N00173-24-R-RJ02_RFI_PQ and Skill Mix_Attachment No. 2.pdf

RFI NUMBER: N00173-24-R-RJ02

ATTACHMENT NO. 2

PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS

The following paragraphs set forth the minimum personnel requirements that are desired to perform the tasks set forth in the Statement of Work. The contractor should be capable of providing the personnel as directed by the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) according to the level-of-effort requirements (TBD) in the following labor categories and with the experience indicated. The personnel designated as Key” should be available for work efforts on the first day after contract award. Key personnel must possess a Secret clearance at the time of contract award and are subject to the provisions listed in Section H-2 of the solicitation (TBD).

All proposed personnel must be capable of obtaining at least Secret Clearance.

Key Personnel

Research Scientists - Level 4 (Highest Level) (Key)

Education Requirements: Possesses an M.S. or above in a Physical Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent degree in related field.

Experience Requirements: Experience with some combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, and IDL programming languages. Any individual proposed in a Research Scientist-1 position should have some combination of (1) experience in radiative transfer, electromagnetic scattering, transmission, absorption and emission, especially experience in modeling or characterizing the interactions of electromagnetic radiation with atmospheric, geophysical, and man-made features such as smoke plumes, buildings, vegetation, water, and weather; (2) expertise in modeling or measuring the atmospheric, marine, or astronomical processes that are relevant to the NRL project being supported; (3) experience with the conceptual design, hardware design, modeling, testing, calibration and operation of systems and components for remote sensing.

Research Scientist – Level 3 (Key)

Education Requirements: Possesses an M.S. or above in a Physical Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent degree in related field.

Experience Requirements Experience with some combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, and IDL programming languages. Any individual proposed in a Research Scientist-2 position should have expertise in some combination of radio, IR, VIS interferometry and astronomy, X-ray astronomy, Space Domain Awareness and/or ionospheric remote sensing. This individual should also be familiar with the use of databases and analysis packages (such as AIPS, CASA, IRAF, PYRAF and Python) that are used in those fields. Radio astronomical or optical astronomical expertise should include experience in proposing observations at interferometric synthesis imaging arrays such as the VLA and/or the VLBA and/or NPOI and/or CHARA, and with processing these data through the appropriate software. It is further desired that any Research Scientist proposed for efforts involving astronomy tasks have experience in correcting astronomical data for natural and man-made terrestrial artifacts. For radio astronomy tasks, experience setting up and testing hardware, such as antennas, is desired. For optical interferometry tasks, experience with optics, optical detectors and lasers, designing and performing experiments to test and improve the capabilities of current instruments, is desired. It is desired that Research Scientist-2 proposed for efforts involving image analysis and algorithm development tasks have demonstrated experience in the development and application of algorithms for analyzing imagery obtained by remote sensing.

Scientific Programmer (Key)

Education Requirements The Scientific Programmer Possesses at a minimum, a B.S. degree in Physical Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering.

Experience Requirements: Scientific Programmer position shall have experience writing software for the calibration, analysis, and processing of remote sensing data. Individual in a Scientific Programmer position shall be fluent with some combination of the FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, and IDL programming languages. Knowledge of SQL for data management and programming of FPGA or GPUs is desirable.

IT Professional (Key)

Education Requirements: The IT professional Possesses at a minimum a B.S. degree in Computer Sciences or Engineering, Information Technologies, Electrical Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, or the equivalent.

Experience Requirements: Shall have at least five (5) years of demonstrated experience managing computer systems and IT infrastructure security with Navy requirements and proper accreditation. Demonstrated experience with the Linux operating system is required. The IT professional must be able to obtain and maintain certifications (Security+ or equivalent) for access to Navy network and infrastructure.

Non-Key Personnel

Observers

Education Requirements: The observers Possesses at a minimum a B.S. degree in Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent.

Experience Requirements: Shall have experience with the operation of telescopes and instrumentation, related electronics and computer systems and programs. Shall have experience with the manipulation and alignment of precision optics. Shall have xperience with some combination of C, C++, MATLAB, Python, and IDL programming languages, as well as experience using a Linux and Windows operating systems and software. This position will be located in Flagstaff, AZ.

Facilities Manager

Education Requirements: Possesses an Assoc. Degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanics or Mechanical Engineering.

Experience Requirements: Shall have experience in managing and performing the upkeeping of large infrastructures. Shall have experience in operating vacuum pumps, managing, assembling and testing of electrical and optical circuits and assemblies; assembly of housings and instrumentation boxes. Will support testing and deployment of instrumentation. This position will be located in Flagstaff, AZ.

Program Manager

Education & Experience Requirements: Possesses (a) a minimum of a B.S. degree in Physical Science, Engineering, Mathematics or the equivalent, and (b) at least five (5) years experience in managing scientific, engineering, computing and technical personnel working on R&D projects.

Research Scientist – Level 2

Education Requirements: Possesses an M.S. or above in a Physical Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent degree in related field.

Experience Requirements: Experience with some combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, IDL programming languages and database management. Shall have expertise in Machine Learning and related fields of Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Optimization, Generalization, and Statistics. These skills should be applicable to analysis and exploitation of large databases including astrophysical ones. Specialized areas of expertise may include supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning as well as modeling development and training.

Research Scientist – Level 1

Education Requirements: Possesses an M.S. or above above in a Physical Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent degree in related field.

Experience Requirements: Shall have experience with some combination of FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, and IDL programming languages. Any individual proposed in a Research Scientist-4 position should have some combination of (1) experience in radiative transfer, electromagnetic scattering, transmission, absorption and emission, especially experience in modeling or characterizing the interactions of electromagnetic radiation with atmospheric, geophysical, and man-made features such as smoke plumes, buildings, vegetation, water, and weather; (2) expertise in modeling or measuring the atmospheric, marine, or astronomical processes that are relevant to the NRL project being supported; (3) experience with the conceptual design, hardware design, modeling, testing, and operation of systems and components for remote sensing.

Optical Engineer

Education & Experience Requirements: Possesses a B.Sc. or above in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, or equivalent degree in related field. Five (5) years of demonstrated experience desired in specifying, designing (Zemax, CodeV, Lumerical, FRED, Virtual Labs, etc.), developing, testing and documenting space borne, airborne and ground-based optical components and systems, especially optical (i.e., Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet) detectors and sensor design including active and passive systems, development, and test. Should be familiar with the design, modeling, fabrication and testing of novel optical elements such as flat optics and adaptive/active elements.

Electronics Engineer

Education & Experience Requirements: Shall possess a B.Sc. or above in Electrical Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, or equivalent degree in related field.

Experience Requirements: Five (5) years of demonstrated experience desired in specifying, developing, and documenting spaceborne, airborne and ground-based instrument electronics, especially video, digital electronics, and antenna, feed, and low noise amplifier design, development, and testing.

Computer/Software Engineer

Education & Experience Requirements: The Computer Engineer Possesses (a) at a minimum a B.S.

degree in Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, or the equivalent;

(b) at least five (5) years of demonstrated experience in specifying, developing, testing, and documenting computer systems and software for space-borne, airborne, and ground-based instrumentation, planning, and conducting tests; and troubleshooting the computer while the system that contains it is in the field, in flight, or in orbit. Familiarity with the following software tools is required: Docker, Robotics Operating Systems (ROS), Gitlab and Gitlab CICD pipelines and Git. Experience with FPGA and GPU programming (e.g., through CUDA) is desirable.

Technician

Education Requirements: Possesses an Assoc. Degree or above in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.

Experience Requirements: Experience in assembling and testing of electrical and optical circuits and assemblies; assembly of housings and instrumentation boxes. Technician will support testing of instrumentation and field/aircraft deployment of instrumentation. Experience in the field deployment of RF technology is desirable.

Data Scientist

Education Requirements: The Data Scientist Possesses at a minimum a B.S. degree in Data Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics or equivalent.

Experience Requirements: Data Scientist position shall be fluent with some combination of the FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, Python, and IDL programming languages. Should also have familiarity with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques and software. Should be familiar with the use of SQL for database management.

Anticipated Skill Mix/Labor Hours

Anticipated Skill Mix/Labor Hours

Labor Category Hours Hours Hours Hours Hours Total Hours

Program Manager 450 450 450 450 450 2,250

Research Scientist (4) 2,625 2,625 2,625 2,625 2,625 13,125

Research Scientist (3) 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Research Scientist (2) 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Research Scientist (1) 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Facilities Manager 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Observers 5,250 5,250 5,250 5,250 5,250 26,250

IT Specialist 450 450 450 450 450 2,250

Scientific Programmer 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Optical Engineer 875 875 875 875 875 4,375

Electronics Engineer 875 875 875 875 875 4,375 Computer/Software Engineer 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Engineering Technician 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 1,750 8,750

Data Scientist 875 875 875 875 875 4,375

Total Hours 23,650 23,650 23,650 23,650 23,650 118,250