BAA-AFRL-RQKS-2015-0009-IndustryDay2.pdf

18 August 2015

Air Force Research Laboratory

Integrity Service Excellence

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AFRL/RYWA

Avionics Vulnerability Mitigation Branch

Sensors Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

Mission Systems Open

Architecture Science &

Technology (MOAST)

BAA-AFRL-RQKS-2015-0009

12 Aug 2015

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Program Objective

Conduct exploratory, applied, and advanced research and development to evolve and expand emerging open architecture standards and approaches for current and next-generation Air Force weapon systems

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Anticipated Acquisition Strategy

• Anticipated Period of Performance

– 60 months ordering period

– 84 months total performance

• Value: $48M

• Anticipated Number of Awards: Two or more

– IDIQ

– C-type contracts

– Anticipated Award Date: February 2016

• Is this a follow-on?

– No

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Intellectual Property

• Associate contractors agreements may be required

• AFRL expects unlimited rights with this effort

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Security

• Work up to TS/SCI, SAP

• No classified proposals

• Export control restrictions apply

• No Foreign participation

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Performance Location

• Research and development can occur either onsite at AFRL or at appropriately equipped contractor facilities

• RYWA will strive for a strong onsite R&D program, leveraging offsite R&D specialists as needed to maximize productivity

• Integration and test must be performed on-site

– Integration is expected to occur throughout the performance of the research, not just at the end of the effort

– Developed technology must be integrated with other products and technologies in the MOAST laboratory

– Incremental developments will be delivered and integrated for test, demonstration, experimentation purposes

– The goal is demonstration of the capabilities, test of developed technology, and experimentation with developed technology

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Facilities and Resources MOAST Lab

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Scope

• Advance the state-of-the-art in open architecture standards, approaches, technologies, and tools

• MOAST includes integration of mission-critical and flight-critical systems on manned and unmanned platforms, as well as ground systems

• Technical solutions at the component, system, and system of systems are of interest

• Initial focus is on OMS and UCI family of open architecture standards, but other standards are within scope

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Goals

• Provide mature, robust open architecture solutions for current and next-generation Air Force weapon systems

– Enable affordable capability evolution

– Simplify integration

– Avoid vendor lock

– Promote innovation

– Provide options for legacy system migration

• Ensure open architecture solutions accommodate “built-in” cybersecurity features

• Promote interoperability with other open architecture standards

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Objectives

• Evolve and expand OMS and UCI standards to accommodate additional platform challenges

• Develop innovative, affordable avionics cybersecurity technologies to augment OSA implementations

• Explore emerging concepts for future OSA implementations

• Conduct advanced technology demonstrations of mature open architecture capability

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Technical Areas of Interest

• Evolution of Open System Architecture Standards

• Cyber Resiliency of Open System Architectures

• Open System Architecture Emerging Concepts and Technologies

• Open System Architecture Risk Reduction Studies and Experimentation

• Open System Architecture Advanced Technology Demonstrations