DC3/AFOSI SETA II Support

cepts, develops emerging opportunities, and manages high-priority projects and programs to provide innovative solutions to the Air Force and DoD. AFOSI/XRY is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the Air Force Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence (LE/CI) cyber mission against criminal and foreign intelligence threats. To meet current and projected workload requirements, DC3, its current partners (SAF/CDM and AFOSI), and adjacent stakeholders must augment its military and civilian workforce with appropriate, highly skilled, analytic, and cyber oriented technical professional services support. Specifically, Scientific Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA) support capable of applying knowledge/expertise of cyber operations, LE/CI concepts, architectures, systems, hardware (HW) / software (SW) components & protocols, and technologies to analyze proposals, project plans and deliverables for accuracy, compliance, security, and completeness for the Government. (U) Administrative & Management Support Services (NAICS 541611) (U) Engineering and Support Services (NAICS 541330) (U) Section I � Refinement of requirements (U) 1.1 Objectives: The SETA II support team is expected to draft, edit and fully coordinate technical projects across multiple stakeholders and organizations to include plans that permit the integration of cyber capabilities into infrastructure baselines following legal, regulatory and security requirements. (U) 1.1.1 The SETA II support team conducts project planning to include development and management of technical requirements, budget forecasts and estimates, and schedules for project government leads. (U) 1.1.2 The SETA II team members are considered a key part of a multi-discipline project team, integrating technical knowledge with operational and threat intelligence information to create holistic capability proposals for transition to operational use. (U) 1.2 Scope: The SETA II support team requires extensive expertise in systems engineering, Cyber�Law Enforcement (LE)/Counterintelligence (CI)/Counterespionage (CE) tools and techniques, as well as a deep understanding of cyber operations, cyber threats, risk mitigation, government acceptance testing, program management, and financial management. Specific tasks encompass technical analyses for trade studies, cyber capability assessments, lab testing, tool evaluations, support for field test demonstrations, system performance tracking and documentation, vendor market surveys, supportability technical data development, training, transition planning, and implementing new capabilities within a flexible enterprise system architecture environment. (U) This support also involves developing workflow solutions for the enterprise service management infrastructure, utilizing both classified and unclassified system data sources for the AF Cyber system architecture. This includes improving processes and introducing technical innovations to display operational system and support data for end-users, support providers, and Government stakeholders. (U) Furthermore, the Contractor will provide engineering and technical enterprise service support, including feasibility studies, analysis of alternatives, technical services during planning, construction or installation phases, inspection, and evaluation of engineering projects to including independent validation and verification and penetration testing as necessary, and related services to support platform, tools, or capability instantiation. Throughout these tasks, adherence to relevant DoD and AF guidance and Instructions is paramount. (U) 1.3 Standard of Conduct: The Contractor shall adhere to and operate within imposed government official policies, regulations, instructions and directives; completing all steps required to achieve systems accreditations at various levels, to include: design, design documentation, technical development, developmental and operational testing, security assessments, and operational documentation (operating manuals, user and administrator manuals, software design description, functional design/description document) through various certifications (e.g. security A&A, JITC). It is critical for the contractor to ensure the documents are completed throughout the project in a way that will satisfy the accreditation reviews at the end of the project. (U) Section II � Definitions and FAR/DFAR/Air Force Compliance Requirements (U) The following FAR and DFAR information is provided as additional context to support the above requirements: FAR Subpart 37.2 - Advisory & Assistance Services (37.200-207), DFAR Subpart 209.5 - Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest (Revised October 30, 2023), 209.5711 (U) Definitions. (U) "Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance." "Systems Engineering" means an interdisciplinary technical effort to evolve and verify an integrated and total life cycle balanced set of system, people, and process solutions that satisfy customer needs. (U) "Technical Assistance" means the acquisition support, program management support, analyses, and other activities involved in the management and execution of an acquisition program. (U) "Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance" (U) Means a combination of activities related to the development of technical information to support various acquisition processes. Examples of systems engineering and technical assistance activities include, but are not limited to, supporting acquisition efforts such as: (U) Deriving requirements (U) Performing technology assessments (U) Developing acquisition strategies (U) Conducting risk assessments (U) Developing cost estimates (U) Determining specifications (U) Evaluating contractor performance and conducting independent verification and validation (U) Directing other contractors' (other than subcontractors) operations (U) Developing test requirements and evaluating test data (U) Developing work statements (but see paragraph (ii)(B) of this definition) Does not include: (U) Design and development work of design and development contractors, in accordance with FAR 9.505-2(a)(3) or FAR 9.505-2(b)(3), and the guidance at PGI 209.571-7 (DFARS/PGI view); or (U) Preparation of work statements by contractors, acting as industry representatives, under the supervision and control of Government representatives, in accordance with FAR 9.505-2(b)(1)(ii). (U) Section III � Organizational Conflict of Interest Information/Requirements (U) Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) for this RFI pertains to demonstrated compliance. As such, replies from industry partners interested in this opportunity must clearly demonstrate their understanding and strict compliance as this RFI pertains to FAR Subpart 9.5: (U) According to Air Force guidance, contractors must strictly avoid any potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI), including the appearance of a perceived OCI condition, and/or prior existence of an OCI condition, by disclosing any potential conflicts to the contracting officer and taking steps to mitigate or avoid them, often by following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 9.5 which outlines procedures for identifying and managing OCIs; this includes situations where a contractor might gain an unfair competitive advantage through prior knowledge of government requirements due to previous work with the Air Forc