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Industry Day Air Force Visible Accessible Understandable Linked Trusted (VAULT) Subject Matter Expert (SME) Support

Air Force District of Washington

PRIDE … TEAMWORK … SUCCESS

Welcome & Admin. Items The intent of today’s Industry Day is:

Enhance industry’s understanding of the requirement to leverage data as a strategic asset to improve operational effectiveness.

Enhance industry’s understanding of the need to ensure data is visible, accessible, understandable, linked and trusted across air, space and cyberspace domains.

Obtain useful and relevant feedback from industry before release of the formal solicitation Provide Industry an opportunity to meet with the US Government (USG) in closed one-on-one sessions to present information and seek clarification of any requirements Although proprietary/competition sensitive information is not sought in this setting, parties that intend to reveal such information must clearly identify it and any restrictions on its use by the USG

Avail yourself of this opportunity to engage in Q&A and present any information that you deem worthy for consideration Silence cell phones in meetings No photography / recordings during any event

DO NOT DISCUSS OR EXCHANGE ANY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

Side conversations in the lobby please No sales presentations - Focus is on ensuring data is visible, accessible, understandable, linked and trusted across air, space and cyberspace domains.

Information presented today may be subject to change and is not binding upon the Government

After the event, all questions, comments or concerns with the AF VAULT SME Support requirement shall be directed only to the AFDW Contracting focal points Parties that do not comply with this restriction may be excluded from any solicitation One-on-One Sessions are by prior registration only Schedule is very constrained – Be on time & Finish on time Please use the Questionnaire / Comment forms If you are here with a visitors pass, when the event /one-on-one session is complete, please leave the base immediately

INDUSTRY DAY AGENDA

Opening Remarks Ms. Sherri Hanson Air Force Chief Data Office Director of Operations

Source Selection Information See FAR 2.101 and 3.104

Air Force Chief Data Office Strategic Vector

Strategic Goals Mission - Harness the power of Air Force data for timely decision-making and mission success Vision - Shape a data-driven Air Force built on empowering Airmen to leverage timely, trusted, and quality data to make decisions at the speed of mission operations Vision & Mission

A Catalyst for Sharing Data Make data Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, and Trusted (VAULT).

Driving Data Capabilities Increase access to the right combination of state-of-the-art technologies needed to best utilize data.

Leading Data Culture Increase data use and literacy to improve efficiency and effectiveness of decisions, readiness, mission operations, and cybersecurity.

Data Support for Digital Air Force

Improved Readiness & Increased Mission Effectiveness Reduced Total Cost of Operations Improved Cyber Security Rapid, Accurate Data-Driven Decisions Outcomes of Digital Air Force

Data Driven Organization Knowing Data is core to a successful Digital Air Force

Strategy & Governance

Agile Execution

Rapid Innovation

Business Operations Reform

Future State of AF Data Increased Visibility Able to assess health and readiness because of increased access to data.

Opportunities Across the AF Data Landscape

Improved Analytics Capability Can perform robust analytics to make mission decisions.

Managing Data Growth Successfully managing and sharing higher volumes of data.

Leveraging these opportunities improves Air Force readiness and increases the effectiveness of the Digital Air Force

VAULT Expertise Support Goal Award a contract with industry partners to assist the AF with ensuring data is visible, accessible, understandable, linked and trusted across the air, space and cyberspace domains in order to support data-driven operational decisions

End State To provide the AF with core capabilities that leverage enterprise datasets as strategic assets to improve operational effectiveness

Source Selection Information See FAR 2.101 and 3.104 Contract Requirement VAULT SME Support Ms. Sherri Hanson

Chief Data Office Problem Space

The AF CDO sees the challenges in the context of the full functional scope of Enterprise Data Management disciplines and achieving targeted degrees of EDM Maturity…

Out of which Data Analytics is one piece of the overall problem space.

Source: CDO brief to USECAF, January 2019 Source: CDO AFDAWG Kickoff Brief, June 2018

Chief Data Office Approach Architecture & VAULT Data Platform Key Tenets Agile Approach Solution Priorities Cloud-Native Services First Open Source Software Second COTS Products Third – Minimize Licensed Software No Proprietary Solutions Cyber-secure Vendor Agnostic – Must not be reliant on one company Product Agnostic – Must allow for access to a variety of tools best suited to meet individual mission demands Flexible Architecture – Allows easy adoption of new tools and services while minimizing impact to the underlying data Utilize on-prem or off-prem services Decoupling of compute and storage

Delivery of Use Cases = Mission Value Personnel Readiness F-16 Utilization Master Exercise Calendar Nuclear Mission Manning Assessment F-16 Maintainer Workload Aircrew Crisis Task Force

Define Problem Identify, Capture, & Prepare Data Execute Analysis Deliver Results; Inform Architecture & Data Management SAF/CO’s Use Case driven approach leverages data and applied analytics to solve problems and drive mission innovation across the AF

Data Preparation & Architecture

Agile Algorithm Solutions Data Analytics Develop algorithms for execution on cloud and on-premise infrastructure to enable exploitation of USAF enterprise datasets to include production and experimental design that ensure maximum effectiveness to serve the USAF data consumers and enabling data integration and analysis across the enterprise.

Perform tasks necessary to transform data from its raw form into a format ready for consumption by the analytical and/or systems development communities in both cloud and on-premise environments. For example, develop data export standards and perform Extract-Transform-Load activities to maximize dataset exploitability.

Conduct data analytics using state-of-the-art mathematical and machine learning/artificial intelligence techniques to support exploitation and understanding of data across the enterprise in order to improve effectiveness in operations and support data-driven decisions.

Contract Requirement

Data Governance Provide expertise to develop data maturity models that account for the entire lifecycle, conduct maturity assessments, develop data models that support data management, apply design concepts to create reliable data storage environments, apply metadata management principles, develop data quality techniques that ensure data is fit for its intended purposes. Provide expertise in the areas of data stewardship, ownership, and data management policy that enable decision makers at all levels to make better operational and strategic decisions.

DRAFT

Acquisition Milestones and Key Issues Ms. Theresa Terry Contracting Officer

Source Selection Information See FAR 2.101 and 3.104

DRAFT Acquisition Strategy Contract Type: Multi-Award IDIQ Ceiling: ~$100-500M No minimum guarantee of work (outside initial task order) Off Ramping No more than 3 no-bids per year Poor performance 3 to 10 day responses to Task Order RFPs

DRAFT Acquisition Milestones Industry Day: 28-29 Oct 2019 Draft RFP: ~ December 2019 Issue solicitation: ~ January 2020 Receipt of proposals: ~ February 2020 Award: ~ April 2020 Ordering Period: ~ May 2020 – May 2025

* The above dates are estimates subject to change

Possible Labor Categories (LCAT) Data Scientist I, II, III Systems Engineer I, II, III Solution Architect I, II, III Data Analyst I, II, III Data Engineer I, II, III **Data Manager – Ancillary support, not primary LCAT **Program Manager – Each task order will have .25 FTE for PM support

Special Contract Requirements

Top Secret IDIQs Will require TS Facility Clearance at RFP Secret IDIQs Will require Secret Facility Clearance at RFP

DRAFT Acquisition Strategy The Government is considering a full tradeoff between non-price factors and price Anticipated award will be made to the offeror proposing the combination most advantageous to the Government based upon an integrated assessment of the evaluation factors and subfactors The Government may accept other than the lowest priced proposal or other than the highest technically rated proposal to achieve a best-value contract award The Government is considering a Firm Fixed Price Multiple Award IDIQ

Draft Evaluation Criteria Factors

Factor 1 – Technical

Factor 2 – Past Performance

Factor 3 - Price

Draft Evaluation Criteria(IDIQ) Factor 1 – Technical The Government will evaluate the offerors approach and methodology to provide a solution to the scenario.

Technical Subfactor 1 Corporate Experience The Government will evaluate the offeror’s provided examples of commercial corporate experience in support of similar tasks Factor 2 - Past Performance Similar Scope, Complexity, Magnitude Factor 3 - Price Realistic Professional Employee Compensation Plan, Fair, Reasonable, and Balanced Fully burdened hourly rates at the IDIQ level

Draft Evaluation Criteria(TO) Technical (Streamlined Rating):

Outstanding, Excellent, Good, Fair, Unacceptable Technical Approach (no more than 5 pages) Staffing Plan Price Based on approved pricing at IDIQ level

Questions????

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