Analytical, technical & engineering support

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES: Performance Requirements The following section specifies the Performance Objectives and Performance Elements for the contract. General Tasks - Contractor shall provide DC CD&I with Subject Matter Expert (SME) support services required in this high profile and critical area, SID requires the technical, and engineering, support services in the following general areas: - Ship to Shore Movement: Develop and maintain Marine Corps equities in craft and connectors provided by Department of the Navy (DoN) in support of future amphibious and expeditionary operations. - Amphibious/Expeditionary Shipbuilding and Ship Capabilities: Integrate future Marine Corps Maritime Ship capabilities by clearly and consistently identifying, articulating and tracking requirements based on warfighting function and emerging concepts and plans. - MAGTF Integration: Obtain and maintain a family of baseline MAGTFs for use in requirements determination, shipbuilding programmatic development, naval integration, and defining future MAGTF amphibious ship and prepositioned lift requirements. - Doctrine Development: Review and analyze Marine Corps, naval, multi-service, joint, and multi-national publications containing seabasing-related doctrine and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) in coordination with assigned proponents and other internal and external stakeholders. - Craft and Connector Capabilities: Provide recommendations on current and future capability sets and operational requirements for displacement and non-displacement surface craft and other seabased platforms and surface interfaces. - MAGTF-Ship Integration: Utilizing the Integrated Computerized Deployment System (ICODES) software program, assess integration and through-put of Marine Corps forces (personnel and equipment) operating from amphibious ships, prepositioned ships, and other seabased platforms in the context of Marine Corps expeditionary operations and based on existing doctrine, Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), and COEs. Provide options and recommendations for the integration of equipment aboard ships and seabased platforms. - Science and Technology (S&T) and Research and Development (R&D): Assist in the identification and development of capability gaps limiting the Marine Corps' ability to achieve effective and efficient mission accomplishment. Provide recommendations regarding prioritization of those gaps through material or non-material solutions. Detailed Tasks - The contractor shall provide all appropriate technical, administrative, and material support necessary to complete the following tasks. Machinery Systems Engineering - Participate in ship operational assessments, evaluations (OPEVALS), and sea trials and assist in the documentation and adjudication of noted trial deficiencies. Warfare Systems Engineering - Describe the operational relationships and procedures that take into account the design philosophy utilized in space allocations and arrangements and provide recommended courses of action for MAGTF/Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. - Identify legacy combat systems and recommend transition of those legacy combat systems to modern open-standard/architecture digital systems and provide recommended courses of action for MAGTF/Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. Amphibious and Expeditionary Shipping Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems Engineering - Develop and describe a comprehensive list of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, equipment, and antennas employed by and/or supporting embarked MAGTFs and identify special shipboard installation arrangement requirements for those systems; including: define the interfaces, information products, and services exchanged between the MAGTF and ship systems for mission planning and execution, support, and training. Specify communications, data links, and information systems. Assist with the preparation of the annual afloat MAGTF C4I report which encompasses the above listed topics. - Review the spatial adequacy of C4ISR compartments allocated to embarked MAGTFs and identify special requirements within those compartments and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. - In conjunction with Navy ship designers, develop plans to optimize the operational performance of communication antennas considering location and the effects of a ship's structure and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. - Identify legacy C4ISR systems and recommend transition of those legacy C4ISR systems to modern open-standard / architecture digital systems and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. Mission Systems Engineering - Develop and describe the handling and stowage systems for cargo/ammunition (ground), aviation ammunition, stores, and Marine Corps cargo/equipment and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces and MAGTF operations aboard amphibious ships and seabased platforms. - With discreet modeling tools maintained by SID, develop and describe the processes to demonstrate and design the flow of weapons/cargo, vehicles, troops, and aircraft, along with sortie generation rates for both aircraft and landing craft onload/offload capabilities and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. Aviation Systems Engineering - Develop and describe the ship flight deck and hangar deck requirements, including recommendations for: sizing, spotting, deck flow, maximum density spotting, vertical replenishment operations and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard amphibious ships, prepositioning ships and seabased platforms. - Develop and describe the visual landing aids and night vision device compatibility requirements and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard amphibious ships, prepositioning ships and seabased platforms. - Develop and describe aircraft maintenance facility requirements and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard amphibious ships, prepositioning ships and seabased platforms. - Support aviation modeling and simulation (M&S) efforts through use of the ICODES software program and "GATOR Tool" software program and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard amphibious ships, prepositioning ships and seabased platforms. - Review the impact of legacy aviation assets and future aviation assets to include rotary wing, tilt-rotor, and fixed wing aircraft and provide recommended courses of action for integration and operations aboard amphibious ships, prepositioning ships and seabased platforms. Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) Development - Identify, during detail design review, changes and improvements that may require engineering change proposal action and provide recommended courses of action for Landing Force spaces aboard ships and seabased platforms. - Support the development of preliminary Engineering Change Proposals for review and assist with the development of recommendations and comments to mitigate the impact of cost, performance and schedule for ship design and procurement programs. Concept Studies - Provide technical support for engineering concept studies to develop and define new ship requirements in support of Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS); Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs); technology assessment and needs identification; strategic studies and planning; force structure studies; Joint, naval, sister-Service wargaming, and emergent joint, naval, and sister-Service capabilities requirements. - Develop draft study plans and participate in studies as a subject matter expert (SME) to support expeditionary mission capabilities, naval integration, new technology assessments, AoA studies, strategic planning, wargaming, as determined by the respective Branch Head. Products and documents will be prepared utilizing Microsoft Office programs. Draft copies will be submitted for review by the Branch Head. Future Force Formulation Studies - Utilizing existing MAGTF database information maintained by SID and Capabilities Development Directorate (CDD); develop notional prepositioned MAGTF force lists (F/L) to be used as baseline forces from which planning for sustainment, equipment requirements and ship load-outs can be conducted. Ship Design Tools, Processes, Practices, Criteria, Databases - Develop and provide recommendations to SID for approval prior to implementing cargo handling and throughput analysis tools in support of ship design and modernization. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) - Develop and integrate required M&S modules for the rapid analysis of ship variants and trade studies. - Recommend alternative technical solutions through discreet M&S to meet client integration requirements more efficiently and over a longer life-cycle with a focus on the following landing force mission areas aboard amphibious ships; flight deck operations, well deck operations, hangar deck operations, munitions flow, supplies breakout and movement, and casualty flow operations. Ship Loading Documentation and Analysis - Observe and document current embarkation planning and execution practices of deploying MEUs aboard USN Amphibious Ready Groups (ARGs) and prepare an onload summary utilizing ICODES software for screen captures, photos of ship and landing craft loads and deliver draft document to the appropriate Branch Head. Documents will be created in MS Word and MS PowerPoint. Documentation will encompass shipboard spaces utilized by the embarked landing force and will focus on the following areas; vehicle stowage decks and the cargo and equipment stowed in those spaces, flight deck utilization and stowage techniques, unitized cargo stowage in cargo holds and ships magazines, well deck stowage techniques and embarked landing craft types and quantities. - Develop trend analysis of major MAGTF equipment sets that occupy square foot stowage spaces aboard ARG shipping. - Maintain the existing SID database of future MAGTF equipment and organizational structure that supports studies, analysis and wargame efforts. - Support and perform modeling and simulation to determine ideal load plans/load configurations for existing and planned ship designs. - Conduct volumetric assessments of proposed ship loads options based upon an established equipment density list (EDL) and force list. - Assess the impacts of emerging MAGTF requirements/equipment and MAGTF systems as they relate to, or impact naval integration concerns aboard amphibious and prepositioned shipping and surface connectors. Incidental Support - Assist in the development of the seabasing annual report which is published to provide USN and USMC capability developers, program managers, operational planners and warfighters an overview of key programs managed and monitored by SID. The report shall document discussions, report findings and provide recommendations for material solutions that will enhance the ability of the afloat MAGTF to effectively operate in the seabase and to extend naval power ashore through the conduct of naval expeditionary operations. The final report will be reproduced with high quality print attributes suitable for distribution to elected officials, senior executives, and general/officer leadership.