Performance Work Statement (PWS).docx

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

COMMERCIALSUBSCRIPTION AND TECHNICAL DATA SERVICES

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY FOR DEFENSE EXPORTS AND COOPERATION (DASA DEC)

CONTRACTING ACTIVITY: ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND (ACC)

PROCUREMENT SUMMARY

Requiring Activity: Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Defense Exports and Cooperation (DASA DEC) Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)

PART 1: GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1 Description of Services / Executive Summary

The Contractor shall provide twelve (12) full-suite, enterprise-level digital subscriptions delivering secure, unclassified, web-based portal access to an integrated defense market intelligence and equipment technology forecasting platform. The platform must provide comprehensive, validated, open-source intelligence (OSINT) spanning global military equipment specifications, defense budgets, procurement programs, and long-term market forecasts.

1.2 Mission Background

DASA DEC is the principal Department of the Army authority responsible for the oversight, formulation, and execution of export policy, international armaments cooperation programs, defense exports, Foreign Military Sales (FMS), and technology transfer security. To execute these responsibilities, DASA DEC requires continuous access to an authoritative, globally recognized technical database to evaluate partner-nation capabilities, conduct equipment compatibility and gap analyses, evaluate export releasability, and validate industrial defense market forecasts.

1.3 Scope of Work

The Contractor shall provide an integrated, unclassified commercial information solution encompassing all the contractor’s defense market intelligence under a single, unified enterprise package. The Government requires an all-inclusive catalog subscription to prevent fragmented, piecemeal licensing costs and to maximize government volume discounting across the full spectrum of air, sea, land, space, weapons; and command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) domains.

1.4 Period of Performance (PoP)

The contract structure comprises a twelve (12) month Base Period and four (4) optional twelve (12) month periods.

1.5 General Administrative Information

1.5.1 Place of Performance

Due to the web-based nature of this requirement, authorized users shall also be permitted to securely access the platform via government-furnished equipment (GFE) from approved telework or remote operational sites within the Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) as required by mission parameters.

1.6 Web Infrastructure and Accessibility

The subscription shall provide web-based access for authorized Government users and shall not require installation of proprietary client software on Government-furnished endpoints.

PART 2: SPECIFIC TASKS (TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS)

2.1 Basic Service Requirements: Complete Portfolio Bundle

The Contractor shall provide twelve (12) named-user subscriptions delivering unrestricted, web-based search, reporting, and retrieval capabilities covering their complete defense market intelligence catalog. The suite shall be provided as an integrated package across the following functional areas:

2.1.1 Cross-Market Intelligence

All Markets: Strategic macro-level defense market analysis, multi-year national defense budget forecasts, procurement program tracking, weapon production forecasts, supplier market share metrics, and bilateral arms export relationships worldwide.

2.1.2 Aerospace & Air Defense Systems

Military Aircraft: Comprehensive specifications, airframe dynamics, powerplant data, payload capacities, avionics architecture, mission variants, and global air fleet orders of battle for military fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

Air & Missile Defense: Surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS), ballistic missile defense (BMD) batteries, radar cross-sections, engagement envelopes, and target tracking parameters.

Missile: Detailed technical sheets, propulsion types, guidance mechanisms, operational ranges, and proliferation status of strategic, cruise, tactical, and anti-tank guided missiles.

Precision Guided Weapons (PGW): Air-to-ground precision strike munitions, glide bombs, laser/GPS-guided weapons, standoff missiles, seeker technologies, and target defeat capabilities.

2.1.3 Maritime & Undersea Systems

Military Ship: In-depth technical specifications, displacement, dimensions, propulsion, hull configurations, weapon loadouts, and active fleet registries for naval surface combatants, amphibious ships, support auxiliaries, and submarines globally.

Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW): Specialized acoustic and non-acoustic ASW weapon platforms, lightweight and heavyweight torpedoes, depth charges, and naval acoustic countermeasure systems.

Sonar: Technical operational parameters for hull-mounted, variable depth, passive/active dipping, and towed array sonar suites across all global naval forces.

2.1.4 Ground Combat & Tactical Weapon Systems

Military Ground Vehicle: Main battle tanks (MBTs), armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), armored personnel carriers (APCs), artillery and mortar systems, and tactical mobility platforms, detailing ballistic protection levels, mobility metrics, and fire control integration.

Launchers: Mobile, towed, and static launch systems, vertical launch cells (VLS), tube-launched architectures, and hydraulic/electrical launch control mechanisms.

2.1.5 C4ISR, Sensors, Avionics & Electronic Warfare

C4ISR Complete: Unified architectural overviews of national and tactical command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance networks.

Command & Control (C2): Strategic and tactical battle management systems, air operations centers, combat direction systems, and tactical data-routing nodes.

Electronic Warfare (EW): Electronic countermeasure (ECM) platforms, radar jamming suites, electronic support measures (ESM), radar warning receivers (RWR), and directed energy weapons.

Electro-Optic / Infrared (EO/IR): Forward-looking infrared (FLIR) turrets, thermal sighting units, laser rangefinders and designators, night vision imaging, and optronic sighting systems.

ISR: Dedicated aerial and terrestrial persistent surveillance payloads, multispectral reconnaissance systems, and tactical imagery collection suites.

Military Communications (Comm): Tactical software-defined radios (SDR), military satellite communication (SATCOM) terminals, encrypted tactical data links (Link 16, Link 22, VMF), and joint interoperability protocols.

Radar: Airborne, naval, and terrestrial early warning, target acquisition, counter-battery, fire control, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems.

2.1.6 Unmanned Platforms & Emerging Technologies

Unmanned Systems: Complete technical data, mission payloads, endurance, datalink ranges, and operational deployment records for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), unmanned surface vessels (USV), and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV).

2.1.7 Integrated Support, Simulation & Analytical Services

Sim & Training: Data on synthetic virtual training environments, full-mission flight simulators, combat vehicle crew simulators, weapon system trainers, and distributed simulation architectures.

Services: Technical customer support, query assistance, analyst consultation, and vendor subject-matter-expert (SME) support for system navigation and database extraction.