US Air Force releases Draft RFP: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Multiple Award Contract

Notice ID: FA800325R0002

This is a DRAFT Request for Proposal (RFP) issued for the purpose of developing a viable Advancing Artificial Intelligence Multiple Award Contract (AAMAC) solicitation that will best communicate the Governments requirements to industry through exchange of information.

The broad technical scope defined herein establishes the scope of work that may be implemented through specific delivery orders (DO) or task orders (TO) or issued from this indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity multiple award contract (IDIQ MAC).

This IDIQ will support potential projects that leverage CDAO’s and DoD’s enterprise data, analytics, and/or AI capabilities to enhance decision-making processes and practices for any DoD customers(s), as well as provide the data engineering, data analytics tools, shared services, and infrastructure for the CDAO Advana program at the platform layer and below.

Requirements may be fulfilled with commercial and Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) items not otherwise available through DoD sources of supply, government-off-the-shelf (GOTS), non-developmental items (NDI), and/or modified COTS in accordance with the terms of individual TO/DOs that originate from this IDIQ.

Requirements for specific products and/or services and Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRL) will be defined in the requirements documents included in each order. These orders may include all or a portion of the requirements within this General Requirements work statement. The services outlined in this General Requirements work statement may support all aspects of identified or potential military, national security-related, and dual-use applications of related technologies and methods, as well as the development of tools, processes, and techniques that enhance the mission of the DoD.

DOs/TOs resulting from this IDIQ General Requirements work statement may involve multi-year performance; may involve work for any DoD customer(s); may require performance at multiple worldwide locations, to include performance outside the United States of America; may require access to controlled locations and facilities; and may require personnel clearances up to Secret, Top Secret, Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information, and/or Special Access Programs…

2.2.1. Systems Management, Architecture, and Engineering

The Contractor shall provide comprehensive system management, architecture, and/or engineering services to conceive, plan, acquire, manage, architect, engineer, document, and/or maintain the system management, architecture, and engineering products, artifacts, and resources required for systems, platforms, and solutions, by performing and/or delivering:

• Platform or System Architectures
• Systems Engineering
• Technology Standards, Interfaces, and Application Program Interfaces (API)
• Process Engineering
• Change Management
• Capacity Management
• Cloud Engineering
• Network Engineering
• Cross Domain Engineering
• Platform and System Audit

2.2.2. Software Engineering

The Contractor shall provide lifecycle software development to scope, plan, manage, design, develop, integrate, package, test, authorize, and/or deliver software, by performing and/or delivering:

• Software Design and Development
• Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps)
• Agile Software Management
• Configuration Management
• Commercial/Open-Source Tool Integration
• Cloud Native Service Integration
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Software Testing, Evaluation, and Validation
• Software Release and Deployment Management
• Software Reliability Engineering

2.2.3. Data Engineering

The Contractor shall provide comprehensive data engineering to scope, plan, manage, design, develop, integrate, package, test, authorize, deliver, operate, and/or maintain data pipelines and/or data solutions for organizations, and/or communities, by performing and/or delivering:

• Enterprise Data Operations
• Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL)
• Data Architectures
• Metadata Standardization
• Data Acquisition
• Data Ingest
• Data Engineering
• Data Tagging
• Data Quality Assurance
• Data Security
• Data Governance

2.2.4. Data Analytics

The Contractor shall provide comprehensive analytics services to scope, plan, manage, design, develop, integrate, package, test, authorize, deliver, operate, and/or maintain custom analytic solutions for organizations and/or communities, by performing and/or delivering:

• Enterprise Analytic Solutions and Integration
• Analytic Design and Development
• Analytic Testing, Evaluation, and Validation
• Analytic Operations
• Product Management
• Data Visualization
• Standardized Analytic Libraries and Templates
• Custom Analytic Tool Development

2.2.5. Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)

The Contractor shall provide comprehensive AI/ML engineering to scope, plan, manage, design, develop, train, validate, integrate, package, test, authorize, deliver, operate, and/or maintain AI/ML solutions for individual customers, organizations, and/or communities, by performing and/or delivering:

• AI/ML Design and Development
• AI/ML Data Labeling
• AI/ML Pipelines
• AI/ML Training
• AI/ML Testing, Verification, and Validation
• AI/ML Integration
• AI/ML Operations
• Responsible and Ethical AI/ML
• Standardized AI/ML Libraries and Templates
• Foundational AI/ML Solutions

2.2.6. Cybersecurity

The Contractor shall provide cybersecurity engineering, risk management, and authorization support services to conceive, plan, build, validate, authorize, operate, and/or maintain the security controls, system authorizations, and runtime cyber defense processes for securing and protecting systems, platforms, and solutions, by performing and/or delivering:

• Cybersecurity Risk Management
• Cybersecurity Requirements
• Cybersecurity Architecture
• Cybersecurity Engineering
• Security Controls Design and Implementation
• Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM)
• Zero Trust
• Cybersecurity Compliance Testing
• Continuous Monitoring
• Security Incident Management and Response
• Penetration Testing

2.2.7. Managed Services

The Contractor shall provide a full range of managed services to operate, defend, and/or maintain enterprise systems, platforms, and solutions, to include comprehensive customer and end user support to facilitate enterprise systems, platforms, and solutions access and effective use, by performing and/or delivering:

• Incident Management and Response.
• Managed Service Process Engineering
• System Operations
• Service Portfolio Management
• Service Desk Operations
• Service Level Agreements
• Procuring and Managing Licensed Software or Cloud Services
• Cloud Brokering
• Customer Resource Utilization Tracking and Billing
• User and Access Management
• System and Data Back Ups
• Continuity of Operations
• Event Management
• Problem Management
• Knowledge Management
• Training Materials

2.2.8. Workflow Modernization

The Contractor shall provide a full range of services to assist enterprise stakeholders, customers, users, and communities to become highly proficient data management, analytics, and/or AI practitioners, and to evolve, align, and optimize operations and practices to improve mission outcomes, by performing and/or delivering:

• Portfolio Management
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Strategic Communications
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Customer Relationship Management
• Demand Management
• Use Case Intake Operations
• Workspace Operations

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