RFI__Performance_Work_Statement.docx

Statement of Work FEMA Region 10 Summary Report of Selected Terrorism Threats Draft as of March 16, 2015

Background FEMA Region 10 works with the emergency management agencies of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington to accomplish FEMA’s mission to:

Support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards.

FEMA Region 10 currently has a Threat/Risk analysis that outlines the predominant natural and technological hazards prevalent in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. However, the Threat/Risk analysis currently does not address human-caused (terrorism) threats in any meaningful way. The purpose of this project is to make inroads into the development of a terrorism section to the Region 10 Threat/Risk analysis by focusing on five of the most impactful terrorism threats faced in the Region: biological weapons, nuclear weapons, radiological weapons, cyber-weapons, and high-explosive weapons.

The vendor selected for this project will synthesize information from open-source materials into an unclassified Summary Report of Selected Terrorism Threats as part of the terrorism section of the Region 10 threat/risk analysis. The intended audience for this project is internal FEMA staff and Federal interagency partners.

Considerations The information needed for the vendor to complete this project will primarily be synthesized from several existing open source reports that will be provided to the vendor, including: the Strategic National Risk Assessment, Incident Annexes to the National Response Framework, and other reports/studies germane to each of the specific threats comprising this report.

In addition, the vendor will need to conduct additional research of open source materials to ascertain additional information to inform the development of the Summary Report.

Deliverables The vendor will develop an unclassified Summary Report of Selected Terrorism Threats that focuses on the following five human-caused (terrorism) threats: (1) Biological Weapons (BW); (2) Improvised Nuclear Device (IND); (3) Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD); (4) Cyber Terrorism (CT); and, (5) High Explosives (HE).

1. The vendor will synthesize open-source literature on each of the above terrorism threats – BW, IND, RDD, CT, and HE – into one document. Each threat section should be approximately 7-12 pages in length, making for a combined total of some 50 pages.

2. The project will be organized under the following headings for each of the five terrorism threats:

· Background: a brief intro to the threat to include the basic science behind the hazard;

· A hypothetical scenario: Using open source materials, the vendor will outline a scenario example for each threat (e.g., a 10KT IND in a major city). Scenarios will be chosen based on consultation with the FEMA Project Lead;

· Impacts: based on the hypothetical scenario, summarize the impacts/consequences for each respective scenario to include: deaths, injuries, economic loss, social displacement, and ecological impacts. Important also are any impacts that might be especially germane to the Pacific Northwest based on climate, demographics, geography, etc.

3. Special consideration

· BW – the primary focus should be on virus/bacteria non-food threats (i.e., anthrax, smallpox, etc.). However, food-borne/agricultural threats (i.e., foot-and-mouth disease) should also be addressed. Likewise, two scenarios should be developed that address non-food and food-borne BW threat agents.

· CT – the focus should be on cyber-attacks to critical infrastructure and the resulting consequences, and not cyber-crime or espionage.

4. Charts, graphics, and tables should be included in the report to make the information easier to read and comprehend.

5. Endnotes should be provided to document all sources used in the report.