SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Materiel Solutions for User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP)
- Notice Date
- 1/23/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, ESC - Electronic Systems Center, 9 Eglin Street, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, 01731
- ZIP Code
- 01731
- Solicitation Number
- 01252012
- Archive Date
- 3/10/2012
- Point of Contact
- Cassandra Carlson, Phone: 225-3179, Dr. Tim Greene, Phone: 225-3411
- E-Mail Address
-
Cassandra.Carlson.ctr@hanscom.af.mil, Tim.Greene@hanscom.af.mil
(Cassandra.Carlson.ctr@hanscom.af.mil, Tim.Greene@hanscom.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Information (RFI) for Electronic System Center's (ESCs) Materiel Solutions for User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP) Development Planning (DP) Efforts PURPOSE: This is a Request for Information (RFI), as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201(e). The Government is issuing this RFI in an effort to understand market availability, technical characteristics, and functionality of Information Technology (IT) tools, applications or products capable of satisfying the technical, functional, and/or operational capabilities described in this RFI. This is not a request for proposal, request for quotation, or invitation for bid, nor does its issuance obligate or restrict the Government to an eventual acquisition approach. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses from this RFI or pay for the preparation of any information submitted or use of such information. All information received from this RFI will be used for planning and market research purposes only. All information received in response to the RFI that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulations. BACKGROUND: The purpose of this RFI is to gather information on materiel solutions incorporating cost-saving approaches and best practices for accomplishing a User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP). This capability is required by the 624th Operations Center (624 OC) to improve their situational awareness and command and control of Air Force cyber resources. Information received as a result of this RFI will be used to formulate one or more Concept Characterization Technical Description (CCTD) documents required by UDOP Early Systems Engineering. These CCTD(s) are being produced by ESC/XR as part of the development planning (DP) efforts (including Cross-Domain Solution (CDS) and Data Fusion (DF)) requested by Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) to address 624 OC's requirements. ESC/XR has been tasked with leading this DP effort and provides the following high-level descriptions of UDOP capability:  The UDOP DP effort is in response to an Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Commander (CC) request to provide assistance in the development and support of a CDS capability. The CDS will need to individually consider discrete variables for correlation, aggregation, or other forms of analysis that will reduce the cognitive burden on the operators and facilitate effective Course of Action (COA) development and decision making.  Analyzed data will be used to enhance the operational picture of cyber resources for improved situational awareness and to improve the effectiveness of decision support tools in developing COAs. ASSUMPTIONS  All sources of data will be available in an unclassified or classified (SECRET) domain. Systems to migrate unclassified data to the classified domain are being researched separately. Solutions for cross-domain capabilities are not required in the responses to this RFI.  Cyber infrastructure inventory, configuration, maintenance status, and performance data is available for collection, aggregation, and analysis.  Health, status, security, vulnerability, and mission dependency data is available for aggregation and analysis.  Administration functions are performed outside the purview of a UDOP.  Source data will exist in diverse forms including query responses from hardware, application software, and databases, web site information, streaming multicast data, text files, and human inputs.  Sources in the AF's unclassified domain are geographically dispersed across the globe.  The material solutions must use Open Technology Development (OTD) practices with open interfaces, open standards, and open software. It is preferred that solutions be compatible with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) compliant integration framework.  The products should provide a standards-based and common integration infrastructure to accept, store, aggregate, and display data that is flexible and modifiable to maximize operational situational awareness for Cyber Command and Control (C2).  The products will fully enable rapid integration of data from Cyber sensor feeds, C2 and other applications, as well as Situational Awareness (SA) tools.  The products should include on‐site integration support for data feeds integration, aggregation, and third party Cyber capability integration. REQUESTED INFORMATION: A UDOP material solution will need to be compliant with industry and or governments best practices for standardizing visualization, dashboards, and collaborative communication models. The products should provide a standards-based and common integration infrastructure to accept, aggregate, display, and share data that is flexible and modifiable to maximize operational situational awareness for Cyber C2 Operational Picture (C3OP). It is preferred that any proposed UDOP product(s) will have the following high level functionality:  Valid User will Generate Data Views by opening a data view template, identify data attributes and data stores then attach to data store and retrieve data.  Visualize data view template(s) with appropriate data rendered in desired way.  User is provided an environment for Collaboration through sharing capabilities inherent with solution.  User Augments the UDOP visualization generated for an analysis and generates summary reports. Product capabilities should include but are not limited to:  Focus on any particular area(s) of interest and assemble a picture of an evolving situation for complete situational awareness.  Create mission picture(s) at multiple levels of abstraction, from detailed theater-level (C2 perspectives to decision-focused pictures for national civilian leadership.  Transform data into a meaningful story that can be understood at a glance, and animated backwards and forwards in time.  Provide explicit representation of information quality and pedigree of data obtained from net-centric sources, so that consumers of the picture understand its scope and limitations.  Transcend individual SA by supporting shared SA of distributed decision-makers through collaborative methodologies.  Discover and select data store(s) and DF engine(s).  Customization of multiple data views, within a single UDOP, presenting the C3OP in order to make associations.  Visualization should include but not limited to:  Start/Stop visualization  Static/Dynamic representations  Generate  Chart(s)  Table(s)  Two Dimensional  Three Dimensional  Etc.  Manipulate  Color  Images  Symbols  Markings  Etc.  Augmentation within each template should allow for, but not limited to, the following:  Markup  Share  Select  Add  Analyze  Process  Etc.  Collaboration should enable the sharing of ideas and analysis. The following, while not an exhaustive list, are capabilities desired for collaboration within a UDOP:  Select participants  Select room(s)  Establish/disconnect  Share  Chat  Audio  White Boarding  Video  Etc.  Additional data required should include but is not limited to:  Product dependency  Java  Virtual Machines  Virtual Networking  Etc.  Operating System  Linux  Mobile  Unix  Windows  Etc.  What is the product's Technology Readiness Level (Maturity Level)?  How adaptable are your solution(s) to a rapidly changing environment?  Discuss any current or previous experiences within the last 5 years in supporting similar efforts for government departments/agencies and other business sectors (finance, logistics, healthcare, law enforcement, marketing, etc.).  Department of Defense (DoD) certifications (if any)  Ports and Protocols  AF Certifications  Approved Product Listing  Site in use with person to contact  Technology Readiness Level  Etc.  Training requirements  Course listings  Formalized Help  Etc.  Cost  Licenses  Support  Maintenance  Total cost of ownership  Contract & support requirements  Describe product solutions which support classified domain access to diverse data types from geographically dispersed unclassified domain sources.  List any DoD/National Security Agency security certifications obtained or currently under review for products in the proposed solution.  Describe any data preprocessing capabilities embedded in the product solution, e.g. calibration, formatting, normalization, etc.  Describe user training and/or contracted support requirements to establish and maintain solution configurations in response to rapidly changing military operations.  Describe any warranty, long-term maintenance, or software licensing programs associated with the proposed solution. Describe any near-term functional improvements planned for products in the proposed solution, and/or a general roadmap of projected improvements over the next 5 years.  Discuss current/recent past experience [within the last five (5) years] in supporting similar efforts in the DoD (preferred) or other U.S. Federal Government department/agency (if applicable).  Describe any proven experience delivering complicated systems engineering and technical development services within the Federal Government, with emphasis in the telecommunications and network security environments, successful implementation of UDOPs, and use of collaborative technologies in delivered capabilities. RESPONSES: Product capability responses to this RFI are requested to be submitted by e-mail to Cassandra.Carlson.ctr@hanscom.af.mil and Tim.Greene@hanscom.af.mil no later than 1500 hours EST on 24 February 2012. Responses should be single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font, with one inch margins all around, compatible with MS Office Word 2007, with a total page count not to exceed fifteen (15) pages of text with no more than twenty (20) pages of attachments. The response should not exceed a 5 MB mail limit. Responses to this RFI will be reviewed by military personnel, government civilians, DoD contractors and MITRE System Engineers; all covered by non-disclosure agreements. MITRE Corporation is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) and, as such, fulfills an unbiased, non-profit role for the Air Force. The responses may be forwarded to other Government entities in consideration for applicability to other programs. Be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. All government, DoD contractor and MITRE personal reviewing RFI responses will have signed non-disclosure agreements and understand their responsibility for proper use and protection from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information as described 41 USC 423.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Hanscom Air Force Base Bldg 1607, Lexington, Massachusetts, 02421, United States
- Zip Code: 02421
- Zip Code: 02421
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