TITAN_ISR_DRAFT_Statement_of_Objectives.pdf

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

FOR

Technical Support for ISR Task Force/Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node

(TITAN)

1. Purpose: This acquisition is intended to provide the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and System Acquisition Support Directorate/Army Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) with technical support for geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and signals intelligence (SIGINT) efforts in support of the TITAN prototype.

2. Background: Army TENCAP has been tasked to prototype a new Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN). TITAN provides the Army the ability to conduct deep targeting and mission command intelligence in a contested multi-domain environment. The maneuverable, modular, and scalable ground station enables Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) with assured access to current and future national, theatre, commercial, and Army collection assets to reduce collection gaps, increase target identification, location and tracking and incorporates Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to shorten the sensor to shooter kill-chains. TITAN will provide robust support at Field Army, Corps and Division, and provide scaled support at the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) in a network enabled or fully disconnected, intermittent or limited bandwidth environment.

3. Scope: This work will be in support of a broad range of technical engineering, project analysis and trades, prototyping, and requirements management functions.

4. Performance Objectives:

a. Systems Engineering

i. Develop threshold and objective requirements to assess future products and deliverables against; develop threshold objective requirements; provide recommendations of program review materials (CDRL); draft technical documentations, Acquisition strategy.

ii. Develop hardware and software solutions to complex geospatial intelligence problems; coordinate and organize different specialties (e.g., requirements management, systems engineering, hardware and software integration and test, fielding) in the development of a prototype for TITAN and TITAN related requirements.

iii. Assess GEOINT software applications and processes against Army Requirements; provide recommendations of software applications

iv. Provide assessments and evaluations of networking technologies such as Routing, Switching, Next-gen Firewalls, 802.1x, and IPsec using Cisco and Palo Alto networks products

v. Analyze and determine threshold and stands for RF technologies used to transmit GEOINT data from collection platforms to processing systems

b. SIGINT Engineering

i. Determine and coordinate requirements for SIGINT mission within the

TITAN system

ii. Develop plans, analysis, and designs for multipurpose, SIGINT, and geospatially-enabled systems that support TITAN prototyping

iii. Examine and define implementation strategies and work towards the development and implementation of a TITAN pilot to integrate and interoperate with current intelligence systems and architectures.

iv. Conduct analysis and develop recommendations regarding design of System and Network Architectures within TITAN to ensure optimal operation and test during integration and test events.

v. Conduct comprehensive risk assessments; document data flows and process flows; and identify resource requirements including primary resources, secondary resources, ancillary systems, personnel resources, facility resources, and communications resources.

c. RF/Communications Engineer

i. Monitor developmental RF/Communications systems to ensure all requirements are identified and accountable for.

ii. Familiar with the process of defining, documenting and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process of RF/Communications systems.

iii. Monitor the design performance of RF/Communications systems and continually assess all stages of operations to ensure that requirements are met.

iv. Understand and compare of various communication systems such as data networking, RF waveforms, optical transmission, SATCOM and other communication systems, and how they may be required to interoperate.

v. Provide SME support to a Multi-INT prototype system in the area of RF/Communications system development, design, implementation, reliability, test and evaluation, and maintainability.

vi. Understand and compare RF/Communications systems specifically in present and future INTEL systems and architectures.

d. Information Assurance Engineer

i. Develop and prepare the required security control documents or artifacts, and conduct security control assessments, and security test and evaluation required by the respective network authorities and C&A processes such as the Risk Management Framework (RMF).

ii. Develop and document security design artifacts and the associated security controls that are meeting the security acceptance criteria and package the accreditation and authorization documents in support of each domain Certification and Accreditation process.

iii. Support Assessment and Authorization (A&A) or other RMF and cybersecurity Compliance and Auditing processes and inspections for all enterprise systems and networks; ensures validity and accuracy review of all associated documentation.

iv. Assist in the development of security policies.

v. Perform the necessary efforts to analyze, assess, evaluate, integrate, improve, implement, test, sustain, and maintain the program’s cybersecurity posture and capabilities required by the network domain operations compliance requirements.

vi. Support on-site accreditation testing for networks at CONUS and OCONUS locations.

vii. Prepare and document the risk mitigations, and maintain and update the Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) as required by the network domain Authorizing Official (AO).

viii. Perform technical vulnerability scanning and secure configuration assessments, penetration testing and analyze the scan results, recommend the plans of action, and update the POA&M accordingly.

5. Government Furnished Items and Services:

a. The Government will provide adequate physical work space and will furnish: a desk, computer equipment (to include all necessary hardware and software), an electronic mail (e-mail) account, use of the Government telephone, facsimile machine, and copier usage as required by these positions.

6. Security Requirements:

a. Clearance Requirements: Top Secret/SCI Clearances are required to be maintained for the life of the contract.

b. AT Level I Training. This provision/contract text is for contractor employees with an area of performance within an Army controlled installation, facility or area. Proposed language: "All contractor employees, to include subcontractor employees, requiring access to Army installations, facilities, controlled access areas, or require network access, shall complete AT Level I awareness training within 30 calendar days after contract start date or effective date of incorporation of this requirement into the contract, whichever is applicable.

Upon request, the contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor employee and subcontractor employee, to the COR or to the contracting officer (if a COR is not assigned), within 5 calendar days after completion of training by all employees and subcontractor personnel. AT Level I awareness training is available at the following website:

http://jko.jten.mil/courses/atl1/launch.html; or it can be provided by the RA ATO in presentation form which will be documented via memorandum."

c. Access and General Protection/Security Policy and Procedures. This standard language text is for contractor employees with an area of performance within an Army controlled installation, facility or area. Proposed language: "All contractor and all associated sub-contractors employees shall comply with applicable installation, facility and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative). The contractor shall also provide all information required for background checks to meet installation/facility access requirements to be accomplished by installation Provost Marshal Office, Director of Emergency Services or Security Office. Contractor workforce must comply with all personal identity verification requirements (FAR clause 52.204-9, Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel) as directed by DOD, HQDA and/or local policy. In addition to the changes otherwise authorized by the changes clause of this contract, should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) at any installation or facility change, the Government may require changes in contractor security matters or processes."

d. Common Access Card. The contractor and all sub-contractors employees will be issued a CAC only if duties involve one of the following: (1) Both physical access to a DoD facility and access, via logon, to DoD networks on-site or remotely; (2) Remote access, via logon, to a DoD network using DoD-approved remote access procedures; or (3) Physical access to multiple DoD facilities or multiple non-DoD federally controlled facilities on behalf of the DoD on a recurring basis for a period of 6 months or more. At the discretion of the sponsoring activity, an interim CAC may be issued based on a favorable review of the FBI fingerprint check and a successfully scheduled NACI at the Office of Personnel Management.

e. AT Awareness Training for Contractor Personnel Traveling Overseas. All US based contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees traveling overseas will receive the government provided AOR specific AT awareness training. The documentation of training completion must be provided to the COR prior to departure.

f. Suspicious Activity Reporting Training (e.g. iWATCH, CorpsWatch, or See Something, Say Something). This standard language is for contractor employees with an area of performance within an Army controlled installation, facility or area. Proposed language: "The contractor and all associated sub-contractors shall receive a brief/training (provided by the RA) on the local suspicious activity reporting program. This locally developed training will be used to inform employees of the types of behavior to watch for and instruct employees to report suspicious activity to the project manager, security representative or law enforcement entity. This training shall be completed within 30 calendar days of contract award and within 30 calendar days of new employees commencing performance with the results reported to the COR NLT 5 calendar days after the completion of the training."

g. Contractor Employees Who Require Access to Government Information Systems. This standard language text is for contractor employees with access to government info system. Proposed language: "All contractor employees with access to a government info system must be registered in the Army

Training Certification Tracking System (ATCTS) at commencement of services, and must successfully complete the DOD Information Assurance Awareness prior to access to the information systems and then annually thereafter in accordance with personnel security standards listed in AR 25-2 (Information Assurance), an appropriate background investigation will be conducted prior to accessing the government information systems."

h. For Contracts that Require OPSEC Training. Per AR 530-1, (Operations Security) contractor employees must complete Level I OPSEC Training within 30 calendar days of contract award. Proposed language: "All new contractor employees will complete Level I OPSEC Training within 30 calendar days of their reporting for duty. Additionally, all contractor employees must complete annual OPSEC awareness training. The contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor and subcontractor employee, to the COR or to the contracting officer (if a COR is not assigned), within 5 calendar days after completion of training. OPSEC awareness training is available at the following websites: https://www.iad.gov/ioss/ or http://www.cdse.edu/catalog/operations-security.html; or it can be provided by the RA OPSEC Officer in presentation form which will be documented via memorandum."

i. Information assurance (IA)/Information technology (IT) Training. All contractor employees and associated sub-contractor employees must complete the DoD IA awareness training before issuance of network access and annually thereafter. All contractor employees working IA/IT functions must comply with DoD and Army training requirements in DoDD 8570.01, DoD 8570.01-M and AR 25-2 within six months of employment. All contractor employees supporting IA/IT functions shall be appropriately certified upon contract IAW DoD 8570.01-M, DFARS 252.239-7001 and AR 25-2. The baseline certification as stipulated in DoD 8570.01-M must be completed upon contract award.

j. Contractors Authorized to Accompany the Force. All contractor employees shall ensure the following AT/OPSEC requirements are met prior to deploying personnel authorized to accompany U.S. Armed Forces outside the United States; to include compliance with laws, regulations, pre-deployment requirements, and required training in accordance with combatant command guidance.

k. Performance or Delivery in a Foreign Country. All non-local contracting personnel will comply with theater clearance requirements and allows the combatant commander to exercise oversight to ensure the contractor's compliance with combatant commander and subordinate task force commander policies and directives.

l. Handling or Access to Classified Information. Contractor shall comply with AR 380-67 (Personnel Security Program) and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors) as well as FAR 52.204-2, Security Requirements. Additionally, Contractors must comply with - (1) The Security Agreement (DD Form 441), including the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (DoD 5220.22-M); any revisions to DOD 5220.22-M, notice of which has been furnished to the contractor. For classified contracts, the DD Form 254 will be attached with the contract.

m. Will be escorted in areas where they may be exposed to classified and/or sensitive materials and/or sensitive or restricted areas. The contractor will coordinate with the COR and/or the facility security office for access when required. (Use when security clearances are not required, i.e. facility repair or construction). Proposed language: "All contract employees, including subcontractor employees who are not in possession of the appropriate security clearance or access privileges, will be escorted in areas where they may be exposed to classified and/or sensitive materials and/or sensitive or restricted areas."

n. Contractor Company to obtain a Facility Clearance and Individual clearances at the appropriate level. The Prime Contractor Company must have a Facility Clearance (FCL) at the appropriate level (IAW the NISPOM DOD 5220.22-M and AR 380-49) prior to the start of the contract awarded period of performance. Contractor personnel performing work under this contract must have the required security clearance, per AR 380-67, at the appropriate level at the start of the period of performance. Security Clearances and FCL requirements are required to be maintained for the life of the contract IAW the DD Form 254 attached to the contract. If no FCL, the supporting Government Contracting Activity will sponsor the prime contract company in obtaining the

FCL.

o. Pre-screen candidates using E-Verify Program. Proposed language: "The Contractor must pre-screen Candidates using the E-verify Program (http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify) website to meet the established employment eligibility requirements. The Vendor must ensure that the Candidate has two valid forms of Government issued identification prior to enrollment to ensure the correct information is entered into the E-verify system. An initial list of verified/eligible Candidates must be provided to the COR no later than 3 business days after the initial contract award." *When contracts are with individuals, the individuals will be required to complete a Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, with the designated Government representative. This Form will be provided to the Contracting Officer and shall become part of the official contract file.

p. Threat Awareness Reporting Program. For all contractors with security clearances. Per AR 381-12 Threat Awareness and Reporting Program (TARP), contractor employees must receive annual TARP training by a CI agent or other trainer as specified in 2-4b. Proposed language: "All new contractor employees will complete annual Threat Awareness and Reporting Program (TARP) Training provided by a Counterintelligence Agent, IAW AR 381-12. The contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor and subcontractor employee(s) or a memorandum for the record, to the COR or to the contracting officer (if a COR is not assigned), within 5 calendar days after completion of training. Authorized web based TARP training for CAC card holders is available at the following website:

https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/655474.

7. Travel:

a. The contractor will be required to travel to both military and non-military locations, both in the Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS).

b. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). When OCONUS travel is required, the Contractor shall abide by U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and local laws in performance of this contract. The Contract and Government personnel shall submit essential documentation to obtain prior advance approvals for countries that require prior approval.

8. Period and Place of Performance:

a. The period of performance is scheduled to start in the 4th quarter of this fiscal year. The complete period of performance is still being determined.

b. The work to be performed under this contract will be executed primarily at the

Army Geospatial Center facility in Alexandria, VA and other designated locations as directed by the COR.