EWAAC Industry Enagement in prep for draft RFP__ 12 May 2021.pdf

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USAF seeking contracting tools to bake-in agility into our weapons systems AFPEO Weapons emphasizing agility into Strategic

Lines of Efforts AFPEO Weapons Priorities

Focus on the Warfighter – deliver capabilities needed today and tomorrow

Increase ACQTEMPO through speed and agility

Eglin Weapons Directorate is pursuing an agile and flexible contract vehicle because traditional FAR 15 methods are cumbersome and impede AFPEO priorities Proposed Contract Vehicle: Eglin Wide Agile

Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) based on FAR 16.5 methods

Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition - IDIQ Why?

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EWAAC

Vision for the IDIQ and General Approach

Multiple Award Contract (MAC) with broad contractor base of large and small businesses Full and Open Competition Decentralized ordering offers buying offices autonomy in order execution 10-year Ordering Period and High Ceiling (Approx. $46B - Notional)

Importance of implementing “digital trinity” in Weapons Primary pipeline to birth programs that are open, agile, and digital Digital standardization and transformation of efforts across portfolio

WOSA stds, Gov’t Ref Architecture, DevSecOps expectations, etc.

Contract may evolve as AFPEO priorities change

Senior leader advocacy for EWAAC as a “default” contracting tool for new efforts

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Anticipated Scope

Notional – Purely intended to engage with industry and subject to change.

Broad scope – essentially any work required by AFPEO Weapons and partners

Enterprise Analytics

• Portfolio Integration and Analysis

• Capitalizing on data fusion, analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision tools

• Contract Analysis

• Leveraging High-Performance Computing Centers

• Enterprise risk analysis

• Integrated enterprise capabilities analysis

• Enterprise interdependencies

• Workforce volatility analysis

• Industrial health/capacity analysis

• Enterprise DMS analysis

• Future threat/capabilities trade analysis

• Portfolio BCAs

• Supply chain risk assessment

• Cost per effectiveness analysis

• Inventory/production capacity vs capability analysis

Weapons portfolio-related support & analysis not covered by EPASS or TMAS. Potentially:

Anticipated EWAAC Focus Areas Primary Focus: Digital Trinity

Digital Engineering & Management Agile Software Open Architecture

Area 1: Weapons Trade Space & Capabilities Studies Prototyping & Experimentation Design & Development Production & Deployment

Area 2: Enterprise Analytics Business Intelligence (BI) Tools Data Mining & Transformation for BI Tools Concise Reporting & Analysis Products

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Meeting the Digital Trinity Requirement

AFPEO Weapons intent is to emphasize Digital Trinity throughout portfolio as standard practices

EWAAC is planned to focus on AFPEO Weapons intent while understanding that industry may be new to Digital Engineering, Agile Software, and Open Architecture

Contracts may be awarded to industry partners who can:

satisfy technical requirements in one of the two technical competencies (Weapons or

Enterprise Analytics); AND demonstrate proficiency in all three Digital Trinity components; OR submit a Roadmap as part of the proposal with plans to meet all Digital Trinity components before any Delivery Order can be awarded or a set notional timeline

Notional – Purely intended to engage with industry and subject to change.

Digital Engineering and Management – integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of systems' data and models

Agile Software – SW development characterized by division of tasks into short phases with frequent reassessment and adaptation

Open System Architecture – supporting a modular, loosely coupled, and highly cohesive system structure with key interfaces

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Proposals and Post-Award Conference

Notional – Purely intended to engage with industry and subject to change.

Initial Delivery Order enables potential involvement in future EWAAC contract awards for as much as a 10-year ordering period

Initial price proposals will be a written volume only, consisting of:

Total price NTE $1,000.00 to attend a virtual post-award conference Delivery of roster of personnel attending conference and promise to prepare meeting minutes Formal written technical capability statement NTE 18 pages, and includes:

details of proficiency in the technical focus areas (Area 1 and 2 – slide 3); AND details of Digital Trinity proficiencies; OR a road map with plans to meet all Digital Trinity components (if needed)

No oral presentations will be entertained Post-Award Conference will be virtual

Time-limited with minimal discussion Intent is to establish potential future relationship and educate on Digital Trinity and future of AFPEO Weapon’s goals Contractor to deliver meeting minutes

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POCs and Schedule

PCO: Stephen Gilligan Program Manager: Chris Moore Email stephen.gilligan.3@us.af.mil or cameron.white.8@us.af.mil with questions or comments

Milestone Date Release draft Request for Proposal (RFP) May 19th 2021 Comments on draft RFP due from industry June 2nd 2021 Synopsis posted on Beta.Sam June 10th 2021 Release final RFP June 25th 2021 Proposals due July 9th 2021 Draft contract(s) August 12th 2021 Projected contract award(s) August 26th 2021

Notional Schedule Subject to change mailto:stephen.gilligan.3@us.af.mil mailto:cameron.white.8@us.af.mil