SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- 2015 JSOC Capabilities and Technology Expo (JCTE) Registration - JCTE 2015 Special Notice #2
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Rapid Reaction Technology Office, 5611 Columbia Pike, Suite 04C20, Falls Church, Virginia, 22041, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22041
- Solicitation Number
- RRTO-2015-03-27-W-JSOCJCTE-2ND-SPNOTICE
- Archive Date
- 4/30/2015
- Point of Contact
- JCTE Team,
- E-Mail Address
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osd.jcte@mail.mil
(osd.jcte@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 2015 JSOC Capabilities and Technology Expo (JCTE) Registration SYNOPSIS: 2015 JSOC Capabilities and Technology Expo (JCTE) Registration JSOC has assembled a SECRET listing of approximately 100 Special Operations Force (SOF) technology and capability needs. The first Special Notice posted 30 January 2015 made the list available for release to Industry, Academia, and National Labs beginning in February 2015. JSOC will follow up the release of the Needs List with two events through two additional special notices: one, a Capability Needs event to be held in Mclean VA on 29-30 April 2015 that will host up to 250 SECRET cleared Industry representatives each day to discuss this list of needs and potential opportunities to partner with industry to address them through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs); and two, a Capability Solutions event to be held in October 2015 which will be a by invitation only event for selected Industry partners to present potential CRADA partnerships to JSOC representatives. A. INTRODUCTION: This notice is NOT a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) mission is to conduct studies; training; exercises; research, development, testing, and evaluation; and acquisition and procurement to ensure interoperability among special operations forces (SOF), general purpose forces, and interagency and foreign partners. JSOC has assigned and attached subordinate units and may deploy to support Geographic Combatant Commander's training, exercises, activities, and operations. It is JSOC's desire to inform and influence industry's internal investment decisions in areas that address SOF's most sensitive and urgent needs. Many in industry have expertise, capacity, funding, and a desire to better understand and invest in SOF unique needs. Factors that make this unique collaboration opportunity attractive include: 1) Increasing Military Budget Austerity - SOF is a judicious transition partner whose future resourcing is the most well-preserved of the military Services. It is JSOC's desire to improve collaboration in an era where budget austerity tends to erect barriers to open communication; 2) Intellectual Property (IP) - The commercialization of dual-use (government/ commercial) technology can reduce costs to the government, but government contracting IP clauses may restrict industry's ability to capitalize on their own IP. Our proposed collaboration model preserves and protects industry's ownership of their intellectual property; and 3) No restrictions on future contracting opportunities. - Although SOCOM CRADAs are not an immediate money-maker for industry, our template includes specific verbiage that obviates any restrictions on industry's ability to leverage that experience to compete for related/ future SOCOM contracts. B. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this Special Notice is to notify Industry that registration for the 2015 JSOC JCTE at the Booz Allen Hamilton Facility in McLean VA on 29 or 30 April 2015 will open at noon EDT on 1 April 2015. The CRADA relationship provides industry a more intimate "hands on" collaborative relationship with users, combat developers and program planners with the goal of speeding transition of capability from the laboratory to the field. The CRADA also offers enhanced IP protection for industry. "Designated under the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-502) (which amended the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)), a CRADA is intended to speed the commercialization of technology, optimize resources, and protect the private company involved. A CRADA allows both parties to keep research results confidential for up to five years under the Freedom of Information Act." JSOC's Technology Needs listing includes multiple needs in each of the following functional areas: 1. Breaching 2. Communications 3. Electronic Warfare 4. Fire Support 5. Information Technology 6. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance 7. Knowledge Management 8. Lighten the Load 9. Mobility 10. Scalable Effects Engagement/Non-Lethal 11. Power and Energy 12. Soldier Survival 13. Target Engagement 14. Visual Augmentation 15. Other Need Areas JSOC does NOT anticipate issuing Requests for Proposals and/or awarding contracts as a result of this Special Notice. Instead, JSOC aims to work towards collaborative agreements with selected Industry partners as they develop proprietary technologies for the market which address specific JSOC technology and capability needs. JSOC anticipates entering into approximately 5-25 CRADA's. Under each CRADA JSOC will provide: 1. A technical and programmatic POC 2. Copies of any testing conducted 3. A written JSOC Tech Assessment (JTA) summarizing our view of the technology and its potential to include candid non-attributable quotes from all assessors across the JSOC enterprise 4. JSOC's highest level sponsorship for participation in a SOCOM Technical Experimentation event to demonstrate the technology to participants from the SOF community at large to include MARSOC, USASOC, WARCOM, AFSOC and the SOCOM HQ 5. JSOC transition assistance C. EVENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION: All attendees must be U.S. citizens and possess a valid US security clearance at the SECRET level or above. All cell phones, electronics, and bags will be collected prior to entering the Expo area. Attendees will only be allowed to take unclassified notes during the Expo. D. ATTENDEES: JSOC desires creative engineers, scientists, designers, technicians, system developers and project managers to attend this event. Highly qualified candidates should register early as space is limited. All attendees must attend the introductory briefing by JSOC leadership at 0900 on the day of their attendance, either 29 or 30 April 2015. Attendees are responsible to coordinate their lodging and transportation requirements. Attendees will receive additional administrative requirements for attendance and other event details via the expo website on or after 1 April 2015 as detailed in paragraph E. E. REGISTRATION: The JCTE registration website will open at 12:00 pm on 1 April 2015. The registration website address is: http://events.SignUp4.com/JSOCEXPO15. Registration will close when 500 confirmed/ approved registrants (250 each day) have been validated and/ or NLT 25 April 2015. There will be up to 250 confirmed Industry attendees permitted per day, and attendees can only attend one day of the event, either 29 or 30 April 2015. The registration website will provide further information for sending attendee security clearance information. F. SPECIAL NOTICE: JSOC will utilize contractor consultant/advisors to assist with the distribution of the 2015 Capabilities and Technology Needs List. All advisors shall comply with procurement integrity laws and shall sign non-disclosure agreements. The Government shall take into consideration requirements for avoiding conflicts of interest and ensure advisors comply with safeguarding proprietary data. Contractor consultant/advisors will also be involved in follow on collaboration with selected Industry partners, including managing and maintaining websites/databases and other tasks JSOC assigns. Primary Point of Contact: JCTE Team osd.jcte@mail.mil
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