AFIT_PWS_GSA.DOCX

Performance Work Statement For Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Faculty and Technical Support

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INTRODUCTION

1 Background Introduction The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is the Air Force’s graduate school of engineering and management as well as its institution for technical professional continuing education. A component of Air University and Air Education and Training Command, AFIT is committed to providing defense-focused graduate and professional continuing education and research to sustain the technological supremacy of America’s air and space forces. AFIT accomplishes this mission through five resident schools: the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, the Civil Engineer and Services School, the School of Systems and Logistics, the School of Strategic Force Studies, and the Civilian Institutions Program. In order to meet current and projected workload requirements in support of AFIT, the Government must augment its organic (military and civil service) capabilities with Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) support.

This Performance Work Statement (PWS) describes the requirements to obtain a broad range of project support services and expertise to support and sustain the school’s air, space, and cyberspace acquisition, logistics-focused and technical education, consulting, and research global mission.

2 Technical Performance Objectives Primary Performance Objectives

AFIT requires on-site support to help faculty, staff, managers and supervisors execute the research and education missions. The contractor is responsible for providing administrative, programmatic and technical assistance; technical editing, and website maintenance. Additionally, the contractor assists in organizing, administering, and promoting AFIT programs. The contractor shall provide technical support for teaching and research, including installation of hardware and computer models, operation and documentation. The contractor shall provide support for the development and execution of graduate and continuing education courses. The contractor shall assist with on-going research activities, with emphasis in lasers, optics, information technologies and cyberspace, modeling and simulation, navigation technologies, and space-related technologies. Work shall comply with Government and local laws, regulations, and instructions.

The contractor shall provide all necessary non-personal labor and services to complete tasks specified in support of the AFIT Centers and Departments workload. These tasks include direct or indirect support of office operations and individual or multiple programs or projects supporting education and research users. The contractor shall manage and organize resources and personnel needed to efficiently and effectively meet objectives of each task, and explore new approaches as applicable within the performance of these tasks.

The contractor shall assign sufficient resources and trained personnel to accomplish the tasks and to meet program/project milestones/schedules. The contractor shall assign a person to identify and assign contractor personnel (or a team of personnel), possessing the necessary experience, skills, and security clearances, in appropriate contractor labor category, to support the various efforts/tasks of the PWS. Tasks shall be accomplished in an effective, efficient, and timely manner. The contractor shall be capable of providing and performing the whole spectrum of support.

Task 1 ‒ Program Management The Contractor shall provide management and professional support services for research and academic program requirements. The contractor shall plan and coordinate academic and research activities, including tracking and communicating project status, monitoring execution, and identifying potential risks. The contractor shall provide assistance for the efficient and effective operation of research and academic activities including management and tracking of potential customers and/or sponsors. The contractor shall support marketing and outreach efforts to promote AFIT’s brand and mission. The contractor shall have knowledge of AFIT’s mission partners and be able to foster collaborative working relationships.

Task 2 ‒ Instruction and Course Design The contractor will deliver courseware in specific subject matters, both live and distance learning environments. The contractor shall develop, maintain, and teach course material; coordinate course offerings at various locations; document courses in accordance with Air Force and AFIT policies; and conduct post-offering assessments. The contractor may also participate in consultation efforts, and attend or participate in workshops, conferences, technical interchanges or similar venues as approved by the government on a case-by-case basis.

The contractor shall support e-Learning programs in the areas of instructional design, learning management system (LMS) assistance and administration, and studio operation and maintenance for both distance learning (DL) and blended course offerings. The contractor shall perform administration, development, execution, facilitation, and sustainment of AFIT’s e-Learning operations; to include student support, faculty support, technical support, and course materials development and maintenance.

Task 3 ‒ Engineering Services The Contractor shall provide experienced bachelor’s degree level or above engineering services, including the development of software, prototypes, algorithms, and technical support.

The contractor shall develop software, including conceiving and implementing new approaches, as well as devising alternative ways of accomplishing research objectives. This may be done solely by the contractor or as part of a software development team. The contractor shall develop prototypes to demonstrate technologies. All aspects of prototype development are desired, including physical (hardware) design, electrical layout, interface software, documentation, and testing. The contractor shall develop recommendations regarding the specification of requirements for hardware and software. The contractor shall develop algorithms, which are typically implemented in software.

Additionally, the contractor shall write reports and technical papers describing algorithms and algorithm performance. The contractor shall attend meetings and conferences to present research and establish relationships with the DoD scientific and technical community, defense industry, and academia.

The contractor shall provide technical support for research and development, including management of laboratories, assessing equipment and tools, managing equipment, assembling hardware and prototypes, supporting test activities, collecting data, and ensuring proper lab processes are followed.

Task 4 ‒ Directed Energy Research & Tools The Contractor shall be responsible for providing program assistance to engineering physics students, faculty, and research staff in support of MS and PhD research efforts, as appropriate and required.

The contractor shall evaluate advanced modeling of weapons development processes and directed energy technologies. The contractor is responsible for enhancing and contributing to simulation packages of atmospheric effects on the propagation of High Energy Lasers (HELs).

The contractor shall develop phenomenological models and software that are used primarily for educating, consulting, and advising for Directed Energy (DE and Advanced Weapons Development.

The contractor shall research DE enabling technologies and DE system concepts through experiment, modeling and simulation, and analysis, as well as how these technologies interrelate with cyber solutions.

The contractor is responsible for providing USAF and DOD with subject matter expertise, AFIT Research and Development, AFRL Directed Energy and other DOD organizations in transitioning high energy lasers and high power microwaves to the battlefield through vigorous scientific and engineering research and consulting activities.

Task 5 ‒ Cyber Operations Support The contractor shall provide academic support for the Graduate Cyber Operations, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering academic programs. The contractor shall provide academic support for the Cyber Professional Continuing Education (PCE) courses. This support shall include assistance in the scheduling of academic courses, training sessions, and student support (academic advising, and coordination for purchasing of textbook and courseware). Further, the contractor shall assist the government program manager or their designee with the programmatic issues associated with accreditation procedures and processes as requested. The contractor shall provide technical writing assistance to the Center for research document preparation and submission. The contractor shall provide technical teaching support for graduate and PCE coursework related to computer and cyber network defense, attack, and security. The contractor shall work with Government personnel to develop, document, and deliver graduate and PCE courses in cyber security in support of the mission.

The contractor shall manage the day-to-day IT operations of cyber teaching and research laboratories. The contractor shall provide network solutions as well as support of all hardware/software needs and configurations requested by students, faculty, and staff, as well as equipment custodian duties.

The contractor shall have experience in program management, functional management, project management, cyber research and software engineering satisfying military, commercial and software developer and engineering requirements. The contractor should specialize in Business Process Analysis, Memory Forensics, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition/Data Mining, Active Authentication, Reverse Engineering, and C programming. The Contractor shall demonstrate extensive experience in the full life cycle of software development including requirements definition, prototyping, proof of concept, design, implementation, testing, and support.

The contractor shall work with affiliated faculty, staff researchers, and students to apply web/cloud technologies to their education and research efforts in support of AF cyber education and research.

The contractor shall provide ability to solicit cloud service support through third party cloud integrators in order to facility agile software development and purchase of cloud storage and computing capability.

The contractor shall support marketing and outreach efforts to promote AFIT’s brand and mission. The contractor shall have knowledge of AFIT’s mission partners and be able to foster collaborative working relationships.

Task 6 ‒ Project Support and Administrative Assistance The contractor shall conduct collaborative research and content development with administrators, faculty, and/or students. The contractor shall provide technical, functional and administrative assistance in support of education, research, consultation, and outreach objectives. Additionally, the contractor shall generate presentation materials in order to aid in the discussion of technical issues and support conferences, meetings, demonstrations, and Technical Interchange Meetings/Reviews as required. The contractor shall provide agendas, meeting minutes, and track action items associated with the aforementioned.

The contractor shall support cross-center collaboration objectives with respect to development (writing, researching, and consolidating) of work products, as required for other AFIT research centers, other AFIT schools/centers and other AF and DoD partners. These products include analysis of alternatives, business case analysis, multi-functional domain reviews, organizational impact analysis, and laws, regulations, and policy impact analysis as applicable for the targeted research and solution objectives.

The contractor shall assist AFIT faculty and/or DOD partners with materials needed such as training strategy, materials, booklets, overviews, distance learning execution or software discs. Support conferences, career fairs, technical papers, master plans, user guides and journal publications. The contractor shall support marketing and outreach efforts to promote AFIT’s brand and mission. The contractor shall have knowledge of AFIT’s mission partners and be able to foster collaborative working relationships.

The contractor shall provide administrative support government personnel. Tasks include drafting of purchase requests, general travel support, meeting/conference support, student tracking, education planning, and general program and advertisement literature development. The contractor shall maintain the conference room schedule and SharePoint site. The contractor will update and maintain additional duty rosters, assignment letters, organizational charts, recall rosters and phone listings. The contractor will assist with the new employee in-processing system and arrange for official photos and name plates for all assigned individuals. The contractor will track suspense requirements in the government-provided system and ensure faculty consulting is updated in the appropriate database. The contractor will assist with internal and external strategic communication and shall provide a wide range of other administrative support services to AFIT leadership, staff, and faculty in support of courses and programs managed by the school.

The contractor shall provide personnel to support classified research computing. The contractor shall provide computer administrative support for in-house standalone network (collateral SECRET) and systems and network administrator support for networks in secure facility.

Task 7 – Technical Intelligence Research & Tools The Contractor shall provide assistance to students, faculty, and staff in support of sponsored projects and graduate student research efforts related to remote sensing and technical intelligence.

The contractor shall provide electro-optical (EO) design and signature exploitation expertise for key customers, with emphasis on Persistent Infrared (PIR) and hyperspectral imaging (HSI). The contractor shall support research focused on automating high-fidelity exploitation of EO remote sensing measurements via physics modeling, traditional algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML).

The contractor shall provide radar design and signature exploitation expertise for key customers in addition to supporting Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) Tracking & Detection algorithms and field testing.

The contractor shall support algorithm development, software coding and validation of the AFIT Sensor and Scene Emulation Tool (ASSET). The contractor shall support capability and performance improvements to ASSET to help maximize exploitation of remote sensing data. ASSET simulates wide field-of-view data for the express purpose of generating data that realistically emulates the imperfections of real sensors.

Task 8 – Financial Management The Contractor shall provide financial support to accomplish vital functions in support of the Air Force Institute of Technology. The contractor shall complement the government team to provide the necessary service to internal and external customers/stakeholders and to assure proper financial recordkeeping to meet audit requirements. The contractor shall manage and organize resources and personnel needed to efficiently and effectively meet objectives and explore new approaches as applicable.

The contractor shall research and collect data on program/project information and develop and prepare presentations and briefings for office requestors on the whole range of office activities such as, but not limited to, studies, analyses, metrics, plans, progress reports, metric status reports, related topics, etc.