Scope:
1.1
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Mission
Areas
A description of the mission areas of the activities
that are ordering offices on this contract can be found
further below.
This SOW defines the overarching requirements for
providing engineering, technical, and programmatic
support services. The Contractor shall, in response to
task orders issued under this contract by the Naval Sea
Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Space and
Naval Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems
Command, Military Sealift Command, Naval Facilities
Command, Strategic Systems Programs, and the United
States Marine Corps, provide services that potentially
span the entire spectrum of mission areas supported by
the activities and technical capabilities that comprise
the various ordering offices. Additionally,
activities may provide limited support under this
contract to other Department of Defense (DoD), non-DoD,
or Joint agencies for work that is integrally related to
product areas and mission.
Additionally, services provided under this contract may
include new product areas, programs, or missions
assigned to these activities during the life of the
contract.
2.
APPLICABLE
DOCUMENTS
Applicable military specifications and standards that
are listed in the issue of the Department of Defense
Index of Specifications and Standards (DODISS), and
current on the date of contract award, plus applicable
industry standards, or any other program documents may
be specified within the individual delivery orders that
will be issued for performing specific tasks under this
indefinite quantity contract.
3.
REQUIREMENTS
The Contractor shall provide
qualified personnel, materials, facilities, equipment,
test instrumentation, data collection and analysis
hardware and software, and other services that will
support the Navy in the execution of their missions.
Functional areas to be supported under this contract are
described in the sections below.
This functional area consists
of supporting the development and application of
scientific and analytical disciplines to conduct
fundamental research; scientific study and
experimentation directed toward advancing the
state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge or
understanding; concept formulation; assessment of system
and subsystem requirements; development, analysis and
evaluation of concepts, technologies, systems and
subsystems; and development of operational concepts and
tactics with the end goal being the application of
results to developing new or improving existing
warfighting capabilities.
This functional area consists
of supporting the application of engineering disciplines
to technically support development of new warfighting
capabilities and systems, technically support
development of significant alterations to existing
systems, support integration of existing equipment or
software into different applications or platforms to
support the warfighter, and support evaluation of
foreign or non-developmental weapons systems,
equipments, and technologies to satisfy existing
warfighting requirements. Support is required for system
and process engineering disciplines that systematically
consider the requirements, synthesize and evaluate
alternative concepts, identify a recommended selection,
and generate a design and system specification.
This functional area consists
of the application of a standardized, rigorous,
structured methodology to create and validate a
physical, mathematical, or otherwise logical
representation of a system, entity, phenomenon, or
process. The functional area involves the use of models,
including emulators, prototypes, simulators, and
stimulators, either statically or over time, to develop
data as a basis for making managerial, technical,
strategic, or tactical decisions.
This functional area consists
of the building, fabrication, testing, evaluating and
operating reduced and full scale models, mock-ups,
prototypes, pre-production units and research and
development (R&D) test tools of electronic and
electro-mechanical systems and system elements.
Fabrication and machining of replacement parts or
equipments for fielded systems or platforms is included.
Includes the use of traditional materials as well as new
composite materials.
This functional area involves
the engineering effort required to prepare and assure
that the detailed technical data documentation that is
necessary to support system development reflects the
latest design, configuration, integration, and
installation concepts. Technical documentation may be in
the form of paper, electronic (digital) or interactive
computer systems.
This functional area consists
of applying the engineering and scientific disciplines
to perform technical analysis of, technically support
development of or selection of hardware and computer
software, or modification to existing hardware and
software for systems, test facilities, or training
facilities. This also consists of software engineering
efforts and programming support required to technically
support software implementation in systems, sub-systems,
and components utilizing computers, electronics, and
software. Planning, designing, coding, testing,
integrating, supporting, and delivering algorithms,
software (source code and executables), computer
programs are the inherent activities of this functional
area. Generally, the software development processes used
for software development under this contract shall be,
as a minimum, assessed at Software Engineering Institute
(SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3 or
equivalent, however the Government may specify other
(either lower or higher) standards in individual task
orders issued under the contract.
This functional area consists
of applying engineering, scientific, and analytical
disciplines to ensure that systems and platforms RM&A
requirements are integrated with the system design,
development and life cycle sustainment resulting in
warfighting capabilities that function effectively when
required and that detection and correction of design
deficiencies, weak parts, and workmanship defects that
affect functionality are implemented.
This functional area consists
of applying engineering, scientific, and analytical
disciplines to ensure that design of interactive systems
are safer, more secure and easier to use thereby
reducing accidents due to human error, increasing system
integrity and enabling more efficient process
operations. This functional area also includes
applying engineering, scientific, and analytical
disciplines to ensure that the number, type, mix,
knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs), aptitudes and
physical characteristics of operators, maintainers and
support personnel have been defined and documented early
in the system design phase.
This functional area consists
of applying engineering and analytical disciplines to
ensure that safety is considered in all aspects of
design, development, operation, maintenance, and
modification of systems and platforms.
This functional area consists
of applying engineering and analytical disciplines to
identify, document, and verify the functional,
performance, and physical characteristics of systems, to
control changes and non-conformance, and to track actual
configurations of systems and platforms.
This
functional area consists of applying engineering and
analytical disciplines to ensure that the processes and
products used in the design, development, fabrication,
manufacture of result in quality products.
This functional area consists
of providing information system software analysis,
requirements definition, design, development, test,
modification, installation, implementation, quality
assurance, training, and documentation to meet the
evolving data storage and reporting needs of programs
and management. Analyze existing IT and IS databases,
web sites, and IT applications and recommend new or
improved interfaces and improved management tools that
meet new management requirements, or improve management
effectiveness and efficiency. Perform maintenance and
technical support for Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide
Area Networks (WAN) that are outside the cognizance of
the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). Modify, implement
and maintain web based information systems and links.
Develop web-site structure, prepare documentation for
population, implement and maintain web sites. Provide
systems engineering and technical support for
establishment, test, upgrade, and operational support of
systems, networks, workstations and support equipment
hardware and software that are outside the cognizance of
NMCI. Conduct IA analyses, develop, recommend, and
implement, monitor, update, and maintain, IA practices,
procedures, equipments, algorithms, and hardware that
are outside the cognizance of NMCI.
This
functional area consists of technically supporting
submarine, aircraft, weapons system and ship
inactivation and disposal efforts to ensure that
critical equipment removed is safeguarded and destroyed
in accordance with the appropriate Navy instructions and
directives. Provide direct liaison with the Shipyard or
depot and the Navy to insure that critical technology is
not inadvertently transferred to foreign nationals or
governments. Ensure proper documentation exists for the
sale of excess materials from inactivated platforms
prior to sale by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing
Service (DRMS). Technically support the demilitarization
process for shipboard equipment using the Expanded Work
Breakdown Structure (EWBS), Trade Security Controls (TSC),
and Munitions List Items (MLI) all of which are used to
determine the disposition of excess, not-ready-for-issue
(non-RFI) equipment. Technically support the security
classification requirements and guidelines for data and
equipment necessary to assist in making decisions on
sales issues.
This
functional area consists of the application of
engineering, scientific, and analytical disciplines
necessary to ensure that developed platforms, systems,
and warfighting capabilities have been properly tested
and that joint interoperability requirements have been
fully met at all levels of their life cycle .
This functional area consists
of applying engineering, analytical, and technician
disciplines in the operation and support of measurement
facilities, ranges and instrumentation used for testing,
evaluating, experimenting, and exercising platforms and
systems.
This
functional area consists of applying the engineering and
analytical disciplines required to implement acquisition
logistics as a multi-functional technical management
discipline associated with the design, development,
test, production, fielding, sustainment, and improvement
modifications of cost effective systems that achieve the
warfighters’ peacetime and wartime readiness
requirements. The principal objectives of acquisition
logistics are to ensure that support considerations are
an integral part of the system’s design requirements,
that the system can be cost effectively supported
through its life-cycle, and that the infrastructure
elements necessary to the initial fielding and
operational support of the system are identified and
developed and acquired.
This functional area consists
of applying the analytical and technical disciplines
required to ensure that fielded warfighting capabilities
are materially sustained. The principal objectives of
this functional area is to ensure that material for
fleet operation and maintenance of systems is available
when required, that materials are properly stored and
transported, and inventories are managed in a cost
effective manner to sustain supported systems.
This functional area consists
of applying the engineering and analytical disciplines
required to ensure that the warfighter and technical
support community is provided with adequate instruction
including applied exercises resulting in the attainment
and retention of knowledge, skills, and attitudes
regarding the platforms, systems, and warfighting
capabilities they operate and maintain. This functional
area includes organizational development activities.
This functional area consists
of the application of engineering, analytical, and
technical disciplines and skills to establish and
maintain long-term engineering, operation, and
maintenance support for in-service warfighting
capabilities as well as the capability to modernize or
introduce transformational technologies into those
capabilities.
This functional area consists
of applying the business, financial management, and
technical disciplines required to support planning,
organizing, staffing, controlling, and leading team
efforts in managing acquisition programs such that the
result places a capable and supportable system in the
hands of the warfighter when and where it is needed, and
does so at an affordable price. This functional area
represents an integration of a complex system of
differing but related functional disciplines that must
work together to achieve program goals through
development, production, deployment, operations,
support, and disposal.
This functional area consists
of applying the clerical and administrative disciplines
required for seamless operation of offices and support
functions.
3.22 -
Public Affairs and Multimedia Support
This
functional area consists of supporting the development
and application of print, photo, video, and multimedia
public affairs instruments. Support may be
required for promotional writing services, message/brand
development, visual media to include still, video and
multimedia documentation, message dissemination,
photography, and other public affairs services to
augment existing staff and provide critical assistance
in development of communication messages for the Navy. |