Commander, HQ USAINSCOM, Attn: IAPC-DOC, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246

D -- COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES SOL NONE DUE 061499 POC Gail G. Gilchrist 703-706-1720, Constance L. Castleton 703-706-2793 E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, clcastl@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. SOURCES SOUGHT/REQUEST FOR INDUSTRY COMMENTS. THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. NO SOLICITATION EXISTS. The USA Intelligence and Security Command is seeking sources and industry comments regarding cost sharing contract arrangements. The services are in support of the Land Information Warfare Activity at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The cost sharing arrangement will be strictly an exchange of services only-no government funds will be provided. The services to be provided by the contractor and those to be provided by the government are explained in the Statement of Work. This is a request for capability statements and industry comments regarding the Statement of Work only. Interested parties should submit their statements and comments to the Contracting Officer, Gail G. Gilchrist, by email gggilch@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil or to the Contract Specialist, Constance L. Castleton, clcastl@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. The mailing address is USA Intelligence and Security Command, Attn: IAPC-DOC Gail G. Gilchrist, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246. Email responses are preferred. Responses are requested by June 14, 1999. Note that contractor personnel will be required to have or obtain TOP SECRET/Single Scope Background Investigation clearances to access the government facility, information and equipment. STATEMENT OF WORK/COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES. 1. OBJECTIVE -- The objective of this effort is to establish a cost sharing contract between the Land Information Warfare Activity ("LIWA") and a commercial business organization who develops, manufactures and services high speed networking equipment. The purpose of the arrangement is to conduct cooperative exploration and development in state-of-the-art information infrastructure technologies, both equipment's and tools, to support Full Spectrum Information Operations (IO). These cooperative efforts would include, but not be limited to, technical discussions, demonstrations, exploratory experiments, and prototype development in the information infrastructure domain. 2.0 SCOPE -- The contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment and data to leverage their unique qualifications covering a gambit of interrelated disciplines to conduct cooperative exploration and development in state-of-the-art information infrastructure technologies to support Full Spectrum Information Operations (IO). 3.0 TASKS -- The following tasks shall be performed as coordinated by the Government's Senior Technical Advisor and/or COR and the respective representative from the commercial business organization. TASK 1 -- The commercial business organization will initiate and coordinate applicable exploratory studies and experiments in information infrastructures and provide results to LIWA to collectively identify state-of-the-art processes and trends. TASK 2 -- The commercial business organization will share advanced concept network technology and identify technologies for possible application to Full Spectrum IO. TASK 3 -- The commercial business organization will assist LIWA in establishing, developing and promoting IO network interoperability with other commercial and government organizations and services. TASK 4 -- LIWA will provide the commercial business organization the access to the Information Dominance Center (IDC) to perform data collection on network traffic flows during operations and exercises for the purposes of detailing and identifying network performance issues. TASK 5 -- LIWA will share the qualifying factors for formulating the necessary Information Infrastructures required by LIWA to conduct Full Spectrum IO. Task 6 -- LIWA will, with 10 working days notice, allow the commercial business organization to bring in up to two relevant government organizations to tour the LIWA Information Dominance Center (IDC) facility. 4.0 SECURITY CLEARANCES -- Personnel from the commercial business organization working on this contract are required to possess or be able to possess the requiredTS-SCI security clearances for those efforts requiring access to classified information. 5.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE -- The period of performance for Task 1 through Task 6 as stated above is from time of award to 1 June 2000. Posted 05/28/99 (W-SN337114). (0148)

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