NAWCAD 5.4. Market Survey - Navy Analytics Office (NAO) FY20 Navy Annual Studies Process (NASP)

UPDATE AS OF 02/28/2019 The original notice details/description have been updated to remove the section regarding Government Furnished Information (GFI). ********************************************************************** UPDATE AS OF 02/08/2019 Deadlines for Letter of Intent and Response submission are hereby extended as follows: LETTER OF INTENT deadline to 2/15/19 RESPONSES deadline to 3/15/19 *********************************************************************** DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND AIRCRAFT DIVISION 24 JANUARY 2018 SUBJECT: Market survey for NAWCAD 5.4 Integrated Battlespace Simulation and Stimulation Department in support of the Navy Analytics Office (NAO) for the FY 20 Navy Annual Studies Process (NASP). Objective of the market survey is to better inform NAO, N81 and Analytical Sponsors of Analytical Providers capabilities, services and expertise. KEY DATES: 07 Feb 2019 Letter of Intent Due 04 Mar 2019 Response Due ATTACHMENTS: 1) NASP Process Memo BACKGROUND: Based on CNO's guidance, Navy recently stood up the Navy Analytics Office (NAO) to align Navy analyses, leverage the analytic community, and coordinate CNO's analytic agenda. The previous annual call for Integrated Analytic Agenda (IAA) studies is now replaced with a broader Navy Annual Studies Process (NASP). The Naval Air Warface Center Aircraft Division 5.4 Integrated Battlespace Simulation and Stimulation Department has been requested to support these effort. NASP analyses should support Navy decisions desired at Echelon I and Echelon II. The Navy Analytic Office will: - Initiate and promulgate the annual call for study topics, coordinate resources required for study execution, review topics for feasibility, redundancies, and return on investment for Navy decisions, track and assess topics submitted, finalize topics to be studied, and conduct oversight of study execution. - Align and monitor analytic efforts that support the Navy enterprise (including work that may be funded by non-Navy sources), and implement fiscal controls for it. - Integrate and coordinate efforts that support Navy decisions at the Echelon I and Echelon II levels and ensure they support strategic decisions effectively, as well as facilitate connections to lower echelons where possible and appropriate. - Identify and deconflict duplicative resources, leverage the common interests of Navy Echelon I and Echelon II organizations and those of the Analytic Community, and provide insight into prior research and related infrastructure or resources to leverage them for analytical insights. Key Decriptions: - Study sponsors are those OPNAV, Fleet, and SECNAV organizations with money allocated for annual studies. - Analytic providers are analytical organizations that, together, comprise the analytic community which conducts studies in support of the Navy enterprise. - NAO and N81, with support from NAWCAD 5.4 for specific subject areas, will work with Sponsors to identify the appropriate study provider for each study submission. They will consider the following criteria in those decisions: Provider capability, competency, and capacity to meet the study needs, responsiveness of the provider (perhaps based on upcoming decisions the study will inform), cost effectiveness, any unique study requirements, the extent that independence and objectivity are required, prior related work, and past performance. The intent of this market research is to canvas the analytic community providers and solicit inputs to get a better understanding of the analytic landscape available to the government at large. This announcement is purely a market survey for the purpose of determining market interest, feasibility, and capabilities of potential analytic providers and does NOT constitute a Request for Proposals. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. This constitutes the start of market research for the information outlined below and will be used for planning purposes only. Please note that no use of Government funding from Programs of Record (POR) is authorized to respond to this market survey; all market research responses derived from POR information sources should be fully coordinated with the appropriate funding source. Government, Contract Services Support (CSS), Federally Funded Research Development Centers (FFRDC) and University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) personnel are part of the NAO for this market research. The letter of intent will be reviewed by government personnel only; while, market survey responses may be reviewed by the following CSS, FFRDC and UARC personnel on contract with the government: - ARS Limited; Christopher Marsh - (christopher.d.marsh4.ctr@navy.mil) - Center for Naval Analysis (CNA); Ma Yousi - (yousi.ma.ctr@navy.mil) - Coutley Consulting Services; Raymond L. Coutley - (raymond.coutley.ctr@navy.mil) All associated committee members are required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with the government. However, if any submitting company wishes to obtain a separate NDA with the aforementioned personnel prior to response submission, please indicate this inclination in the Letter of Intent and contact the POC referenced above. If such NDA is obtained, please provide a copy to the government with the response to this RFI. Not responding to this market research does not preclude participation in any future announcements or contracts related to this topic. INFORMATION Description: The intent of this research is to solicit analytic community inputs on: Unmanned Aircraft System "Linked/Interdependent Autonomy" Electromagnetic Spectrum Workforce Artificial Intelligence Integration OJAG Organizational Contributions to Mission Effectiveness Influencing Allies'/Parters Anti-Submarine Warfare Deployment Capability/Capacity As the Navy begins to adopt distance learning to support its modern training goals, the advantage of face-to-face non-verbal communication begins to diminish. This is more so in a virtual world where the students are represented as avatars. Social interactions in a traditional classroom setting depend on complex signals in many modalities. For human interactions however, spoken language plays such an important role that we often neglect the importance of non-verbal signals. Information on the role of such technologies in supporting advanced analytics on human performance are requested. Navy Cyber Resilience Strategy and Posture Analysis Assessomg Methodologies to Prioritize Cybersecurity Investments The Navy is considering changes to the data and network architectures that support long term changes to achieve Fleet Design and Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). This request is for information on basic architecture, defining parametric measurement requirements, defining orchestrator performance management, refining standards and interface definitions and requirements for transition to a Fleet Tactical Grid. Exploration of options on how game theory could be used to inform combat identification and decisions aids at the strategic to tactical level Examine opportunities for Navy engagement in Africa to maintain long term competetive edge Fuel Enablers in Contested Environments Logistics Infrastructure Requirements for Forward Logistics Sites Combat Logistic Force Self-Defense Against Air, Surface, and Subsurface Threats Industrial impacts of foreign investment in the United States Inventory of Logistics Training Study of adversary and competitor military procurements Mission modeling of unmanned surface vehicles to conduct high value unit protection missions Ship Depot Maintenance Cost Growth Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare campaign analysis Automate optimal generation of force wide deployment schedules Shore Manpower: How Requirement Levels Affect Fleet Manning, Career Development Conduct root cause analysis on Navy aircraft listed as non-mission capable due to maintenance (NMCM) Mission level analysis of aircraft carrier survivability against air and surface threats Verification, validation, and potentially accreditation of Force Structure Cost model Alternative operations research environments to automate the development of concepts of operations and create virtual environments to support engineering tradespace analysis, test and evaluation, and training evolutions. Build a mission level model to examine effectiveness of electronic warfare investments in air warfare portfolio Naval Mine Warfare command and control organization in an era of increased autonomy Force structure or capacity analysis for Naval Surface Fire Support Requirements Surface Ship Theater Air Defense mission and engagement level modeling Optimizing sensors in anti-submarine warfare Maintining traceability of data in targeting when mulitple sources are fused Optimizing tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination of remote sensors Exploring the Cyber Early Warning Potential in Novel Data Sources Post conflict analysis of Arabian Gulf operations Cost analysis of additional forward deployed carrier strike groups Deducing adversary war plans and strategy Organization and execution of a theater Logistics Task Force Strategies for immediate Naval contribution to Great Power Competition Maximizing submarine mobile logistic capabilities. Investments and strategy Maximizing submarine lethality in a mission model Strategies to maximize the impact of Deception Operations in breaking adversary Improving Fleet Architectures and Measures for Assured Command and Control Executing distributed maritime operations Scorekeeping in an "infinite game" Innovative Future Sailors Navy/DoD & Industry: More Strategic Partners This information are broadly stated by design, with the intent of ensuring a comprehensive market survey. LETTER OF INTENT: Parties interested in responding to the market research must email a statement of interest no longer than two pages to Mr. Christopher Marsh (christopher.d.marsh4.ctr@navy.mil) no later than 4:00 PM EST February 7, 2019 with the following additional data, in order to verify credentials: 1. CAGE code 2. POC for, technical, contractual, and security purposes 3. Addresses for unclassified data transfer 4. Identify the intended topics of interest for your response . 5. Intent to seek NDA with CSS, FFRDC or UARC personnel (if applicable) The letter of intent should be UNCLASSIFIED and include both an executive summary and a description of the information requested as listed below. Responses: Final market survey responses are not limited, and should include: a) Company overview, capabilities and services. b) Description of any models, simulations or tools used to support analysis, study or decision support in general. c) Description of any previous completed studies to support topics of interest listed above. d) Specific capabilities, tools, or models that could support topics of interest listed above. e) Experience and/or any company subject matter experts relating to the topics of interest listed above. f) Company points of contact for any additional follow-on discussions. Responses to this market research may be proprietary to the responding company. Clearly identify the proprietary elements of the system. All responses should be labeled appropriately, and will be handled accordingly. A responses should be UNCLASSIFIED. Final responses to the above requested supporting unclassified data must be received no later than 5:00 PM EST March 4, 2019. All responses to this announcement should indicate their business size in accordance with the Small Business Administration (SBA) Standard. Ensure that the submission provides the company name, address and point of contact with e-mail address and telephone number. Each response should have two paper copies and one compatible CD. The electronic copy must be in Microsoft Word readable format There is no page limit to this market study. While not required, if tracking numbers are available, please provide the numbers to the POC to ensure appropriate delivery. Respondents may provide multiple responses, each response should be provided as a separate document. FBO requires NAICS code with this posting, please disregard the NAICS code utilized. Unclassified responses should be sent to: AIR 5.4 DEPT ATTN: Christopher Beard (AIR 5.4) BLDG 2109 48110 SHAW ROAD PATUXENT RIVER MD 20670-1906 Primary Point of Contact: Christopher Beard (AIR 5.4) Christopher.Beard@navy.mil Phone: (301) 995-2421 Primary Contracting Officers: Thomas Conrow (AIR 2.5.1.6) Thomas.Conrow@navy.mil Phone: (301) 342-2186 Christopher Pennini (AIR 2.5.1.6.0) Christopher.Pennini@navy.mil Phone: (301) 757-5980