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Solicitation Number: FA489020R0034 (DRAFT) Contract Number: TBD

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS)

OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, & ENGINEERING (OM&E)

DRAFT 07 Sep 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF APPENDICES

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Scope and Introduction This Performance Work Statement (PWS) establishes the government’s requirements for the acquisition of contractor services for the implementation of the Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS) Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering (OM&E) program. The contractor shall support the ACTS equipment listed in Appendix 1, Table 1 at the locations listed in Appendix 1, Table 3. ACC/A3A may modify the ACTS OM&E program as operational needs dictate with submission of a modification request to the contracting office as required. Such modifications may include:

Additional sites (both CONUS and OCONUS) as determined by operational needs of ACC, other MAJCOMS (to include AETC, AFGSC, ANG, AFRC, PACAF, USAFE, AFCENT, AFSOC), or the Air Force. Reference Appendix 1, Table 4 for a potential list of additional sites.

Additional ACTS equipment (legacy, upgraded, and new) as necessary to support air combat training on current and future airframes. Reference Appendix 1, Table 2 for a potential list of additional equipment.

Additional support and/or services required to fulfill the ACTS mission for the CAF.

Reduction or elimination of sites, equipment, support, and/or services to manage fiscal restraints or operational priorities.

Mission and System Description The Air Combat Training System (ACTS) program supports pre-mission preparation, mission execution, and post-mission debrief to enhance the quality of aircrew and warfighter training in planning, conducting and assessing air combat maneuvers, weapons employment, and tactics implementation by presenting tailored data and focused displays showing an integrated operational picture with emphasis on airborne and ground training participants. To provide this capability, ACTS uses aircraft instrumentation (typically a pod or on-board airborne system), integrated data feeds, range systems, and a robust ground infrastructure to track participants in multiple domains (emphasis on air and ground) while all data is continually recorded via multiple sources. After the event, the recorded data allows complete reconstruction of participant activity.

The ACTS program provides these capabilities via multiple systems. Generically these are airborne, ground, communication, network, and integration systems. The P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS) is one key system that is composed of both airborne and ground components. The P5CTS aircraft instrumentation system is the airborne component and provides high accuracy position tracking, real-time kill notification, air-to-air data link, onboard recording, downlink, and in-pod weapon simulations. The P5CTS ground equipment provides the capability for live mission control and post-mission debrief. P5CTS ancillary equipment includes radios, simulators, multiplexors, display software, and interfaces necessary for P5CTS to integrate with other live training systems and thus meet mission requirements.

Historically, ACTS functions have been referred to by multiple terms including the generic term Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI). Similarly, the key system (P5CTS) is often used generically as a substitute for the larger umbrella of the ACTS family of systems. For the purposes of this contract, the term ACTS encompasses all these legacy terms.

APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

Changes: The contractor shall implement changes in publications or technical data using the guidance in Appendix 2 paragraph 1.3.

Conflicts: In the event of conflict between the documents referenced herein and the contents of this PWS, the contents of the PWS shall be considered a superseding requirement except for the following:

Any conflict between U.S. and host nation regulations, the most stringent applies.

Any conflict between safety or security regulations and this PWS, the most stringent applies.

Any conflict between system technical manuals and this PWS, the technical manuals apply.

REQUIREMENTS

ACTS OM&E Services Requirements Overview The contractor shall provide qualified personnel in sufficient number to maintain and sustain ACTS equipment to meet requirements and capabilities in accordance with (IAW) operational and maintenance procedures in the applicable technical manuals. This includes all necessary tasks to ensure live operations execution and instrumented debrief capability. The contractor shall provide all necessary equipment, technical, and managerial personnel to ensure a total system performance IAW the specified system availability, this PWS, and the appropriate equipment Technical Manuals as applicable. The contractor shall provide services IAW the guidelines and parameters listed in this PWS and each appendix to this PWS. The contractor shall ensure that all ACTS data is provided IAW this PWS and system technical manuals for warfighter mission requirements.

The contractor shall provide qualified operations and maintenance personnel in sufficient number to meet both the flying hour window and the debriefing window and to meet all requirements of this PWS. A typical flying hour window is ten (10) hours four days a week or eight (8) hours five (5) days a week. A typical debriefing window is ten (10) hours four (4) days a week or eight (8) hours five (5) days a week. Some sites don’t follow this typical window; refer to the site-specific requirements in Appendix 8 for further details.

A mission support day shall include the following:

Sufficient time prior to the flying window to ensure all pods that are delivered to the ramp have been fully tested using approved test equipment and procedures per the system technical manuals. Some sites do not allow pods to be left on aircraft overnight; refer to the site-specific requirements in Appendix 8 for further details.

Sufficient time during the flying window to swap operational pods for pods that fail after being uploaded on aircraft.

Sufficient time to initialize and check out the ground system, prepare files/data required for each mission, and load the recording devices with pre-mission data.

Availability to troubleshoot and arrive at a diagnosis within twenty (20) minutes of any ground system failure during mission debrief or analysis.

Sufficient time prior to the mission to operationally check equipment required for a Live Monitor mission, to include RRU’s (at those units with Live Monitor capability).

Normal workdays are Monday through Friday of each week, or Sunday through Thursday in the UAE, with the exception of established federal holidays or other days proclaimed as official holidays by the government (See Appendix 4). Mission schedules will occasionally require weekend and holiday work by the contractor and shall be considered part of the regular 40-hour work week. Regardless of flying schedule, contractors will typically have a minimum of 12 hours turnaround time between daily shifts.

The contractor shall provide qualified engineering and specialist personnel in sufficient number to support required engineering tasks and shall maintain a core engineering capability as specified in this PWS to support the system evolution and upgrade expected during the course of this contract.

Not all OM&E services will be required at all locations. For example, at some locations, pod transport and loading may be completed by government personnel rather than contractor personnel. The PWS appendices will identify any site-specific differences and the contract CLIN structure will support individual site requirements. For the purposes of this PWS, all requirements in the PWS will apply to all locations unless specifically excluded in the site-specific appendices.

Mission Overtime. This PWS is structured to require the contractor to plan for and adjust employee work schedules using staggered shifts and flex-time to cost effectively support adjusted mission support requirements. However, there may be rare occasions when work is required outside of typical mission windows and variable scheduling is not an option. The contractor shall provide the capability to support flying schedules and debriefing schedules that exceed the normal 40-hour workweek as provided under this contract. The government will fund an overtime CLIN to support these extended mission requirements. The contractor is not authorized to work overtime without prior approval of the Government Program Manager and Contracting Officer (CO).

Government Interface: This contract is broad and covers 11 time zones, 5 MAJCOMs, and multiple mission sets. Such an effort requires a robust and delineated contractor-government interface. The contractor shall maintain an appropriate organizational structure to enable interface with the government at all levels. The contractor shall ensure these contractor personnel have a government common access card (CAC) and network account to enable secure contract communications with government POCs. Refer to para 4.1.3 for government organization structure.

Services Summary

Appx 1 Appx 8 Appendix 3 Appendix 8 Payments are based on availability rates as defined by paragraph Appendix 3 of this PWS. Payment for ACTS services at each installation will be based on the following:

Availability Rate % of CLIN Paid 95 - 100% 100% 85 - 94% 80% 80 - 84% 50% 75 - 79% 20% Below 75% 0

Operations General Operations Activities The contractor shall setup, initialize, key, configure, and operate all ACTS equipment and software to support operational training activities and ensure successful accomplishment of the complete training mission. This includes all components of major systems (such as P5CTS) as well as all supporting ancillary ACTS equipment, software, and cryptographic devices necessary for a fully immersive training environment.

In any instance where the ACTS system does not fully meet the mission requirements, the contractor shall poll the aircrew during or directly after debrief using a Mission Evaluation Debrief Checklist. The contractor shall provide the SAR/COR a weekly summary of all Mission Evaluation Debrief Checklists.

The contractor shall ensure that all scheduled ACTS hardware and software is fully operational not later than the scheduled mission time as published on the local daily mission schedule. For this requirement, each severable portion of the mission (pod loading, live monitor operation, post-mission debrief) may be treated as a separate mission time. The step, take-off, mission, and debrief times shall be based on the wing scheduling agency’s start and end flying periods as shown on the monthly flying schedule.

The contractor shall provide a single point of contact at each location to support scheduling, planning, and coordination activities necessary to fully support the training mission with all required ACTS services.

The contractor representative shall attend weekly and quarterly scheduling meetings and interface with the government scheduling manager to assist in developing weekly and daily ACTS schedules to include a total ACTS resource availability schedule that accounts for any ACTS-related plans and projects.

The contractor representative shall call the appropriate single point flight scheduling activity each day to confirm the next day’s flight schedule and determine if any changes or deviations are needed from the published schedule.

At locations requiring an Exercise / Battlespace Coordination position, the contractor shall provide expanded exercise coordination based on the size, number, frequency, and scope of exercises at that site. The contractor shall coordinate participation/activities of various exercise components to include wings/squadrons, airspace and ranges, threats and emitters, and required battlespace. The contractor shall organize, conduct, and maintain methods for sharing coordination data to include video teleconference events and SharePoint sites. Site specific aspects of exercise coordination are further delineated in the specific site appendices.

“Hub-and-Spoke” Operations Support – Some locations serve as a central ‘hub’ and provide operations, maintenance, and engineering support to ‘spoke’ units often far away. This structure provides great flexibility to units (such as guard and reserve) that don’t otherwise warrant the full range of ACTS support. For an example of this type of location, refer to Gulfport CRTC (Appendix 8N). The contractor shall support this operational structure by providing customized support as follows:

The contractor shall provide centralized system maintenance of ACTS equipment at hub locations to the greatest extent possible.

The contractor shall provide remote maintenance at the spoke units periodically as required by technical data and maintenance needs.

The contractor shall provide dedicated operations support at the spoke units as specified in the site appendices.

The contractor shall plan for additional time, travel, or rotable personnel/resources as needed to support this structure.

Deployment/Exercise Support: The contractor may be tasked to support exercises/operations both at the assigned location or the deployed location.

CONUS operations require contractor support for up to 3 annual deployments. These deployments shall require loading and debriefing support similar to that provided at home station. The contractor shall have to account for up to an average of 20 deployed days but these deployments will not normally overlap.

OCONUS operations require contractor support for 12-14 annual deployments. These deployments shall require loading and debriefing support similar to that provided at home station. The contractor will have to account for up to an average of 190 deployed days with the possibility of up to 2 concurrent deployment situations.

Some unit deployments may not require contractor deployment. In such cases, the contractor shall be responsible for operational checkout and configuration of ACTS equipment and software before it departs home station but the contractor is not responsible for deployed-location activities such as equipment maintenance, daily debrief, etc. Once the system is returned to its home station, the contractor shall troubleshoot and repair any malfunctions that occurred while the system was deployed. This function will be considered a lower priority to supporting current operations.

The contractor shall coordinate with other units participating in exercises or missions to ensure mission building, data sharing, and post-mission debriefing provides a complete mission picture to both the local unit and the guest unit (whether TDY locally or participating from another base) with the provision that appropriate security concerns have been addressed when dealing with foreign nations (Reference paragraph 3.1.7).

Airborne Instrumentation Systems (AIS) Operations AIS Availability Criteria The contractor shall ensure that a sufficient number of fully functioning pods are available to load onto aircraft scheduled to fly an ACTS sortie as indicated on the daily flying schedule. The number of pods required varies daily based the mission schedule, event type, and specific location. The timing of this task will be accomplished as advised by the SAR/COR.

If there are insufficient pods available to meet the requirements of the flying schedule, the contractor shall immediately notify the COR. The COR will determine if the pod shortfall should result in excusable sorties.

Pods delivered to the ramp may be used for subsequent missions as long as the contractor can confirm that the previous mission resulted in a successful debrief or that any problems were not attributable to the pod. In this case, verifying the power on Built-In Test (BIT) and completing pre-flight checks are sufficient to verify pod operational functionality.

If an ACTS pod fails on the aircraft after power is applied and the aircraft is still available for load crew access; then the contractor shall make all practical attempts to provide a fully functioning pod to replace the malfunctioning pod before the mission commences. This shall include cross-loading (from a spare jet) or expediting a replacement pod from the storage area. If the contractor is unable to replace the pod, then the COR shall determine if the sortie is excusable or not.

The contractor shall ensure pod availability to meet a ten (10) hour flying schedule and ten (10) hour debriefing schedule four (4) days a week, or an eight (8) hour flying schedule and eight (8) hour debriefing schedule five (5) days a week (as specified in the appendices to this PWS) and amended by a designated government representative; to meet schedule changes required to accommodate aircraft availability, operational requirements, and weather conditions; and to meet other changing mission factors. Some sites don’t follow this typical window; refer to the site-specific requirements in Appendix 8 for further details.

The contractor shall ensure that a sufficient number of fully functioning portable trackers are available to meet the site’s mission needs for ground participants or non-podded airborne participants. The number of portable trackers varies based on the specific location and mission needs.

If the contractor determines there are insufficient portable trackers to meet the site’s mission needs, they shall immediately inform the COR and provide a recommendation of the type and quantity of portable device needed to support the mission.

The contractor shall provide a monthly summary system availability report. The contractor shall calculate System availability according to the definitions and guidelines specified in Appendix 3.

The COR will adjudicate all determinations of whether a non-effective sortie is chargeable using the guidance in this PWS.

External (Pod) AIS Operations Pod Transport The contractor shall transport all assigned pods according to the site-specific requirements in Appendix 8 and as directed by the designated SAR/COR to meet schedule changes required to accommodate aircraft availability, operational requirements, weather conditions, and other changing mission factors.

At each location where pod transport is required, the contractor shall provide sufficient personnel to transport the pods between the pod storage/maintenance shop and the flight line.

When approved by the COR, the contractor shall also support the movement of pods required for CAF-wide missions and exercises. This shall include preparation, packaging, transportation arrangements, receipt of shipment, and unpacking of pods. The contractor shall provide estimates for any shipping, travel, or other reimbursable costs to the COR for approval prior to accomplishing this work.

Pod loading/unloading The contractor shall load and unload all assigned pods according to the site-specific requirements in Appendix 8 and as directed by the designated SAR/COR to meet schedule changes required to accommodate aircraft availability, operational requirements, weather conditions and other changing mission factors.

At each location where pod loading and unloading is required, the contractor shall provide sufficient personnel to perform all aircraft loading and unloading to meet the published wing flying schedule.

The contractor shall support pod loading for any required aircraft as determined by the SAR/COR. This shall include pod loading on aircraft not assigned to the individual base such as visiting USAF, joint, or coalition aircraft provided the pod is cleared for operation on that aircraft type.

The contractor shall include a total count of all pod loads and a total count of all pod unloads (by location) performed by the contractor as part of the monthly summary system availability report. For the purposes of this report, a pod crossload (move from one plane to another) shall count as one upload and one download.

The contractor shall provide all necessary safety equipment for pod load crews.

Pods will be loaded/unloaded only if power is removed from the station; aircraft load procedures and pod technical manuals prohibit “hot swaps”.

The contractor shall unload any pod suspected of contributing to a “non-effective” mission, place the pod in maintenance, and upload a fully operational replacement.

Internal AIS Operations The contractor shall support the operational integration of live and post-mission data from host base and visiting participant aircraft who have internal AIS equipment such as the F-35 P5 Internal Mount (IM).

The contractor shall coordinate with internal AIS participants to ensure loading of accurate mission parameters and to de-conflict key parameters such as site or participant IDs.

Portable Instrumentation Systems Operations The contractor shall support the operational integration of live and post-mission data from all ground and airborne participants (host base or visiting) who use portable (hand-carried) instrumentation devices (trackers) such as Garmin or other GPS/Cellular data pushers/loggers.

The contractor shall control and allocate all portable instrumentation systems assigned as GFE on this contract. This activity shall include advising warfighters on the available portable trackers best-suited to meet their mission needs and providing basic instruction on the operation of the device.

Ground Systems (GS) Operations GS Availability Criteria The contractor shall ensure complete ground system availability to provide overlapping and offset live operations windows and debriefing windows such as:

A ten (10) hour live ops schedule and ten (10) hour debriefing schedule four (4) days a week.

An eight (8) hour live ops schedule and eight (8) hour debriefing schedules five (5) days a week.

Similar split of live ops and debriefing as required by site mission parameters or requested by a designated government representative to meet schedule changes required to accommodate aircraft availability, operational requirements, weather conditions; and other changing mission factors.

In the event of a malfunctioning piece of local equipment (such as a P5CTS LM), the contractor shall respond within 20 minutes of notification of the malfunction. The contractor shall restore the GS to full functionality not later than 30 minutes after arrival. If the contractor is not able to repair the malfunction and the aircrew is not able to accomplish an effective mission analysis, the COR will use these response/restore guidelines to determine if the contractor shall be held responsible for the malfunction.

In the event of a malfunctioning piece of remote equipment (such as a Range Remote Unit), the contractor shall be allowed sufficient time to travel to the remote location. The contractor shall restore the remote equipment to full functionality not later than 30 minutes after arrival. If the contractor is not able to repair the malfunction and the aircrew is not able to accomplish an effective mission analysis, the COR will use these response/restore guidelines to determine if the contractor shall be held responsible for the malfunction.

Note: In general, live monitor and debriefing support will take priority over troubleshooting malfunctioning ground systems provided there is alternate/redundant capability available to continue supporting the mission.

The contractor shall provide a monthly system availability report. The contractor shall calculate system availability according to the definitions and guidelines specified in Appendix 3. The COR will adjudicate all determinations of whether a non-effective live ops or debrief is chargeable using the guidance in this PWS.

General Mission Support The contractor shall perform ground systems operations for all ACTS equipment and software to include major systems (such as P5CTS) as well as all ancillary hardware and software collectively referred to as “ground systems” in this PWS. Ground systems operations shall include all actions to power-on, setup, configure, initialize, operate, adjust, and monitor equipment and software required to support ACTS missions.

The contractor shall operate all ground systems whether centrally located in a War Room (or similar Ops Facility), dispersed to squadron vaults and debriefing rooms, or remotely located on or off base.

Specific Systems Operation: In addition to the core ground systems present at all locations, the contractor shall operate the following ground systems which may be present depending on site mission requirements as specified in the site appendices.

Remote instrumentation systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Remote Range Units Radio and Radio Management Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

FM/HF/UHF/VHF/SATCOM radios (secure and non-secure) Digital Radio Management System (DRMS) Datalink and Datalink Management Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Datalink terminals (Link-16, SADL, MIDS-JTRS, 5th Gen terminals) Terminal interfaces (Joint Range Extension, Pocket-J) Terminal control and constructive link injection (Ground Tactical Datalink System) Track Correlation Equipment. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Radar Acquisition and Display System (RADS) Multi-Source Correlator Tracker (MSCT) Threat Control, Management, and Simulation Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Electronic Warfare (EW) Server/ Electronic Warfare Multiplexor (EW MUX) Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS) Networking and Gateway Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Live Mission Operations Network (LMON) –site-level LMON node operations.

Cross-Domain Trusted Guards – Radiant Mercury, SimShield (within limits of security policy) Backbone network systems such as routers, switches, and media converters.

Protocol gateways –Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) gateways and networks.

Network Portals –Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) portals.

Virtual/Constructive (V/C) Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Live, Virtual, and Constructive Network Control Suite (LNCS) Network Integrated Constructive Environment (NICE) Distributed Interactive Simulation/Graphical User Interface (DIS/GUI) Performance Evaluation and Tracking System (PETS).

Pre-Mission Activities: The contractor shall provide operational support for activities which must be completed before the mission starts to enable an efficient and successful training mission.

Scenario Development - At all locations requiring Range Training Officer – Tactics support, the contractor shall fully perform the role of RTO (IAW AFI 13-212) as well as the additional duties of RTO – Tactics. These additional duties include training scenario development/execution, battlespace management planning, intelligence summaries creation, and mission order planning. Site specific aspects of RTO - Tactics are further delineated in the specific site appendices.

Ground System preparation – The contractor shall prepare all portions of the ground system to support the mission. This shall include building the mission line-up, assigning slots, checking radios, setting frequencies, loading profiles/scenarios, queueing synthetic entities, initiating recording, etc.

Mission Preparation - The contractor shall prepare recording devices (P5CTS Data Recording Device, Garmin, etc.) and live monitor systems for the scheduled missions. Recording devices for each sortie participant shall be loaded with the correct pre-mission data required for proper equipment function and distributed to mission participants.

Live Mission Operations At all locations requiring Live Mission Operations, the contractor shall ensure the Live Monitor ground system and all associated live monitor interface equipment is fully operational with all mission preparation complete not later than the scheduled mission takeoff time. The contractor shall record the mission, ensure proper ground system operation during the mission, and support warfighters RTOs managing the mission.

At all locations requiring Range Training Officer (RTO) support, the contractor shall fully perform the role of RTO without government involvement when required for mission support. The contractor shall augment government RTOs who choose to lead the live training mission. In either situation, the contractor shall accomplish RTO duties IAW AFI 13-212.

At all locations requiring Tactical Data Link Manager support, the contractor shall routinely augment the government TDLM as needed to support the live mission. The contractor shall occasionally perform the role of TDLM without government involvement as required for mission support. In either situation, the contractor shall accomplish TDLM duties IAW AFI 11-261.

At all locations requiring Surface-to-Air-Missile (SAM) Operator support, the contractor shall routinely operate and control range threat emitters that have been appropriately configured for remote operation. The SAM Operator shall also serve as an interface to on-range controllers for those threat emitters that are not configured for remote operations.

Post-Mission Debrief - The contractor shall provide mission file preparation and ground system setup for debriefing at ACTS locations.

Mission file preparation for debriefing shall include all necessary steps to validate mission date, merge multiple recording sources, produce a consolidated mission file, and quality check the output to produce a final mission file ready for warfighter playback during debrief.

Ground system setup for debriefing shall include all necessary steps for transferring the final mission file to the debriefing system, starting the display software, loading the mission file, and advancing to the mission start time.

Dedicated Debriefing - At those locations with a dedicated debriefing function, the contractor shall provide expanded debriefing support of a full-time debriefing expert in the squadron areas to perform ground system setup, mission preparation, and ACTS debriefing within the constraints of security and ITAR boundaries. The dedicated debriefing function shall encompass all necessary mission file preparation and ground system setup and additionally will include running the debriefing software during the debrief. When the mission requires Live Monitor, the dedicated debriefing function shall also include Live Monitor preparation, control, and data merging unless the site also has a separate full-time live mission requirement.

Debriefing Software Support - The contractor shall provide operator-level support for the common debriefing software products listed below. The support shall include installation, setup, configuration, operation, and usage of the software product.

Individual Combat Aircrew Debriefing System (ICADS) Integrated Tactics Assessment System (ITAS) Personal Computer Debriefing System (PCDS) Maintenance General Maintenance Activities The contractor shall schedule and perform all preventive maintenance as required by system technical manuals. For equipment without technical manuals (either government or commercial), the contractor shall use best commercial practices for preventive upkeep.

The contractor shall schedule and perform corrective maintenance necessary to provide the required operational capability without disruption to mission operations.

The contractor shall schedule and perform configuration maintenance actions such as Time Compliance Technical Orders, approved modifications (temporary and permanent), and one-time inspections within the suspense established by configuration directive.

The contractor shall provide organizational-level software maintenance support for all ACTS software to include installation, removal, loading, flashing, rebooting, configuring, and operator-level troubleshooting of software failures. Within the constraints of the ACTS equipment, the contractor shall maintain operational backups of properly configured ACTS software.

The contractor shall be responsible for storage of ACTS equipment using government furnished facilities and equipment as listed in Appendix 7.

The contractor shall be responsible for account management, maintenance, upkeep, testing, troubleshooting, and repair of all assigned ACTS equipment.

The contractor shall establish and maintain an Equipment Corrosion Control Program IAW AFI 32-1054 and other governing directives listed in Appendix 2.

The contractor shall perform Equipment Status Reporting (ESR) for all assigned ACTS equipment. The contractor shall accomplish ESR by entry of weekly ACTS performance data into the Reliability, Accountability, and Maintainability for Pods (RAMPOD) system.

The contractor shall report all incidents involving any equipment lost or damaged during aircraft flight or flight line operations to the SAR/COR within 24 hours of discovering the lost or damaged item. The contractor shall document this on an incident report and include details describing the item, incident, and circumstance. The contractor shall comply with any required associated safety reporting or investigation.

Airborne Instrumentation Systems (AIS) Maintenance External (Pod) AIS Maintenance The contractor shall schedule maintenance activities to complete pod operational checks before pod transport and loading to ensure only fully functional pods are loaded on aircraft. The contractor shall use established ACTS test/support equipment with approved technical manual procedures to determine full pod functionality.

The contractor shall perform both On-Equipment (on the pod) and Off-equipment (SRA on the bench) pod maintenance per the system technical manuals and system maintenance concept.

The contractor shall maintain the capability to replace malfunctioning cards/components within each shop replacement assembly (SRA) as allowed by technical manual reparability codes and the system maintenance concept.

For pod failures discovered during scheduled maintenance, the contractor shall immediately take action to troubleshoot and repair the failed pod.

If a pod has been returned to maintenance because it was associated with a non-effective sortie, the contractor shall perform a complete bench check to confirm pod operations. If the pod fails the bench check, the contractor shall immediately take action to troubleshoot and repair the failed pod.

If a pod failure results in insufficient pods to accomplish the mission schedule, the contractor shall immediately notify the COR.

For pod failures that cannot be duplicated during the maintenance check, the contractor shall take the following actions:

If a “non-effective” sortie can directly be traced to an aircraft related failure or improper procedure, the contractor shall report the tail number and pod number to the SAR/COR and the appropriate maintenance center. The contractor shall return the pod to operational service.

If a “non-effective sortie cannot directly be attributed to external factors, and the pod has passed all operational checks, the contractor shall use the pod in question on the next available sortie on a different aircraft and provide the results to the SAR/COR. If the pod in question flies a successful subsequent sortie, without any repairs or adjustments, the pod will remain in service and the previous failure will be attributed to the aircraft, annotated, and declared an excusable sortie. If the pod in question results in a non-effective sortie on the different aircraft, the pod will be returned to maintenance for further troubleshooting.

The contractor shall store all assigned pods in a manner where they will not be exposed to precipitation or adverse weather effects. For the purposes of this guidance, a pod loaded on an aircraft is not considered stored. Pods may be left on a trailer or truck overnight if the vehicle is garaged or otherwise protected from weather effects.

Internal AIS Maintenance The contractor shall not be responsible for direct maintenance of internal AIS equipment such as the F-35 P5 Internal Mount (IM) even though the contractor will integrate data from this source (as described in para 3.2.2.2).

The contractor shall coordinate with the appropriate avionics shop whenever an internal AIS participant fails to join, track, relay data, or perform other critical function necessary for the overall ACTS mission success.

The contractor shall jointly troubleshoot internal AIS failures with the appropriate avionics shop to eliminate any common interface failures. Such failures may include improper Site/AIS ID deconfliction, crypto/keying issues, airborne network configuration errors, and similar internal AIS integration issues.

Portable Instrumentation Systems Maintenance Data Recorder Maintenance – The contractor shall maintain and support various types of portable instrumentation systems (data trackers, recorders, loggers) to satisfy operational requirements. These portable systems may be GPS, Cellular, or SATCOM based devices used to collect data for integration with mission debriefings.

The contractor shall inventory, control, inspect, sustain, maintain, and troubleshoot data recorder equipment (cases, shells, memory cards, antennas, cables, recharging stations, and batteries).

The contractor shall identify any parts, supplies, or full replacements needed to sustain the inventory of portable devices. The contractor shall provide an estimate for purchase of any replenishment items to the CO/COR for approval. Any items approved by the CO/COR may be purchased and billed as reimbursable. The contractor shall update appropriate GFE inventories as needed.

The contractor shall ensure all portable devices are fully operational prior to issue of any device to the training participants. The contractor shall conduct a full operational check following repair of any device.

Ground Systems Maintenance General GS Maintenance Support The contractor shall perform ground systems maintenance for all ACTS equipment and software to include major systems (such as P5CTS) as well as all ancillary hardware and software collectively referred to as “ground systems” in this PWS. Ground systems maintenance shall include all actions to install, remove, maintain, upkeep, troubleshoot, analyze, test, configure, repair to provide software to fully operational ACTS equipment and software as required to support ACTS missions.

The contractor shall be responsible for account management, maintenance, upkeep, testing, troubleshooting, and repair of all Ground System equipment.

The contractor shall maintain all ground systems whether centrally located in a War Room (or similar Ops Facility), dispersed to squadron vaults and debriefing rooms, or remotely located on or off base.

The contractor shall determine when an equipment failure exceeds organizational-level maintenance responsibilities and coordinate, as needed, with organizations responsible for depot or factory-level repairs of ground systems.

Specific Systems Maintenance: In addition to the core ground systems present at all locations, the contractor shall maintain the following ground systems which may be present depending on site mission requirements as specified in the site appendices.

Remote instrumentation systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Remote Range Units GPS antennas/receivers Signal relays and repeaters Radio and Radio Management Systems. Hardware maintenance of these systems is generally limited to replacement of end item and major components. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

FM/HF/UHF/VHF/SATCOM radios both secure and non-secure Digital Radio Management System (DRMS) Associated power supplies, antennas, lightning arrestors, and other ancillary components.

Datalink and Datalink Management Systems. Hardware maintenance of these systems is generally limited to replacement of end item and major components. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Datalink terminals (Link-16, SADL, MIDS-JTRS, 5th Gen terminals) Terminal interfaces (Joint Range Extension, Pocket-J) Terminal control and constructive link injection (Ground Tactical Datalink System) Track Correlation Equipment. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Radar Acquisition and Display System (RADS) Multi-Source Correlator Tracker (MSCT) Threat Control, Management, and Simulation Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Electronic Warfare (EW) Server/ Electronic Warfare Multiplexor (EW MUX) Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS) Networking and Gateway Systems. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Live Mission Operations Network (LMON) –limited to site-level LMON node maintenance when directed by LMON support office.

Cross-Domain Trusted Guards – Radiant Mercury, SimShield Backbone network systems such as routers, switches, and media converters.

Protocol gateways –Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) gateways and networks.

Network Portals –Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) portals.

Virtual/Constructive (V/C) Systems. Maintenance of these systems is generally limited to standard computer hardware and peripheral repair/replacement. Shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

Live, Virtual, and Constructive Network Control Suite (LNCS) Network Integrated Constructive Environment (NICE) Distributed Interactive Simulation/Graphical User Interface (DIS/GUI) Performance Evaluation and Tracking System (PETS).

Engineering General Engineering Activities The contractor shall provide engineering services supporting the ACTS mission as detailed in this section.

The contractor shall locate engineering personnel performing these services at key site locations that will receive the most daily benefit of such personnel. Such locations are identified as “Master/Major” nodes in the site appendices. The contractor can propose alternate locations for engineering personnel for approval by the government PM.

Software The contractor shall provide engineering-level support for the software products listed below. The support shall include requirements collection, system design, software programming, documentation, test, certification, configuration management, advanced troubleshooting, and help desk support of the software product.

Integrated Tactics Assessment System (ITAS) – to include the incorporation of Tactical Analysis Production System (TAPS) functionality into ITAS.

The contractor shall perform software development to maintain effective operations of the software products as permitted under the rules for using O&M funds. These tasks shall include:

Changes designed to correct latent errors or deficiencies in software programs that otherwise meet the criteria for operational suitability and usefulness.

Changes designed to improve reliability, maintainability, safety, or that otherwise qualify as normal life-cycle support.

Software changes (or blocks of changes) that are relatively minor in scope and cost, and that can be accomplished during regular software maintenance.

The contractor shall perform software maintenance tasks to keep the software fully functional. These tasks shall include:

Isolate and correct software faults, problem code, and inefficient software code that negatively affect the functional capabilities and efficient operation of the system.

Maintain, update, and modify debriefing display formats and user-friendly human computer interfaces for all operators using the system and software.

Support operations, range equipment and system operational test and evaluation activities by the Government or government contractors using system resources.

Record all databases, data reduction subroutines, computer programs, and other subroutines developed, modified, or debugged and make sure a copy has been archived for safekeeping.

Modify system application software to perform post-sortie data sorts, analysis, comparisons, and report generations as required by the Government.

The contractor shall provide system integration services to support operation and evolution of the software products. The contractor shall provide services for operational and developmental system hardware, software, and equipment. These services shall include:

Provide system and software engineering and technical support for the selection and installation of new and replacement system components.

Add and/or replace associated interface devices.

Integrate additional primary training locations.

Integrate additional data types and parameters to accurately represent and display aircraft, vehicles, targets, weapons, structures, ships, threats and other air/land/sea/subsurface/space entities required to support current operations.

Integrate 2D/3D government or commercial-sourced imagery, terrain data, and maps of all types need to support debriefing requirements.

Design, code, and implement software modifications to improve subroutines and modules and enhance data collection, processing, analysis, and storage capabilities.

Design, code, and implement software modifications to support disparate data sources integrated into the debriefing software (audio, video, TSPI, GPS, datalink, weapon/data buss, scoring and similar instrumented/recorded data sources.

Perform studies and make recommendations to replace hardware/software tools and equipment that are no longer sustainable or meeting mission requirements.

Identify, select, acquire, and install replacement hardware/software tools and equipment as directed by the government to ensure continued operations.

Radio and Transceiver Systems The contractor shall provide engineering-level support for Radio and Transceiver systems. The engineering support shall include requirements collection, system design, architecture development, documentation, test, certification, configuration management, advanced troubleshooting, and creation of engineering reports and papers related to these activites.