SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2007 (CWID2007)
- Notice Date
- 5/16/2006
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Defense Information Systems Agency, Procurement and Logistics, DITCO-NCR, P.O. 4502, Arlington, VA, 22204-4502
- ZIP Code
- 22204-4502
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-CWID2007
- Response Due
- 9/30/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2006
- Description
- 1. This announcement is for the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2007 (CWID 2007) scheduled for 29 May through 22 Jun 07. Combatant Command/Commander (COCOMs), Services and Department of Defense (DoD) Agencies (C/S/As), government agencies outside the DoD, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and national participants outside the United States (U.S.) must submit Interoperability Trial proposals for CWID by 30 Sep 06. Industry partners must work through a C/S/A or government agency sponsor from outside the DoD to submit Interoperability Trials. Complete details on CWID, to include, reference documents, the format and submission instructions for Interoperability Trials, are found at http://www.cwid.js.mil. 2. CWID is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's annual event enabling the COCOMs and international community to investigate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions that focus on relevant and timely objectives for enhancing coalition interoperability. U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), on behalf of the Chairman, is responsible for the oversight of CWID. The intent of CWID is to investigate C4ISR technologies capable of being placed into an operational environment within 12-18 months following the execution period. Interoperability Trials include evaluations of hardware and/or software solutions. C/S/As are highly encouraged to conduct further investigation into the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) using CWID as a vehicle. While the focus of CWID is on new and emerging technologies, CWID is also an appropriate venue for spiral development or validation of fielded/near-fielded commercial and/or DoD systems when appropriate to reduce fielding costs or transition timelines. The USJFCOM Capability Development Process will be the primary method used to identify candidate technologies that meet warfighter requirements. 3. United States European Command (USEUCOM) is the host COCOM for CWID 2006-2007. Consequently, the scenario for CWID will focus on exercising Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) responsibilities in conjunction with U.S. Northern Command?s (USNORTHCOM) Home Land Security/Home Land Defense (HLS/HLD) initiatives, and increasing/enhancing involvement, integration, and interoperability with allies in USEUCOM?s area of responsibility. Coalition participation remains the cornerstone of CWID and the anticipated international participants include: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and NATO constituent nations. In addition, COCOMs may invite nations, with prior Joint Staff approval, from within their respective area of responsibility to participate as multinational task force (MTF) members. USNORTHCOM intends to continue its CWID transformational efforts by investigating systems integration and interoperability solutions in the arena. This will include USNORTHCOM?s Inter-Agency partners to include but not limited to Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA) and Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Canada. 4. CWID is conducted in a simulated operational environment to provide context for the validation of C4ISR solutions. Depending on the demonstrated capabilities during the execution phase and based on the criteria set forth in the CWID Additional Information document, each Interoperability Trial may receive one or more of the following assessments: Warfighter/Operator, Technical/Interoperability, and/or Security Capabilities assessment. The Systems Engineering and Integration Working Group (SEIWG), with input from other working groups, reports on Interoperability Trials not formally assessed by the Assessment Working Group (AWG). Results from Interoperability Trial assessments are documented in the CWID Final Report. Interoperability Trials with coalition partners are hosted over a worldwide secure network, enabling classified, releasable data to be exchanged between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, NATO, and Partnership for Peace nations. The CWID Joint Management Office (JMO) coordinates, engineers, and supervises the network backbone(s), information domains and the worldwide venue, and additionally provides the Interoperability Trial assessments. 5. To be considered for participation in CWID, each proposed Interoperability Trial must address one or more of the CWID objectives and sub-objectives listed in paragraph 7, and commit to provide all funding, personnel, training, hardware, software, documentation, etc, necessary to participate at one or more worldwide execution locations. In addition, Interoperability Trial proposals must be submitted in concert with a DoD or government sponsor, in the format outlined on the CWID web site. 6. The CWID Senior Management Group (SMG), together with the coalition partners, will select Interoperability Trial proposals to satisfy CWID?s need to share and exchange critical, time-sensitive information between military organizations, international coalitions and civilian agencies. The selection criteria include how well the Interoperability Trial?s proposal satisfies one or more of the stated objectives and sub-objectives, and other considerations specified on the CWID web site in the additional information document. The CWID hardware and software demonstrations support the overall Network Centric Warfare (NCW) construct and leverage the advantages of emerging technology. During the CWID execution phase, Interoperability Trial activities will be conducted over, or connected to, a world wide area network (WAN) that supports military and coalition operations while providing the infrastructure to facilitate the military?s role in providing Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA). CWID Interoperability Trials are executed within the context of an overarching scenario to demonstrate how coalition warfighting and civil interagency operations can benefit from emerging technologies. The CWID 2007 Objectives described below contain several key differences from those associated with past Joint/Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstrations. First, the objective numbering reflects approximate linkage to traditional U.S. military staff codes and does not imply priority over/under another objective. For example, Objective 2 is aligned to encompass those functional areas normally associated with intelligence, which would reside in the staff equivalent of J2, N2, S2, G2, etc. Second, each objective is supported by ?sub-objectives? that reference clearly defined U.S. COCOM and Coalition capability gaps and Service inputs. Thirdly, the objectives are linked, where possible, to the Joint Battle Management Command and Control Roadmap and Joint Mission Threads. Finally, the objectives are focused to reflect the following recurring themes: a. Investigating emerging and relevant technologies. b. Focus CWID on demonstrating solutions for COCOM theater capability gaps and challenges. c. Enhance multi-service, multi-national, and inter-agency cooperation and communication. These process improvements facilitate post-CWID execution efforts to develop strategies aimed at responsibly bringing solutions to the warfighters. Scope: All multi-national (to include DoD and non-DoD entities) information sharing solutions should be built on a foundation that is net-centric, secure, scalable, and bandwidth sensitive. Objective 1 Cross-Domain Data Sharing. Provide the capability to share information across multiple networks of potentially different security classifications and caveats. Emphasis should be on passing information to U.S. controlled, coalition networks such as Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange Systems (CENTRIXS) network and coalition/alliance controlled networks such as Northern Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Initial Data Transfer System (NIDTS), NATO Mission Wide Area Network, or Releasable to Republic of Korea (RELROK). Data sharing encompasses the need for cross-domain solutions (CDS) and the assurance that information passed through CDS can be utilized by systems within all security enclaves. The criteria used to determine whether data can be shared should also focus on existing doctrine and/or policy-based information management and implement robust information assurance capabilities to protect data. GWOT requires CDS devices to permit collaboration with first responders, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), state and local governments as well as coalition information sharing. a. Improve information sharing capability through the use of secure operating systems and applications to facilitate battle planning and information dissemination. 1. Provide secure means for system-to-system communications across domains. 2. Provide secure means to conduct a complete suite of collaboration activities across domains. 3. Provide secure means for one-way and two-way file sharing across domains to include protection from malicious code and data leakage. 4. Provide a secure intrusion detection solution for monitoring cross domain activities. b. Improve CDS implementation at the tactical versus operational level, recognizing that the applications are different through echelons of command. Explanation: Coalition operations require an information environment that spans multiple Communities of Interest (COI) where C/S/A?s are likely affected by limited bandwidth. Within any COI, mission success relates to the commander?s command and control (C2) ability to communicate directly with individual users or first responders who may be detached from fixed information domains. Solutions to achieve improved C2 between diverse COIs should consider the use of existing approved multi-level security implementations, innovative adaptations of these implementations, or propose new approaches that are well on their way to gaining security certification for operational use. A major challenge to achieving a single integrated cross-domain solution is the development of a method, strategy, and universal standard for electronically marking or labeling classification and release caveats of documents and information streams. Since recent directives require DoD systems to use XML for data exchange, there is a need for XML-based technology that can provide a robust and secure method for marking classification and release caveats of documents and information streams. Objective 2 Integrated Intelligence. Provide solutions that improve the commander's ability to share intelligence information products (documents, images, databases, etc.) with coalition partners, including joint and coalition forces, government agencies, NGOs and first responders. a. Improve rapid situational awareness of the area of operations utilizing advanced visualization technologies. 1. Demonstrate the ability to ingest geospatial data and display sophisticated 3D imagery that identifies all the elements of national resources, including political ?hotspots?, military presence, economic icons, social, public works infrastructure, and other pertinent information. 2. Demonstrate a robust visualization architecture that supports common open application program interfaces using approved international standards and DoD approved data formats and ports/protocols. b. Enhance the maritime common operational picture (COP) through the intelligent retrieval and fusion of data from disparate sources, population of empty track fields, analysis and detection of anomalous track behaviors and uncovering operator errors. c. Develop customized, adaptable, dynamic, scalable intelligence estimates. d. Develop sensor capability that automatically stores and retrieves significant events to assist the conventional forces and first responders. e. Demonstrate fusion analysis in which computer systems and software are used to extract and compare multiple sources of information and databases. Explanation: Coalition information sharing must be secure, scaleable in scope and functional within the theater bandwidth available at all levels of warfare. Trial proposals should be capable of using existing interface standards and protocols that define the format, content, and exchange mechanisms for shared data. Solutions must support each nation?s disclosure and release policies as well as provide a secure means of consistently communicating accurate information in a multi-lingual military and/or local authority context. A key subset to creating and sustaining a coalition information-sharing environment is that users must be able to consistently and securely access, extract and utilize common information derived from dissimilar databases across multiple domains. Tools to translate documents, displays, and written/audio-exchanges between planners and end-users, is a necessity for successful operations at the military, agency, and other government organization levels. Objective 3 Integrated Operations. Enhance the commander?s capability to command, control and coordinate across joint and coalition forces, government agencies, NGOs, and first responders. Emphasis on: a. Demonstrate new technology or enhancement to existing technology that streamlines the operational decision-making process throughout the spectrum of military and civil operations, including GWOT contingencies and crisis response. b. Improved blue force tracking identification capability across multiple enclaves. c. Situational awareness using advanced visualization technologies (see Objective 2). d. Cross and secure spectrum interface capabilities for tactical/commercial radios. e. Common collaboration tool suite that is accepted by joint/conventional forces and HLS/HLD entities. f. Improved red force tracking capability across mission areas and user communities. g. Improved non-material solutions, specifically tactics, techniques, and procedures to task, discover, fuse and use Global Information Grid (GIG)-enabled products and services. h. Shifting the focus at the operational level to long-term integration of tactical operations with specific nation-building forces and capabilities. i. Increasing tactical autonomy and decentralization. j. Providing and sharing cultural and social awareness to a level approaching situational awareness. k. Improving mobility, survivability and adaptive dominance. l. Achieving a joint/coalition integrated fire control system of systems. m. Defending effectively against the use of Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Explanation: Integrated Operations imply that coalition, military and civilian authorities can harness the power of their respective information environments to collaboratively execute operations even in a bandwidth-constrained environment. The information exchange between these COIs must be accomplished in such a way that it inspires confidence at each activity that the information is being disseminated securely, and will only be available to the agreed upon and authorized participants. Solutions to achieve this data dissemination, across and within COIs, should consider the use of existing, approved multi-level security implementations, innovative adaptations of these implementations, or propose new approaches that are well on their way to gaining security certification for operational use. Objective 4 Integrated Logistics. Demonstrate the ability to access and consolidate logistical information across organizational boundaries to provide the ability to assess and display, in near real time, information on the movement, location and status of joint forces, military services, interagency, coalition, NGO and first responder equipment, supplies and personnel en route, and/or deployed. a. Improve logistics data access, fusion and integration among COIs. b. Improve distributed operations, operational agility, distributed support and sustainment and exploitation of the vertical dimension of sustainment thereby reducing logistical infrastructure in-theater. Explanation: Within the information environment, the commander must have responsive and effective logistics. Logistic data is contained within diverse logistics information systems maintained by the military and civilian agencies across the coalition. Access to that data implies combining total asset visibility and information during the transit of friendly forces into a single information presentation available across multiple information COIs. Solutions should address the locating and fusion of logistics information feeds as part of the commander?s general situation awareness. Solutions to achieve CWID objectives should consider using existing approved multi-level security implementations, innovative adaptations of these implementations or propose new approaches that are relatively mature in gaining security certification for operational use. Objective 5 Integrated Planning. Provide solutions that improve the COCOM?s ability to conduct collaborative planning with coalition partners, including joint and coalition forces, government agencies, NGOs and first responders. Focus on enhanced collaboration and engendering a ?need to share? vice a ?need to know? culture. a. Improve sharing capabilities that support Essential Elements of Information (EEIs) for forces supporting CTF and HLS/HLD scenarios. b. Evaluate technologies and processes that support collection and dissemination of Command and Control (C2) information using Net Centric Enterprise Services (NCES). Explanation: Integrated Planning implies that coalition, military, and civilian authorities can harness the power of their respective information environments to collaboratively plan operations even in a bandwidth-constrained environment. Collaborative planning and dissemination of products in a bandwidth constrained environment horizontally across and vertically within COIs is an emerging issue for the warfighter, particularly as software and procedure tools become sufficiently robust to be extended from the operational to the tactical level of warfare. The lack of robust planning and collaboration tools makes it difficult to provide the commander timely and complete information on which to develop decisions. Additionally, as Hurricane Katrina aptly demonstrated, planning between military, agency, and civilian authorities must be included in this technology development. Objective 6 Integrated Communications. Allied and coalition partners and other bandwidth disadvantaged users often find themselves on the frontlines, increasing risks without a robust, joint and combined, interoperable and multi-lingual information sharing capability. Coalition information sharing capabilities are necessary to improve information and knowledge sharing. a. Translation Services. Provide solutions that improve the COCOM?s ability to share information with and receive information from multi-lingual coalition partners, potentially including improvements to language translation tools providing grammatically correct, military-context sensitive, multi-language translations which support verbal and textual collaboration within and between disparate information domains. b. Identify and evaluate an allied/coalition directory services architecture that facilitates the sharing of information among coalition nations. c. Create an interoperable interface between Service tactical radios and Coalition tactical radios. 1. Improve interoperability between United States Marine Crop (USMC) tactical Ultra High Frequency/ Very High Frequency (UHF/VHF) radios in the frequency hopping mode and the USMC High Frequency (HF) radio with a Coalition suite of radios in the secure mode. 2. The suite of radios need to be the communication medium between the US Army Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), the USMC AFATDS, the U.S. Navy?s Naval Fire Control System, and Coalition?s like system. Data must be passed in a secure mode using a NATO releasable key list and using the tactical radios small bandwidth. 3. Identify and assess Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions suitable for use over maritime tactical networks. 4. Identify National Security Agency?s high assurance internet protocol encryption devices to support CDS and coalition information sharing. 5. Demonstrate domain controlled data protection at rest in a multi-domain coalition environment. 6. Demonstrate Network Defense Situational Awareness and advanced anomaly detection technologies in a multi-domain coalition environment. Explanation: Communications in a CWID context is interpreted as ?coalition information sharing,? and is more than providing a radio communication or common operational picture at or between the strategic, operational, or tactical level of command. It must be secure, scaleable in scope and functional within the theater bandwidth available at all levels of warfare. Trial proposals should be capable of using existing interface standards and protocols that define the format, content, and exchange mechanisms for shared data. Solutions must support each nation?s disclosure and release policies as well as provide a secure means of consistently communicating accurate information in a multi-lingual military and/or local authority context. A key subset to creating and sustaining a coalition information-sharing environment is that users must be able to consistently and securely access, extract and utilize common information derived from dissimilar databases across multiple domains. Further, coalition operations are routinely conducted with multiple nations and organizations that are challenged with using a common language. A tool to translate documents, displays, and written/audio-exchanges between planners and end-users, is a requirement of operations at the military, agency, and other government organization levels. 7. Subject to changes, the following milestones are to be used for planning purposes: a. Interoperability Trial proposals due: 30 Sep 06. b. Initial Planning Conference: 13 - 17 Nov 06, Tidewater area, VA. c. Interoperability Trial selection due: 12-15 Dec 06. d. Mid Planning Conference: 29 Jan - 2 Feb 07, Tidewater Area, VA. e. Final Planning Conference: 26 Mar - 30 Mar 07, Tidewater Area, VA. f. CWID 2007 Execution: 29 May -22 Jun 07. 1. Preliminary set-up: 29 May - 1 Jun 07. 2. Training and Rehearsal: 4 - 8 Jun 07. 3. Interoperability Trials assessment and visitors: 11 - 21 Jun 07. 4. Hot Wash: 22 Jun 07. 8. Administrative requirements: a. Information submitted by Interoperability Trials is considered and handled as non-proprietary. b. Unclassified and classified networks will be used. Trial participants require a minimum of DoD SECRET clearance to participate in CWID 2007. However, participants desiring to focus only on the HLS/HLD mission set will not require a clearance. c. Military or government civilian personnel will operate the Interoperability Trials during the execution phase. Interoperability Trials must provide required training and documentation at each CWID 2007 site where they intend to demonstrate their technology. CWID funds will not be provided for training. d. Interoperability Trials will be required to provide on-site technical and operational representation throughout all CWID 2007 planning conferences and execution phases. CWID funds will not be used to support this effort. 9. The CWID JMO point of contacts are MAJ Louis L. King (DSN 761) 703-681-2366 or e-mail: louis.king@disa.mil or Ms. Carla M. Jolly (DSN 761) 703-681-2342 or e-mail: carla.jolly.ctr@disa.mil. Refer to the CWID web site (http://www.cwid.js.mil.) for specific information about proposal submissions. 10. This announcement is not a request for proposal; no contract award shall be made as a result of this request for information. Industry participation in CWID 2007 is at no cost to the government.
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