JFAC is collecting market research to establish a potential FY23 pilot demonstration project by first assessing the current state of the art enterprise assurance technology landscape that addresses some or all technology gaps. JFAC’s vision is to build trust through holistic assurance. Holistic assurance is the comprehensive, traceable, and composable connections across hardware and software components that comprise a system, aggregation across the system of systems, and linked to mission impacts and effects. JFAC is interested in understanding the technology landscape, adoption of the technology by DoD programs or enterprise initiative, and exploring opportunities for novel approaches of bringing context to decision making at speed and scale, integrating evidence and artifacts across the digital ecosystem.
The Joint Federated Assurance Center (JFAC)’s mission is to
provide assurance solutions to the federation of Department of Defense (DoD)
customers and program offices for weapon systems, information systems, and
national security systems. Due to the
unique reach of JFAC across the DoD, considerations for enterprise-wide
approaches of addressing Trust and Assurance is at the core of JFAC’s pursuits
(see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Definitions of Trust and Assurance
JFAC’s vision is to build trust through holistic assurance. Holistic assurance is the comprehensive,
traceable, and composable connections across hardware and software components
that comprise a system, aggregation across the system of systems, and linked to
mission impacts and effects (see Figure 2).
Figure 2 Holistic Assurance
Currently, assurance efforts are often segmented, caused by
various drivers: operating domains, system types, organizations, governance,
authorities, funding sources, infrastructure segmentation, competency areas,
technology, and life cycle processes. Moving
forward, trends across the DoD enterprise are towards digital transformation
through commercial cloud adoption, federated data exposure through Application
Programming Interfaces (API), analysis through big data analytics, and
data-informed decision-making. To that
end, opportunities exist to aggregate data across a federated eco-system of
data repositories containing evidence that support various assurance activities
(see Figure 3).
Figure 3 JFAC's Federated Data Enabling Holistic Assurance Approach
JFAC is collecting market research to establish a potential
FY23 pilot demonstration project by first assessing the current state of the
art enterprise assurance technology landscape that addresses some or all of the
aforementioned technology gaps.
Capability Description: brief description
of the assurance technology, identify any novel innovations associated with the
approach, current technology maturity (Technology Readiness Level 1-9),
potential DoD enterprise value proposition, current technology adoption within
the DoD or intelligence community (technology project level, program-office
system level or enterprise level), and future scalability of proposed solution.
Acquisition Pathways to
Capability: identify how the government has or can currently procure your
assurance technology:
- Commercial Items (TRL 9) via
software license procurement
- Prototype or actual system being
qualified through test and evaluation (TRL 7-8) via FAR-based contract
- Component/subsystem/system
prototype and demonstration (TRL 4-6) via Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
contracts
- Research phase, basic or applied
research (TRL 1-3) via grants, R&D agreements
End State Roadmap: long-term roadmap
with transition and scaling towards enterprise adoption with supporting rough
order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimates in an idealized unconstrained resource
environment across a five-year timeline or longer, if needed.
Requesting industry to provide responses through an initial phase of submission. Responses shall be limited to no
more than 4 pages of content plus an additional cover page:
- Cover page (1 Page)
- Capability Description &
Acquisition Pathways to Capability (3 Pages)
- End State Roadmap (1 Page)
After responses have been reviewed, further outreach could occur to refine topics for specific application and use cases.