USAF RFI: Airspace Mission Planning Common Autoroute Baseline (CARB) Support

The CARB tools support automatic and manual 3-D single and multiple route generation, analysis, and de-confliction. CARB incorporates user-set priorities and tactics (constraints) and automatically finds least-cost, de-conflicted, flyable routes. For example, the Target Area Planning finds ingress and egress routes that meet user-set priorities and weapon delivery constraints minimizing threat exposure. The route evaluator uses high-fidelity, validated low observable threat models to evaluate any route using full 3-D radar cross-section data against user defined figures of merit. The manual route editing and analysis tools allow the planner to manipulate the route with threat exposure displayed. The conflict identification tool graphically and textually displays multi-route conflicts. The Route Manager is comprised of graphical and automated tools that enable the planner to construct routes consisting of multiple release and aimpoints for input into auto routing.

This program will focus on sustaining the variants of CARB, Common Auto routing engine, and adapters as described above through a base year and up to four option years. The Contractor and Government will continue maturing and expanding the CARB Agile processes. The DR and maintenance efforts will continue throughout the remainder of the program.  When directed, the developer will produce an update to one or more of the CARB variants.

Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) Environment

The Contractor shall establish an Agile Team consisting of the following staff for CARB Maintenance for JMPS GDS and FV environments in support of JASSM, B-2 and MAF:

1. Part-time Program Manager and Part-time Program Management staff, including, but not limited to, Contracts Manager, Finance Analyst, Quality Management, Configuration Management, Data Management, IT Support, System Administrators, and Security support.
2. Subject experienced engineers covering the disciplines of development and test.

The Contractor Agile Team shall perform work in accordance with sections 3 and 4 of PWS and deliver the following:

1. Five (5) 10-week increments of CARB efforts working the mutually agreed backlog. Each increment will be broken down into Sprints sized to what the Contractor feels is best suited for defined work.  At the end of each increment, the team will have an FQT ready release of CARB, CARS, and JMPS B-2 adapter incorporating changes made by working the agreed backlog. CARB releases will function in both JMS GDS and FV environments.  As needed and with available resources, the team will build adapters for the MAF aircraft.  If no changes were made during the increment, then no release is required.
2. Up to two (2) Formal Qualification Tests (FQT) of the CARB/CARS/JMPS Adapter package elements. The FQT will be upon request by the Government.  As needed, and not covered by JASSM testing, the test will evaluate updates for CARB in the JMPS FV environment. (RESERVED) For B-2 Adapter testing the FQT will utilize the latest B-2 MPE provided by the Government.  Once an FQT is completed the Contractor shall deliver the release if any changes were made during FQT process …

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