Targeting and GEOINT Software Modernization

Added: Jun 29, 2018 8:23 am AFLCMC/HBBK awarded this contract utilizing FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13.5 Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items. It was a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 541715 (1,500 employees). This effort is to acquire software (SW) developers and SW designers to transform legacy into cloud-native applications that will reside on a Platform as a Service (PaaS).  Each contract is to acquire two product teams to develop different software applications. The objective is to migrate the existing legacy portfolio to a more evolvable architecture that can better leverage a cloud environment in order to deliver the warfighter better technology, reduced program sustainment costs, and higher system reliability. Additionally, this effort is to modernize current applications by breaking them down into loosely coupled micro-services, and leveraging a continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline to enable an agile DevOps Strategy.  This period of performance will be 30 Months (6 month base and two (2) 1 year options).

Added: Aug 29, 2017 6:38 am Modified: Sep 06, 2017 7:44 amTrack Changes UPDATE 6 SEPT 17: Floorplans and/or drawings are not included in the 10 page count.

The T&G PMO is seeking information on how an interested contractor could provide staffing--software engineers, designers, & program managers to participate in government-led agile software-development product teams. These teams would be co-located in an off-site government facility/contracted partner facility or in the contractor's facility. The contractor & its employees must be proficient in an agile software development methodology (extreme/paired programming preferred), lean methodologies, cloud-native (12 factor) applications, user-centered design, test-driven development, continuous integration & continuous delivery pipelines with >85% test coverage, and deploying to a cloud native platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry preferred). In order for the government to use a contractor facility, it must be within the greater Boston area and workstations must set up for paired programming with open area for teams of up to 10 individuals.

The T&G PMO is pursuing a modernization effort which seeks to leverage the advantages of a cloud platform to build cloud-native applications using a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline that meets all regulatory testing and cybersecurity requirements in order to establish a lean, user-centered approach that will ultimately redefine how Targeting & GEOINT capability is delivered to the Air Force warfighter. This will involve re-platforming of some legacy applications and refactoring them to be cloud-native, green-fielding of some legacy applications, on-boarding commercial SaaS, and net-new application development. The end goal is a comprehensive, end-to-end Targeting & GEOINT capability that delivers value to the end-user.

UPDATE 6 SEPT 17: Floorplans and/or drawings are not included in the 10 page count.

Added: Aug 29, 2017 6:38 am The T&G PMO is seeking information on how an interested contractor could provide staffing--software engineers, designers, & program managers to participate in government-led agile software-development product teams. These teams would be co-located in an off-site government facility/contracted partner facility or in the contractor's facility. The contractor & its employees must be proficient in an agile software development methodology (extreme/paired programming preferred), lean methodologies, cloud-native (12 factor) applications, user-centered design, test-driven development, continuous integration & continuous delivery pipelines with >85% test coverage, and deploying to a cloud native platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry preferred). In order for the government to use a contractor facility, it must be within the greater Boston area and workstations must set up for paired programming with open area for teams of up to 10 individuals.

The T&G PMO is pursuing a modernization effort which seeks to leverage the advantages of a cloud platform to build cloud-native applications using a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline that meets all regulatory testing and cybersecurity requirements in order to establish a lean, user-centered approach that will ultimately redefine how Targeting & GEOINT capability is delivered to the Air Force warfighter. This will involve re-platforming of some legacy applications and refactoring them to be cloud-native, green-fielding of some legacy applications, on-boarding commercial SaaS, and net-new application development. The end goal is a comprehensive, end-to-end Targeting & GEOINT capability that delivers value to the end-user.