20260403_AMA Questions and Answers.docx

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Aeronautical Mobile Application Request for Information - Questions for Respondents General

1. Discuss your company’s experience with creating Department of War (DOW) ISO images of DVDs.

2. What exposure has your company had with military aviation operations (e.g. mission planning, DAFIF data processing, Terminal procedure creation or evaluation, airfield surveys, airfield data collection. etc.)?

3. What is your company’s experience working with data management and quality tools that would enable data monitoring, data auditing, and data quality assurance?

4. What is your company’s experience developing and managing Application Program Interface (APIs) and/or Software Development Kits (SDKs)?

5. Has your company had contracts requiring it to work based on the Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control (AIRAC) cycle?

6. Describe your company history developing software plug-ins to the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK).

7. What level of experience does your company have with Aviation software development?

8. What is your experience working with Electronic Flight Bags (EFB)/ Electronic Knee Boards (EKB)?

9. What is your experience with 1801 flight plans and filing?

10. What is your experience with creating applications that do not require an internet connection to have the data updated?

11. What is your company's demonstrated experience in managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments specifically for DOW applications? Please provide examples of past projects, including their scope and scale.

12. Could you describe your experience with managing applications that are utilized by foreign partners?

a. Did you set up access controls based on data sharing agreements?

13. How would you approach the management and dissemination of aeronautical (aero) data through a cloud environment, ensuring it is securely accessible to both DOW and authorized non-DOW sources?

14. Is your company ISO 9001 Certified?

a. If yes, what ISO Certifications does your company possess?

b. If not, how long would it take for you to obtain this certification?

15. Is your company AS9100D certified?

a. When did you get your AS9100D certification?

b. Have you ever failed an AS9100D audit?

i. If so, what were the findings?

ii. Were the identified discrepancies corrected?

iii. Have you been re-audited, and what were the results?

Security

16. Describe your cyber security processing implementation working with NGA software security processes.

17. If your company employs non-US citizens, would you be able to isolate them from any work on this contract?

18. If your company currently doesn’t have classified clearances, are you willing to make the required investments to achieve the required clearances?

Technical

19. Describe your level of experience working with Aeronautical Publications and Charts as noted below

a. Was this experience to display aeronautical data and information for use in a mobile application or something else?

b. What is your experience working with Airport Diagrams, Instrument Approach Procedures, Enroute Charts, and Vertical Obstructions?

c. What is your experience geo-referencing charts?

d. What is your experience working with the NGA/DOW/FAA Table Formatted Aeronautical Data Set (TFADS-O) dataset?

e. What is your experience working with NAVPLAN charts?

f. What is your experience working with CADRG and/or ECRG?

g. What is your experience working with FAA Sectionals?

h. What is your experience working with commercial imagery from MAXAR, formally known as Digital Globe?

i. What is your experience working with Air Force Weather products and data? Was this work done with their new cloud-based system?

i. What is your experience developing APIs to access this data?

ii. What is your experience obtaining a U.S. Air Force –1 weather briefing?

j. What is your experience working with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) services and/or devices?

k. What is your experience working with NGA/DOW/FAA Flight Information Publications and Flight Information Products (FLIP)?

l. What is your experience working with NGA/DOW/FAA Aeronautical Planning documents?

m. What is your experience working with Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) versions and formats?

n. What is your experience with NGA’s Electronic – Instrument Procedure Library (E-IPL)?

o. What is your experience with Mobile Device Management (MDM) software?

p. Do you have experience developing software that enables data deployment to clients through mobile devices over a locally hosted Wi-Fi network?

q. What is your experience working with Air Mobility Command (AMC) GIANT Reports?

r. Do you have experience creating and converting maps into an MB Tile format?

s. What is your experience displaying documents in the .pdf format?

t. What is your experience displaying kml and/or kmz files on a moving map?

20. What approach would you take to provide data to a user in a Denied Degraded Intermittent/Low-Bandwidth (DDIL) environment?

21. What is your experience with developing mobile applications (native and/or hybrid) for the following mobile platforms:

a. iPad (iOS)

b. Android

c. MacOS

d. Microsoft Windows

e. Google and Apple stores for application deployment Configuration Management

22. Describe your lean/agile experience with evidence of demonstrated proficiency in agile software engineering including CI/CD pipeline methodology.

23. Describe your methodology for managing multiple customers requiring same or different features in the software baseline.

24. Describe your proficiency in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and agile product management (managing evolving requirements, Backlog grooming, Release Planning, Product Owner prioritization of the software build, etc.).

25. Provide a recommendation for transitioning to Open Source modeled on the Code.mil framework for managing the iOS and Android mobile applications and explain your answer.