A23 - Attachment 3 - JASON Facilities Requirements.pdf

JASON facilities requirements January 7, 2021

The current facility used for JASON studies provides a baseline for site requirements:

As a point of reference, for many years, JASON members have met in building 29 on the

General Atomics campus in La Jolla, California to carry out JASON studies. All JASON studies activities, other than site visits, are supported within building 29 and this building is capable meets all of JASON's requirements. The Government will consider a facility either owned by the Offeror or by another party.

The JASON facility must comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. The JASON facility must be able to support the following operations:

1. Sponsor briefings to JASON members,

2. Research and analysis of sponsor materials at non-classified, S, TS, RD and SCI levels.

3. Meetings among JASON members

4. JASON support work, including all security requirements, by Contractor Program

Management Support staff.

5. Storage of unclassified, S, TS, RD, and SCI materials

6. Business meetings between JASON members and Contractor Program Management

Support staff.

Based on these operations, JASON facilities must meet the following requirements

1. Office space for JASON membership - at least 5,000 square feet for approximately 40

JASON members in residence. Each office must have ethernet, wifi access, telephone service and desk space for two or three JASON members. Up to three JASONs can share one office.

2. Space adequate to allow Contractor Program Management Support staff to have a productive workspace separate from JASON members. Classified storage in this area is not required.

3. Physical security requirements in accordance with NISPOM (DoD 5220.22M).

4. Public space - General use unclassified computers, waiting area for visitors, approximately 100 square feet.

5. Non-SCI classified briefing rooms - each room has seating for 40 people, classified computers with projectors, card swipe access, at least 800 square feet each. These rooms are also used for report preparation after briefings, non-classified meetings, secure VTC, and RD presentations. At least two rooms are required.

6. SCI suite -

a. One large sci briefing room with seating for at least 60, at least 1,200 square feet, available for expansion as a work area (see item 6.d) for completion of SCI reports. This room must have one SCI computer with a projector.

b. One small briefing room with seating for 25, at least 400 square feet. This room must have one SCI computer with a projector. This room must have SCI computers with projectors.

c. An office with SCI storage space for the Facility Security Officer, with a computer JWICs and SIPRNet access, 10 3-drawer filing cabinets for SCI document storage..

d. Work room for report writing with 10 SCI authorized computers and SCI printer, at least 200 square feet.

e. Telecommunications closet for sci computer equipment, SCI Secure

Telecommunications Equipment VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phone capability, with adequate space for this equipment.

7. Restricted Data document area - Desk space for document and control officer. 8 3-drawer filing cabinets for storage of already documents. IT services for computers to store

Restricted Data reports, documents and written and writing combination lock access, work area for four JASON members at least 200 square feet.

8. Unclassified meeting rooms - meeting space for six people with unclassified computer and projector, at least 100 square feet.

9. Parking - nearby parking space for at least 50 cars for JASON members and briefers.

Any associated cost must be disclosed in the offeror’s cost volume.

10. Provisions for food services within three miles of the location. This requirement is purely pass fail, and no credit will be accorded to an offeror who exceeds these requirements.

11. Facility must support all JASON activities, including classified and unclassified briefings, meetings, and report writing in the same building.

12. JASON facilities must be available 12 months a year to allow permanent storage of equipment and classified RD, S and SCI materials. JASON typically operates intensely four months a year from May through August and the facility must be on operational standby the rest of the year, with occasional visits from JASON or Contractor Program

Support Staff during the rest of the year.

13. Location –

a. The location of JASON facilities is set by the JASON charter (this document is not controlled by the Government). The JASON facility is currently located in La

Jolla, California. For offeror’s situational awareness, it is the Government’s understanding that changing the location of JASON facilities requires a vote of the JASON membership. The JASON

b. JASON members must arrange housing for the summer study well in advance, typically doing so in the months of February and March for the following summer. Therefore, the location of the summer study must be known before

February to ensure adequate JASON attendance.

c. To control costs for briefers and for JASON operations, location must have convenient airport access, with an airport that supports convenient and moderate cost direct connections to all major US metropolitan areas.