ATS_Brief_for_Industry_Final-_Post.pdf

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AFOTEC

Briefing for Industry Lt Col Raymond Bernal

Approved for Public Release: Distribution Unlimited. AFOTEC Public Affairs Public Release Number 2015-02

9 June 2016

Purpose

• Provide AFOTEC overview

• Provide procurement opportunity

Overview

• Vision

• Mission

• Scope and Responsibilities

• Organization

• AFOTEC Test Services (ATS) Contract Approach

• Organizational Conflict of Interest

AFOTEC Vision

Test and Evaluate New Capabilities in

Operationally Realistic

Environments to Inform Warfighters and Influence National Resource

Decisions

AFOTEC Mission

Scope and Responsibilities

• Independent Operational Test

Agency for the Air Force

– Reports directly to CSAF

• Operationally test all Acquisition Category I, II, MOT&E, & DOT&E oversight programs

– Required by USC Title 10

– Guidance & direction from DoD

5000-series and Air Force Instruction (AFI 99-103)

– ACAT I

> $480M RDT&E

> $2.79B Procurement

– ACAT II

> $185M RDT&E

> $835M Procurement

AFOTEC Organization

CC

CV

DSCOMMAND SUPPORT

CEM CCJ CCE CCP CCX CVO CVI

Det 2 Det 4 Det 5 Det 6Det 1

DIRECTORATES

A1 A2/9 A3 A5/8 A6A4/7

ED

LIAISON OFFICERS

JSF JPO

ADVISORS

LC PA SE HO SB*CA

AFOTEC Personnel

275 Officers

118 Enlisted

245 Civilians

638 Authorized

156 Contractors Authorized

Today’s AFOTEC

AFOTEC Headquarters Kirtland AFB

Operating Location Kelly Field, TX

Detachment 5 Edwards AFB

Joint Strike Fighter Program Office Arlington, VA

Detachment 2 Eglin AFB

Detachment 4 Peterson AFBOperating Location

Vandenberg AFB, CA

Space and Missile Systems Center Los Angeles AFB, CA

Detachment 1

Operating Location Everett, WA

Operating Location Hurlburt Field, FL

Detachment 6 Operating Location Nellis AFB, NV

Operating Location Buckley AFB, CO

Operating Location Marietta, GA

HQ AFOTEC

AFOTEC Headquarters Kirtland AFB, NM

Operating Location Kelly Field, TX

• Cyber Assessment Program and NucDEW Survivability Services

• Works with other OTAs, all MAJCOMs, NORTHCOM, and PACOM

AFOTEC Det 2

Det 2 Eglin AFB, FL

• Tests Weapons, EW, Navigation, IT, CBRN, and Command & Control

• Works with Air Combat Command, AF Global Strike Command, AF

Materiel Command, US Army, and US Navy

AFOTEC Det 4

Detachment 4 Peterson AFB, CO

• Tests Space, Cyberspace, Missile and Missile Defense

• Works with AF Space Command, AF Materiel Command, US Strategic

Command, AF Global Strike Command, US Navy, US Army, Missile Defense Agency, International Partners (UK, Netherlands, Canada)

14th Air Force Vandenberg AFB, CA

Space and Missile Systems Center Los Angeles AFB, CA

460th Space Wing Buckley AFB, CO

AFOTEC Det 5

Detachment 5 Edwards AFB, CA

• Tests Bomber and Mobility aircraft, C2ISR, Training and Special Ops

• Works with AF Materiel Command, Air Combat Command, Air

Education and Training Command, AF Global Strike Command, Air Mobility Command and AF Special Operations Command

Operating Location Everett, WA

Operating Location Hurlburt Field, FL

Test Process

• Early Influence

– Review and refine requirements ensuring they are testable

• Initial OT&E Planning

– Identify operational environment and long-lead items

• OT&E Planning

– Develop most rigorous test (DOE) with given resources

• OT&E Execution

– Conduct from user’s perspective Concept of operations (CONOPS) Concept of employment (CONEMP)

– Evaluate in an operationally realistic environment

• OT&E Reporting

– Informs the acquisition community and the warfighter

Procure AFOTEC’s centrally-managed non-personal, Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) for Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) focusing on engineering, technical, analytical, cybersecurity, and incidental test services to plan, execute, and report OT&E on AF program capabilities at HQ, Det 2, Det 4, and Det 5 locations

Solicitation #: FA7046-16-R-0003 Estimated value of $93.5M Five year period of performance Small Business Set Aside Multiple award, ID/IQ Cost Plus Fixed Fee task orders Acquisition Strategy approved 19 May

Tentative Schedule

Draft RFP Jun 2016

Final RFP Aug 2016

Receive Proposals Sep 2016

Award Contract Apr 2017

AFOTEC Test Services (ATS)

• Core Competencies

– Aeronautical/aerospace, civil, electrical, metallurgical, mechanical, chemical, cyber, computer/communications, software, and systems engineering expertise

– Agile Combat Support expertise (aircrew flight equipment, force protection, logistics, support equipment, ground equipment, motor vehicles, aerospace ground equipment)

– Air Force Cybersecurity Assessment Program (CAP) Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Multi-disciplinary Security, Joint Exercises, Joint Planning, exercise training objective development, Joint Lessons Learned

– Aircraft and aircraft systems expertise (avionics, radar, simulators, air-refueling, bombers, mobility, special operations aircraft, helicopters, and remotely piloted aircraft (RPA))

– Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) expertise (decontamination, defense, detection, diagnostics, identification, modeling, personal protection, recovery, survivability, warning)

• Core Competencies (continued)

– Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) expertise (Air Operations Center (AOC), radar, RPAs, intelligence analysis of signals and geo-spatial)

– Cyberspace systems expertise (business systems, cyber-protection, cyber-defense, cyber-attack, finance systems, information systems, medical records systems, mission planning systems, personnel systems)

– Defense acquisition process and T&E process expertise (early involvement, operational capability requirements development, planning, execution, reporting)

– Directed energy, high power microwave, hypersonics, autonomous operations and advanced technologies expertise

– Electromagnetics (electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic interference)

– Electronic warfare, radar, infra-red, electro-optical, radio frequency, and sensor fusion expertise (active, passive, counter measures, counter-counter measures, intercept systems, missile warning systems, autonomous decoys, towed decoys, sensors, simulations, modeling, threat analysis)

– Global Positioning System expertise (Operations, threats)

– Human factors engineering expertise (Engineering psychology, behavioral science)

– Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Operations and

Maintenance expertise (weapons systems command and control, booster guidance, reentry systems, munitions infrastructure, integrated logistics support, Ground Based Strategic Defense

(GBSD))

– Cybersecurity, Risk Management Framework, Information

Assurance, and intelligence test and evaluation expertise (protection, defense, detection, recovery)

– Logistics planning and analysis expertise (availability, compatibility, transportability, interoperability, reliability, maintainability, supportability, life cycle management, and deficiency reporting)

– Modeling and Simulation (M&S) applications expertise (distributed test capabilities; verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A))

– Munitions and munitions systems expertise (air-to-air, air-to-ground, conventional, fuzes, build-up and load, guidance systems, nuclear, release/launch systems, stand-off weapons, sub-munitions)

– Nuclear survivability expertise (High-Altitude Electromagnetic

Pulse)

– Operations analysis expertise (math, statistics, design of experiments, reliability growth, data analysis)

– Space and terrestrial weather expertise

– Space systems test and evaluation expertise (radar, communications, command and control, Global Positioning System, missile defense, overhead persistent infrared)

– Technology test support expertise (computers, networking, instrumentation, web support)

– Test and evaluation resources expertise (manpower, ranges, simulators, labs, specialized test facilities, instrumentation)

– Threat system analysis and intelligence test and evaluation expertise

• Estimated value of $93.5M

• Five year period of performance

• Multiple award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity

• Cost plus fixed fee task orders

• POCs:

– Ms. Kay L. Davis, Chief of the Contracting Office, kay.davis@us.af.mil

– Ms. Linda Buix, Contracting Officer, linda.buix@us.af.mil

– Ms. Esther Archuleta, Contract Specialist, esther.archuleta@us.af.mil

Jo Ann Stringfield AFOTEC Legal Counsel

09 June 2016

Organizational Conflict of Interest

Introduction

“Organizational Conflict of Interest means that because of other activities or relationships with other persons, a person is unable or potentially unable to render impartial assistance or advice to the Government, or the person’s objectivity in performing the contract work is or might be otherwise impaired, or a person has an unfair competitive advantage.”

FAR 2.101

Conflict of Interest

• Conflicts of Interest - Personal and Organizational

−Personal Conflict of Interest FAR Part 3 Joint Ethics Regulation

−Organizational Conflict of Interest FAR SubPart 9.5

• Unequal Access to Information

• Biased ground rules

• Impaired Objectivity Key concern

−OT&E specific provision 10 U.S.C. §2399

Key concern DoD IG Report D-2010-024

Impaired Objectivity OCI 2016

• GAO decision ASM Research – B-412187 − VA awarded $10M task order to Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) under a multiple award ID/IQ contract for IT − Task order for one “enclave” of Mobile Infrastructure Services

(MIS) for medical providers, veterans and staff − Protest by ASM claiming BAH had an unmitigatable OCI because BAH was judging its own work GAO agreed with protestor Impaired Objectivity exercise of judgment by a contractor and the economic interests of the firm may distort the free and unbiased exercise of judgment

Contractor Impartiality in OT&E

• 10 USC §2399 (d): Impartiality of contractor / personnel − Contractor personnel employed by Developer of system under test may NOT participate in OT&E unless the Contractor will perform the same operations, maintenance, or support role when the system is deployed in combat

This conflict CANNOT be mitigated Applies to Prime and Subcontractor

− Contract supported Government only can work OT&E Unless “impaired objectivity” OCI precludes

− DOT&E waiver for developmental contractor possible Written determination sufficiency of impartiality DOD IG reviews each waiver and includes waiver in semi-annual report to Congress Zero waivers since 2000

DOD IG reported DOT&E Conflict of Interest

• DOD IG Report D-2010-024 − DOT&E and Army used SAIC for A&AS contractor where

SAIC and Boeing were lead system integrator for Army Future Combat Systems

• “ … did not use good judgment and sound discretion to prevent existence of conflicting roles that might bias contractors judgment or provide unfair competitive advantage”

• Rejected SAIC argument a system integrator (SDD) could support OT because they were not the development, a business which supplied or maintained the system

OCI Exchanges are not Discussions

• GAO comments −Where an agency conducts exchanges with an

Offeror regarding the plan to mitigate identified OCIs, such exchanges do not constitute discussions and, as a consequence, there is no requirement to hold discussions with other offerors.

C2C Solutions, Inc.; TrustSolutions, LLC, B-401106.6; B- 401106.7, June 21, 2010

−Reopening “discussions would be appropriate where exchanges regarding an Offeror's OCIs and Mitigation strategy result in material changes to the Offeror's proposal in terms of its technical approach or price.

Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC, B-401842.2, January 25, 2010e.

Firewalls

• GAO decisions are fact specific − In other 'impaired objectivity' OCI situations, that subcontracting or transferring work to a separate entity, and establishing a firewall around the impaired entity, can reasonably mitigate these types of OCIs.” Business Consulting Associates, LLC, B-299758.2, August 1, 2007

−A firewall “does not resolve an OCI involving potentially impaired objectivity.” Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc., B-298099.4, B-298099.5, November 28, 2006

−A firewall is “virtually irrelevant” to an impaired objectivity OCI. Aetna Gov’t Health Plans, Inc., B 254397.15 et al., July 27, 1995

Conclusion

Independence is the hallmark of operational test and evaluation.

Impartiality of contractors and contractor personnel are essential to successful, credible operational test and evaluation.

Questions?