Persistent Cyber Training Environment - Industry Day

UPDATE 7 NOV: The Government-provided briefings for the subject Association for Enterprise Information sponsored event have been provided as attachments to this announcement. The full list of briefings can be located at the following link under the "Proceedings" tab: http://www.afei.org/events/7A30/Pages/default.aspx The Association for Enterprise Information (AFEI) is hosting an Industry Day to facilitate a knowledge sharing effort for the Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE). The event will be held at the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation (PEO STRI) with participation from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)), Army Cyber Command and Second Army (ARCYBER & 2A), US Cyber Command and interested Industry and Academia partners. When: Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 9:00am to 3:00pm Where: 3039 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, Partnership III Building, Room 321 Who: Interested organizations to include Industry, Government, Science and Technology, and Academia Why: 1) Provide an overview of the PCTE requirement and concept of operation to support the receipt of white papers recommending technical solutions (morning session); 2) Initiate a Cyber Innovation Challenge for a specific technology supporting PCTE training (afternoon session). UPDATE 26 OCT: All registration slots for the Industry Day have been filled and registration is officially closed. AFEI is accepting parties that wish to sign up for a waiting list. A Government sponsored, no fee, Industry Day will be held at a future date upon further requirements definition. Registration information is available at the Association for Enterprise Information's website - http://www.afei.org/events/7A30/Pages/default.aspx. 1) PCTE is a training platform that allows cyber mission forces to train in emulated network environments utilizing current cyber tool suites. The PCTE supports both individual and team training, in addition to large scale exercise and experimentation via a distributed close network across multiple classifications. The evolution of the platform will largely focus on integration of available applications, enabling increased automation to ultimately support multiple simultaneous training events. At maturity, the DoD joint PCTE will be a constellation of federated, interoperable common training capabilities enabling full spectrum training from individual competencies to the team, unit, group and force training, exercises, TTP development and mission rehearsal. Currently, the DoD uses a combination of loosely affiliated or independent virtual environments that lacks the automation necessary to establish and maintain persistent and scalable training environments. Previous analysis efforts have detailed gaps associated with PCTE event planning, event management, training assessment, restoration of the training environments, and automated opposition force. The future of PCTE includes the development and evolution of new capability solutions focused on improving the timeliness and effectiveness to meet the requirements of fully functional cyber mission forces. A Request for Information (RFI) was issued on October 17, 2016 requesting white papers providing possible technical solutions, capabilities, and critical cost/schedule drivers related to the PCTE. The full submission requirements for this RFI can be found at the following link: https://www.fbo.gov/notices/84b62e986a83e3378fcffd38454f65dd. 2) The Innovation Challenge requirement will be released to the members of the Command, Control, and Communications in Cyberspace (C5) Consortium (c5technologies.org) utilizing Other Transaction Authority (OTA) as the vehicle to promote increased small and non-traditional industry engagement with Government. Selected industry partners from the consortium will be invited to demonstrate their system with training content provided by the Government. This Cyber Innovation Challenge will focus specifically on an unclassified training platform as part of the larger PCTE platform. There is limited space available at this event so all interested parties should register as soon as possible at the registration link provided below. Attendees must provide Government issued identification upon arrival. Check in starts at 0800. Foreign Nationals may not attend this event. Registration link: http://www.afei.org/events/7A30/Pages/default.aspx /// Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a 20-minute one-on-one session with the Government Project Management Office on November 2, 2016 from 0900-1200 and 1300-1600. The one-on-one's will take place on the same campus as the Industry Day with specific locations to be provided after sign-up. Please sign-up for the one-on-one session by contacting Mr. Brian Serra, contact@example.gov. /// UPDATE 19 OCT: All one-on-one sessions have been filled and slots are no longer available. If you would like to sign up on a waiting list in case of a cancellation, please contact Mr. Brian Serra as listed above. IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PARKING: Due to limited parking in the Partnership II/III parking lot, all visitors must park in the large parking lot on the corner of Science Drive and Technology Parkway. The Partnership II/III parking lot is authorized parking for occupants only. Also, do not parking in the AT&T parking lot as your car will be subject to being towed. Disclaimer: This announcement is not a contract, request for proposal, a promise to contract, or a commitment of any kind on the part of the Government. The Government will not assume liability for costs incurred by an attendee or for travel expenses or marketing efforts; therefore, attendee cost in response to this notice is not considered an allowable direct charge to the Government.