Attachment 3 - Personnel Qualifications 6-27-24.pdf

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This document is an attachment detailing the personnel qualifications for a federal contract opportunity. It describes the labor category level requirements for various technical roles including Program Manager, Research Scientist, Application Development Engineer, and Information Technology Engineer.

The key details are:

  • The contract requires personnel with specific educational degrees and years of relevant experience for each labor category and level.
  • The Program Manager must have a master's degree and at least 5 years managing personnel working on numerical weather prediction and METOC applications.
  • The Senior Research Scientist must have experience in numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, or METOC applications, including publications and project work, and a security clearance of Secret and at least Top Secret.
  • The Application Development Engineers must have experience developing meteorological/oceanographic applications, programming skills, and security clearances.
  • The IT Engineers must have experience providing IT support for scientific research, including operating systems, networking, storage, and information assurance, as well as programming and scripting skills.
  • Privileged access IT personnel require specific training and certification requirements.

This document supports the federal contract opportunity for Atmospheric Aerosol Prediction and Applications Research and Development, which is a consolidated requirement to be awarded as an IDIQ contract.

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Solicitation #: N00173-XX-X-XXXX

PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS

Labor Category Level Descriptions (Applicable to Technical Labor Categories #2-5)

Labor Category Level

Educational Degree in an

Area Applicable to the

Position

Minimum Years of

Relevant

Experience/Education Level

Mid-Level High School Diploma/GED 15

Mid-Level Associates Degree 10

Mid-Level Bachelor’s Degree 3

Mid-Level Master’s Degree 1

Mid-Level PhD 0

Senior High School Diploma/GED 25

Senior Associates Degree 20

Senior Bachelor’s Degree 15

Senior Master’s Degree 10

Senior PhD 5

1. Program Manager (Key Personnel) Education

• Shall have at a minimum a M.S. degree in Meteorology, Oceanography, Physical Science, or in related Mathematics and Engineering fields, or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Must have current knowledge and demonstrated experience with Navy METOC operations, operational systems, applications and requirements.

• Must have at a minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience managing scientific, engineering, computing, and technical personnel working on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and METOC applications development projects.

Desired

• Demonstrated experience publishing peer-reviewed scientific literature, software documentation, or Navy guides and/or handbooks.

• Navy METOC tactical applications experience.

Clearance

• Secret

2. Research Scientist

2.1. Senior (Key Personnel)

• Shall have a degree in Meteorology, Oceanography, Physical Science, or in a related Mathematics and Engineering fields.

Experience

• Shall have of demonstrated global/mesoscale numerical weather prediction (NWP), data assimilation (DA) or METOC application/climatology/port study (MAP) focus area experience.

o NWP focus: Must act as the primary point-of-contact for the development of operational global and/or mesoscale NWP systems including ensemble weather prediction systems and scripting for the management of operational job submission and data processing tasks, including error handling; provide recommendations for resolution of research issues related to global and/or mesoscale problems; must have demonstrable LINUX High Performance Computing (HPC) skill and adaptation of solutions for the operational environment.

o DA focus: Must act as the primary point-of-contact for the development of operational global and/or mesoscale DA systems including ensemble and hybrid DA systems and scripting for the management of operational job submission and data processing tasks, including observation data handling and error handling; provide recommendations for resolution of research issues related to multi-scale DA problems; must have demonstrable LINUX High Performance Computing (HPC) skill and adaptation of solutions for the operational environment.

o MAP focus: Must act as the primary point-of-contact for METOC applications development including web-based applications, climatology applications, and port study applications; demonstrable ability to process data, analyze data, and write-up/publish results; provide recommendations for resolution of research issues associated with application, climatology, or port study development problems.

• Must have demonstrable experience working as a project team member.

• Demonstrated experience publishing peer-reviewed scientific literature, software documentation, or Navy guides and/or handbooks.

• Experience in support of Government research is a must.

Desired

• Demonstrated experience in meeting Navy METOC operational requirements.

• Three-to-five years of experience developing, testing, and transitioning Navy operational NWP software systems.

• Three-to-five years of experience developing, testing, and transitioning Navy operational DA software systems.

• Three-to-five years of experience publishing peer-reviewed scientific literature, software documentation, Navy guides and/or handbooks, Navy climatologies and port studies.

• Secret and at least one at TS

2.2. Mid-level Research Scientist

• Shall have a degree in Meteorology, Oceanography, Physical Science, Computer Science, or in a related Mathematics and Engineering fields.

Experience

• Shall have demonstrated experience in one of the following focus areas.

o NWP Focus: Must be a co-developer of global and/or mesoscale NWP models and scripting for the management of job submission and data processing tasks, including error handling; provide recommendations to team lead for resolution of research issues related to global and/or mesoscale modeling problems; parallel processing computing experience.

o DA Focus: Must be a co-developer of global and/or mesoscale analysis or data assimilation software and scripting for the management of job submission and data processing tasks, including observation data handling and error handling; provide recommendations to team lead for resolution of research issues related to global and/or mesoscale DA problems.

o MAP focus: Must be co-developer for METOC applications including web-based applications, climatology applications, and/or port study applications;

demonstrable ability to process data, analyze data, and write-up/publish results; provide recommendations to team lead for resolution of research issues associated with application, climatology, or port study development problems.

• Must have demonstrable report writing experience.

• Must have demonstrable data processing experience.

Desired

• Experience with a combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, or Java, and scripting programming languages using the LINUX operating system.

• Experience publishing peer-reviewed scientific literature, software documentation, climatologies, guidebooks and/or handbooks.

• High Performance Computing (HPC) experience.

3. Application Development Engineer

3.1. Senior (Key Personnel)

Education

• Shall have a degree in Computer Science or in a related Mathematics or Engineering field.

Experience

• Shall have demonstrated experience in developing meteorological or oceanographic applications.

• Must have 3 years of demonstrated experience in 24/7 operational environment or equivalent experience.

• Must demonstrate experience with a combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, or Java, and scripting programming languages using the LINUX operating system.

• Must have acted as the primary point-of-contact for all aspects of the end-to-end data flow for applications including secure authentication and computational efficiency.

• Must have acted as the focal point for information assurance for applications.

Desired

• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining web-based applications in the Navy METOC operational environment.

• Experience with High performance Computing (HPC).

• Experience applying the DISA Application Security and Development Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) to operational applications.

• Experience creating software for computer graphic visualization techniques.

3.2. Mid-level Application Development Engineer

• Shall have a degree in Computer Science or in a related Mathematics or Engineering field.

Experience

• Shall have demonstrated experience in developing meteorological or oceanographic applications or visualizations.

• Must demonstrate experience with a combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, or Java, and scripting programming languages using the LINUX operating system.

• Must have experience advising the technical lead on issues related to end-to-end data processing including secure authentication and information assurance.

Desired

• Demonstrated experience working in the Navy METOC operational environment.

• Information assurance experience.

• High Performance Computing (HPC) experience.

• Computer graphics visualization experience.

4. Information Technology Engineer

4.1. Senior

Education

• Shall have a degree in Computer Science or in a related field or equivalent professional experience.

Experience

• Must have demonstrated experience providing information technology support to scientific researchers including Windows or LINUX operating system installation, secure configuration, patching, and troubleshooting; or network engineering, configuration, patching, and troubleshooting; or network storage engineering, configuration, patching and troubleshooting; or information assurance and accreditation.

• Shall have at a minimum 3 years of demonstrated experience using scripting programming languages (e.g. bash, tcsh, tcl, powershell, Windows command line).

• Shall have at a minimum 3 years of demonstrated experience using graphics languages (e.g. GrADS, IDL, GMT).

• Must have data storage, transfer, and management experience.

Desired

• Three years knowledge of and experience with the FNMOC computing environment is much desired (e.g. knowledge of bash, svn, python, Intel compiler).

• Three years knowledge of optimizing software for the High Performance Computing (HPC) environment is desired.

Privileged Access Requirements

• System Administrators with privileged access shall meet the training and certification requirements for IAT level 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.

4.2. Mid-level Information Technology Engineer

• Shall have a degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience.

Experience

• Must have demonstrated experience providing information technology support to scientific researchers including Windows or LINUX operating system; or network engineering; or storage engineering; or information assurance and accreditation.

Desired

• Two years of experience with computer graphics is desired.

• Two years of experience with computer programming or scripting is desired.

• Two years of experience with helpdesk support for end users is desired.

Privileged Access Requirements

• System Administrators with privileged access shall meet the training and certification requirements for IAT level 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.

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