Questions_SERE_FY_17_Instruction__Support_Contract(s).docx

Primary Business

1. What is the primary focus of your business?

2. What portion of your business has involvement with military training programs, and training development?

3. How many training programs have you developed or conducted in the last 5 years?

4. Describe your experience and processes in scaling your workforce to meet demanding timelines while maintaining high quality performance of services and high quality finished products.

SERE Skillsets

1. Describe your experience with the development and execution of SERE-related education and training programs.

2. Describe your process for reconciling Joint SERE Training guidance with service-specific needs to provide innovative products and services based on emerging SERE Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP).

3. If this is your organization’s first experience with SERE training, describe your experience with training programs of a similar size/scope to this requirement.

4. Describe what you view as the challenges in developing relevant and timely SERE-related training products using the ADDIE process.

Logistical Support to SERE Instruction Describe your experience with providing logistical support to military/SERE-related education and training programs.

Training Support to SERE Instruction

1. Describe your experience in the production and maintenance of training aids used for military training.

2. What are the skill sets (certifications and degrees related to their duties) of the personnel you’ve chosen to work the greenhouses (creation and maintenance of indigenous out-of-season, and global flora as training aids)?

Talent Management

1. With 7 SERE Level C programs across the DoD competing for a relatively limited talent pool, how will your organization attract and retain the highly qualified instructor and support staff necessary to meet this program’s needs?

2. Describe, if any, your experience in developing military instructors in general, and SERE Instructors specifically.

3. Discuss the importance of requiring psychological evaluations, both initial and annual, for any SERE-C employment as it relates to student/course safety. Explain any experience, positive or negative, that your business has in this area.