CAF DMO Industry Day Questions.pdf

Industry Day One on One Questions (Verbal responses, can follow up with written responses by 5 Dec 22)

1. How would your organization transition from the incumbent contractor?

a. Briefly describe your approach to staffing

b. Personnel security accesses (this is Special Access Program) are required. Does your company have any experience obtaining SAP Clearances?

c. A Special Access Program Facility (SAPF) will be required right away.

Does your company have experience obtaining SAPF accreditation?

d. Describe the duration needed for transition (the time in which it will take to build up from zero to 100+ sites).

2. Expected contract award is May 2024. Describe how your company would transition from the incumbent. Please consider that network down time should be avoided.

a. Describe (top level) your transition approach for if the software (to include the data rights and source code) and hardware was given as Government Furnished Equipment. Describe any factors/risks that might affect this timeline.

b. Describe (top level) your transition approach for if the software and hardware is not provided. Describe any factors/risks that might affect this timeline.

Transition plan Example: When could you have your “network operations center” operational inside of a SAPF? Would you incrementally transition portals, if so, how can network down time be avoided?

3. Can your company meet Top Secret/Sensitive compartmented Information and Special Access Program Security requirements?

4. The existing approximately 110 CONUS and OCONUS sites require maintenance, sustainment, and period technology refresh. Describe your ability to quickly procure, maintain and install equipment with minimal disruption to training

5. Describe your company’s experience with providing COMSEC services, key management, and remote management (from a central location) of all NSA-approved encryption equipment for a global network.

6. What life cycle logistics support challenges do you forsee?

7. Describe the risks you foresee in executing an effort of this scope. What steps will you likely take to manage these risks?

8. Discuss any other relevant topics, concerns, and information that will help the Government in forming an effective acquisition strategy.

Provide Written Responses by 5 Dec 22

9. Describe your company’s experience with successful execution of contracts providing secure global network services where all positions require security clearances (most positions require access to multiple special programs) detailing how a gap in service during the transition was avoided.

10. What recent and relevant experience does your organization have with developing and sustaining a world-wide network of training simulators? Include contract numbers, brief description of the work performed, period of performance and agency/organization supported.

11. Describe your company’s experience with providing global network services to both CONUS and OCONUS sites with multiple simultaneous virtual networks that are quickly established and reconfigured on-demand for daily distributed training.

12. Describe your organization’s experience with the JSIG, Risk Management Framework, Authorizations to Operate, Authorizations to Connect, and Interconnection Service Agreements.

13. Describe your company’s experience developing and testing Cross Domain Solutions and /or Multi-level Security Solutions.

14. Describe your company’s experience in networking training simulators and in working with interoperability mechanisms such as DIS, HLA, and TENA.

15. Describe your company’s experience with providing a turnkey network gateway that allows federates using DIS, HLA, and TENA to connect to the global network and interact in distributed training events as if they were using the same protocol

16. Describe your company’s experience with establishing, implementing, and maintaining tools for generating, manipulating, and managing training scenarios;

manipulating, managing and controlling exercises; analyzing network performance and PDU traffic; and manipulating and managing Federation Object Models.

17. Describe your company’s experience with establishing, implementing, and maintaining tools for managing test results and certifications of federates’ compliance with standards and tools that automate verification of compliance.

18. Describe your organization’s qualifications with respect to standards development, implementation, and compliance testing.

19. Describe your company’s experience with providing VTC bridge and scheduling services for multiple virtual LANs on a global network, and management of VTC systems