Opportunity Details
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Organization

XVIII Airborne Corps (XVIII ABC)

Start Date

Jul 29, 2022  ET

End Date

Aug 17, 2022  ET

Current Status

Closed

Registration

Open

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Opportunity Summary
Description
The intent of this Announcement is to award a prototype other transaction to an entity(ies) that has the necessary capabilities, skill sets, and knowledge to establish an innovative problem solving environment to address multiple technology problem areas. Any resulting prototype other transaction(s) may lead to a follow-on agreement, to include a partnership intermediary agreement, follow on transaction, or similar type vehicle to implement the prototype process developed.
Additional Information
Submission Deadline:
08/10/2022 at 09:00 AM EST
Purpose
                                                     

The intent of this Announcement is to award a prototype other transaction to an entity(ies) that has the necessary capabilities, skill sets, and knowledge to establish an innovative and collaborative problem solving environment to address multiple technology problem areas. Any resulting prototype other transaction(s) may lead to a follow-on agreement, to include a partnership intermediary agreement, follow on transaction, or similar type vehicle to implement the prototype process developed. 


This Announcement is considered to have high potential for projects that may be accomplished via Other Transaction Authority (OTA) for Prototype Projects pursuant to 10 USC 4022 (formerly 2371b). As such, evaluation activities conducted in furtherance of a potential project award agreement are considered competitive in the same manner as a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) or Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), and responses will be evaluated independently of one another primarily for technical merit. Response to this Announcement is considered to satisfy the reasonable effort to obtain competition in accordance with 10 USC 4022b.

Problem Statement
                                   

In partnership with the Army Applications Lab, XVIII Airborne Corps (XVIII ABC), and Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) Program Office, the desired end state is to establish a full lifecycle platform for data and algorithms. This includes ethics guidance on the processing of data sources and algorithmic development, appropriate architecture for UI’s, purpose built analytics platform(s), and AI/ML lifecycle management. In the event complex or advanced algorithm are necessary for further insight, the XVIII ABC and Army seeks to understand and implement appropriate skills, tools, and process for the complete lifecycle of these models. To be successful, we require, competency in the following areas of interest to leverage in the problem solving environment:

 

  • Ingestion Services from various services 
  • Software services for non-digital workflows 
  • Security Services for infrastructure, software, data, models, and ATO processing for production environments 
  • Cloud integration and optimization 
  • Data processing to include: Ingestion, Architecting, Preparation, Cataloging, Modeling to relevant ontologies/taxonomies, building data and algorithm pipelines and feedback mechanisms, automation of data collection, streaming functions to include analysis and transformation, storage, security, and labeling 
  • API builds, integration, publishing, and other lifecycle functions 
  • Tagging strategy and implementation 
  • Data Anonymization (as necessary) 
  • Synthetic Data creation 
  • Project Management
Objective
                                                     

The primary objective of the problem solving environment is to make significant progress towards the appropriate solution using the below domain areas as use cases. Human Performance is an effort born in the Army’s H2F Program. The 82nd Airborne Division began their implementation of data collection and plans to scale to the XVIII ABC by continuous collection and analysis of various data sets across the following domains/programs/events. The overall goal (use of the solution) is to identify key indicators of success for individual Divisions and Brigade Separates to improve the success of soldiers for each unit. 

 

  • Unit/Garrison Integration Course(s): The onboarding of paratroopers to various units and garrisons throughout the Army. 
  • Fitness: Integration of custom and commercial data from applications that track fitness performance and programming by Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) professionals.
  • Spiritual: Chaplains spiritual fitness program aimed at identifying effectiveness of each initiative. 
  • Lethality: Combat-styled events including shoot, move, communicate live fire ranges to determine fitness levels, cognitive responsiveness under stress, team cohesiveness, resiliency and other factors critical to combat scenarios. 
  • Industrial cognition: The assessment of soldiers’ mental performance under various scenarios, questionnaires to analyze “fit” for unique units and their mission.
Environmental Setting
                                 

The prototype will establish the operating environment in which a pool of Industry experts from differing companies can collectively participate and contribute to XVIII ABC and Army problem solving with regard to the listed Areas of Interest. The environment may also include physical and virtual settings to accomplish desired end states. Thus, the goal of this environment is not to necessarily limit industry to XVIII ABC current material solutions but allow other innovative ways to achieve objectives if necessary.

The following workflow is an example of how the Environment Manager might manage problems identified within the environment and facilitate collection and selection of solutions from problem solvers within the environment.


  • Activity posting: Government Project Lead and/or Scrum Managers will post activities/tasks to a Collaboration environment, such as JIRA.  Activities posted are intended to take no more than 30 days to complete. There is no limitation to how long an activity will be posted/published. 
  • Sprint Plan Submission: Participating companies will submit their sprint plans via email to the Scrum Manager identified. At a minimum, the plan shall include the estimated hours to complete a task, company team member information (names and qualifications of individual performing work), firm fixed price for intellectual property, task break down of effort, and specific deliverables to be submitted.  Plans proposed should be no more than 30 days in length. The Scrum Manager will identify any specific formatting and other information required in or for submission of the Sprint Plan as required per task. 
  • Selection: The Government Project Lead will select task awardees based on interviews and Sprint Plans. Scrum Manager will consult with the Scrum Teams to identify the best innovative deployment method. 
  • Sprint: Work will be monitored by Scrum Managers on the collaboration environment.
  • Receipt of intellectual property: Once a company has completed its sprint, it will provide the methodology/Solution to the Scrum Manager and Government Project Lead for assessment.  Upon a successful assessment, the Scrum Manager will post the activity as complete and the company will be paid for its Intellectual Property.
Initial Consideration
                                                   

The Government believes the below considerations will frame the problem solving environment. The Government fully expects the environment manager and problem solvers to help establish additional considerations and protocols throughout the prototype.

  • Interested problem solvers must be willing to partner and cooperate with other problem solvers from other commercial organizations and companies. The environment cannot be stifled or restricted problem solvers who will not work to issues that arise when problem solvers from for-profit companies work together.
  • The environment is not static, meaning there will be dedicated on and off ramps for problem solvers. Those who are not actively contributing to problem solving and innovating after being selected to participate in the environment should expect to be off ramped.
  • If the Government determines a problem solver’s innovative approach or solution is revolutionary, the environment may establish methods and mechanisms for the Government to procure the data rights to the proposed approach or solution (i.e. prize awards, bounties, follow-on actions, etc.)
  • The environment created may be used by the Government for future efforts, with no restrictions.
  • Interested environment managers and problem solvers should have experience controlling Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and Impact Level 4 platforms.
How You Can Participate
                             

Provide a statement of interest by 0900 Eastern Time 10 August 2022 that explains why you are a good fit for the environment using the Quad Chart Format:


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Submitters are encouraged to make responses precise and provide your best response for possible invitation to a one on one setting with Government stakeholder anticipated on or around 16-17 August 2022. Additional information may be requested by the Government after submission of the statement of interest to ask follow-up questions, conduct clarifying discussions, and discuss price information from any submitter to determine a selection. The Government is under no obligation to ask questions of all respondents in order to determine a selection(s).


Please submit separate statement of interest quad charts if you are interested in both Environment Manager and Problem Solver roles.

Point of Contact

Name

Bonnie Evangelista

Email

bonnie.s.evangelista.civ@mail.mil

Title

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Phone

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