A01_JMAP CQT VBSS PWS_Redacted.pdf

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PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

Advanced Marksmanship, Close-Quarters Tactics (CQT), and Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) Training Course

1.0 Background

The contemporary operating environment demands that Reconnaissance Marines maintain unmatched proficiency in individual combat marksmanship, dynamic transitions, specialized close-quarters combat, and maritime boarding operations. Operating in complex, non-permissive urban and maritime environments requires rapid threat discrimination, surgical lethal application, fluid multi-room clearance, and tactical vessel boarding capabilities.

To achieve marksmanship improvement at scale, 2d Reconnaissance Battalion (2d Recon Bn) requires contracted Subject Matter Expert (SME) instructional support to deliver a progressive, intensive training program. Marksmanship development under this contract is structured as a continuous loop, not a one-off event. The Contractor shall utilize the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Package (JMAP) methodology to design the assessment, capture the data, interpret the results, coordinate doctrine and training updates with 2d Recon Bn instructors, put those modifications into practice at scale, and continually repeat the cycle to drive ongoing lethality improvements.

2.0 Scope and Objective

• Scope: The Contractor shall provide highly qualified Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to deliver specialized technical instruction, shooting mechanics diagnostics, and tactical coaching to 2d Recon Bn Marines in accordance with JMAP standards. The Contractor shall provide the necessary training venues (inclusive of land-based ranges and land-based VBSS mock-up platforms), the Program of Instruction (POI), and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) medical training lanes. Range safety command, Class V ammunition, organic weapons, optics, air support, role players, and sustenance remain the responsibility of the Government.

• Objective: Elevate the combat marksmanship, live-fire shoot-house clearance, and maritime VBSS capabilities of designated Reconnaissance Platoons. The training must bridge fundamentals, external tactical movement, internal multi-room breach-and-clear tactics, and tactical boarding actions to achieve complete tactical readiness in accordance with USMC standards.

3.0 General Requirements

The Contractor shall provide tactical instruction, marksmanship coaching, and maritime operations training in accordance with NAVMC 3500.55D (Reconnaissance Training and Readiness Manual) and unit-directed Training and Readiness (T&R) events. The Contractor shall adhere strictly to the schedule, personnel ratios, and curriculum milestones outlined herein.

4.0 Tasks and Phased Execution

The Contractor shall provide technical instruction, training venues, and POI management across three (3) designated training courses with specific student loads:

• Course 1 (Abbreviated Course): Consists of a three (3) week training progression covering only Advanced Combat Marksmanship and a reduced Close-Quarters Tactics (CQT) block for a class size of fifty (50) students. The

• Course 2 (Full Course): Consists of a five (5) week training progression covering Marksmanship, CQT, and VBSS for a class size of thirty (30) students.

• Course 3 (Full Course): Consists of a five (5) week training progression covering Marksmanship, CQT, and VBSS for a class size of thirty (30) students.

4.1 Notes on Course Delivery

The specific course structures and training delivery models are defined as follows:

• Course 1 (Abbreviated Package): This course is an abbreviated package and will include only Phase 1 (Advanced Combat Marksmanship – 2 Weeks) and a reduced Phase 2 (Close-Quarters Tactics – 1 Week). It will not include Phase 3 (VBSS) or the full medical training component.

• Courses 2 and 3 (Full Packages): These courses are full packages and will execute all three phases (Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3) as described in Section 4.2.

4.2 Course Structure and Training Execution Phases

Each training package is divided into three distinct blocks of instruction:

Phase 0: Planning and Administration (Pre-Course) Prior to the start of each course, the Contractor shall collaborate with 2d Recon Bn leadership and the Battalion Training Cell to finalize the Program of Instruction (POI), integrate diagnostic metrics, align shooting diagnostics, refine scenario and training objectives, and deconflict administrative timelines.

Phase 1: Advanced Combat Marksmanship (2 Weeks)

• Technical instruction in primary carbine and secondary pistol weapon platforms, focusing on rapid presentation, target acquisition, recoil mitigation, barricade shooting, support-hand transitions, and surgical threat engagement at operational ranges.

• Active integration of the JMAP methodology to achieve marksmanship improvement at scale. This is executed as an iterative, data-driven cycle rather than a single event, consisting of the following core concepts:

o Assessment Design: The Contractor’s cognitive and marksmanship experts shall collaborate with 2d Recon Bn subject-matter experts to design customized performance and cognitive assessments for specific marksmanship roles, units, weapons, and optics. [15.1] o Efficient Data Capture: The Contractor shall input and manage all designed assessments within the JMAP application, executing test and baseline evaluations during live-fire ranges to verify data accuracy and capture efficiency. [15.1, 15.3] o Data Science & Interpretation: The Contractor’s data scientists, guided by marksmanship experts, shall analyze captured metrics (such as split times, transitions, and mechanical accuracy) to deliver highly detailed, objective outcome analysis to 2d Recon Bn leadership. [15.3] o Doctrine & Instructor Development: The Contractor shall utilize JMAP diagnostic data to design, test, and refine tactical doctrine and shooting mechanics modifications in direct coordination with 2d Recon Bn organic instructor cadres.

[15.3] o Implement at Scale: The Contractor shall assist 2d Recon Bn in implementing these refined training and doctrine changes into wide-scale practice across the platoons, closing the evaluation loop and establishing a foundation for continuous capability advancement. [15.3]

Phase 2: Internal Close-Quarters Tactics (CQT) & Shoot House (2 Weeks)

• This phase utilizes a progressive, building-block approach immediately following the completion of Phase 1 Advanced Combat Marksmanship.

• Instruction shall include dry-run, simunitions (force-on-force), and live-fire evolutions inside CQT shoot houses covering single and multi-room clearance, threshold evaluation, hallway clearance, dynamic and deliberate clearing, and sector collapse under low-light/no-light conditions.

• Live role players shall be utilized throughout the CQT phase to simulate realistic, dynamic, and non-permissive urban combat scenarios.

• At the Government’s discretion, mechanical, thermal, and explosive live breaching training will be included in this phase. The Government explicitly retains and owns all operational, safety, and physical risks associated with live breaching operations.

• This phase shall integrate Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) medical training lanes under tactical stress scenarios.

Phase 3: Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) (2 Weeks)

• Practical and classroom instruction on vessel boarding techniques, hook-and-ladder placement, and containerized ship movement.

• All Phase 3 training shall be conducted entirely on a land-based, dry-land trainer (“Ship-in-a-Box” SIB facility) located at the same Contractor-provided location as the Phase 2 CQT shoot-house training to ensure seamless training integration. [15.1]

• The baseline training curriculum shall be tailored specifically to VBSS “Ship-in-a-Box” operations; however, the Government retains the unilateral authority to modify the training focus from maritime VBSS to land-based limited-scale raids.

• The Government shall be solely responsible for developing and providing all tactical scenarios, training missions, and exercise parameters, with the Contractor executing instruction and evaluation in support of those Government-designed scenarios.

4.2.1 Additional Specialized Breaching Lanes

To support advanced entry and assault operations during the Close-Quarters Tactics (CQT) and VBSS phases of training, the Contractor shall establish, manage, and facilitate dedicated breaching lanes. This support shall encompass:

• Scope of Instruction: Provide technical instruction, practical demonstrations, and formally evaluated performance training in mechanical, thermal, and explosive breaching techniques.

• Lanes and Infrastructure: The Contractor shall construct and operate designated breaching gates, doors, and structural facades capable of supporting:

o Mechanical Breaching: Practical employment of rams, hooligan tools, sledgehammers, and hydraulic cutting/spreading systems.

o Thermal Breaching: Practical employment of exothermic cutting torches and specialized thermal cutting rods.

o Explosive Breaching: Calculated placement, priming, and detonation of tactical explosive breaching charges on heavy wood, steel-reinforced, and masonry entry points (utilizing Government-furnished Class V explosives).

4.3 Personnel and Staffing

4.3.1 Instructor Staffing Ratio

The Contractor shall maintain a strict minimum instructor-to-student ratio of 1:4 at all times during active instruction. Based on this ratio, the Contractor shall provide the following minimum staffing footprint for each course:

• Course 1 (50 Students): Minimum of thirteen (13) fully qualified instructors on-site.

• Course 2 (30 Students): Minimum of eight (8) fully qualified instructors on-site.

• Course 3 (30 Students): Minimum of eight (8) fully qualified instructors on-site.

4.3.2 Key Personnel Qualifications

The instructional cadre must represent elite-tier competitive, operational, and maritime boarding expertise, possessing verifiable credentials matching the specialized technical standards developed for advanced military marksmanship, close-quarters combat, and maritime boarding programs. Qualification requirements are divided by phase as follows:

• Phase 1: Advanced Combat Marksmanship (JMAP) Instructors o USMC Marksmanship Doctrine & Assessment Expertise: Instructors must possess direct operational experience administering and instructing within the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Program (JMAP), Advanced Marksmanship Training Program (AMTP), and Infantry Marksmanship Training Program

(IMTP).

o Competitive Marksmanship Credentials: Instructors must hold verifiable national or international competitive shooting credentials, specifically United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) or International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Grand Master (GM) classifications across multiple firearm divisions, or national match champion distinctions.

• Phase 2: Close-Quarters Tactics (CQT) Instructors o Operational Raid Experience: Instructors must possess documented, real-world operational experience conducting CQT and direct-action raids at the national-level Tier 1 or Tier 2 Special Operations Forces (SOF) level.

o Special Operations Background: Instructors must possess documented backgrounds as former USMC Infantry Weapons Officers (Marine Gunners, MOS 0306), certified USMC Master Instructors, or Special Operations Team Leaders/Platoon Sergeants with direct operational CQT deployment experience.

• Phase 3: Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) Instructors o CQT Integration: Instructors must meet all standard Phase 2 CQT instructor operational requirements.

o Maritime Jurisdictional Operational Experience: Instructors must have documented operational training and real-world operational deployment experience executing VBSS missions, specifically encompassing both military maritime interdiction operations under Title 10 (Armed Forces) authority and maritime law enforcement/security operations under Title 14 (Coast Guard) authority.

o Maritime Special Operations Background: Instructors must possess documented backgrounds as former Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) operators, Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance combat divers, or Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT) operators with documented tactical boarding experience.

• Minimum Core Instructional Experience (Common to All Cadre):

All instructors, regardless of phase specialty, must have a minimum of three (3) years of verified tactical shooting, close-quarters combat, or maritime boarding instructional experience within the last five (5) years directly training conventional military Reconnaissance elements, national-level law enforcement tactical teams, or Special Operations Forces (SOF).

Instructors should also possess prior working knowledge of MCB Camp Lejeune range complexes and demonstrated compliance with local Range Control operating orders when training is conducted on Government installations.

4.3.3 Contractor Deliverables & Reporting

• Daily Training Hot-Wash: Verbal debrief delivered to Platoon Leadership immediately following daily training completion.

• Digital Diagnostic Assessment Log: Deliver comprehensive, objective JMAP time-and-accuracy diagnostic assessments for each Marine (incorporating individual split times, transition speeds, hit-factor/lethality scores, and specific mechanical deficiencies) within three (3) business days of course completion.

• Certificate of Completion: Issue a formal Certificate of Completion to all students successfully fulfilling the course syllabus. Certificates of Completion document course attendance and syllabus completion only and do not constitute a Government certification of individual operational proficiency or readiness.

5.0 Safety and Range Authority (Government Retained)

• 5.1 Complete Government Safety Responsibility: The Contractor shall NOT bear operational responsibility for range safety or the overall safety structure. The Government retains 100% operational authority, command oversight, and safety control over all live-fire, simunitions/force-on-force, and tactical evolutions.

• 5.2 Government Safety Structure: The Government will establish and maintain the entire range safety apparatus, to include assigning a certified Officer in Charge (OIC) and Range Safety Officer (RSO) who maintain final stop-fire authority, certified Line Safety Officers (LSOs), and dedicated operational medical support (Corpsmen, emergency vehicles, and medevac staging) throughout all training.

• 5.3 Contractor Role in Safety: Contractor personnel shall comply with all safety commands, directives, and operational limits established by the Government OIC, RSO, and Range Control. The Contractor remains solely responsible for the safety, conduct, and actions of its own personnel at all times.

6.0 Government Requirements (Government-Furnished Property & Services) The Government shall provide all logistical, operational, and tactical support required for this contract, to include:

• 6.1 Ammunition: The Government will provide 100% of the required Class V(W) ammunition, including all primary carbine and secondary pistol live ammunition, frangible cartridges, and marking/NLTA munitions.

• 6.2 Weapons and Optics: The Government will provide all operational organic weapons platforms, optical systems, and tactical load-bearing gear.

• 6.3 Air Support: The Government will coordinate and provide necessary air assets to support tactical insertion, extraction, and helocast emulations during the Full Mission Profile exercises.

• 6.4 Role Players: The Government will supply all required scenario-specific role players to simulate civilian, partner-nation, or hostile forces.

• 6.5 Sustenance: The Government will provide meals, water, and tactical rations for all military student personnel during the training periods.

• 6.6 Lodging and Transportation: The Government will provide billeting/lodging for military student personnel and all necessary transportation of participating Marines to and from training venues.

• 6.7 Unit Support Personnel: The Government will provide unit support personnel and logistical coordinators as required.

7.0 Place of Performance & Contractor-Furnished Property (CFP) Training will be performed primarily at the Contractor-provided and secure tactical training facility, which must meet the following structural requirements:

• 7.1 Training Venues: The Contractor shall provide a fully certified and secure training facility containing flat combat marksmanship ranges, CQT-certified live-fire shoot houses, and a land-based dry-land trainer (“Ship-in-a-Box” SIB facility) located at the same training site as the CQT shoot houses to support VBSS and limited-scale raid training. [15.1]

• 7.2 Medical Training Lanes: The Contractor shall construct and operate dedicated, high-stress TCCC lanes featuring simulated casualties, acoustic stressors, and medical treatment materials.

• 7.3 Programs of Instruction (POI): The Contractor shall supply the complete, standardized POI for both the abbreviated (3-week) and full (5-week) course tracks for Government approval prior to course commencement.

• 7.4 Government-Funded Alternate Venues (Government Option): The Government retains the unilateral option to coordinate and contract a separate training venue, including government installations, private training locations, or active maritime vessels, at sole cost to the Government. Under this option, the Contractor shall provide the standard instructor cadre to support training at the alternate location, provided that both parties mutually agree in writing that the selected alternate venue is safe, suitable, and structurally capable of supporting the scheduled training events. The Government retains all venue-related risk when exercising this option.

8.0 Deliverables

The Contractor shall submit and track administrative deliverables in accordance with the schedule below:

Deliverable

ID

Description Frequency / Due Date

Format Recipient

DEL-01

Program of Instruction (POI) & Schedule

15 Days prior to course start

Electronic (MS Word/PDF)

COR and Unit Sponsor

DEL-02

Daily Training Hot- Wash Debrief

Daily immediately following training

Verbal / On-Site Unit Leader &

COR

DEL-03

Digital Diagnostic Assessment Log (JMAP Data)

Within 3 business days of course completion

Electronic

(JMAP

App/PDF)

COR and Unit Sponsor

DEL-04

Certificates of Completion

Upon course graduation

Hardcopy & Electronic

Graduating Students &

COR

9.1 Contract Administrators

9.2 Government Technical Representatives

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10.0 Contractor’s Unauthorized Work Performance

The Contractor shall not perform work that deviates from contract requirements and specifications. If the Contractor deviates from contract requirements and specifications without approval of the CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR and/or the CONTRACTING OFFICER, such deviation shall be at the risk of the Contractor, and any costs related thereto shall be borne by the Contractor.

11.0 Applicable Documents and References

11.1 NAVMC 3500.55D Reconnaissance Training and Readiness Manual.