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PART I – THE SCHEDULE

SECTION B

SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS

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The research, development, and technical services to the Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Information Technology Division

(NRL-ITD) program is being procured as a partial small business set-aside. This contract covers two separate lots. Lot I is a small business set-aside procurement. Lot II is a full and open procurement. The maximum dollar amount the Government may order under this contract is $245,000,000.00; the minimum amount is $2,500.00.

B–1 PART I – SUPPLIES/SERVICES AND COSTS

ITEM NO SUPPLIES/SERVICES QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE

1000 – 1999

JOB

Noun:

Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD

(Lot I)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)

Ordering Period Date of Award through 5 Years

FOB: Destination

Descriptive Data:

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

Procedures.”

AMOUNT $

2000 – 2999

(Lot I)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price, Level-of-Effort (FFPLOE)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

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ITEM NO SUPPLIES/SERVICES ESTIMATED COST FIXED FEE

3000 – 3999

(Lot I)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Cost Plus Fixed Fee (Term Type)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

ESTIMATED COST PLUS FIXED FEE $

4000 – 4999

(Lot I)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Cost Plus Fixed Fee (Completion Type)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

5000 – 5999

(Lot II)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Solicitation No. N00173-14-R-RV01 Page 4 of 100

Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

6000 – 6999

(Lot II)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price, Level-of-Effort (FFPLOE)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

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7000 – 7999

Noun: Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD (Lot II)

PSC: AC6X

Contract Type: Cost Plus Fixed Fee (Term Type)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

8000 – 8999

$ OPTION

Noun: Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD (Lot II)

Contract Type: Cost Plus Fixed Fee (Completion Type)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, material, travel, and items reasonably required to accomplish DO/TOs issued pursuant to the requirements contained in the Statement of Work (SOW) entitled “Research, Development, and Technical Services for the NRL-ITD Program”, and IAW Section G clause “G-8, Ordering

1 LOT

$2,500.00

Noun: Data and Reports

DD1423 is Exhibit Destination

The Contractor shall furnish all data as required by the Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL), DD Form

1423, which is hereby incorporated as Exhibit A. Applicable data will be indicated on each DO/TO issued hereunder.

AMOUNT $2,500.00

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B–2 DESCRIPTION OF LOT I AND LOT II

(a) LOT I – The set-aside portion consists of materialized requirements which market research indicated that two or more responsible small business concerns would be received and those offers would be competitive in terms of market prices, quality, and delivery.

(b) LOT II – The Non-set-aside portion consists of materialized requirements which market research indicated that two or more responsible small business concerns would not be received or those offers would not be competitive in terms of market prices, quality, and delivery.

(c) Assignment of materialized requirements to Research Fields under LOT I or II is at the discretion of the DO/TO Contracting

Officer. The assignment will be based on the Contracting Officer’s determination whether there is a reasonable expectation that offers from two or more responsible small business concerns would be received and those offers would be competitive in terms of market prices, quality, and delivery. In cases where a requirement spans across multiple Research Fields (e.g. a requirement that includes Computing and Data Storage (Research Field 2) and Security (Research Field 7)) the determination will be limited to only those contract holders awarded the right to compete in either of the Research Fields included in the requirement. In the example given, the determination would only include Contractors awarded the right to compete in either Research Fields 2 or 7.

(d) The following list identifies the respective Research Fields for which each Contractor is qualified to compete at the DO/TO level as requirements materialize:

LOT I – Restricted to Small Business Concerns Research Field 1:

Communications

Research Field 2:

Computing and

Data Storage

Research Field 3:

Information &

Artificial

Intelligence

Research Field 4:

Man-Machine

Interfaces

Research Field 5:

Networking

Research Field 6:

Operational IT

Research Field 7:

Security

LOT II – Unrestricted Research Field 1:

Communications

Research Field 2:

Computing and

Data Storage

Research Field 3:

Information &

Artificial

Intelligence

Research Field 4:

Man-Machine

Interfaces

Research Field 5:

Networking

Research Field 6:

Operational IT

Research Field 7:

Security

(e) Note: The Contractor shall indicate in the table above the Research Field(s) in which they wish to be considered for award as

DO/TO requirements materialize. This table will be replaced with the successful Offerors’ information upon award of the basic

IDIQs.

B–3 TRAVEL COSTS

(a) Except as otherwise provided herein, the Contractor shall be reimbursed for its reasonable actual travel costs in accordance with FAR 31.205-46 and the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR). The costs to be reimbursed shall be those costs accepted by the cognizant DCAA office.

(b) Reimbursable travel costs include only that travel performed from the Contractor's facility to the worksite, in and around the worksite, and from the worksite to the Contractor's facility.

(c) Relocation costs and travel costs incidental to relocation are allowable to the extent provided for in FAR 31.204-35;

however, Contracting Officer approval shall be required prior to incurring relocation expenses and travel costs incidental to relocation.

(d) The Contractor shall not be reimbursed for the following daily local travel costs:

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(i) Travel at U.S. military installations where Government transportation is available;

(ii) Travel performed for personal convenience/errands, including commuting to and from work; and

(iii) Travel costs incurred in the replacement of personnel when such replacement is accomplished for the Contractor's or employee's convenience.

B–4 MATERIALS PURCHASES

(a) Material purchases must be itemized and reported monthly to the COR. Any purchase order greater than $3,000.00 requires advanced approval by the DO/TO Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). Any purchase order greater than $25,000 must be approved by the DO/TO Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) prior to purchase.

[A001, Monthly Material Purchases]

B–5 EXPEDITING CONTRACT CLOSEOUT

(a) As part of the negotiated fixed price or total estimated amount of this contract, both the Government and the Contractor have agreed to waive any entitlement that otherwise might accrue to either party in any residual dollar amount of $500 or less at the time of final contract closeout. The term "residual dollar amount" shall include all money that would otherwise be owed to either party at the end of the contract, except that, amounts connected in any way with taxation, allegations of fraud and/or antitrust violations shall be excluded. For purposes of determining residual dollar amounts, offsets of money owed by one party against money that would otherwise be paid by that party might be considered to the extent permitted by law.

(b) This agreement to waive entitlement to residual dollar amounts has been considered by both parties. It is agreed that the administrative costs for either party associated with collecting such small dollar amounts could exceed the amount to be recovered.

SECTION C

DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

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C–1 STATEMENT OF WORK

(a) INTRODUCTION

(1) This contract is intended to provide research, development, and technical services to the Naval Research Laboratory’s

(NRL) Information Technology Division (NRL-ITD), located in Washington, D.C.

(2) This Statement of Work (SOW) describes the research, development, and technical services to be provided to the NRL-ITD.

The Government will provide detailed requirements, in the form of a Statement of Work (SOW) or Performance Work

Statement (PWS), for each DO/TO.

(b) BACKGROUND

(1) NRL-ITD is the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) principal organization in the areas of information architecture and related technology. These areas include design and development of information processing systems, intelligent agents, decision support systems, database structure and mining, applications of parallel and distributed computing and the design software to use such systems.

(2) Information architecture research includes the communications and networking required to provide fast, reliable, efficient, authenticated and secure transfer of data among various parts of an overall system, incorporating components ranging from massively parallel computing systems to assets deployed in hostile military environments across both strategic land-based highly-reliable communications channels and wireless low-reliability intermittent channels. Human interface research ranging from voice and tactile to the development of interactive virtual environments is an integral part of the work.

(3) Information processing research includes traditional signal analysis and extends to various automated reasoning techniques.

(4) Information assurance and security research supports work in advanced cryptographic technologies, key distribution, cross-domain solutions, applications security, high-assurance software development/assessment, mobile and wireless security analysis and tool development, computer network defense, and malicious code detection and analysis. Real time processing and high-performance computing/communications, simulation and modeling, mathematical programming, motion imagery, compression and decompression, artificial intelligence, cognitive models, formal methods and robotics are also integral parts of the

Division's research.

(5) The design and development of information technology capabilities extends to practical implementation of NRL lab-wide services in e-mail, web, directory and authentication services, network management, network, system and data protection, high-performance computing (HPC) user services, storage systems and library research services.

(c) SCOPE

(1) The scope of this contract covers a broad range of services and solutions needed to support NRL-ITD.

(2) Functional work may be applied to any of the Research Fields in which NRL-ITD is engaged. NRL-ITD provides varied levels of IT administration and support to its own members, and other customers throughout NRL, the Department of Defense and other US Government organizations. The vast majority of work will take place on site at NRL, Washington, DC, as success will often require ongoing technical collaboration with NRL scientists and engineers, and access to specialized research equipment and facilities. However, some aspects of some projects will require performance at other Government and non-

Government sites in both the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS). For instance, tasking for a systems/network engineer could range from maintenance of a server used to store information local to

NRL, to that of configuring and deploying a server in an experimental network that spans the world. Research to be conducted under this contract are categorized into 7 broad Research Fields further defined in Paragraph C-2 below:

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Research Field 1 Communications

Research Field 2 Computing and Data Storage

Research Field 3 Information & Artificial Intelligence

Research Field 4 Man-Machine Interfaces

Research Field 5 Networking

Research Field 6 Operational IT

Research Field 7 Security

(3) The Contractor shall, in response to DO/TO issued under this contract by the Naval Research Laboratory, provide services that potentially span the entire spectrum of research, development, and technical services to NRL-ITD. Services to be provided under this contract are categorized into 8 Functional Areas as follows, and are further defined in Paragraph C-2 below:

Functional Area 1 Basic, Applied & Advance Technology Development

Functional Area 2 Modeling, Simulation & Emulation

Functional Area 3 Science & Engineering

Functional Area 4 Operations

Functional Area 5 Experimentation, Test, and Evaluation

Functional Area 6 Analysis and Evaluation

Functional Area 7 Technical Support

Functional Area 8 Project Management

C–2 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

(a) The following section specifies the requirements of the contract. The requirements below are organized into two categories –

Research Fields and Functional Areas. Each task issued under this contract will involve performing one or more of these functions in one or more of the fields (or adjacent, emerging fields).

(b) RESEARCH FIELDS:

(1) Communications

(i) Combat communications require communications systems and networking development, assessment and maintenance in a region in direct support of the US Military operations in one of the functional combatant commands (COCOMs). The

Contractor will be required to have the requisite training, clearances and approvals to travel to these locations, and will work with NRL to make radio frequency (RF) and networking modifications as necessary to best suit the mission, and provide feedback to the Government on the operational and technical situations in that COCOM.

(ii) NRL looks to develop secure communications devices and test interoperability at both the RF and baseband layers. Also, the development of advanced RF, satellite, mobile ad-hoc, and wireless communications systems and networks.

(iii) The goal of freespace data transfer is to develop robust signal processing techniques, sophisticated tracking methods, and simultaneous ranging and communication systems. Also to develop laser, optical, and infrared equipment/techniques for ground-space, ship-shore, and ship-ship data transfer. The effects of channel characteristics on propagation will be studied.

(iv) Voice communications, audio processing, and acoustic sensing are areas of research; including voice compression, audio processing, and acoustical sensing. Also, the supporting hardware development and simulations, and the writing of specifications for interoperable voice communications.

(v) High-speed communications (10’s to 100’s of Gbps and beyond) in both wired (and fiber-optic) as well as wireless (RF and optical) regimes will be examined and developed for high-performance application areas.

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(vi) An objective related to media processing frameworks is the development of a parallelized pipeline-based multimedia framework that processes media (imagery, video, social media webstreams, documents, signals, etc.) by connecting a number of processing elements into a pipeline.

(2) Computing and Data Storage

(i) Data management and storage efforts will focus on secure federated distributed file systems, file system performance, protocol enhancements, real-time hardware cache coherency, distributed peer to peer, and file system evolution. Data storage systems may be local (all in one computer room) or distributed (in CONUS and OCONUS). Uniform access should appear

“local” and be as seamless and as low-latency as possible.

(ii) High performance computing work focuses on the development, effective use and administration of secure reliable, heterogeneous, high performance computing environments. This often involves the integration of emerging systems with commercial standard devices or exploration of novel infrastructures and their support. Tasks may consist of broad range of performance characteristics. For example, initial research efforts may focus on single-stream data rates in the 10’s of gigabits per second (Gbps) range, with near term efforts in the 100’s of Gbps, and 1 terabits per second (Tbps) rates by the end of the task.

(iii) A balance of computing vs. storage vs. networking must exist. As one area, say computing, greatly exceeds the others, imbalance will result in all areas becoming slowed down. As technological advances in one area progress, focusing in the other areas become more important.

(3) Information & Artificial Intelligence

(i) In an effort to develop artificial intelligence (and related) algorithms and prototypes, specific areas of interest include computational linguistics, multi-modal reasoning, cognitive architectures, audio interpretation and cueing, intelligent decision aids, machine learning, goal reasoning, planning, natural computation methods, evolutionary computation, distributed control, computational models of trust, cognitive modeling, cognitive robotics, embodied cognition, human-robot interaction, mixed-initiative reasoning, and computer vision, surveillance, range imaging, face recognition, and biometrics. Some investigations involve human subject studies, which require detailed familiarity with the many steps in designing and conducting these studies, along with collecting, interpreting, and analyzing their results.

(ii) The objective of decision support is to conduct research for enhancing decision support capabilities. Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, mixed-initiative interactions (e.g., human-agent collaboration), machine learning, and artificial intelligence, web service and semantic web services. Additional areas of research include anomaly detection and pattern recognition, and techniques to improve the ability of humans to process and understand the results from these algorithms.

Operational domains of interest include, but not limited to, improving human interaction with autonomous systems, threat detection within cyber-warfare, maritime domain awareness and Stabilization, Security, Transition and Reconstruction

Operations (SSTRO).

(iii) Studies in electromagnetic signatures seek to advance understanding of the signatures and evidence patterns that span the electromagnetic spectrum. This will require consideration of free-space electromagnetic radiation, analysis of signatures as they relate to devices/equipment, and the generation of tools to generate composite signatures from different data types.

(iv) Information management objectives include technologies that maximize the effectiveness of an enterprise (e.g., military operations), by contributing to effective systems that discover, process, disseminate, visualize and present information in support of military decision making. Technologies that are of particular interest include: data management and exploitation technologies that apply emerging mathematics and information science to improve machine processing of large amounts of data, approaches for effective information use through intelligent notifications, mediation, access control, and persistence services; and techniques for automated management of information. Some development in this area will involve the synchronization of these information presentation/visualization technologies over wide-area network environments.

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(v) Intelligent information systems technologies that are of particular interest include: data management and exploitation technologies that apply emerging mathematics and information science to improve machine processing of large amounts of data, tools that reduce barriers to effective information use by providing intelligent notifications, mediation, access control, and persistence services; tools to assess information quality and suitability; tools that support automated management of information.

(vi) Research in advanced modeling and simulation architectures is applied to defense systems, particularly the application of high performance parallel and distributed computing technology. The latter includes classical cluster and shared memory architectures, graphics and other novel processing units, as well as geographically distributed large-scale simulations.

Additional topics may include the formal description via ontologies of math and physics-based models for building composable systems, natural environmental effects servers for modeling and simulation (M&S) architectures, general purpose computing on graphics processing unit (GPGPU) processing, and web-based DoD technology.

(vii) Photonics-based intelligence field involves the development and validation of unique algorithms for three dimensional

(3D) reconstructions, and the discovery/exploitation of unique materials and composites to support photonics-based intelligence.

(viii) The adversarial behavior field involves research in the development of techniques, technologies, and tools to support our understanding, modeling, and forecasting of adversarial behavior. Areas of interest include the behavioral characterization of adversaries through study and analysis, as well as information extraction, knowledge discovery, forecasting, risk assessment, data visualization to enhance analysis capabilities and decision support.

(4) Man-Machine Interfaces:

(i) An objective is to conduct human systems integration research to enhance human and system performance, and recruit potential research participants for involvement in human subject research efforts conducted by NRL. Additional objectives include collaboratively working with the Government to identify a population of potential subjects who are interested in participating in research studies that meet the specific requirements defined by NRL, and scheduling or conducting the experiments.

(ii) Immersive simulations and virtual environments are also an area of research and development. Typical algorithms would include collision detection and handling, full body avatar control, and realistic movement and control. Additional interest is in the design and implementation of the software architectures used to create the immersive simulation and virtual environments.

Supporting objectives include the design of device interfaces for the virtual environment and experimental tests to determine the behavioral fidelity of the output to the user. Typical of the devices to be interfaced are real-time tracking systems, custom measurement devices, instrumented weapons props, and wireless transmitters.

(iii) NRL pursues the development of virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) and mobile augmented reality systems and their supporting algorithms, architectures and interaction techniques. Typical of the devices are head-worn and other mobile see-through displays, immersive VR displays, wearable computers, tracking systems, and pen-based or glove-based interaction systems. Additional areas of interest include human factors evaluations, usability-based methodologies to quantify the costs and benefits of design choices, and understanding how system fidelity and training objectives interact and expressing results in terms of improvements in the field or live exercises.

(iv) Visual analytics systems are sought to support multiple visual representations and multivariate visualizations. Research topics include system architectures, large-scale displays (especially tiled display systems), scientific visualization, multivariate representations, statistical analysis techniques, and coordinated data views. Specific interest is in human factors evaluations, new visualization metaphors, and measuring or assessing information overload. Typical algorithms include display techniques, information filtering or selection, aggregation or fusion of data streams, and interaction techniques. Data attributes include uncertainty and behavior over time. Interaction techniques include 2D, 3D, and multi-modal techniques.

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(5) Networking:

(i) Research areas in distributed networks include topics such as multi-hop relaying (routing), network adaptability, fixed infrastructure networks, adaptive reconfiguration, policy-based management, cross-layer protocol coupling strategies, and automated control of beam-hopped electronically-steered arrays. Distributed network applications of interest include radio networks, satellite networks, wireline networks, fiber optic networks, and hybrid networks containing two or more of voice, data, imagery, and video media.

(ii) High performance networking places an emphasis on native stream communications, and the development of standards for high performance networks (high-speed and/or low-latency) against which future hardware and software will be developed.

Highly automated protocols are needed for the management of all communications resources on a given network or multiplicity of networks. Physical network types include wire, fiber, free-space optical, mobile, and ad-hoc wireless. Targeted protocol layers include media access control (MAC), Data Link, Network, and Transport. Protocol development may address shared RF channels and Agent (application) development.

(iii) The objective of hybrid networks is to connect devices and sensors in an RF/Optical hybrid network with optimized multi-layer protocols, to effect data acquisition, control, and communications.

(iv) Resilient links require robust, resilient, assured routing, protocols, services, particularly for tactical edge, wireless networks and backhaul via satellite communication (SATCOM) or high throughput links. Requires interoperable, open standard solutions, serverless networks, self-discovery and self-healing, and composite interfaces between edge and tactical data link networks and tactical/operational Joint and Naval Clouds and Enterprise networks.

(v) The objective of RF network R&D is the creation of communications systems and networks suitable for deployment on

Naval and Joint platforms (ships, aircraft, vehicles, etc). It includes systems level integration of various experimental systems and platforms, autonomous systems, architectures, and hardware/middleware/firmware and software engineering from the physical layer through the application layer, and emphasis on network and transport layers, connected by a variety of terrestrial, satellite, tactical and wireless links.

(vi) The objective of spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, cognitive communications and network systems is to design, integrate, test, demonstrate and deploy resilient, tiered communications and networks systems possessing spectral awareness, spectral agility, dynamic access and cognitive traits, and optimized, efficient use of spectrum. Includes robust, flow-based, distributed network management and monitoring in support of spectrum dominance.

(vii) Another goal is the development of principles, algorithms, and tools for the design, evaluation, and operation of mobile, wireless ad-hoc networks, tactical-edge networks, and sensor networks. Algorithms are needed for routing, channel access, admission control, and flow control. In addition, there is a need for multimedia applications support, e.g., the delivery of a common tactical picture to command centers and individual warriors at the tactical edge. A common goal of these networks is spectrum agility, security, diversity and optimization of power and throughput.

(6) Operational IT:

(i) Operational support ranges from unique single-project R&D environments to lab-wide semi-operational environments. In many cases, a project might start out with a small scope but grow to become larger.

(ii) Typical tasking in operational environments includes network installation system administration, network configuration/updates/maintenance, operating system updates, maintaining security updates, and information back up. Network applications and services are supported at different classification levels. Solutions are developed to monitor performance, provide scaling capability, and improve quality of service. Systems are installed, and errors resolved. Support will be provided in the preparation and testing of DoD and US Government computer and/or network systems for accreditation.

(iii) Contractors will assist in the preparation, including all necessary testing and documenting, of computer and/or network accreditation packages for DoD and other Government approval.

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(iv) In order to provide a comprehensive digital library for NRL, there will be tasks to design, develop, and implement a variety of information technology solutions to support NRL library digital services. Custom software and web applications will be integrated with commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications, licensed scientific and technical content sources, databases, search engines, Integrated Library Systems, file systems, authorization services, and remote user services. Additional tasks include supporting Integrated Library Systems administration, operation of the resource sharing programs and technical services.

(v) Web site and application projects can potentially support any NRL function and will range from simple web pages to lab wide web-accessible email systems to more complicated application programs utilizing backend databases. They typically involve the development and integration of individual applications in a coherent, open source, web architecture.

(7) Security:

(i) In order to prepare a better cyber defense, attack behaviors are documented, new attacks are developed, and theoretic attacks are implemented on test networks. Analysis and visualization tools are developed to assess the efficacy of attacks and defenses.

(ii) Interests in communications security (COMSEC) include advanced cryptographic technologies for the Cryptographic

Modernization Initiative (CMI), net-centric key distribution systems, Information Assurance enabling technologies such as secure basic input/output system (BIOS) and trusted techniques, and guarding solutions.

(iii) High assurance information systems and security seeks to develop new techniques for information flow and control, as well as new techniques for processing and communicating data that preserve critical system properties such as security, safety, availability, and timely delivery of computational results. The field seeks to take full advantage of high performance networks by developing high assurance products such as cryptographic systems, guarding technologies, and key management software that exhibits reliability and low latency at multi-gigabit speeds. Computer security interests include security architecture, application security, safe execution environments, and mobile security. Network security focuses include computer network defense, malicious code analysis, and middleware for distributed systems.

(iv) The objective of information Assurance is the development of algorithms and native tools in software and firmware to monitor terabit flows. Tools may include performance assessment, control plane monitoring, network use, service level agreement validation, and end to end quality of service/quality of protection.

(v) Work in encryption of data at rest and key management focuses on the development an online service that provides simple web interfaces (e.g., REST, SOAP) with a high performance global file system interface with options for encryption of data and a key dissemination/management system to allow specific users/communities access to selected data based on credentials. The solution would be responsive to globally dispersed users and scalable to a high number of both users and objects. It would adhere to open standards, interoperable with other secure data stores.

(c) FUNCTIONAL AREAS:

(1) Functional Area 1: Basic, Applied & Advance Technology Development

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall conduct research and development efforts in R&D categories 1 through 3 (Basic

Research through Advance Technology Development). Scientific study and experimentation will be directed toward advancing the state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge or understanding. In addition to directly advancing NRL’s research, there is also need to evaluate concepts, technologies, and programs developed by others for applicability to NRL research. Goals of the research and development include optimizing the performance, reliability, or security of networks, devices, operating systems, and software. In many projects, technical and scientific writing skills are needed to report project descriptions, status, and results in publication submissions.

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(2) Functional Area 2: Modeling, Simulation & Emulation

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor will create and validate representations of phenomena, processes, and systems. This may involve the use of simulations or emulations to determine the performance and reliability of communication systems, networks, and protocols. It is desirable to develop models, simulations and/or emulations that are transferable to NRL research.

(3) Functional Area 3: Science & Engineering

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall develop concepts for various IT defense communications systems, applications and component subsystems. The Contractor shall work with NRL to develop and assess requirements for systems, subsystems, hardware, software and/or interfaces as dictated by the Government. Algorithms and methodologies will be designed, implemented, and tested in hardware and software. Software code will be programmed in a language agreed to by NRL for a variety of computer, server, embedded, and mobile devices. The Contractor will conduct engineering in a variety of disciplines based on the tasking, to include human factors engineering, quality assurance, and certification compliance. Engineers will develop and integrate components subsystems and systems to meet the mission objective. Documentation of processes, procedures and designs as well as status and financial reports will be required.

(4) Functional Area 4: Operations

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall install, configure, operate, and maintain a variety of heterogeneous, highly distributed, networked systems. These networked systems are frequently reconfigured to address newly identified network scenarios. Procedures must be developed and maintained for systems such as shutdown, transport, setup, startup, integration, test, calibration, troubleshooting, and operation. Contractors will install, maintain, test, troubleshoot, configure, update, fix, replace, administer, and optimize network servers, back-up servers, and network storage. Contractors will also support disaster recovery and backup of server systems on the network. To best manage NRL's corporate and project-specific IT infrastructure, growth plans and obsolescence management plans will be developed. Information Technology professionals will monitor the networks and security devices for compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance regulations, applying software patches and updates, and acting upon Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) scan results and suspicious network traffic notifications as required. The IT Division provides web development and technical support for internal and external websites and applications for the Laboratory. It also implements and operates all library services, traditional and digital, which the Contractor will support.

(5) Functional Area 5: Experimentation, Test, and Evaluation

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall conduct experimentation, test and evaluation of components, systems, and architectures in the laboratory, the field and/or in an operational environment. Support may include participation and/or guidance in the development of a test or exercise plan, execution of the testing and/or demonstration, measurement and analysis of performance, validation and verification of benchmarks, design/execution/analysis of experiments, and operation/maintenance of the components, systems or architectures under test. Tasks may typically include the design, fabrication, calibration, operation, and maintenance of instrumentation, ranges, and facilities as required by a given test plan.

Deliverables may also include data; both unprocessed and processed, related signatures, and related metadata.

(6) Functional Area 6: Analysis and Evaluation

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to identify technology gaps and propose how they may be filled. SME support may require the development of new analysis and visualization tools which will allow information to be better processed. Custom databases may need to be developed or modified to support analysis of raw data, statistics, project data, and simulation outputs. The Contractor will conduct and evaluate user evaluation studies of software and systems to provide greater insight to NRL. Also in this area is the execution of analysis of data, whether derived by NRL or by the Contractor, to determine the insights and assess the results of the particular test or experience that generated that data set.

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(7) Functional Area 7: Technical Support

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall design and fabricate models, mock-ups, and prototypes of developmental units to include custom mechanical and electronic components. Others require the identification of data sources and collection of data. Configuration management of hardware, software, and documentation may also be necessary. Once training needs associated with NRL IT projects are identified, training solutions may be developed. Laboratory and field experiments are to be supported through logistics planning, equipment operation, data analysis, and video conferencing. Technical support specialists would integrate, troubleshoot, and repair experimental and operational applicable IT systems. Technical writing, desktop publishing, graphic art, and presentation development support may be needed by projects.

(8) Functional Area 8: Project Management

(i) In this Functional Area, the Contractor shall provide business, financial, and technical management support to NRL scientists to support project planning, execution, communications, NRL operations, and the development of new opportunities for research and development efforts covered under the NRL-ITD SOW.

(ii) Contractors will typically prepare and manage project schedules, budgets, and resources. In some cases, shared resources may need to be managed to balance the needs of several branches or projects, and resolutions for project problem areas be proposed. Project managers coordinate project activities with the appropriate DoD and non-DoD activities, such as sponsors and potential end users, CONUS and OCONUS. They also track and document all project or program actions, and communicate them to all participants. Common tasks include: organization and preparation of presentation material and venues for workshops, symposia, demonstrations, and program reviews to achieve NRL IT objectives. The generation of technical risk assessments is performed for programs, technologies, and techniques. Overall objectives may include the transition of products from science and technology initiatives into fieldable systems.

C–3 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

(a) Unless otherwise stated in the DO/TO, The Contractor shall have its support team in place and fully functioning within 30 days of DO/TO award.

(b) NON-PERSONAL SERVICES

(1) The Government will neither supervise Contractor employees nor control the method by which the Contractor performs the required tasks. The Government will not assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual Contractor employees.

(2) The Contractor shall be responsible for managing its employees and guarding against any actions that are of the nature of personal services, or give the perception of personal services as defined in FAR-Part 37, Service Contracting.

(3) The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer (KO) if any Government requested actions constitute, or are perceived to constitute personal services.

(c) BUSINESS RELATIONS

(1) The Contractor shall integrate and coordinate all activity needed to execute this contract.

(d) CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

(1) The following subsections specify requirements for contract management and Contractor personnel administration.

(i) CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

(A) The Contractor shall establish clear organizational lines of authority and responsibility to ensure effective management of the resources assigned to this contract.

(ii) PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION

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(A) The Contractor shall assign a single point of contact, also known as the Program Manager (PM), who must work closely with the Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), as applicable. The Contractor PM must ultimately be responsible for ensuring that the Contractor’s performance meets all Government contracting requirements within cost and schedule. PM must have the requisite authority for full control over all company resources necessary for contract performance. As appropriate, the role of PM may be a full time management position, or a collateral duty assigned to a technical team member.

(B) The Contractor shall maintain the adequacy of their employees by providing initial and refresher training to meet all personal qualification requirements.

(C) The Contractor shall make all necessary travel arrangements for employees.

(iii) CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

(A) The Contractor shall respond to Government requests for contractual actions within five (5) work days.

(B) The Contractor shall respond to Government requests for PM conference requests within two (2) working days.

(iv) CONTRACTOR IDENTIFICATION

(A) Pursuant to DFARS 211.106 Contractor employees shall identify themselves as Contractor personnel by introducing themselves or being introduced as Contractor personnel and displaying distinguishing badges or other visible identification for meetings with Government personnel. In addition, Contractor personnel shall appropriately identify themselves as Contractor employees in telephone conversations and in formal and informal written correspondence.

C–4 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

(a) This section describes the special requirements for this effort.

(1) PERSONNEL SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

(i) All Contractor personnel who require base access and/or access to unclassified material or systems shall possess, at a minimum, a favorability adjudicated Facility Access Determination (FAD) based on a favorably completed National Agency

Check with Law and Credit (NACLC) investigation at the time of task order proposal submission.

(ii) All Contractor personnel who require access to Secret material shall possess a final Secret clearance based on a favorably completed DoD investigation at the time of task order proposal submission.

(iii) All Contractor personnel who require access to TS/SCI material shall possess a final DoD-granted Top Secret security clearance based on a current Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with the eligibility of SCI at time of task order proposal submission.

(iv) Detailed security requirements for access to NRL unclassified information and systems will be delineated in the issued award DD 254 relevant to this contract.

(v) The Contractor shall ensure that all classified material is handled in accordance with the issued DD 254, the National

Security program Operating Manual (NISPOM) (DoD 5220.22M) and all NRL and applicable Security Program

Guides/Directives.

(2) CYBER SECURITY WORK FORCE REQUIREMENTS

(i) Contractor personnel performing any function designated as a component of the Cyber Security Work Force (CSWF), and/or having privileged user access to NRL information systems will require background investigations and security clearances commensurate with the access level and security classification of the system being accessed as specified in DON 5239.2M

(2009) System Administrators with privileged access may work in the computing, network and/or enclave environments. System Administrators with privileged access shall meet the training and certification requirements for IAT level

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I at the computing environment (CE), IAT level II at the network environment (NE), and IAT level III for the enclave environment as specified in DON 5239.2M (2009) The initiation of an SSBI is required for all System Administrators with privileged access serving in these positions.

(3) ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

(i) The Contractor shall comply with all documents listed below as mandatory and referenced under Section F-3, Performance

Requirements. Compliance with documents listed as non-mandatory is the Contractors' option.

(A) Mandatory compliance at Navy Facilities

(B) OPNAVINST 5090.1C - Environmental Readiness Program Manual

C–5 DATA DELIVERABLES

(a) Specific technical data will be included in individual DO/TO issued under the contract, either as CDRL’s or specified in the

Statement of Work. It is anticipated that all deliverables prepared under this contract may be required to be delivered either as hardcopy or on electronic media or both as specified in the individual DO/TOs.

C–6 DELIVERY/TASK ORDERS

(a) The specific work to be carried out shall be further described in DO/TO orders issued under this contract.

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT

C–7 CONTRACTOR FILEROOM SUPPORT

(a) NRL may use a file room management support Contractor, hereinafter referred to as "the support Contractor", to manage its file room, in which all official contract files, including the official file supporting this procurement, are retained. These official files may contain information that is considered a trade secret, proprietary, business sensitive or otherwise protected pursuant to law or regulation, hereinafter referred to as “protected information”. File room management services consist of any of the following: secretarial or clerical support; data entry; document reproduction, scanning, imaging, or destruction; operation, management, or maintenance of paper based or electronic mail rooms, file rooms, or libraries; and supervision in connection with functions listed herein.

(b) The cognizant Contracting Officer will ensure that any NRL contract under which these file room management services are acquired will contain a requirement that:

(1) The support Contractor not disclose any information;

(2) Individual employees are to be instructed by the support Contractor regarding the sensitivity of the official contract files;

(3) The support Contractor performing these services be barred from providing any other supplies and/or services, or competing to do so, to NRL for the period of performance of its contract and for an additional three years thereafter unless otherwise provided by law or regulation; and,

(4) In addition to any other rights the Contractor may have, it is a third party beneficiary who has the right of direct action against the support Contractor, or any person to whom the support Contractor has released or disclosed protected information, for the unauthorized duplication, release, or disclosure of such protected information.

(c) Execution of this contract by the Contractor is considered consent to NRL's permitting access to any information, irrespective of restrictive markings or the nature of the information submitted, by its file room management support Contractor for the limited purpose of executing its file room support contract responsibilities.

(d) NRL may, without further notice, enter into contracts with other Contractors for these services.

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C–8 ENTERPRISE-WIDE CONTRACTOR MANPOWER REPORTING APPLICATION (ECMRA)

(a) The Contractor shall report Contractor labor hours (including Subcontractor labor hours) required for performance of services provided under this contract for the Naval Research Laboratory via a secure data collection site.