REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR MISSION AREA ANALYSIS STUDY This announcement is submitted for the sole purpose of acquiring information and general cost data from the open market. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Prisoners of War (POW) and Missing Personnel Affairs is soliciting information and general cost projections from interested organizations about performing a Mission Area Analysis for the personnel recovery function. The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, for which the DASD is also the Director, is responsible for policy, control, and oversight over all matters related to personnel recovery. Its goal is to develop a fully integrated personnel recovery architecture that ensures the recovery of U.S. personnel worldwide, who are isolated in an operational environment. Definition: Personnel recovery is defined as the sum of military, civil, and political efforts to obtain the release or recovery of personnel from uncertain or hostile environments and denied areas whether they are captured, missing, or isolated. That includes U.S., allied, coalition, friendly military, or paramilitary, and others as designated by the National Command Authorities. Personnel recovery is the umbrella term for operations that are focused on the task of recovering captured, missing, or isolated personnel from danger. It includes, but is not limited to theater search and rescue; Combat Search & Rescue (CSAR), Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE), Evasion and Recovery; and the coordination of negotiated as well as forcible recovery options. Personnel Recovery may occur through military action, action by non-governmental organizations, other USG-approved action, and diplomatic initiatives, or through any of those options. The 1998 Department of Defense Personnel Recovery Conference identified as a major finding the need to analyze the full spectrum of personnel recovery functions at the DoD and interagency level to enhance theU.S. Government's ability to recover its isolated personnel successfully, and to support the President's strategy of engagement. Before beginning the process of initiating such a study, we must define the requirements and estimate the cost of such an undertaking. This announcement is submitted solely for the purpose of acquiring information and general cost data. DPMO is examining the possibility of conducting a Mission Area Analysis (MAA) beginning between July 1,1999 and October 1, 1999, with the goal of submitting the findings of the analysis to the Secretary of Defense not later than July 1, 2000. The MAA must include an analysis of the entire range of personnel recovery to include diplomatic, military (both conventional and unconventional), and other means of recovering isolated personnel. It shall span recovery operations throughout the spectrum of conflict from small-scale contingencies to major theater war, and peacetime operations; and from tactical to strategic levels. The study shall provide a construct for strategic and operational planning; analyze capabilities and force structure (forces and materiel); identify deficiencies and excesses; identify requirements to change existing doctrine, policy, organization, training, technology, etc.; assess risk and effectiveness; form a basis for Mission Needs Statements and Operational Requirements Documents; and support simulations and modeling. It must also analyze the structure and procedures for interagency coordination and cooperation so as to maximize the U.S. Government's ability to recover its isolated personnel. The project will also include development of a credible joint model or methodology to calculate recovery requirements for the full range of military operations that could serve as a tool for tactical, operational and strategic-level personnel recovery planners, and as a precursor to a Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment (JWCA). The study must include a clearly defined end-state; solid, measurable, and achievable recommendations for actions DoD must take to correct deficiencies identified in the analysis; and recommendations for who best should resolve each task. The description of the study outlined above is not meant to be all-inclusive. We are soliciting ideas about precisely what we should include in this study. To be useful to us for our current purposes all submissions must include general cost data that such an undertaking would entail. DPMO's point of contact for this analysis is Lt Col Rick Searle or Major Clair Gilk at (703) 602-2202, ext 259 and 215, respectively. Interested organizations should submit their recommendations not later than December 4, 1998 to: The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office ATTN: Lt Col Rick Searle/Major Clair Gilk 2400 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 Or you can e-mail proposals to: searler@osd.pentagon.mil gilkc@osd.pentagon.mil richmondm@osd.pentagon.mil WEB: beltrana@osd.pentagon.mil, beltrana@.osd.pentagon.mil. Posted 11/25/98 (W-SN274883).

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