MODIFICATION
A -- Integrated Command & Control
- Notice Date
- 12/20/2013
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL/RIK - Rome, 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, New York, 13441-4514, United States
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- BAA-10-01-RIKA
- Point of Contact
- Gail E. Marsh, Phone: 315-330-7518
- E-Mail Address
-
Gail.Marsh@us.af.mil
(Gail.Marsh@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice Type: Modification/Amendment The purpose of this modification is to: (1) Insert the following topic area under I. Funding Opportunity Description: Specific Focus Area for FY14 This topic announcement describes a research effort titled "Integrated Command and Control Analysis," to be executed under the Anticipatory Planning consolidated program for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The objective of the consolidated program is to provide commanders and planning staffs of future Air and Space Operation Centers (AOCs) with improved courses of action (COAs) development, analysis and selection capabilities to include means to explore plausible outcomes and recommend new options to take advantage of opportunities or avoid undesired events. The "Integrated Command and Control Analysis" effort(s) will support the overall program objectives by developing a configurable modeling, simulation and analysis tool/environment that is capable of executing various military operationally-relevant experiments, studies and "what if" tradeoffs to determine if a goal or effect can be feasibly met. The submission of proposals, their evaluation and the placement of research grants and contracts will be carried out as described in the Broad Agency Announcement. The FY14 focus area's background and award details are: The Air Force requires the ability to rapidly conduct integrated (air, space & cyber) operational assessments of kinetic and non-kinetic effects. Current strategic planning capabilities lack automation to provide multiple COA options to operators. The complexity and spectrum of operations drives the need for mixed initiative (human/machine) decision aiding that enables comprehensive development of distinct COAs and vigorous analysis to a) determine if commander's intent can be met and at what cost and benefit, b) provide planning staffs with improved course of action development, analysis and selection capabilities to include means to explore plausible outcomes, recommend new options to take advantage of discovered opportunities, avoid undesired effects, etc., and c) evaluate existing or proposed Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and/or the effects of infusing emerging technologies into military planning/strategizing/execution. The primary objective of this procurement is to provide or develop a modeling, simulation and analysis tool/environment that is capable of executing various military operationally-relevant experiments, studies, "what if" tradeoffs, etc.; for example, conducting an assessment of the effects of employing a range of various strike options in an air interdiction mission, capturing the results, and ultimately conducting after-action (post-simulation) data reduction, analysis and presentation/documentation of relevant findings. A necessary secondary objective is that this delivered simulation environment should also be capable of being reconfigured/recomposed in such a way that it could support not only studies in one domain (for example, the air interdiction study proposed above), but in other, possibly quite dissimilar, domains of interest; for example, assessing the feasibility and benefits of employing swarms of UAVs for real-time ISR. For this procurement, demonstration of the conduct of experiments in two (2) different domains/use cases is required. Particular emphasis will be paid to the simulation environment's ability to be reconfigured to address a variety of questions in (possibly) different domains; with respect to level of extensibility, ease of integration, the degree of interoperability, the time and effort required for model integration and simulation set up time, and so on. The offerer should be prepared to discuss specific reconfiguration approaches that have been or will be employed (e.g., model integration/composition, parameterization, different interoperability protocols, integration techniques, information infrastructures, data sources, etc.), as well as simulation setup (e.g., data and model selection, a Design of Experiments approach, etc.). Finally, inasmuch as the ultimate goal of an IC2 simulation environment is to investigate Integrated C2 COAs, the offeror should address and discuss the simulation design and implementation considerations for how such a combined/multi-domain simulation environment would enable experimentation of the concept of IC2 as a force multiplier; e.g., how one might generate and assess truly Integrated C2 COAs, built using options/assets from across the air-space-cyber domains, or trying to identify potential synergies that might arise by employing the right mix/timing of kinetic/non-kinetic alternatives, and so on. It is recommended that white papers be received by 31 Jan 2014 to maximize the possibility of a 2QFY14 award. Awards will range from 6-12 months, with dollar amounts ranging from $250,000-$600,000. Please email your white papers to: Shelby.Barrett.1@us.af.mil
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