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A -- R&D SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A TAXONOMY SOL N61339-99-Q-0099 DUE 050399 POC Brenda Rhodes, Purchasing Agent, 407/380/4306 E-MAIL: NAWCTSD, RhodesBK@navair.navy.mil. 17. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial service prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotation are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation No. N61339-99-Q-0099 is hereby issued as a request for quotation (RFQ) and incorporates the provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-09. This solicitation is set-aside for small business. The SIC Code for this solicitation is 8999 with annual receipt of $5M. The following Service is required: DEVELOPMENT OF A TAXONOMY FOR EVALUATING COMPUTER GENERATED FORCES & COGNITIVE MODELING TOOLS, as per the following Description of Work (DOW). 1.0 Scope: The contractor shall provide support for special technology area research into development of a taxonomy for computer generated forces (CGFs) and cognitive/ behavioral modeling (CBM) applications and techniques for use within Department of Defense (DoD)-related modeling and simulation projects. This taxonomy will assist DoD in selecting the most promising CGF/CBM for various mission areas. The contractor shall specifically examine the CGF/CBM applications and techniques from an artificial intelligence/knowledge representation capability and from a cognitive representational ability. 2.0 Background: The increasing use of simulations for military training, mission rehearsal, analysis, acquisition, and command decision aiding applications, together with their extension into the domain of joint operations, places far greater expectations on the output of the underlying models than originally intended. In particular, most synthetic force models within military simulations have been constructed using relatively primitive human models in which the richness of behavior and decision-making are represented in only a coarse and brittle manner. This has produced simulated opponent and allied forces with unrealistic behavior and simplistic responses that do not correspond to the behavior of real individual soldiers or units. Advances in the psychological, organizational and sociological sciences have produced a large body of knowledge in human behavior and cognition that to date has been incorporated only minimally into CGFs. This program has been established to facilitate the inclusion of this science in CGFs towards improved realism of military simulations. The results will be described as a taxonomy, for developers of CGFs and CBM techniques, intended to provide a common frame of reference; an understanding of the interplay between military simulation environments and specific behavioral representations; and increase communication among the various disciplines that contribute to the modeling and simulation enterprise. 3.0 Requirements: The contractor shall meet with the NAWCTSD Principal Investigator (D. Lyons) in Orlando, FL on a monthly basis to provide work status and discuss progress. 3.1 Task 1 -- Recommended CGF/CBM Evaluation Taxonomy: The contractor shall: 3.1.1 -- Review Modeling Human and Organizational Behavior (Pew and Mavor 1998), published by the National Research Council, to select the CGF/CBM applications and techniques to evaluate. 3.1.2 -- Create an evaluation taxonomy by developing a list of relevant and discriminatory features that may be used to evaluate a given list of CGF/CBM applications and techniques. 3.1.3 Task progress shall be summarized in the contractor's monthly progress report and task completion shall be detailed in a final report. 3.2 Task 2 -- Update Taxonomy Based on Feedback: The contractor shall: 3.2.1 -- Identify the appropriate community to provide feedback on the Task 1 evaluation taxonomy. 3.2.2 -- Distribute the evaluation taxonomy to the community identified in 3.2.1. 3.2.3 -- Conduct a one-day workshop in Orlando, FL to present the Task 1 evaluation taxonomy (this includes obtaining facilities, identifying a date and time, and inviting the community identified in 3.2.1 to participate in the workshop). 3.2.4 -- Invite and fund travel for a panel of eight (8) experts from within the community identified in 3.2.1 to present their feedback on the Task 1 evaluation taxonomy during the workshop. 3.2.5 -- Collect feedback from the workshop participants during the workshop. 3.2.6 -- Summarize the feedback and prepare a final evaluation taxonomy. 3.2.7 -- Task progress shall be summarized in the contractor's monthly progress report and task completion shall be detailed in a final report. 4.0 Documentation: 4.1 -- Contractor Progress, Status, and Management Report: The contractor shall prepare and submit a monthly Contractors Progress, Status, and Management Report. Submission shall be due the 15th of each month beginning with the second month after contract award through the end of the contract. Copies shall be distributed as follows: NAWCTSD (Lyons), one copy; NAWCTSD (PCO), one copy. The Government shall have 30 days for review and acceptance/rejection. Acceptance of any progress report which includes information concerning changes in contract requirements/standards/ specifications does not constitute Government agreement to those changes; only by direction of the Contracting Officer can such changes be made. 4.2 -- Scientific and Technical Report, 4.2.1 -- Report On A Recommended CGF/CBM Evaluation Taxonomy -- The contractor shall prepare and submit a final report detailing the results of Tasks 1 and 2. Contractor format is acceptable. Submission shall be due seven (7) months after contract award. Copies shall be distributed as follows: NAWCTSD (Lyons), three paper copies, one electronic copy; NAWCTSD (PCO), cover letter only. The electronic copy shall be submitted on a 3 " disk in an electronic format that is compatible with Microsoft Word 7.0 or higher for Windows. The Government shall have 30 days for review and acceptance/rejection. 5.0 Period of Performance: All efforts shall be completed under this contract no later than seven (7) months after contract award (END OF DESCRIPTION OF WORK). SELECTION CRITERIA: The contract resulting from this Request for Quotation (RFQ) will be awarded to that responsible offeror whose quote, conforming to the RFQ, is determined most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The evaluation factors listed below are in descending order of importance: Personnel, Past Performance, Price. Although price is the less important evaluation factor, it is important and should not be ignored. The degree of its importance will increase with the degree of equality of the proposals in relation to personnel qualifications and past performance, or when it is so significantly high as to diminish the value of the superiority of the personnel or quality of the past performance to the Government. PERSONNEL: Resumes shall be provided for all proposed personnel. The contractor's team shall consist of personnel having the following qualifications, as a minimum. How the proposed personnel meet the qualifications must be addressed separately and in detail. Qualifications can be concurrent for individual personnel; i.e., it is possible for a single person to meet all thirteen (13) qualification requirements. 1: At least one member who has obtained advanced degrees in both Psychology and Engineering. 2: At least one member who has obtained an advanced degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. 3: At least one member who has served as a Principal Investigator in conducting research for Navy training applications. Experience in distributed and embedded simulation based training is preferred. 4: At least one member who has served as a Principal Investigator in conducting research for Army training applications. Experience in distributed and embedded simulation based training is preferred. 5: At least one member who has served as a Principal Investigator in conducting research for Air Force training applications. Experience in distributed and embedded simulation based training is preferred. 6: At least one memberwho has served as a Principal Investigator in conducting research on computer generated forces. Performance with Government laboratories is preferred. 7: At least one member who has served as a Principal Investigator in conducting research on human behavior modeling. Performance with Government laboratories is preferred. 8: At least one member who has served as a Principal Investigator in conducting research on artificial intelligence. Performance with Government laboratories is preferred. 9: At least one member who has published research in a technical report or journal article on the topic of military training. 10: At least one member who has published research in a technical report or journal article on the topic of computer generated forces. 11: At least one member who has published research in a technical report or journal article on the topic of human behavior modeling. 12: At least one member who has published research in a technical report or journal article on the topic of artificial intelligence. 13: At least one member who has organized and facilitated a workshop or conference. PAST PERFORMANCE: The offeror shall provide past performance information, to include recent (past two (2) years) and relevant contracts for the same or similar items and other references (including contract numbers, points of contact with telephone numbers and other relevant information). The Government reserves the right to consider past performance data from a wide variety of sources both inside and outside the Federal Government. PRICE: Each offeror shall provide a brief labor cost breakdown, including direct and indirect rates. The following FAR provisions and clauses apply to this acquisition. 52.212-1, 52.212-3, 52.212-4, 52.212-5. The following subparagraphs of FAAR 52.212-5(b), and DFARS addenda thereto, apply: (6), (7), (8), (9) and (16); 252.225-7001 and 252.225-7036. A completed copy of FAR 52.212-3 and the following DFARS addenda, must be included with quote: 252.225-7000 and 252.225-7035. See Note 22 (forty-five days is changed to read fifteen days). Quote is due at 4PM EST. on 3 May 1999 and may be made by FAX to (407) 380-4069(ATTN: Ms. Brenda Rhodes). Posted 04/12/99 (W-SN318225). (0102)

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