To establish governance and optimize data-driven human performance (HP) improvements over time, the US Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) system needs disparate sourced data to be maintained and secured at the enterprise level. This is a Request for Proposal (RFP) to identify your company’s ability to support the One Nation Innovation Labyrinth Project task “H2F Human Performance Data Warehouse Project” for the Army Applications Laboratory.
To establish governance and optimize data-driven human performance
(HP) improvements over time, the US Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F)
system needs disparate sourced data to be maintained and secured at the
enterprise level. Additionally, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and
data interaction at the TRADOC/CIMT Headquarters, Corps, & lower echelons
will enable senior leaders and H2F performance teams to leverage HP and health
data to reduce attrition, improve readiness, and enhance Soldier lethality. In
partnership with Army Futures Command Chief Information Office, Army
Applications Lab, Army Software Factory, Data and Decision Sciences
Directorate, Office of the Secretary of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial
Intelligence Officer, DEVCOM Soldier Center, and the Center for Initial
Military Training and Holistic Health and Fitness at Training and Doctrine
Command, this effort will create, demonstrate, and transition an integrated
data backbone for human performance governance across the entire force. This
goal includes services/systems establishment, data ingestion, curation,
processing, governance processes, and AI/ML Ops at Army echelons to leverage
the data. The architecture of this complex problem requires integrations with
Army systems and commercial front end products to work effectively (see
Schematic 1: H2F Data Ecosystem).
Requirements for the solicitation of proposals to support
the Data Warehouse project development, accreditation, maintenance, and
sustainment. Performers will work at their desired location and schedule but
must be available for discussions during core business hours. The Period of
Performance will be 1 year from contract award.
Schematic 1. Visual representation of data elements, flow,
and warehousing layers.
Describe how you would inherit and
further develop existing cArmy instances for data warehousing oriented on human
performance. Provide a proposed technical architecture for your solution to
provide data ingestion, cleaning, curation, warehousing, user-access, and
provisioning within a cArmy-U environment.
- Identify how this environment
would provide the ability to provision training data sets with governance
limiting access to specific organizations or teams.
- Describe how you would handle the
compute, store, access, and transaction issues that may come with multiple
instances of the same data across several end user devices.
- Detail how you would integrate
analytical and visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau, R Studio, Python,
MATLAB) between several parent-child governance structures.
Provide an explanation of how you
would use environment provided services and integrate toolkits to enable an
end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) development
process to design, build and manage reproducible, testable, and evolvable
AI/ML-powered data solutions based on:
- Unifying the release cycle for
AI/ML models and associated software applications
- Automated diagnostic testing of
AI/ML artifacts (e.g., data validation, model testing, model integration
testing, model validation)
- Enabling the application of agile
principles to AI/ML projects
- Remaining agnostic across
language, framework, platform, and infrastructure practices
- Deploying, updating, and
maintaining AI/ML models with regulatory governance
Please detail how you would
agnostically integrate third-party hardware/software applications and other
cloud data management systems for H2F data collection (data pulls) AND
dissemination (data pushes). While many systems have existing APIs, others only
permit csv, json, or XML exports. Moreover, each integration will need to
seamlessly convert between file types for easy transfer or uninhibited access
by approved users.
- End user, coach/instructor,
command-level human performance data management system solutions
- Strength and conditioning software
applications utilized by Soldiers and maintained by H2F performance teams.
- Wearable biometrics from COTS
devices as either raw data pushed into analytical scripts and/or resulting
summary metrics with datetime and event detail tags.
- Training logs and
survey/questionnaire banks and responses, with governance over bank content and
modification.
- Existing Army databases (e.g.,
Digital Training Management System, Military Health System-Genesis, Defense
Manpower Data Center, Medical Operational Data System)
- H2F performance assessment and
optimization hardware/software systems:
- Velocity based training tools
- Motion tracking technologies
- Forceplate technologies
- Cognitive/vision testing tools
- Workload monitoring systems
- Rehabilitation tools and therapies
- Marksmanship and occupational
skills assessments systems
Please describe a proposed data
model for organizing disparately sourced, heterogeneous data. Describe how data
acquired across multiple sensors, manufactures, time-points, and environments,
will be organized and managed for accessibility, querying, aggregation, and
model development.
Please detail how you would enable
the HP Data Warehouse to function across multiple layers:
- Pull deidentified data down to a
Research Layer for model development
- Push validated models from a
Research Layer for deployment in the Operational Layer
- Pull identifiable data down from
the Strategic Layer for incorporation in Operational Layer models
- Push identifiable data up to the
Strategic Layer for cataloging across Army systems
Propose a recommended team size
and composition to develop and maintain the described data warehouse and
environment. Include estimated costs per hour, per employee to each specialty
desired, estimated annual costs of storage space and computation for H2F Data
Warehouse, and estimate structure plus annual costs of sustainment personnel.
Describe how you would make
adjustments to the specified team in order to pivot onto and conduct a
technology transition within the cArmy infrastructure.
Describe how you will work with
the government lead(s) and ATO support SMEs for delivery of technical
architecture proposed above to include achieving ATO with a cArmy-U
environment.
Describe how you will collaborate
with other non-government providers to support a transparent, team approach
through development, tests/evaluations, refinement, and transition efforts.
Include how you would on-board and support problem solvers from initial engineering/stand-up
work through transition and sustainment.
Describe how you plan to track
developmental, environmental changes, and emerging security concerns in the
Development Life Cycle, including:
- Proposed standardized framework
and tools that will be used that define activities and deliverables
- Methods to plan, estimate, and
schedule each task associated with the project
- Demonstrating how configuration
management will increase visibility on all aspects of the life cycle to all
stakeholders involved in the development process
- Demonstrating how proposed plan
increases the speed of development and decreases project risks
Propose costs, activities, and
schedule to achieve ALL the requirements contained in this RFP.
Response Requirements for this RFP
Announcement:
State your detailed approach to
meet the scope and requirements.
State your staffing structure and
management approach for this effort.
Costs associated with support for
a Period of Performance of 12 months.
Include previous experience where
you have done this type of work before, customer and the outcome. If no
previous experience it will be evaluated as neutral.
Submit your responses into 4
separate volumes:
- (Volume 1: Detailed Technical Approach, Volume
2: Staffing and Management Approach, Volume 3: Cost, Volume 4: Prior
experience/ Company past performance). This will allow for sections to be
easily separated for evaluation purposes.
Your total submission is limited
to no more than 30 pages total not including the cover page. This allows
flexibility for each offeror to tailor their responses accordingly. Ensure that
each volume is separated and labeled per the guidance above.
Submit your response to this RFP
NLT 4 January 2023 by 5pm EST.
All response materials submitted
to response@onenationinnovation.org
All Response Submissions must
include the following Cover Page administrative data:
- Business Name
- Technical and Business Point of
Contact Name Title
- Email Phone
- Business URL Business Address:
- Business Phone:
- Unique Entity ID:
- Cage Code:
- Business Status: (i.e., Nonprofit)
After submission deadline, ONI
will go through a down selection with the government representatives that may
lead to one-on-one meetings between One Nation Innovation and the down selected
Offeror for potential follow-on information requirements.
Evaluation Criteria: This agreement will be firm fixed price. Innovative approaches will make your
submission standout. Your submission will be evaluated on the following:
- Your approach to meet the
requirement (40% weight)
- Staffing and Management (20%
weight)
- Cost for a 12 month period of
performance (20% weight)
- Previous experience/ understanding
of your companys ability to successfully conduct the work (20% weight)