Recommend resource re-allocation, education, and strategic plans to close gaps for engineering functions, processes, and reviews.

a) Collect, analyze, and update information on Government and contractor technical positions, education, experience, and skill sets. Identify, document, and resolve engineering resource utilization in coordination with MDA/DE subordinate managers, supported elements, and other functional managers; develop and maintain an engineering competencies dictionary; and prepare and disseminate

EFA status reports and analysis results.

b) Assist with formal approval of EFA requirements changes including MDA/DE matrix resources, update documentation, and process actions for approved EFA manpower changes.

2) Assist with system engineering program controls.

a) Support development of a common technical Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

b) Review and assess engineering and technical content accuracy and consistency, and recommend improvements for the Agency's Program of Record (PoR) and

MDA/DE’s budget documentation.

c) Analyze annual MDA/DE budget briefings. Review and assess technical content, recommend improvements, and provide reports and briefing materials.

d) Assist with the technical development, conduct, and execution of reviews of the

Program Objectives Memorandum (POM), President's Budget (PB), and Program

Baseline Review (PBR) for MDA/DE.

i) Prepare draft engineering templates for program budget exhibits.

e) Assist with developing annual MDS and MDA/DE program plans. Analyze current and projected MDS technical baseline content, and provide technical recommendations to align them in support of MDA/DE program planning.

Identify cross-cutting MDS integration issues that emerge during the annual budget planning process and recommend solutions. Provide briefings / briefing materials.

f) Review Agency program and functional budget documents, annual briefings, and

Congressional RFI responses for information to support MDS and Agency engineering program planning. Draft technical explanations, quad charts, and other supporting documentation for Agency engineering budget issue paper development. Track Agency engineering emerging program requirements, and provide briefings / briefing materials and analysis spreadsheets.

g) Analyze investment strategies; track investment options; and assist with POM and

PB exhibits and analyses, staffer day RFIs and briefings, and GAO interfaces.

3.3 TASK 3: Missile Defense System Engineering

a. CE – The contractor shall assist the MDS Chief Engineer with technical assessments and engineering analyses, technical and programmatic support for program integration with the MDS and related integration activities, failure investigations, ETRs, Flight Test (FT) and Ground Test (GT) reviews, and responses and recommendations for external inquiries.

1) Participate in system- and subsystem-level ETRs including SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, and

TRRs to ensure planned engineering implementations are consistent with intended initial requirements and concepts; and capability planning document developments and updates are based on results of technology development activities and system trade studies and analyses. Provide recommendations on entrance and exit criteria tailoring and objective evidence that supports the criteria.

a) Assist with developing and refining MDS technical content including architecture; functional, performance, design suitability, and interface requirements; and associated derived subsystem requirements.

b) Document feedback and impacts to the Technical Baseline in after action reports.

Track action items and recommend action item closure and COAs for system- and subsystem-level engineering technical reviews.

2) Assess test and evaluation concepts, planning, implementation, resource requirements, and evaluation results. Prepare reports and briefing materials for the

MDS countermeasures mitigation program, ground test planning, and emerging technology integration support; and review IMTP cost models and test event closure.

3) Participate in test reviews and assess compliance with assigned entrance and exit criteria or product inputs for each test phase review in accordance with approved GT and FT Concept of Operations (CONOPS) processes.

a) Maintain, update, and disseminate test documentation including exercise development documentation for tests, war games, and exercises.

b) Conduct test event scenario certification for tests, war games, and exercises.

c) Establish and maintain Extended Air Defense Simulation (EADSIM) Software

Change Requests (SCRs) and changes to master and program integration technical baseline documentation for tests, war games, and exercises.

4) Assist with technical assessments and engineering analyses for resource planning.

5) Assess internal and external executive correspondence and recommend technical edits; prepare technical correspondence and briefings for review and approval; and analyze read-ahead material, meeting minutes, synopses, and executive correspondence. Provide executive review EXSUMS, End-of-Event Briefing

Packages, and analysis results.

a) Assist with preparing and staffing engineering responses and recommendations for assigned external inquiries.

6) Prepare, present, and support pre-Integration and Synchronization Group (ISG) and pre-Program Change Board (PCB) briefings.

a) Prepare technical assessments, analysis presentations, briefings, and briefing materials on PCB and ISG topics. Recommend taskings and action item assignments on technical issues of concern.

b) Prepare, coordinate, and brief ISG and PCB highlights and look-ahead items.

7) Assess engineering products including resource plans, guidance, and correspondence from a strategic perspective for consistency with Agency mission, vision, goals, and objectives.

a) Identify and recommend alternative strategic approaches and visions for future execution.

b) Articulate strategic thinking and document results in briefings and other communications for the EFA.

c) Analyze strategies, goals, and objectives annually for the EFA; and provide analysis results.

8) Prepare and / or review the Agency’s technical position or engineering functional management position for technical documentation including briefings, presentations, information papers, decision memoranda, talking points, and opinion articles.

9) Assist with developing and modifying engineering and technical templates, and review engineering and technical content.

10) Monitor changes to the TBL and OCB for engineering impacts.

a) Analyze ISG engineering data, recommend briefing improvements, collect and review comments, and recommend comment adjudication actions for the ISG, Developmental Baseline Reviews (DBRs), and Technical Baseline Reviews

(TBRs).

b) Analyze Director’s Program Review (DPR) packages for TBL and OCB impacts, and develop impact statements.

c) Identify impacts to the TBL and OCB, document findings in summaries or impact statements for Integration Synchronization Center (ISC) analyst meetings, and provide insight and information regarding impacts to current activities for ISC core integration team meetings.

d) Assist with preparing, coordinating, and staffing baseline change requests, Change Request Forms (CRFs), and engineering CRF packages. Review and assess change request packages for technical impacts to the OCB, TBL, and other engineering equities.

e) Populate and maintain the OCB and TBL portals.

11) Collect suitability data for the Operational Test Agency’s (OTA) annual MDS assessment.

12) Assist with integrating FISR inputs from MDA elements. Track open, closed, and new failure investigations including Agency and element-level FRBs and element issues; and compile weekly and annual FISR metrics.

b. CED – The contractor shall support development of MDA/DE policies and procedures for FRBs, ETRs and associated products.

1) Guide and facilitate development and execution of ETRs including SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, Qualification Readiness Reviews (QRRs), TRRs, and Software Specification

Requirement Reviews (SSRRs).

a) Coordinate and track reviews of objective evidence.

b) Recommend entrance and exit criteria tailoring and objective evidence that supports the criteria.

c) Participate in development and maintenance of instructions, standards, training materials, and support documents associated with the execution of ETRs.

2) Facilitate and participate in failure investigations, and coordinate technical documentation reviews. Provide smart books, web / portal pages, and POC lists.

a) Support system- and element-level failure investigations. Assist with planning, scheduling, and coordinating MDA/DE-approved FRB chairs and SMEs; and maintain documentation of approved and potential FRB chairs. Provide failure investigation charters, failure response plans, and smart books.

b) Provide FRB facilitator support.