B08 Attachment (1) - Statement of Objectives.docx

Statement of Objectives For Enhance Understanding of the Health Effects from Current and Emerging Weapon Systems – Characterize Risk, Type and Severity of Trauma to Inform Treatment Capabilities for the Future Operational Environment

1.0 Scope: The Medical Research and Development Command (MRDC), Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat (JTAPIC) requires a Gap Analysis report to support research Science and Technology (S&T) prioritization for operational medicine, to include Force Health Protection (FHP) from blast and blunt trauma, tactical combat casualty care and medical simulation and training.

2.0 Background: Joint All Domain Operations against peer and near peer adversaries will challenge our medical and non-medical forces, FHP capabilities, and potentially result in different types of injuries caused by emerging weapon systems that will be novel to current US medical personnel. The JTAPIC Program facilitates the collection, integration and analysis of injury outcome, materiel performance, and operational and intelligence data to improve the understanding of vulnerabilities to threats and to enable the development of improved protective equipment; vehicular equipment; and tactics, techniques and procedures that will prevent and/or mitigate combat injuries. The JTAPIC Information and Collaboration System utilizes a secure environment available on Secure Internet Protocol Router/Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router (SIPR/NIPR) that enables collaboration among JTAPIC partners to collect, integrate, analyze, and deliver decision support products using warfighter casualty data.

3.0 Objective: The purpose of this requirement is to use NIPR and SIPR networks to provide an unclassified integrated medical, material, operations and intelligence analysis product to develop and deliver accurate injury and survivability criteria to inform FHP criteria, readiness, and injury severity risk with future potential applications for treatment in future operating environment against near peer adversaries.

4.0 Performance Objectives:

1) Provide a Gap Analysis report to characterize risk and provide type and severity of trauma to inform treatment capability development for the future operational environment. This should include:

a) Collecting data from controlled database systems to integrate compartmentalized information resulting in an integrated and complete product for senior leader and staff use.

b) Consolidating lessons learned from the FY23 NDAA Section 736 Ukraine Partnership Program and the NATO Military Medicine Center of Excellence Lesson Learned Branch to better understand types of lethal threats, severity of trauma experienced, and how limited evacuation and resupply resources can affect survivability.

c) Developing accurate injury and survivability criteria that can inform FHP criteria and injury severity risk; inform treatment options for future conflict scenarios; and optimize Warfighter readiness for future combat scenarios against near peer adversaries.

d) Collaborating with the Defense Heath Agency Traumatic Brain Injury program personnel to gather information to expand and accelerate existing Behind Armor Blunt Trauma, Behind Helmet Blunt Trauma, Whole Body Blast Injury Criteria. This will be a collaboration and integration efforts across multiple DoD organizations and the Services.

5.0 Contract Administration:

1) Anticipated Period of Performance: 15 September 2025 – 14 September 2026.

2) Place of Performance: Performance is anticipated to be onsite at MRDC located at 810 Schreider Street, Fort Detrick, MD 21702.

3) Security Requirements: Contractor personnel accessing the controlled database systems require a secret clearance. Contractor personnel requiring a Secret clearance may begin work (with limitations) with an interim Secret clearance. A favorable final adjudication is required.

6.0 Outputs/Deliverables: Request the following outputs/deliverables:

1) Kickoff meeting with the Contractor and Contracting Officer Representative.

2) A draft report for the US Government’s review and input due by 1 July 2026.

3) A final Gap Analysis report provided to US Government due by 14 September 2026.

7.0 Operating Constraints:

1) Training: MRDC requires that all contract personnel complete the below annual MRDC mandatory training, which will be incorporated into the resulting contract. Specific training requirements will be coordinated through the COR. The contractor shall track all contract personnel’s training completion and provide monthly training compliance reports.

Contractor personnel will be required to complete additional training as required.

Security Training: The following training associated to Anti-Terrorism and Operational Security (AT/OPSEC) will be required of all contractors associated to this PWS at the Government’s expense (numbering matches original Antiterrorism/Operations Security Review Cover Sheet clauses that are required for this work):

AT Level I Training: All contractor employees, to include subcontractor employees, requiring access to Army installations, facilities and controlled access areas shall complete AT Level I awareness training within 30 calendar days after contract start date or effective date of incorporation of this requirement into the contract, whichever is applicable. The contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor employee and subcontractor employee, to the COR or to the contracting officer, if a COR is not assigned, within 5 calendar days after completion of training by all employees and subcontractor personnel. AT level I awareness training (JKO course: JS-US007) is available at the following website: https://jkodirect.jten.mil/pdf/atl1/launch.html.

Access and General Protection/Security Policy and Procedures: Contractor and all associated sub-contractors’ employees shall comply with applicable installation, facility and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative). The contractor shall also provide all information required for background checks to meet installation access requirements to be accomplished by installation Provost Marshal Office, Director of Emergency Services or Security Office. Contractor workforce must comply with all personal identity verification requirements as directed by DOD, HQDA and/or local policy. In addition to the changes otherwise authorized by the changes clause of this contract, should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) at any individual facility or installation change, the Government may require changes in contractor security matters or processes. For contractors that do not require CAC, but require access to a DoD facility or installation. Contractor and all associated sub-contractors employees shall comply with adjudication standards and procedures using the National Crime Information Center Interstate Identification Index (NCIC-III) and Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) (Army Directive 2014-05/AR 190-13), applicable installation, facility and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative), or, at OCONUS locations, in accordance with status of forces agreements and other theater regulations.

iWATCH Training: The contractor and all associated sub-contractors shall brief all employees on the local iWATCH program (training standards provided by the requiring activity ATO). This locally developed training will be used to inform employees of the types of behavior to watch for and instruct employees to report suspicious activity to the COR. This training shall be completed within 30 calendar days of contract award and within 30 calendar days of new employees commencing performance with the results reported to the COR NLT 40 calendar days after contract award.

AT Awareness Training for Contractor Personnel Traveling Overseas: Specific AOR training content is directed by the combatant commander with the unit ATO being the local point of contact.

Annual Security Awareness Training: Per DoD Manual 5200.01, Volume IV, DoD Information Security Program: all personnel within a DoD organization -- i.e., military members, DoD civilians, and on-site support contractors must complete once every 365 days. The on-line training is available at the JKO website under the course name DHA-US438.

DoD Cyber Awareness Challenge training: Contractor and all associated sub-contractors’ employees shall initially complete within thirty (30) calendar days of reporting for duty and thereafter once every 365 calendar days. The on-line training is available at the JKO website under the course name DOD-US1363-24.

Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Initial and Annual training all personnel within a DoD organization -- i.e., military members, DoD civilians, and on-site support contractors -- must complete DoD Information Security Program training initially within thirty (30) calendar days of reporting for duty and thereafter once every 365 calendar days. The on-line training is available at the JKO website under the course name, Initial training DHA-US1338 and Annual training DHA US1339.

Threat Awareness and Reporting Program (TARP) Training: All contractor employees, regardless of whether or not they possess a security clearance, must complete TARP training on an annual basis per MRDC command directive. The training can be conducted face-to-face in a classroom setting or on-line. The supported military organization will coordinate all face-to- face training. Personnel may access the on-line training via the JKO website under the course name, Joint Staff Operational Security (OPSEC).

Contractor Employees Who Require Access to Government Information Systems: All contractor employees with access to a government info system must be registered in Annual Training Module (AMT) in JKO at commencement of services, and must successfully complete the DoD Information Assurance Awareness and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) training prior to access to the information systems and annually thereafter.

Operations Security: Contractor employees must complete Level I OPSEC training within 30 calendar days of their reporting for duty. All contractor employees must complete annual OPSEC awareness training. Personnel may access the training via JKO website under the course name Joint Staff Operational Security (OPSEC) JKO course JS-US009.

Information assurance (IA)/information technology (IT) training: All contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees must complete the DoD IA awareness training before issuance of network access and annually thereafter. All contractor employees working IA/IT functions must comply with DoD and Army training requirements in DoDD 8570.01, DoD 8570.01-M and AR 25-2 within six months of employment.

Anti-Terrorism Force Protection training: All contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees must complete within 30 days of start date.

Operations Security (OPSEC) training: All contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees must complete within 30 days of start date.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) training: Contractor and all associated sub-contractors’ employees shall initially complete within 30 days of reporting for duty and thereafter once every 365 calendar days.