Request for Information Meadowlands Sustainment FINAL.pdf

Purpose:

This is a Sources Sought. The Space Systems Command (SSC) located at Los Angeles Air Force

Base, California, is seeking information in the form of Statements of Capabilities (SOC) from interested parties in support of the SSC, Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power

Directorate requirement for the Counter Communications System (CCS) Meadowlands as described below. The Government is conducting market research to inform its Acquisition

Strategy.

The purpose of this notice is to identify potential sources that can meet CFC/MD3’s requirement. The Government reserves the right to set this acquisition, or portions thereof, aside for small business – to include socially and economically disadvantaged businesses, 8(a) firms, or woman-owned businesses. The Government is seeking contractors interested in and capable of providing all technical and logistical effort required to sustain, maintain, and deliver capabilities to support the CCS Meadowlands system.

Background and Description:

Scope: This effort encompasses all technical, logistical, software and hardware efforts required to Sustain CCS Meadowlands systems.

Period and Place of Performance: It is envisioned that the period of performance will be approximately 6 years (1 year base + 5 option years) in duration. The Government is working through the details to determine when the contract will start. The place of performance is flexible to allow the contractor to provide an optimized solution.

Background:

CCS System:

CCS is a ground-based counter satellite communications (SATCOM) system specifically designed to reversibly deny, disrupt, and degrade adversarial SATCOM. The basic CCS concept is to provide a flexible, modular, scalable, rapidly deployable system with a key set of signal processing/generation (SP) capabilities, selected counter SATCOM missions, and a robust transmit capability. Its architecture will be designed to host core capabilities and/or other more sophisticated “plug and play” type modules to address the ever-increasing number of technologies and assets available to our adversaries.

The latest CCS Meadowlands will have upgraded capabilities compared to the existing CCS 10.2

Systems. The future CCS Meadowlands fleet will be composed of at least 32 systems.

Meadowlands is a transportable SATCOM system composed of modular Commercial Off-The-

Shelf (COTS) / Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and generation equipment. The design incorporates multi-band antennas and equipment in transit cases. The frequency conversion system (FCS) that handles RF signals between the shelter transit cases to the antenna uses a proprietary photonics system. The system can be transported by C-130 or larger aircraft and by ground transport over improved or semi-improved roads. The system will be designed for operations by trained operators in US-controlled facilities world-wide, and in the Developmental Support Facility (DSF).

The Meadowlands “Base Design” system meets current A-spec requirements. All systems have same Transit Case and Antenna configuration/capability. The Meadowlands base design system is comprised of the following major capabilities:

• Three independent, bidirectional antenna polarization paths

• Native Support for a single Large Multiband Antenna (LMA)

• Bands Supported: UHF, L, C, Ku, Ka

• Two separate independently controlled antenna polarization paths

• Simultaneous dual polarization operation

• Receive-only operation if desired

• Supports Base, and unique network specific missions

• Native Support for a single 1.2m Antenna

• Antenna Supports L-Band only

The system can operate in three antenna Polarization Paths – Each Polarization Path Contains an

Uplink & Downlink RF Interface. The system is capable of simultaneously operating/controlling up to three antennas and associated components utilizing three polarization paths. The

Meadowlands system utilizes Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Ethernet, TCP & UDP/IP

Standard interfaces for network communications (Data, Command, Control & Status) between

Transit case assemblies, Antennas and the Software Server

The Base System Configuration is composed of:

• 4 System Transit Cases in Shelter (Mission Control & Timing (MCT) Subsystem, Advanced Signal Processor (ASP) Subsystem, Shelter Photonics Unit (SPU1), SPU2)

• 1 Antenna Transit Case in Shelter for 1.2m Antenna (1.2m Transit Case)

• 1 Transit Case for Secure External Network Operations (Remote Ops Transit Case) –

Contains Firewall & Encryption

• 2 Transit Cases outside by LMA antenna (Antenna Photonics Unit (APU)2 & APU2)

• APU Transit Cases

The system can operate in the UHF, L, C, Ku, and KA RF Bands for Transmit and Receive via

Frequency Conversion System (FCS).

The production of the CCS Meadowlands units has been accomplished as part of a Pre-Planned

Product Improvement effort. The program utilizes equipment from the CCS Block 10.2 systems as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) including the LMA Antenna (Including Servo

Controller, Feeds, High Powered Amplifiers (HPAs), Dummy Loads); the 1.2m Antenna

(Including Servo Controller, Feeds, HPAs, Dummy Loads), Power Distribution Units (PDUs) (in transit cases) and also external PDUs, Environmental Control Units (ECUs), Tent, and a Power

Management Unit (PMU)

Requirements:

The market research obtained from this request for information will be used to support a

Government decision on the award of a sustainment contract for all of the CCS Meadowlands systems, currently anticipated to be up to 56 systems dispersed throughout the world.

Additional Background Information

Contact Contracting Officer Representative (COR): Ervinado Whittaker Email:

ervinado.whittaker.2@spaceforce.mil and Ms. Lakisha Porter, the Procuring Contracting Officer, at lakisha.porter@spaceforce.mil if additional background information is required.

SOC Administrative Requirements:

The Government requests a maximum 20-page response in total with page limits noted below.

Please submit via email to all the following points of contact:

o RFI response due date NLT Nov 18th 2026 12:00pm Pacific Time.

o Submittal of questions or clarifications to RFI deadline NLT Oct 28th 12:00pm Pacific

Time.

o Accepted file formats are MS WORD and PDF. (Times New Roman – 12pt; single-spaced lines; 1” top, bottom, left/right margins) o POC process and deadline for submitting questions.

o Contracting Officer: Lakisha Porter Email:

lakisha.porter@spaceforce.mil o Program Manager: Captain Brandon Goulet Email:

brandon.goulet@spaceforce.mil o Program Manager: Captain Eric Honeyman Email:

eric.honeyman@spaceforce.mil o Contracting Officer Representative (COR): Ervinado Whittaker Email:

ervinado.whittaker.2@spaceforce.mil mailto:ervinado.whittaker.2@spaceforce.mil mailto:lakisha.porter@spaceforce.mil mailto:lakisha.porter@spaceforce.mil mailto:brandon.goulet@spaceforce.mil mailto:eric.honeyman@spaceforce.mil

Response Content:

Interested vendors must submit a Statement of Capability (SOC) in a narrative report that includes both the company/corporate information, solutions to the technical areas above and responses to the questions below. All SOCs are to be submitted in accordance with the administrative requirements identified herein.

Submitted SOCs must include the following information:

Cover Page (1 page limit)

Table of Contents (1 page limit)

Company Information & Corporate Capabilities & Experience (2 page limit)

Answers to Technical Questions & Contractual/Business Questions (16 page limit)

Company Information:

• Company name

• Company’s ownership and other relevant information

• Personnel/Business size classification (Small/Large Business, HUB, veteran, etc.)

• Mailing address

• Point of Contact (POC) including e-mail and telephone numbers

Corporate Capabilities & Experience:

Describe previous work your company has performed and company expertise which is relevant to sustaining electromagnetic warfare systems and in the role of a Prime Contractor.

Technical Questions:

When responding, identify key assumptions, dependencies, risks, and Government-furnished information, property, facilities, or services required. Where applicable, support proposed approaches with quantitative results from comparable efforts.

1. Sustainment Approach and Mission Effectiveness

Describe your proposed approach for sustaining a geographically dispersed fleet of up to

56 Meadowlands systems. Explain how your approach would ensure systems are mission-effective when required, including during planned operations, exercises, deployments, and emerging operational requirements. Identify the performance measures you recommend the Government use to assess mission effectiveness.

2. Maintenance and Product-Support Strategy

Describe your proposed organizational-, intermediate-, and depot-level maintenance concept. Please note that Meadowlands Systems will be deployed in USCENTCOM

USPACOM but need the ability to support Meadowlands Systems in EUCOM

SOUTHCOM and NORTHCOM.

• Field service support in various locations

• Reach-back engineering

• Technical-order and maintenance-data management

• Transportation and repair-cycle management

• Describe how you would forecast, plan, and allocate maintenance resources to meet changing operational demand. Explain how your approach would prioritize systems and repairs when demand exceeds available personnel, spares, facilities, or transportation capacity.

• Explain how you would deploy FSR support and sparing approach to maximize effectiveness. What approach are you considering sustaining these diverse locations.

3. Teaming Arrangement

• Identify which function you see will be performed by the government, organically, and what work you may subcontract?

4. Reliability, Maintainability, Supply Support, and Obsolescence Management

• Describe your approach to collecting, analyzing, and accomplishing the following to improve Meadowlands fleet performance:

o Reliability, maintainability, availability, and failure-data collection and analysis o Failure reporting, analysis, corrective action, and identification of systemic issues o Spares forecasting, inventory management, and inventory positioning o Repair-cycle-time management and repair-versus-replace decision-making o Diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) management o Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) obsolescence, long-lead components, and counterfeit-part prevention o Management of proprietary or sole-source components, including the photonics-based Frequency Conversion System o Identification and mitigation of supply-chain risks that could affect mission availability

5. Software, Cybersecurity, and Configuration Management

Describe your approach to software sustainment, defect correction, cybersecurity remediation, configuration control, regression testing, release management, and maintenance of applicable authorization-to-operate documentation. Explain how you would maintain interoperability across the fleet while controlling differences among hardware and software configurations. Provide evidence from comparable systems.

6. Technical Data and Vendor Independence

Identify the technical data, software, source code, interfaces, licenses, tools, test equipment, and intellectual-property rights needed to sustain Meadowlands. Distinguish between items that are:

• Currently available to your company

• Required from the Government

• Required from the incumbent or another third party

• Proposed for development or replacement

• Explain how your approach would reduce operational dependency on proprietary components or a single vendor over the contract lifecycle.

7. Transition and Continuity of Operations

Provide a notional transition-in approach and schedule from contract award through assumption of full sustainment responsibility. Identify major activities, decision points, required incumbent support, staffing ramps, data transfers, facility requirements, and

Government actions. Explain how you would prevent a degradation in operational support during transition and identify the metrics the Government should use to determine transition readiness.

8. Workforce and Surge Capacity

Describe your approach to recruiting, clearing, training, certifying, retaining, and deploying the personnel required to support Meadowlands. Identify critical labor categories, staffing assumptions, geographic constraints, and anticipated workforce risks.

Explain how you would provide surge support for deployments, exercises, simultaneous system failures, or other unplanned operational requirements.

9. Secure Facilities and Classified Operations

Describe your existing capability to perform work at the anticipated security levels. For planning purposes, the Government estimates the workload distribution as follows:

• 65% CUI

• 15% Secret

• 15% TS/SCI

• 5% SAP F.

Also, identify any facility accreditation, personnel-clearance, information-system authorization, or construction requirements, along with associated schedule, cost, and risk.

10. Field and Foreign Military Sales Support

Describe your approach to supporting Foreign Military Sales requirements. Address export-control compliance, releasability, training, technical publications, configuration management, supply support, language requirements, and separation of U.S.-only capabilities or information.

11. Contractor Strengths

Based on your experience sustaining comparable mission systems, identify what strength distinguish you amongst your competition.

• Explain why these strengths predict successful performance

• Provide any proposed metric, benchmark, or supporting evidence which distinguish among qualified offerors rather than merely confirm minimum acceptability

Contractual / Business Questions

1. Firm-Fixed-Price with potential Performance Incentives

The Government is considering a firm-fixed-price sustainment arrangement focused on ensuring Meadowlands systems are mission-effective when operationally required, rather than requiring every system to remain operational continuously. Recommend contractual structures, performance measures, and financial incentives or consequences that would align contractor performance with this objective.

Address, at a minimum:

• The appropriate unit of measurement, such as mission-effective system-hours, scheduled mission availability, or successful operational events

• Contractor-controlled versus Government-controlled downtime

• Treatment of scheduled maintenance, modifications, deployments, and deferred maintenance

• Measurement and validation of performance

• Incentives for exceeding requirements and consequences for missing them

• Safeguards against optimizing the metric without improving actual mission outcomes

***Item to Note/Consider: The government is utilizing Weapon System Sustainment (WSS)

Operations and Maintenance (O&M) appropriations, which are available for obligation only during the fiscal year for which they are appropriated. Consistent with Higher Headquarters financial management guidance. The Government expects to obligate all current-year

WSS/O&M funds by 30 September each year. If incentive fees become payable after 30

September, such as when they are earned early in the subsequent fiscal year, the government may need to wait for the next fiscal year’s funding allocation to pay them.

2. Pricing Structure and Risk Allocation

Recommend how the Government could structure firm-fixed-price CLINs for recurring fleet support, field support, software sustainment, repairs, spares, surge requirements, travel, transition, and FMS support. Identify which requirements can be reasonably priced on a firm-fixed-price basis and which requirements would require defined assumptions, bands, adjustment mechanisms, or another contract type.

3. Performance Baseline

Identify the system-condition, configuration, demand, failure-rate, operating-tempo, deployment, supply, and Government-support data needed to establish a reasonable firm-fixed-price baseline.

Explain how insufficient baseline data would affect proposed price, risk, or contractual terms.

Response Classification: Narrative and SOC reports may be up to TOP SECRET/SCI/SAP.

Materials will be reviewed separately at Los Angeles AFB, CA. If a Contractor plans to submit a

SAPs level SOC, submission needs to be coordinated no later than one week in advance of submission. All material provided in response to this notice shall be kept non-confidential and non-proprietary to the maximum extent practicable. Firms providing confidential/proprietary information shall separately and clearly identify and mark all confidential/proprietary information. The USSF will take all necessary steps to protect/safeguard any confidential/proprietary information provided. The USSF will NOT be held responsible for any proprietary information not clearly marked.

Disclaimers and Notes – THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes. It does not constitute a solicitation (Request for Proposal or Request for Quotations) or a promise to issue a solicitation in the future. This notice does not commit the USSF to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Furthermore, the USSF is not currently, seeking proposals. Responders are advised that the USSF will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this notice. The Government will not assume liability for costs incurred by any attendee for travel expenses or marketing efforts. All costs associated with responding to this notice will be solely at the responding party's expense.

The following companies/organizations may review the submitted responses: The Aerospace

Corporation, Quantum Sky, SAIC, RSE, ARK GSI, and Tecolote. These companies are bound by appropriate non-disclosure agreements with the USSF. For further information regarding these agreements, contact the Contracting Officer identified herein.