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Enterprise Product Support Engineering Additive Manufacturing & Cold Spray Efforts Statement of Objectives (SOO)

IDIQ GSA ITSS ID05170029

1 Sep 2017

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Product Support Engineering Division (EZP) Department of the Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), OH

Points Of Contact:

Program Manager:

Jesse Holdaway, AFLCMC/EZPT Phone: (937) 255-4794 E-mail: jesse.holdaway@us.af.mil

COR:

Gregory Schwabacher, AFLCMC/EZPT Phone: (937) 656-7903 Fax: (937) 255-7791 E-mail: gregory.schwabacher.1@us.af.mil

GSA:

Theresa Vollink Phone: (312) 279-8145 Fax: (312) 886-3827 E-mail: theresa.vollink@gsa.gov

BACKGROUND: The Air Force must endeavor to find ways to modernize and sustain affordable and effective systems in a challenging fiscal constrained environment. For most Air Force systems, the majority of the total life cycle cost is expended in executing product support functions in the Operations and Support phase, approximately 60-70 percent. For this reason, effective and efficient product support planning and execution are critical to the Air Force’s ability to design, field, modernize and sustain affordable systems.

Currently, the Air Force makes sustainment technology decisions on a program-by-program basis. However, a wholly program-centric approach has inherent weaknesses. This existing approach does not always include consideration of other programs’ on-going initiatives which creates duplication of efforts and wastes key valuable Air Force resources.

The enterprise mindset is an evolution from our program-centric approach to an approach that leverages synergies, seeks economies of scale, and proactively manages system and infrastructure capabilities to sustain essential government and industry product support capabilities.

The Air Force must design for supportability by maximizing commonality, modularity, open system architecture and standardization of support processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Product support engineering solutions should maximize the use of common technology to optimize availability and reliability while reducing life cycle costs.

1. SCOPE OF WORK/OBJECTIVE: Product Support Engineering supports projects that demonstrate enterprise technologies, alternative material solutions, and standardize process solutions to enable or accelerate sustainment technology transition across multiple weapon systems across the life cycle. This contract will address the gap that exists between when a technology is first demonstrated and when it can be successfully acquired as an operational capability. It should bridge that gap by supporting promising system and subsystem concepts for technology integration and demonstration from laboratory to sustainment. It will allow program managers (the developers and providers) and warfighters (the end users) to identify, integrate, prototype, test, qualify, and demonstrate candidate technologies and assess them in an operational environment. As a minimum Product Support Engineering covers the following focus areas to ensure reduced weapon system life cycle costs and improved reliability, availability, and maintainability:

1.1. Additive Manufacturing: The USAF is interested in expanding Additive Manufacturing (AM) capabilities across the USAF ecosystem in metals, polymers, and composites across all types of AM techniques. AF efforts in metals-based AM, specifically Direct Metal Laser Melting (DMLM), have rapidly increased over the past two years and demonstrate a great potential for AF applications with complex geometries and diminishing sources of supply. Polymer based applications of the technology have been utilized for prototyping, tooling, fixtures, and jigs, but continue to be advanced towards the production of aerospace components. Select metal and polymer based AM processes have been certified for commercial use, but organic AF knowledge & processes require additional maturation for application on a global scale. Whether working with MAJCOM, Depot, or Forward Operating Base (FOB) organizations/units, the AF is building standardized enterprise-wide implementation processes for metals, polymers, and composites which are essential to the mission and align with the Air Force Future Operating Concept. The AF identifies the following ten categories as critical challenge areas for implementing AM: 1) Material Standards & Availability, 2) Part Selection, 3) Skillset Development, 4) Configuration Control, 5) Reproducibility, 6) Cyber Security, 7) Part Validation & Qualification, 8) Process Validation & Qualification, 9) Reverse Engineering, and 10) Communication Plans. Government and contracted subject matter experts (SMEs) for each area will be required. Future efforts are required to build upon prior advancements while implementing new data and cutting edge data collection techniques (i.e. DI/DE, NDI/NDE, etc.).

1.2. Cold Spray: The USAF is interested in expanding cold spray technologies using multiple materials throughout the USAF enterprise. During operational use the AF has many components with localized damage due to wear, fretting, corrosion, etc. The overall component may remain structurally sound and only require repair of a small section which faces heavy wear (i.e. holes, mating surfaces, etc). In the past, these components have been scrapped, but now the AF has identified Cold Spray as a potential source of part repair versus manufacturing new components, which was not previously viable. The Cold Spray technology allows for the rebuild of components to near net shape, which then allows for additional post-processing to complete a repair. The model developed for Additive Manufacturing implementation has been adopted for advancing efforts in Cold Spray within the AF. Following the same principles and challenge areas, Cold Spray has been identified to have the potential for enterprise-wide adoption across the AF.

CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS: The Contractor shall complete all aspects & components laid out within the scope. The Contractor shall accomplish tasks in coordination with AWB-1015, as required. The Contractor shall provide adequate support towards all efforts, as required to complete the tasks. All raw and summarized data, test results, drawings, pictures, modeling, analytics, process orders, methodologies and coding shall be unrestricted and submitted electronically with final test reports, provided to the AF in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentation formats. All final reports shall be presented to the Air Force through in-person briefings summarizing all results and recommendations as well as final documented reports. Any deviations to the PWS scope shall be approved by the government PM and contracting officer. All papers, briefings, results, tours, videos provided and developed by the Contractor shall be approved by the Air Force and must be approved for public release. Additional Contractor requirements will be met as outlined in follow-on contracting tasks.

2. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Contractor shall meet all requirements and responsibilities as outlined in this PWS as required in subsequent task orders (TOs). All staff shall be fully trained, professional, and customer oriented and will consistently provide responsive, flexible, and cost effective service. Quality work performance in accordance with applicable standards and guidelines shall be ensured. The Contractor shall perform the standards of this PWS in an environmentally acceptable manner consistent with all Federal, State and local laws.

3. CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS: Contractor requirements will be met as outlined in follow-on contracting tasks.

4. DELIVERABLES: Deliverables will be in accordance with requirements as outlined in follow-on contracting tasks.

5. MEETING ATTENDANCE/TRAVEL: Meeting attendance/travel will be in accordance with requirements as outlined in follow-on contracting tasks. All travel expenses shall be in accordance with the Department of Defense Joint Travel Regulation (JTR).

6. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED FACILITIES AND INFORMATION: Government furnished facilities and information will be provided in accordance with requirements as outlined in follow-on contracting tasks.

7. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: The Contractor shall provide a location or locations to operate an AFLCMC AM & Cold Spray Innovation Center(s) near Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. All work will be accomplished at the AFLCMC Innovation Center(s). Future AFLCMC AM & Cold Spray Innovation Centers may be established at other locations. None of this work will be accomplished on an AF installation. The size of the Innovation Center(s) should accommodate potential future task orders as well.

8. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: Up to Secret

9. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 5 Years

10. NONPERSONAL SERVICES: This contract is a “nonpersonal services contract” as defined in FAR 37.101. It is, therefore, understood and agreed that the contractor and/or the contractor’s employees: (1) shall perform the services specified herein as independent contractors, not as employees of the government; (2) shall be responsible for their own management and administration of the work required and bear sole responsibility for complying with any and all technical, schedule, or financial requirements or constraints associated with performance of this contract; (3) shall be free from supervision or control by any government employee with respect to the manner or method or performance of the services specified; but (4) shall, pursuant to the government’s right and obligation to inspect, accept or reject the work, comply with such general direction of the contracting officer, or the duly authorized representative of the contracting officer as is necessary to ensure accomplishment of the contract objectives.

11. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: None