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A -- MARINE CORPS INFANTRY SQUAD DECISION-MAKING TRAINING RESEARCH SOL N61339-99-Q-0164 DUE 021299 POC Jeanne Morrison, Contracting Officer, Code 25724, (407)380-4052 WEB: NAWCTSD Home Page, Open Acquisitions, http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/contract/rfp/index.cfm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, MorrisonJG@navair.navy.mil. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) has identified a requirement for Marine Corps Infantry Squad Decision-Making Training Research. The objective of the Marine Corps Infantry Squad Decision-Making Training Project is to enhance overall combat effectiveness by applying relevant training technologies from the Tactical Decision Making Under Stress (TADMUS) program to Marine Corps training. Because today's Marine Corps personnel face dynamic operational requirements that can easily shift between peace and wartime conditions, the need for split-second coordination and decision-making becomes crucial. Products of this effort will include specific guidelines that can be used to integrate TADMUS decision-making and team coordination strategies into Marine Squad training programs. The development of guidelines and principles for Marine Corps training will require unique knowledge of the decision-making processes and team functions characteristic to tactical operations. It will require experience in performing team-level training needs analyses, where particular focus is directed to (a) the structure of work flow within the team that is demanded by team task requirements, (b) the work flow arrangements which have separate implications for the influence of individual-versus-team-level effects, and (c) the identification of influences and components of collective performance that may be operating simultaneously at multiple levels or across groupings of individuals that represent different functional activities. This effort will also require experience with the training technologies developed under the TADMUS program and the ability to extract and apply those technologies to a new operational arena. Lastly, it will require experience in writing guidelines and principles. Only an offeror with this unique mix of knowledge and experience can produce the analysis and guidelines required by this project. Accordingly, this effort will be awarded on a sole source basis to Executive Consulting Group, 409 Vesper Court, Slingerlands, New York 12159. A detailed Description of Work and Request for Quotation (RFQ) will be made available upon request. The anticipated period of performance shall be five (5) months from the date of contract award and award shall be made on a Firm Fixed Price basis utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures. See Note 22 (forty-five days is changed to read fifteen days). Quote is due at 2:00PM EST on 12 February 1999 and may be made by FAX to (407)380-4069 (Attn: Jeanne Morrison, Code 25724) or to the address above. For information regarding this procurement, contact Jeanne Morrison at (407)380-4052. Posted 01/14/99 (W-SN288323). (0014)

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