SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ON PROTECTION FOR SPACE MISSION ASSURANCE
- Notice Date
- 4/16/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 927110
— Space Research and Technology
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Direct Reporting Units, 11th CONS, 110 Luke Avenue (Bldg 5681) Suite 200, Bolling AFB, DC, 20032-0305
- ZIP Code
- 20032-0305
- Solicitation Number
- None2
- Response Due
- 5/5/2004
- Archive Date
- 5/20/2004
- Point of Contact
- Christopher Jones, Contract Specialist, Phone 2027677942, Fax 2027677812, - Natalie Sitkowski, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-767-8094, Fax 202-767-7814,
- E-Mail Address
-
chris.jones@bolling.af.mil, natalie.sitkowski@bolling.af.mil
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ON PROTECTION FOR SPACE MISSION ASSURANCE (AS OF 8 APRIL 2004) The National Security Space Architect (NSSA) is gathering information regarding protection for space system mission assurance. For the purpose of this RFI, ?architecture?, ?space system mission assurance? and ?protection? are defined as: Architecture is the structure, relationships, and principles governing design and evolution of components linked in accomplishing a purpose. Space mission assurance is those actions taken to provide a desired level of confidence that NSS and supporting capabilities will be available on demand, free from malicious or unintentional disruption and manipulation or exploitation for intelligence/targeting purposes, and in sufficient quantity and quality to support critical user needs. The desired level of confidence may vary from mission to mission and user to user. Protection, along with other actions, enables overall mission assurance. Protection is active and passive defensive measures to ensure that U.S. and friendly space systems perform as designed by seeking to overcome an adversary?s attempts to negate and to minimize damage if negation is attempted. The goal of protection is to secure space systems? capabilities and enable space mission assurance by ensuring the availability of space capabilities in all operating environments. Protection involves the application and integration of capabilities to: ?Detect, locate, characterize, and identify threats; ?Detect, attribute, and report malfunctions and attacks; ?Avoid, defend, withstand or mitigate unintended interference, environmental / natural hazards, and hostile attacks; ?Reconstitute or repair mission capabilities; and ?Assess mission impact of attacks. The information will be used to assist NSSA in developing architectures proposed for use in 2025. The NSSA is responsible for developing architectures across the range of National Security space mission areas. The architectural process integrates future needs and a broad spectrum of future military, civil, and commercial capabilities into candidate architectures; conducts independent analyses to assess the merits of each architecture; and presents recommendations and an investment strategy to the Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space/Director, National Reconnaissance Office and the National Security Space Senior Steering Group consisting of: -Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (ASD/NII); -Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management (DDCI/CM); and -Director, Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment Directorate (J8), Joint Staff This RFI seeks information that will help the NSSA assess protection capabilities employed, planned, or proposed by national security, civil, and commercial organizations. Of particular interest are innovative practices, concepts, standards, technologies, non-materiel applications, and associated commercial architectures. Specific questions are: a.How would you characterize your customers? needs for protection? b.How would you characterize your protection capabilities in regards to these threat classes: 1.Unintentional interference 2.Environmental hazards to space, information link, and ground segments 3.Hostile attacks against space, information link, and ground segments c.What is your overall approach to changing your own capabilities in response to changes in customer needs, new technologies, or demonstrated threats? d.How are you planning to improve your protection capabilities in these areas? 1.Space-based capabilities 2.Terrestrial capabilities 3.Non-materiel aspects including policies, procedures, and operations concepts e.What standards are you considering developing, establishing, or implementing to support long-term, mid-term, and short-term protection for mission assurance? f. What technologies do you plan to use to achieve, maintain, or improve long-term, mid-term, and short-term protection? g. What technologies do you consider high payoff for future protection capabilities, including those without current space funding support or government sponsorship? h. To what extent should autonomy or automation be implemented in ground and space systems to support protection? i. Which commercial capabilities do you believe could be used to enhance the protection of government space capabilities? j. What type of capabilities do you anticipate using to support the protection of your space-based capabilities in the future? k. What international cooperation do you intend to pursue in the future to achieve better space protection? l. What interrelationship do you plan or desire to have with the government in the future from a space system mission assurance perspective? m. What interest do you have in providing selected services for protecting government space operations? n. What interest do you have in providing a full range of protection services to the government? o. Have you developed a space mission assurance analytic framework for evaluating protection capabilities across the space, information link, and ground segments? p. What analytical tools or simulations would you recommend for assessing the performance, cost, and utility associated with protection for space system mission assurance? q. Identify the top five challenges or issues that you feel must be addressed to achieve protection for space mission assurance. Responses should describe current protection capabilities, anticipated changes in future levels of protection, and recommendations for architectural options for assuring space missions effectively meet customers? needs given projected man-made and natural threats in the 2025 timeframe. Request contractors interested and capable of performing these functions submit the following information: 1)A capability package, limited to 20 pages or less, that includes: a.Contractor information to include, but not be limited to, the Contractor?s name, address, point of contact, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address. b.Business size (HUBZone, 8a, small, disadvantaged, woman owned, veteran owned, veteran disabled, etc.). For purposes of this Request for Information (RFI), the SIC Code is 9661 and the corresponding NAICS code is 927110. Industry size standards are published by the Small Business Administration and are available via the Internet at http://www.sba.gov/size. c.Company profile to include, but not be limited to, the number of employees, annual sales history, locations, security clearances, cage code, duns number, tax identification number, etc. d.Contract references in the past five years relevant to the request for information to include: contract number, agency supported, whether or not you were a prime or subcontractor, period of performance, original contract value, final or current contract value, technical monitor point of contact information (phone, fax, e-mail, etc.), contractor point of contact information (phone, fax, e-mail, etc.) and a brief description of the effort. 2)1 to 2 page abstract detailing your proposed response. 3)A window is being set aside for market research presentations by interested commercial organizations on May 11-12, 2004 at NSSA, 11242 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA. A second opportunity for presentations will be available May 26-27 at Aerospace Corporation facilities in Los Angeles, CA. Presenting organizations may choose either venue for their convenience. Each session will consist of a thirty-minute presentation to be followed by a thirty-minute question-and-answer period. Classified meetings will be held the second day of each window, if required. Please contact Mr. Chris Jones (E-mail: Chris.Jones@bolling.af.mil), Contract Specialist for the 11th Contracting Squadron, if you would like to participate. If warranted, follow-up trips or visits to an organization?s location (e.g., demonstrations) can be arranged. Responses must be received no later than 3:00pm (Eastern Standard Time) on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 in order to be considered timely. This synopsis is for a Request for Information only and does not constitute a commitment on the part of the Government to purchase or acquire systems or services related to protection of space systems. This publication is for information only and does not signify any Government sponsorship of contractor charges against any Government contract for proposal efforts or a Government promise to pay for any information received in response to this announcement. POINT OF CONTACT: Mr. Chris Jones (E-mail: Chris.Jones@bolling.af.mil), Contract Specialist.
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