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Mission-Focused Business Leaders driving modernization, readiness, lethality

AFLCMC Armament Directorate Rapid Response

Commercial Solutions Opening for Innovative

Execution

Jill Harms

•Published Purpose

•What we Aim to Accomplish

•Our Objectives

•Definitions, Layout, and Users

•Areas of Interest

•Maximizing Flexibility

•Spiral Layouts

•Spiral Award Timelines

Overview

•Serve as EB enterprise point of entry for nontraditional vendors

•Exploit commercial (minorly modified commercial) items to provide rapid response

•Applicable to all areas and lifecycle phases of weapons execution •Weapons concept •Hardware prototypes •Concept development •Concept demonstrations •Weapons systems procurement

Our Published Purpose

•Rapidly develop technologies of novel weapons capabilities

•Apply unique solutions and innovative ideas

•Characterize new technologies and system concepts that provide evolutionary, revolutionary, and disruptive capabilities

What we Aim to Accomplish

•Deliver innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility

•Support distributed manufacturing sources of Modular series weapons and ornaments

•Provides for a diverse vendor pool base to integrate or build modular weapon assemblies

•Incorporate digital acquisition and sustainment practices, to include

• Digital Engineering

• Agile Processes

• Open System Architecture

• Weapons Open System Architecture

Our Objectives

Acquisition Toolbox

Under U.S.C. § 4022 •60-120 days to award

•Negotiable payment milestones

•Negotiable terms/conditions

•Negotiable IP/data rights

•Commercial accounting standards

What is a CSO?

Other Transaction (OT) Prototypes– A legally binding instrument other than a procurement contract, grant, or cooperative agreement used for prototype projects proposed to be acquired by the DoD.

10 U.S.C. 4022

• Allows DoD to enter into OT agreements to carry out prototype projects that are directly relevant to enhancing the mission effectiveness personnel of the DoD or improving platforms, systems, components, or materials proposed to be acquired or developed by the DoD, or to improve platforms, systems, component or materials used by the armed forces

• Considered and acquisition arrangement

• No statutes or regulations specifically cover it other than basic authority

What is an Other Transaction?

•Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) •Truth in Negotiations Act (Truthful Cost and Pricing) •Cost Accounting Standards •Contract Disputes Act •Procurement Protest Process •Cost plus a percentage of cost prohibition •Buy American Act (in part) •Bayh-Dole Act (patents) •FAR/DFARs/Agency specific acquisition regulations

•Termination for convenience or default •Changes clause •Mandatory flowdowns to subcontractors

What doesn’t Apply to Ots?

FY23 NDAA “prototype project” •Proof of concept, model or process, including a business process

•Reverse engineering to address obsolescence •A pilot or novel application of commercial technologies for defense purposes

•Agile development activity •Creation, design, development, or demonstration of technical or operational utility

•Combinations of the above •Can be virtual or physical

What is Prototype?

Who Can Participate?

Definition of Non-Traditional

An entity that is not currently performing or has not performed for at least the last one-year period preceding the solicitation of sources by the Department of Defense, any contract or subcontract for the DoD that is subject to full coverage under the cost accounting standards

10 U.S.C. § 3014 (formerly 10 U.S.C. § 2302(9))

CSO Layout

Commercial Solution Opportunity Posting

• TRD/SOO

• General Terms/Conditions

• Definitions

• Criteria for selecting proposals (general)

• Open for 12 months (must review annually)

Spiral #1

• Specific TRD

• Additional

Terms/Conditions as needed

• Open for 30 days or less

• Eval Criteria

Spiral #2

• Specific TRD

• Additional

Terms/Conditions as needed

• Open for 30 days or less

• Eval Criteria

Spiral #3

• Specific TRD

• Additional

Terms/Conditions as needed

• Open for 30 days or less

• Eval Criteria

•Primarily AFLCMC/EB users •Will support other users as possible:

SOCOM Det-1

AFRL

AFNWC

96TW Units

•Usage is managed/tracked by

AFLCMC/EBZ PK

Spirals written/managed by requestor/customer Spirals posted/updated by AFLCMC/EBZ PK

CSO Users

• Science and Technology (S&T)

• Research and Development (R&D)

• Test and Evaluation (T&E)

• Integration/Assembly

• Production and Fielding

• Operations and Sustainment

• Modernization

• Prototyping

• Experimentation

• Procurement of Prototypes

• Studies, Demonstrations, Testing of Prototypes

• Cloud Architecting and Software Containerization

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Implementation

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Hardware and Software Modifications

• Hardware Design, Test, and Qualification

• Weapon Design

• System Modeling

• Data Mining, Collection, Analysis

• Computer Networks and Networking

• Software & Tools (to include software licenses)

• IT, IDE, and Hardware

• MBSE Related Software Development Kits (SDKs)

• WOSA Domain Software Design & Architecture

• Third Party Software Development

• Software DevSecOps Factory and/or Pipelines

• Munitions Open Architecture Test and Evaluation Lab (MOATEL) Testing Capability and associated hardware, software, and documentation

• Software Lab with Processor In the Loop (SWIL) or Hardware In The Loop (HWIL)

• Hardware In the Loop (HWIL) Test capabilities with infrared (IR) wall or radio frequency (RF) wall capabilities within Guided Weapons Evaluation Facility (GWEF)

• Mission Planning Software

• Mission Data

• Weapons Reprogramming Software

• Software Tool Training

• Analytic and Visualization Tool Development

• Red/Blue Target Generation

Areas of Interest

•Maintain ability to award both OTs and FAR Part 12 awards

•Option for both open and closed spirals

•Include articles at the CSO level to flow down to OTs

•Allows non-traditional vendors insight before posting of spirals

•Minimizes risk to vendors on proposal costs etc.

because maximum insight upfront

Maximize Flexibility

•Open Spirals – submissions accepted any time during specified period with evaluations

•Closed Spirals Step-One – Gov evaluates solution briefs and invites successful offerors to participate in step-two Step-Two – Request for Commercial Solution Proposal

Spiral Layouts

•Select an AOI •Provide Eval Criteria •Select 1 or 2 step method

•Provide deadline for proposals

•Identify any articles needed not in CSO

•Provide POC for proposals

Spiral Published

•Receive/review white papers/proposals

•Evaluate as laid out in spiral

•Debrief as necessary

•Notify successful offerors to move to step 2

Step 1

•Evaluate technical proposal

•Evaluate as laid out in spiral

•Debrief as necessary

•Award OT(s)

Step 2

•Evaluate technical proposal

•Evaluate as laid out in spiral

•Debrief as necessary

•Award OT(s)d

Award OT

Spiral Award Timeline

5 days

5-10 days

15-30 days

• Article I Ombudsman

• Article II Debrief/Notification of Award

• Article III Patent Rights

• Article IV Termination

• Article V Data Rights

• Article VI Obligation and Payment

• Article VII Disputes

• Article VIII Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting

• Article IX Follow-On Production Contracts or Other Transactions

• Article X Title to and Disposition of Property

• Article XI Civil Rights Act

• Article XII Execution

• Article XIII Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment

• Article XIV Use of Products and Services of Kapersky Lab

• Article XV No TikTok on Government Devices/Prohibition on ByteDance Covered Application

• Article XVI Prohibition on Acquisition of Certain Items from Communist Chinese Military Companies

• Article XVII Physical Property Consideration to include the Disposition of Prototype/Residual Assets at End of Effort

• Article XVIII Export Control

• Article XIX Non-Government Advisors

• Article XX Security Requirements

• Article XXI FOIA Exemption

• Article XXII Foreign Entities

• Article XXIII Weapons Open System Architecture (WOSA)

• Article XXIV Domain Integration Packages

• Article XXV WOSA X

• Article XXVI Weapons GRA

• Article XXVII Non-Traditional Vendors

Articles Included in CSO

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