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Secretary of the Air Force (SAF)/Concepts Development and Management (CDM)

ANALYTICAL AND TECHNICAL (A&T) SERVICES:

TASK ORDER - 01

1 JAN 2020

REQUIRING AGENCY: SAF/CDMA

TITLE: Advancing Commercially Enabled Intelligence (CEI) TASK ORDER OBJECTIVE: The Contractor shall conduct Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) and associated maintenance to assist CDM’s Advanced Analytics and Technology Investments (CDMA) and the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) in maintaining leading edge intelligence capabilities by innovating in the use and application of CEI.

1 TECHNICAL AREA

1.1 CDMA provides rapid capability development to support across many Defense mission domains by assessing new approaches and methodologies to advance data analytics, business intelligence, technology investment and immersive intelligence supporting Department of the Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) missions through assigned program offices. Within this task order, references to CDMA customers or partners can include: Federal government departments, organizations, agencies, offices, and military units. The largest supported sector of that community is within the Intelligence Community (IC), DoD, and DIE.

1.2 One subordinate program office under CDMA, the Intelligence Systems Support Office (ISSO) (CDMAI) acts as a continual agent of change for the DIE through rapid identification, application and transition of novel technologies, unique methodologies, and advancements in data analytics through experimentation, studies, prototyping, software development and integration.

1.3 The DIE applies innovative tools, methodologies, experience and expertise from the commercial sector to make better decisions. CDMA supports research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) of innovative approaches to data collection, analysis, and tool applications in areas including: counterintelligence, human intelligence, counterproliferation, counterterrorism, information operations, battlespace awareness, personnel vetting, and supply chain risk management. Leveraging accomplishments in the private sector, under this task order CDMA will assess, modify, and demonstrate (and improve) Commercially Enabled Intelligence (CEI)1 applications that address DIE challenges.

1.4 The hallmark of CDMA value and success is innovation. The Contractor supports innovation by developing and demonstrating novel approaches, or new combinations and applications of proven approaches, that provide unique insight and fill current and future critical intelligence capability gaps. In the past, innovative activites have included the identification and creative application of business analytic techniques combined with the

1 Commercially Enabled Intelligence is the novel application of typically commercial practices such as financial analysis, market research, due diligence analysis, competitive analysis, international and domestic trade data analysis, or other emerging bleeding edge techniques with the goal of advancing art and tradecraft with the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.

imaginative selection of commercially available/publically data sets to reveal patterns of activities that can be leveraged for broader discovery or operations decisions.

1.5 CDMA is assigned projects by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI) to meet immediate and longer term requirements which are directed and funded by higher Intelligence echelons, derived from National Security, Defense, and Intelligence strategies.

CDMA will be assigned a number of projects annually, both large and small, varying from year to year. Historically, CDMA recieves between 5-8 larger projects, lasting about one to two years each, and 4-8 smaller projects, which can range from a few days to a few months. Because the nature of the work is R&D, innovation is key and part of every project and in between. Since CDMA conducts applied R&D, not basic research, project innovations will address real world challenges facing the IC. Every project provides an opportunity to incorporate novel techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, novel combinations, and similarly in the case of tools.

1.6 By way of example, past projects assigned to CDMA to which CEI could be applied include:

1.6.1 Identifying centers of gravity within an extensive, complex, adversarial network, looking for access or opportunities to affect that network across many dimensions through a spectrum of business-inspired options involving direct engagement or combinations of indirect means.

1.6.2 Identifying critical US technologies applicable to the US operations in a current warfighting domain, and then project future risks for adversary acquisition, including probable near term extent, the likely means and paths of foreign acquisition, and specific foreign entities of interest.

1.6.3 Applying automated analytics and data enrichment to expand on the discovery, breadth, depth, and characteristics of correlations between thousands of counterintelligence, security, and law enforcement cases spanning decades, uncovering precursors, indicators, patterns, or trends of concern.

1.6.4 Discovering opportunities to identify and engage emerging influential foreign government and business entities for the purpose of pursuing opportunities to affect areas of national interest.

1.7 While CDMA hosts a research and development environment that advances capabilities to support the conduct of intelligence, CDMA has no authority to conduct Intelligence as a mission. Under no circumstances shall Contractor interpret or conduct any task in a way that could be construed to include the official conduct of intelligence – such as, human intelligence, counterintelligence, signals intelligence, measurements and signatures intelligence, geospatial intelligence, identity intelligence, or any national security operation.

2 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

2.1 Non-Personal Services – See basic contract PWS

2.2 Business Relations – See basic contract PWS

2.3 Contract Administration and Management – See basic contract PWS

2.4 Subcontract Management – See basic contract PWS

2.5 Contractor Personnel, Disciplines, and Specialties – See basic contract PWS

2.6 Location of Services – See paragraph A.5 below

3 TASK ORDER REQUIREMENTS

3.1 Capability Survey: Within thirty (30) days of award, the Contractor shall survey and compile a list of commercial capabilities, relevant data sets, methodologies, or applications that could be adapted to Defense Intelligence challenges and further identify their applicability to CDMA assigned projects being addressed within 30-days from the date of award. After this, the list will be updated quarterly. The Government will provide example areas to guide but not limit the survey process.

Example areas may include: business intelligence, competitive intelligence, market research, customer relations management, financial analysis, financial forensics, due diligence, merger and acquisitions, international markets and exchanges, accounting, banking, and many other aspects of the business world. The Contractor shall apply their unique expertise in this process to ensure the demonstrable relevance of specific applications going beyond a simple methods/technology survey. The government seeks quality in thought on the application over quantity of capabilities identified. Upon CO or COR direction, the Contractor shall apply and demonstrate selected items from the list within the context of CDMA projects.

3.2 Capability Transition Plan: Upon CO or COR direction, the Contractor shall prepare and implement transition plans for capabilites and data identified by the government.

Capabilities may include: workflows, processes, methodologies (combinations of techniques, procedures, tools, and specific data sets), software tools, reports, databases, curated data sets The transiton plans will be tailored to the specific capability and receiving organizations for transition. These plans are intended to ensure receiving organizations understand the resource and operational environment implications of accepting a new capability. In some cases, this could be as simple as training, in others it could involve receiving and sustaining software/harware, contracts, etc. The contractor can anticipate developing at least two transition plans per year. Identify, apply, demonstrate and support the transition of CEI methodologies (combinations of data, tools, and investigative/analytic techniques) to project customers. References to CDMA customers or partners include: Federal government departments, organizations, agencies, offices, and military units. The largest supported sector of that community is within the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and Defense Intelligence Enterprise.

3.3 CEI Functional Capabilities:

3.3.1 Due Diligence and Best Practices: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall provide the capability to apply due diligence techniques, best practices, and explicit analytic research (a comprehensive appraisal of a business undertaken by a prospective buyer, especially to establish its assets and liabilities and evaluate its commercial potential) to projects.

3.3.2 Corporate Ecosystem Mapping and Assessments: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall provide a capability to map and assess corporate ecosystems including companies, individuals, and other relevant information to identify suspicious patterns of corporate control/ownership, as well as key foreign individuals across industry segments and geographic regions; analyze business practices to include trends and anomalies using commerically available/publically available data and a combination of open-cource/commercial tools.

3.3.3 Foreign Networks Research: At the direction of CDMA, the Contrator shall apply CEI capabilities to help identify foreign entities of interest related to initial research tasks to ascertain unique identifiers, true ownership, relationships between foreign commercial subjects, and red flag illegal or suspicious activities.

3.3.4 Compliance Research: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall provide the capability to identify potential transactions or relationships of project-focus entities with sanctioned countries or entities; assess export controls effects and compliance with sanctions.

3.3.5 Specific Domain Research: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall have the capability to conduct specific commercial/industry-related domain research using domain experts. This task is not intended to drive the requirement for a large stable of underutilized experts. It is intended to provide the Contractor the ability to address how they will identify and gain access to best of industry experts to address short duration research on a specific topic outside the Contractor’s primary area of expertise. The research would include primary source (owners of the information) and secondary source (redistributors of primary source information) research and inquiries.

3.4 Subject Matter Expertise (SME): At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall have the capability to leverage subject matter experts, as required, in support of projects and partners on relevant CEI projects, topics, methods, data, and tools. This implies the ability to rapidly establish the necessary business-to-business or business-to-individual relationships required to bring talent to a problem or task quickly. The SME requirement could be to support a day of meetings or 6-months full time on a project as an example.

3.5 Data Sources Validation: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall assess the validity and reliability of all commercially/publicly available data sources used on each project. This includes attributing research findings to underlying source documents;

providing original source data where possible, including all citations of material referenced, and providing recommendations for new data acquisition.

3.6 Reporting: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall develop reports and presentations in formats required by CDRL. The results of all RDT&E and project efforts, data, findings, processes, relevance, recommendations, and lessons-learned will be documented in these reports at the end of each project.

3.7 Documentation: At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall document and deliver project plans, relevant techniques, acquired data sets, complete citations for data used in projects (use COR approved format), process flow charts, detailed descriptions of technical approaches, to support use by CDM and project customers in extending or evaluating CEI applications.

3.8 At the direction of CDMA, the Contractor shall support an estimated 2-3 projects per quarter, demonstrating successful implementation of CEI into those projects, averaging 2-3 FTEs per project.

4 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

4.1 Security and Safety – See basic contract PWS

4.2 Government Furnished Materials – See basic contract PWS

4.3 Environmental Requirements – See basic contract PWS

4.4 Quality – See basic contract PWS

4.5 Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest (OCI) – See basic contract PWS

4.6 Period of Performance – See paragraph A.1 below

4.7 Travel and Other Direct Costs (ODCs) – See paragraph A.6 below

4.8 Minimum TO Proposal Submittals - N/A

4.9 Small Business Participation Goals - calculated at IDIQ level

4.10 On Ramps - N/A

4.11 Off Ramps - N/A

4.12 Cross Teaming – See basic contract PWS

4.13 Documentation and Data Rights – See basic contract PWS

5 Competition and Ordering Process

5.1 Competition Selection Process for TOs – See basic contract PWS

5.2 General Order Process for TOs – See basic contract PWS

5.3 Authorized Ordering Offices – See basic contract PWS

5.4 Individual Task Order Clauses – See basic contract PWS

6 DELIVERABLES

6.1 The Contractor shall create, maintain, and update the deliverables in the performance of this task order as indicated below. Any deliverable defined in this task order shall be submitted by the corporate Program Manager to the COR in a mutually agreed upon format unless otherwise noted.

6.2 Monthly Contract Cost Tracking Report: See basic contract PWS (CDRL A001)

6.3 Electronic Subcontract Reporting System (eSRS): See basic contract PWS (CDRL

A002)

6.4 TO Post-Award Orientation Slides: (IAW CDRL A003)

6.5 Program Management Plan: (IAW CDRL A004).

6.6 Monthly Status Report: (IAW CDRL A005).

6.7 Final Report: (IAW CDRL A006).

6.8 Contract Manpower Reporting (CMR): (IAW CDRL A007)

6.9 Specialized Reports: The Contractor shall deliver the following specific reports (IAW

CDRL A008):

6.9.1 Demonstration and/or Summary Briefings: As required by PM/COR, provide briefings, conduct demonstrations of prototypes and applications of CEI capabilities and/or deliver summary briefings to stakeholders.

6.9.2 Project RDT&E Activity Compilations: For each project compile RDT&E activities and results, findings, processes, recommendations, lessons-learned, and other project-defined and generated reportable output, no later than one week prior to the end of each project. Deliverable formats may vary from summaries, succint presentations, to detailed, in-depth transition materials, e.g., workflows, guides, etc.

6.9.3 Periodic and Final CEI and Due-Diligence Reports: Monthly and final reports from assigned projects detailing (1) analytic results and findings and (2) the methodologies, data, and tools utilized, delivered orally, hard copy or electronic, and in varied presentation formats. Final reports will be provided within one week after the completion of a project.

6.9.4 Intelligence Oversight Plan: Documenting compliance with intelligence oversight requirements.

6.9.5 Trip Report: Document trip summary information to include: travelers, key contacts, dates, locations, purpose, goals, outcomes, action items with due dates, projecct impacts

6.9.6 Non-Disclosure Agreement: The Contractor may be exposed to task order specific controlled or sensitive information requiring the commitment, a signed NDA by each individual supporting the project, to keeping the information secure from unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure.

7 SERVICES DELIVERY SUMMARY

7.1 Nonconformance of contract requirements by the Contractor preventing performance of mission, reducing the usability of services or technical data for their intended purpose, or amendments to schedules, or performance periods may require consideration and negotiation between the Contractor, COR, and Contracting Officer (CO).

# Performance Objective

A001 Monthly Contract Cost Tracking Report - submit invoices by the 10th calendar day of each month for work accomplished the previous month. Invoices may be submitted with the monthly status reports.

A002 Electronic Subcontract Reporting System (eSRS) (large businesses only). The Contractor shall submit electronic individual subcontract plan reports as required pursuant to FAR Clause 52.219-9, Alternate II, Jan 2017.

A003 TO Post-Award Orientation Slides - submit no later than 10 days after post-award orientation meeting.

A004 Program Management Plan - submit initial plan 15 days after TO award.

A005 Monthly Status Report - submit every thirty days following contract award, by the 10th calendar day of each month for work accomplished the previous month; include all supporting documentation via appropriate channels.

A006 Final Report - submit no later than 10 working days prior to the conclusion of the period of performance.

A007 Contract Manpower Reporting (CMR) - submit as required.

A008 Specialized reports, memoranda, and/or briefings - submit as required.

# Performance Objective

8a Demonstrations and/or Summary Briefings - submit as required throughout the task order.

8b Project RDT&E Activity Compilations - submit no later than one week prior to the end of each project.

8c Periodic and Final CEI and Due-Diligence Reports - submit monthly and the final project reports within one week after the completion of a project.

8d Intelligence Oversight Plan - submit within 30 days of award for legal review and approval.

8e Trip Reports - submit no later than one week after completion of travel.

8f Contractor Signed NDA - submit as appropriate to assigned projects.

8g Contractor Performance Issues - submit written response to the COR when requested.

ADMINISTRATIVE

A.1. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: The period of performance for this task shall be 24 months, one 12 month base from date of award, plus one 12 month option.

A.2. SECURITY LEVEL OF TASKING REQUIREMENT: Work related to these tasks shall require TOP SECRET/SCI clearances.

A.3. KEY PERSONNEL: As a minimum, the Contractor will designate a Project Manager, for this task order. Individuals designated as key personnel cannot be substituted or replaced without the written agreement of the Contracting Officer (unless the individual’s employment with the company is terminated for any reason). The Contractor shall do everything possible to ensure continuity of effort by minimizing key personnel turnover throughout the period of the task order. However, if an individual leaves the Contractor before the contract expires, the Contractor must provide the Government with an individual of comparable qualifications, security clearances, and acceptable standards of moral and ethical conduct.

A.4. INDIVIDUAL QUALIFICATIONS: The Contractor shall submit security SCI nomination request of each prime and sub-contractor individual proposed to work on this task order.

Personnel must meet any minimum security, experience and educational requirements specified in the Base Contract, unless waived. Any exceptions or waivers shall be reviewed on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the Basic Contract by the COR.

A.5. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: The majority of the work under this task order will be accomplished at CDMA’s facility located at 500 E Zack St, 7th Floor, R. L. Timberlake Jr.

Federal Building, Tampa, FL, 33602

A.6. MEETING ATTENDANCE/TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Meetings: The Contractor shall contact the COR within five (5) business days of TO award to schedule Kick-Off meeting.

Travel Requirements: Travel is anticipated for this effort and is estimated at 1 person/trip, 3 days/trip, 1 trip per month Tampa to DC, 1 trip per month Tampa to San Francisco (not actual, used for estimate). Travel may be required to attend relevant conferences and partner engagements anticipate two people per trip twice a quarter CONUS. International travel may be required.

A.7. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED FACILITIES AND INFORMATION: The government shall provide the Contractor with access to the desks, chairs, computers, phones, and copiers to accomplish work required under this task order.