Attachment_1_-_Performance_Work_Statement_22_May_2019.pdf

U.S. Air Force 26th Special Tactics Squadron Tactical Weapons Employment Training

Performance Work Statement 22 May 2019

1. BACKGROUND. The 26th Special Tactics Squadron (26th STS) requires contract support to provide personnel with sustainment and enhancement of existing operational ability to produce operators proficient in assault principles and to meet pre-deployment required training objectives. The 26th STS globally deploys personnel in support of regional unified commanders requiring those Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) assignments in support of their organizational Mission Essential Task List (METL). As an operational component providing personnel to various Special Operations Forces (SOF), the 26th STS requires outsourced training in order to meet its training requirements. The contractor will provide expert instruction in all aspects of assault principles; ensuring each ST operator is proficient in the core skills relevant to missions executed by the SOF units that Special Tactics partner with.

2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES. As directed by the 720th Special Tactics Group (STG), course graduates will be highly proficient with individual and team advanced handgun/carbine tactics prior to deployment. Flat range training will be provided by the contractor focusing on the fundamentals of carbine and pistol shooting as well as techniques on how to overcome weapons malfunctions. Training how to shoot from within and around vehicles can be incorporated with the flat range shooting. Close Quarters Battle (CQB) fundamentals will focus on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) currently in use by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Having instructors that have worked and trained with the JSOC within the last 2 years, is absolutely critical. ST, as an organization, is currently in the process of reorganizing so that our structure mirrors that of Special Mission Units. This is particularly important because Airmen from the 720th STG can be ordered to augment and support missions with JSOC and need to integrate seamlessly. Additionally, advanced mission planning instruction and case studies with lessons learned will provide team members the skills necessary for any operation whether they are a part of a Special Tactics Team (STT) or a fielded Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC). ST Airmen may be required to use various charges to breach locked or barricaded entryways. Baseline training utilizing modern mechanical and explosive breaching techniques/procedures will be provided and included in varying scenarios. Following all training, instructors will provide a dynamic and realistic Full Mission Profile (FMP) scenario for the team to apply the skills learned and honed throughout the previous training days. Ensuring optimal instruction and safety concerns are mitigated, an appropriate instructor to student ratio detailed below per training requirement will be upheld. The 26th STS requires three separate periods of performance to be executed from 16 – 29 June, 07 – 20 July, and 16 - 29 Aug 2019. The SOW is written to be flexible on execution of the three specified periods of performance required to accomplish training objectives.

2.1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. The contractor shall provide training in accordance with the following:

2.1.1 AFI 13-219, Combat Control and Special Tactics Officer Training, Volumes 1 and 2

2.1.2 AFSOCI 36-2204, Special Tactics Operator Training

2.1.3 USSOCOM Directive 350-29, Special Operations Forces

2.1.4 Ranger Handbook

2.1.5 TCCC and care under fire medical training incorporated into Full Mission Profiles

2.1.6 720 STG CQB SOPs

2.2 COURSE REQUIREMENTS. The contractor shall provide three (3) iterations of individual periods of training. The first period will consist of 80 hours of training over 14 training days and 20 students, the second period will consist of 80 hours of training over 14 days of training and 20 students, the third period will consists of 80 hours of training over 14 days and 20 students. All periods will focus on assault principles specific to the unique mission sets ST operators participate in and may consist of extended days and training preparation over the weekend and training execution on the weekend depending on weather delays. The course will provide TTP development opportunities, focusing and instructing specifically on the TTPs that are already being implemented by other ST units.

2.2.1 The course staff must have at least 3 years experience at a tier one unit holding positions at the team level; to include team member, troop leader, team leader, and/or troop Commander.

Which are expertly familiar with the Special Tactics mission set and the skills necessary to execute that mission. Specifically, staff should have experience in conducting partnered SOF assault missions, recce, low profile operations, assault zone surveys, as well as ST TTPs.

2.2.2 The course shall aim to provide the highest increase in level of capability in the shortest amount of time possible, to execute required Full mission profiles, recce profile operations, and low profile operations.

2.2.3 Training shall focus on producing operators of all ranks capable of planning and executing partnered assault operations in addition to small scale assault zone seizure scenarios.

2.2.4 The course shall not be in the lecture format. A ‘learn by doing’ approach shall be used in conjunction with an advanced learning philosophy, repetition, varying degrees of stressors and all practical learning environments.

2.2.5 The course shall focus on leadership, communication, and complex problem solving while maintaining momentum in a hostile urban environment.

2.2.6 The course shall stress team cohesiveness, unity of effort, standard operating procedure/immediate action drill reliance, and task organization.

2.2.7 The course shall prepare each student to independently, rapidly, and decisively engage an unknown enemy threat in an urban area – lethality and survivability shall be significantly enhanced.

2.2.8 The course shall be empirical in nature and is designed to get progressively more challenging and complex as the week progresses.

2.2.9 The course shall be “mission focused” and must significantly improve the student’s competency in operating as part of a SOF assault element as well as a unilateral ST team effort.

2.2.10 Upon completion, a course graduate is able to quickly integrate across units and branches of U.S. and coalition forces currently executing overseas contingency operations.

2.2.11 Training schedule for all three periods of performance, periods can be executed be executed from 16 – 29 June, 07 – 20 July, and 16 - 29 Aug 2019.

Period 1: 14 training days and 20 students (Baseline Close Quarters Battle)

Training Day 1 Travel and setup day Training Days 2 Flat Range Training/Weapons Manipulation/Malfunction Clearing Training Days 3-5 SMUT/MOUT Training Days 6-8 Close Quarters Battle (CQB) Training Days 9 Troop Breaching Training Days 10 (CQB) Breaching Integration Training Day 11-13 Full Mission Profile Training Day 14 Debrief and Travel

Period 2: 14 training days and 20 students (Troop SMUT/MOUT/CQB)

Training Days 2 Flat Range Training/Weapons Manipulation/Malfunction Clearing Training Days 3-5 SMUT/MOUT Training Days 6-8 Close Quarters Battle (CQB) Training Days 9 Troop Breaching Training Days 10 (CQB) Breaching Integration

Period 3: 14 training days and 20 students (Troop SMUT/MOUT/CQB)

Training Days 2 Flat Range Training/Weapons Manipulation/Malfunction Clearing Training Days 3-5 SMUT/MOUT Training Days 6-8 Close Quarters Battle (CQB) Training Days 9 Troop Breaching Training Days 10 (CQB) Breaching Integration

2.3 TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.

2.3.1 Flat Range Training. Flat range training will be designed to develop a sound base/foundation concentrating on the fundamentals of combat marksmanship in order to predictably and efficiently apply these skills when called upon to do so.

2.3.1.1 Instructor to student ratio of at least 1:6 to provide combined assessment and performance evaluated courses of fire to sustain and enhance the requisite levels of knowledge, understanding, and basic combat marksmanship skills in the below listed subject areas:

• Combat Pistol Marksmanship Safety

• Combat Pistol Fundamentals

• Pistol and Rifle Safety and Manipulations / Handling

• Drawing from Concealed Carry Locations

• Equip. & Clothing Considerations for Concealed Carry

• Holster Selection & Options

• Location Options for Concealed Carry

• Reloading techniques

• Type I/II/III Malfunctions, Stoppages and Immediate/Remedial Actions

• Tactical Firing Positions

• Rapid Aimed Firing Techniques / Recoil Management

• Multiple Target Engagement Techniques

• Multiple Targets at Adverse Angles

• Shooting on the Move

• Low Light and Near Low Light Firing Techniques

• Range Time to make up 80% of the total curricula provided

2.3.2 Small Unit Tactics (SMUT)/Military Operations Urban Training (MOUT).

SMUT/MOUT training will be designed to focus on the tactical movement of fire teams (5 men), elements (9 men), and flights (20 men) in both urban and non-urban environments.

2.3.2.1 Instructor to student ratio of at least 1:10 to provide combined assessment and performance evaluated courses of fire to sustain and enhance the requisite levels of knowledge, understanding and basic-advanced urban combat marksmanship skills in the below listed subjects:

• Movement in Linear Formation

• Movement in Column Formation

• Movement in Wedge Formation

• Immediate Action Drills

• Movement Towards Contact

• Movement Away from Contact

• Ambush Techniques

• Establishing a Defensive Perimeter

• Urban Environment – Moving from Building to Building

• Urban Environment – Crossing Streets

• Use of TTPs and Terrain to Negate Enemy Advantages

• Identifying and Selecting the Appropriate Movement Technique for Terrain

2.3.3 Close Quarters Battle (CQB). Refresher tactics training designed to develop, sustain and enhance the basics to advanced skills of dismounted rural/urban movement techniques and CQB tactics in a semi to non-permissive combat environments. The contractor shall place emphasis upon actions in the objective area.

2.3.3.1 CQB Tactics SMEs/Instructors capable of providing recent/relevant instruction in the following subject areas:

• Pre-assault Preparations

• Tactical Movement to Entry Point(s) Review

• Actions at the Entry Point

• Single, Double Stack and 6 Man Tactics/Procedures Review

• Courtyard Entries to Indigenous Compounds Review

• Threat, Non-threat and Unknown Processing

• Marking Procedures

• Large Room Procedures

• Hallway Procedures

• Ls, Ts, & 4 way Procedures

• Last Room Procedures

• Immediate/Emergency Assaults

• Consolidation & Evacuation Preparations

• Rural/Urban Movement Techniques

2.3.4 Basic Breaching Training. Breaching Training will be designed to enable the members and specialized elements of the force to refine their skills with respect to Breaching/Dynamic Entry. This module shall complement the marksmanship and tactics phases by providing foundational knowledge about constructing and employing fundamental breaching charges to defeat doors encountered in today’s combat environments. The module shall be designed to focus on those charges that are most often carried and used by SOF teams in both the US Army and Navy. The contractor shall have or make provisions to configure a structure to replicate the types of doors/structures team members will encounter.

2.3.4.1 Contractor shall provide a Master Breacher capable of providing amplifiable instruction, and requisite safety as required to assist and supervise the team member’s developmental, refinement and enhancement of their existing mechanical and explosive breaching skills

2.3.4.2 SME / Instructor to student ratio of 1:5 for breaching to provide combined assessment and performance evaluated exercises to develop, sustain, and enhance the basic skills in the below listed subject areas.

• Basic Breacher Modules

• Interior Explosive Breaching

• Exterior Explosive Breaching

• Ballistic Breaching

• Mechanical Breaching

• Curriculum, demonstration and practical application to support the following performance objectives:

o Target Analysis o Priming Systems Review o Charge Calculations / Net Explosive Weight (NEW) o Charge Construction and Placement Review o Minimum Safe Distances o Misfire / Failed Breach Procedures o Breachers Responsibilities o Mechanical Breaching Techniques o Ballistic Breaching Techniques o Specialty Target Considerations

2.3.5 Full Mission Profile Situational Training Exercise (FMP). FMPs will be designed to fully integrate and evaluate the skills acquired/refined/enhanced during the preceding days of training. Scenarios will include the use of multiple target/mission sites to include a theater specific MOUT site and role players to closely replicate the operational situations these forces can expect to encounter in-country. Scenarios shall be derived from the frequently executed mission profiles that Special Tactics Units/Detachments are currently experiencing in theater.

Live patients and training aids will be incorporated into the FMP for sustainment and enhancement of operational capabilities securing and treating wounded personnel procedures.

Emphasis of this culminating phase of the training package is on correct procedural performance and timely, efficient, successful execution of TTPs.

2.3.5.1 Contractor shall provide SMEs/Instructors in sufficient quantity to effectively design, monitor, assess and evaluate the fully integrated operational scenarios of the force being trained for all aspects of the FMP. FMP training objectives shall include at a minimum:

• Mission Tasking, Mission Planning using MDMP, COA Development/Analysis

• Movements to Target Areas

• Actions in the Objective Area and on the Objective

• Exploitation of Target Sites

• Evacuation & Exfiltration

• Actions on Reception and Debrief

• Live Fire and Force on Force Simulated Munitions (SESAMS) Exercises

2.4 INSTRUCTOR REQUIREMENTS.

2.4.1 Contractor Provided Exercise Support Personnel Requirements. Contractor will provide all vetted role players to perform scripted support to exercises and scenarios during the tactics oriented blocks of instruction and the FMP.

2.4.1.1 Contractor will supply real time C2 of the opposition force during all scenarios and exercises

2.4.1.2 Contractor will provide theater specific garments and equipment items

2.4.1.3 Instructors considered highly qualified if they possess experience as an operator within US Army Special Forces, US Naval Special Warfare, USAF Combat Control, or Special Missions Units and have conducted urban operational profiles during GWOT. Resume(s) or Bio(s) must be provided with the technical proposal for lead instructor(s).

2.4.1.4 Contractor will provide backside support for shoot house re-configuration cycles, including re-facing targets, re-hanging doors, and associated tasks.

2.4.2 Subject Matter Expertise. The contractor will provide instructors with the following credentials to ensure quality training results are achieved:

• Instructor mobility in order to cater to specific range, locale and environment requirements

• Prior Team Leader or higher leadership experience with JSOC to ensure seamless integration between unit SOPs

• Instructors must have completed or been an instructor for the Operator Training Course in order to ensure training standards are met and the accuracy/legitimacy of the TTPs being taught are in line with those that are used within the 720h STG

• Special Tactics operational Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) are dynamic in nature, and training must continuously evolve and be refined in order to stay current with the battlefield threat level and terrain. This level of experience ensures that the contractor is capable of providing a fluid curriculum which is responsive to emergent requirements.

• Deliberate and time sensitive mission planning processes involving case studies and lessons learned

• Provide safe and efficient instruction for up to 20 students

• Pistol and rifle manipulation and safety

• Shooting flat range targets at a distance of up to 100 meters

• Day and night firing tactics

• Tactics of shooting while moving and shooting simultaneously with others

• Federally Certified Firearms Instructors

• Federally Certified Advanced Weapons Systems Instructors

• Federally Certified Live Fire Shoot House Instructors

• US Military Certified Master Breacher

• Program of Instruction (POI) must be available for review upon tech proposal

2.5 MINIMUM CONTRACTOR FACILITY REQUIREMENTS. The contractor’s training location shall be located within the Continental United States and possess, at a minimum, ranges, training areas and facilities to fulfill the training and logistical requirements of this PWS. Facility description must be included in the technical proposal and vender must provide proof of facility availability during periods of performance.

2.5.1 Minimum of 8-lane reactive target range with a variety of pistol and carbine capable pneumatic, automated, programmable steel targets.

2.5.2 Minimum of 75yd, 20-lane – remote controlled pistol, carbine, and rifle range

2.5.3 Minimum of 150yd, 40-lane – reactive limited exposure, multiple head plate/breastplate and running target steel arrays. Range shall be capable of providing individual firing lanes that present a vast array of target choices and behaviors

2.5.4 Minimum of 300yd, 270⁰ multipurpose range of approximately 21,000 sq. feet that facilitates scenario focused live-fire or simunitions exercises to refine, enhance, or validate the force’s SOPs and Immediate Action Drills. Range should be capable of supporting simultaneous round robin stations as well as the execution of individual, team and detachment sized movements to contact, immediate action, and break from contact drills. Range should also possess adjacent at least two (2) and five (5) story multipurpose towers that allow exercises/drills involving elevated/over-watching target engagements to be safely and efficiently exercised and which are de-conflicted for safety by the contractor. Range should possess a variety of paper target stands and reactive steel targetry.

2.5.4.1 Adjoining Multipurpose Towers should have multi-level platforms with a variety of shooting positions available

2.5.5 Minimum of two stand-alone 360o fully ballistic to 7.62mm, interior and exterior explosive, mechanical and ballistic breaching capable shoot houses.

2.5.5.1 Both houses shall possess overhead catwalks for evaluative and observation purposes and be quickly reconfigurable to change house layouts in support of rapid house re-configuration cycles to minimize down time.

2.5.5.2 Houses shall be no greater than 20m apart to facilitate simultaneous multi-house assaults and be surrounded by minimum of 9’ walls with indigenous gates for in-theater realism

2.5.5.3 Houses shall possess multiple explosive exterior entry points and interior explosive and mechanical breaching points.

2.5.5.4 Compound wall shall possess multiple explosive and vehicular breach points (indigenous gates and breaching sections)

2.5.5.5 Compound wall shall possess multiple personnel vehicular ingress and egress points/gates

2.5.6 Minimum of two standalone breaching houses with adjacent indoor charge breakout and preparation area.

2.5.7 Minimum of 10-acre theater specific maneuver range that facilitates live fire and simmunitions movement profiles for the force to designated targets ISO situational training exercises.

2.5.8 Minimum of 30-acre theater specific MOUT complex with adjacent DZ and HLZ to support force on force FMP aspects of the training package.

2.5.9 Contractor’s facility will possess DoD compliant arms, ammunition storage rooms, magazines and bunkers IAW the DoD 5100.76-M (Physical Security Manual)

2.5.10 Contractor’s facility shall not have any day/night/weekend noise restrictions due to the type of training to be conducted

2.5.11 Contractor will provide on-site lodging to allow for the most available training time within the duty day. Contractor’s facility will possesses billeting structures large enough to house a minimum of 20 students in open-bay style buildings and will have a minimum of 1 semi-private room available for up to 4 SNCOIC/OIC/VIP personnel.

2.5.12 Billeting will have adequate shower, restroom and laundry facilities for same number of students within walking distance of the training areas

2.5.12.1 Billeting Units will be able to provide internet access and be compatible with DoD computer systems

2.5.12.2 Billeting units shall possess a team room large enough for gear storage and with enough tables and chairs to accommodate 20 students

2.5.13 Contractor’s facility will possess a dining facility large enough to serve a minimum of 20 students within a short walk from the billeting units

2.5.14 Contractor’s facility shall possess a fully functional gym complete with weights, nautilus machines, treadmills, medicine balls, kettle bells and other appropriate weight lifting equipment in order to ensure physical fitness may be kept up during training.

2.6 STUDENT MEALS. Meals will be purchased by individual students via payment on their Government Travel Cards. If meals are not available for purchase on site, students will be given time to procure food each day or will bring rations for the day and the contractor shall schedule training around the meal periods through coordination with the on-site Government supervisory personnel.

2.7 MINIMUM CONTRACTOR MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS. The contractor shall provide the following:

• Explosives and expendables (caps, pins, hydrogel, det-cord, fuse, diversionary devices)

• Contractor will provide materials and consumables required to build one (1) external charges and seven (7) internal charges per student.

• All target materials to include stationary reactive steel, paper re-faces and specialty target arrays/systems

• Replacement doors and hardware for shoot house re-configuration cycles

• Contractor will provide all supplemental Sedan, SUV and Tactical Vehicle support for any driving, tactics training and FMP aspects of the package

• Fuel for vehicular platforms supporting training

2.8 GOVERNMENT PROVIDED TRANSPORTATION, ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT AND

MATERIALS. Unit specific items of equipment will be provided by the unit per their organizational table of equipment, i.e. 26 STS issued load-out items:

• Individual and team uniforms and equipment per SOPs & TE (Night Vision, Body

• Armor/Assault Vests, Optics, RCOS/Keyhole Suites, etc.)

• M4 Carbine, Pistol per student

• 25,000 rds 5.56mm Ball (M193)(1,500 per student)

• 25,000 rds.9mm Ball(1,500 per student)

• 7500 rds. 5.56mm simmunitions (200 per student)

• Required CQB diversionary devices (min 15 per student)

• All communications equipment items, GPS, NVGs, and specialty NavAid electronics

• Transportation of personnel and things to the awarded contractor’s training complex