Range Managers Toolkit (RMTK)

This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a Request for Quotation (RFQ); it is strictly a Request for industry comments on the draft solicitation for the Range Managers Toolkit (RMTK). This is issued in accordance with FAR Clause 52.215-3 for planning purposes only. The Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC), in conjunction with the Training and Education Command (TECOM) will be holding an Industry Day on 21 March 2019, at MCSC, 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, VA 22134. The Industry Day will be from 0900-1200 in Building 2200 on Hospital Point. Please have a photo ID (preferably a Driver's License) to present at the gate to the base and then again at MCSC Security. The purpose of the Industry Day is to provide insight into the RMTK requirement and how it works. Additionally, potential offerors will be able to ask questions regarding the draft solicitation. To be placed on the list to attend the Industry Day, please email Teri Snyder at teri.snyder@usmc.mil with the Name of the person attending, Company Name, Title, and a phone number where you can be reached if case there are changes the days prior, or the day of the Industry Day. Each person attending will need to have presented the above information prior to 21 March 2019. Questions may be submitted in advance, No Later Than, 19 March 2019, to enable the team to have a response in time for the Industry Day. Submit all questions to: Teri Snyder at teri.snyder@usmc.mil. The current requirement will be solicited as a 100% small business set-aside. To receive all solicitation attachments, interested parties must forward a request to Teri Snyder at teri.snyder@usmc.mil 12 March 2019. All requests will be provided via ARMADEC on 13 March 2019. BACKGROUND: Training and Education Command (TECOM) RTAM, Army, Navy, and Air Force, requires technical support for the RMTK and Marine Corps Range and Training Area Management Systems (MCRTAMS) including provisions of the RMTK tools approved for Foreign Military Sales customers. The RMTK and MCRTAMS support is provided for unit commanders, headquarter's staffs, operating units, range managers, cross-service users, and international customers in a desktop, web, and a new mobile environment. The RMTK is provided as a set of range safety standard metrics that relates range capabilities to specific training requirements using established range safety standards. RMTK on MCRTAMS provides access to and supports the RMTK for safety, range use, range planning, and range support functions as MCRTAMS stores and provides Geographic Information System (GIS) data for Marine Corps ranges and training areas in addition to other non-Marine Corps areas where the Marine Corps regularly trains. MCRTAMS also provides the Marine Corps' integrated and readily available range inventory and training range database in a web environment. The RMTK is a suite of tools that is a software application that currently runs as an Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ArcMap Extension utilizing ESRI 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst extensions, ARC Server for the web enabled portions of MCRTAMS and in a Xamarin framework for the mobile environment. The danger zone tools within RMTK depict a three dimensional (3D) area associated with firing weapons/lasers/explosives where the risk of damage, injury or death does not exceed an acceptable level. The RMTK danger zone tools allow the user to create and modify danger zones. The danger zones encompass the ground and airspace for lateral and vertical containment of projectiles, fragments, debris, and components resulting from the firing, launching, and/or detonation of ordnance. This three-dimensional zone accounts for weapon accuracy, failures, ricochets, and broaches/porpoising of a specific weapon/munition type delivered by a specific aircraft type, laser energy and direct/indirect fire weapons ordnance. Danger Zones represent the minimum safety requirements designed for live fire training on Department of Defense (DOD) training ranges. The Marine Corps is the lead and Chair of the Aviation Range Safety Sub-Group as designated by the DOD's Cross Service Range Use Standardization Working Group (RUSWG), RTAM is tasked to develop comprehensive strategies accommodating the differing Service and National perspectives, and varying needs for range utilization and safety, and shall be the basis of the WDZ tool/data in addition to Service considerations in the remainder of the RMTK tools. Specifically, the Weapons Danger Zone (WDZ) tool is the accepted United States Service air to ground danger zone tool for all air to ground activities to provide weapons danger zones and risk analysis. The RMTK tools will be provided upon request and approval to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other Partners for Peace (PfP) nations to facilitate interoperability. However, any new danger zone requests or access to a RMTK tool from a Foreign Ally will be reviewed by the US Government then directed to Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) Foreign Disclosure Branch for coordination. RTAM is responsible for establishing a cohesive management framework that ensures the objectives of the various sponsored initiatives are executed within program constraints. This includes establishing a cohesive management organization and support framework to execute management of business and technical attributes of program initiatives, oversight of prime vendor performance (e.g., progress, investment), and coordinating actions among Integrated Product Teams (IPT) and other participating activities (ie: NATO Range Safety Working Group, International Range Safety Working Group). Specifically, for the WDZ tool data cubes consist of the data necessary to determine the initial impact distribution (Delivery Accuracy), the ricochet impact distribution, and the failure mode impact distribution. These data are used to generate a combined probability distribution function (pdf) that defines the potential impacts from a training range event. While the term "Data Cube" is applied to the various subcomponents of the WDZ weapon model, the actual data cube is comprised of both organized multi-dimensional look-up tables (created in Microsoft Access) that sample a weapon's physical performance data and coefficient terms describing a polynomial approximation to a physical characteristic specific to the weapon's unique behavior. This interpolated data is integral to the data cube though various software interfaces and that data are used as a data point within the data cube. Weapon systems that have similar ballistic and failure mode characteristics use the same data and modeling format. The RMTK suite of tools are created in VB.Net and C++ and Xamarin. The User Interface tools are written using VB.Net and the RMTK engine is compiled into a C++ Dynamic Link Library (DLL). The database foundations of the tools are created in Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server. The RMTK mobile tools will be developed and maintained for use in an iOS and Android. For the WDZ tool the WDZ Software Specification Documents Volume I-VI provide detailed technical information regarding the WDZ tool required to create and integrate the WDZ data cubes These services are currently being provided by Battelle Memorial Institute, under Contract M67854-15-D-7900. A follow-on single award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) is anticipated with a 60 month ordering period. The Objectives of the RMTK requirement are as follows: (1) RMTK Systems Support - This task encompasses sustaining support for the existing RMTK suite of tools and provision of SMEs with knowledge of ground to ground probabilistic methodologies and specific weapons technical requirements that will be included in the RMTK suite of tools. Additionally, SMEs shall require in depth knowledge of small caliber munitions and how to integrate small caliber danger zones and small caliber ricochet methods into the GIS environment. (2) RMTK Recommendations and Strategies - This task is to provide industry recommendations and strategies associated with the RMTK tools so that the DoD has input on a way ahead from industry concerning upcoming version changes, best practices, and hardware associated with RMTK that will help determine the Government future years plan to support the RMTK. (3) MCTRAMS RMTK Systems Support - This task ensures that the RMTK tools that are housed within MCRTAMS function as a cohesive program and is integrated with the desktop version of the RMTK as outlined in paragraph 4.3.3 of this PWS. (4) WDZ tool support - This task is to provide SMEs to the Government with knowledge of aircraft systems properties to include UAS, munitions, precision guided munitions/guidance systems, and terminal effects expertise, to support the development of air to ground danger zones for the WDZ program and to update and maintain the WDZ program for the DoD Services. (5) General - This task's objective is to depict general RMTK program requirements. (6) Help desk support - This task is for help desk support. (7) WDZ training - This task is intended to execute a formal WDZ training session for the Services. (8) Foreign Military Sales - This task is to provide approved FMS countries the above objectives with the exception of RMTK recommendations and strategies and MCRTAMS RMTK systems support. (9) RMTK Mobile support - This task ensures that the RMTK tools that are housed within RMTK mobile (ETR, SDZ, WDZ) function as a cohesive program and is integrated with the desktop version of the RMTK as outlined in paragraph 4.3.9 of this PWS.