The Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), has a sizable brain power requirement for its DoD Information Analysis Centers (IAC). It’s calling upon contractors to provide it. And there is no telling what great stuff the geniuses put to work under this effort will come up with.
Two separate RFI’s have been issued for this $28B – Repeat: $28B! — Multiple Award IDIQ, F&O/SBSA contract. DOD/DTIC obviously needs time, and data, to think through all the provided info in order to develop an optimal strategy for cost-effectively bringing home state-of-the-art, advanced technical and scientific bacon. The draft RFP dropped on March 31; and the finalized solicitation material is expected out sometime this summer.
Who Will Lead in Evaluating Your Proposal?
Thomas Gillespie
Director DoD IACs (2013 – )
IAC Director Thomas Gillespie also serves as Chairman of the Source Selection and Evaluation Board (SSEB). His career includes 25 years as an officer in the US Marines. He holds a Masters Degree in operations research from the Navy Postgraduate School, and his thesis topic was — “Modeling the Combat Power Potential of Marine Corps Close Air Support.” He holds a Masters Degree in philosophy from Harvard with thesis topic of — “Nietzsche: Truth, Illusion, and Philosophic Method.”
BIO METRICS – Where will bioresearch lead?
An Impressive Legacy
For over 65 years, the IACs have provided the technical data and analytics that support DoD operations. The IACs collect, analyze and reuse data to answer recurring challenges, identify long-term trends and provide recommendations to the DoD research and acquisition communities. The purpose of this effort is to give military commanders the information they need to make correct data-driven, battle-winning decisions. IAC motto: “Bringing the ‘Think Tank’ to the Battlespace.”
Specific areas to be covered include:
- DS-1 Survivability and Vulnerability
- DS-2 Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability
- DS-3 Military Sensing
- DS-4 Advanced Materials
- DS-5 Energetics
- DS-6 Non-Lethal Weapons and Information Operations
- DS-7 Directed Energy Weapons
- DS-8 Autonomous Weapon Systems
- DS-9 Weapons Systems
- DS-10 – C4ISR
- HD-1 Homeland Defense & Security
- HD-2 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
- HD-3 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
- HD-4 Biometrics
- HD-5 Medical
- HD-6 Cultural Studies
- HD-7 Alternative Energy
- CS-1 Software Data and Analysis
- CS-2 Cyber security (formerly called
- Information Assurance (IA)
- CS-3 Modeling and Simulation
EQUIPPING TOMORROW’S WARFIGHTER – Ready for Action….
- CS-4 Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
- CB-1 – CBRN Defense
Planning for the Future?
Personnel assigned to IACs will be called upon to provide reports, technical data and analyses in SOARS – State of the Art Reports. They will be called upon to establish Communities of Practice, exchanges where they can collaborate and answer Technical Enquiries in 4 hours or less, and Extended Enquiries in a 24-40 hour time frame.
Technical Area Tasks (TAT) – (in the form of Task Orders) will range in size from a few thousand dollars to over $100 million each. These arrangements are not to be used for staff augmentation or routine operations, but limited solely to provision of the scientific and technical information to win on the battlefield.
Dr. Strangelove — THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE/ PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE – While being well paid for it, and having a jolly good time in the process…while it lasts.
What Bidders Need to be Doing Now
Bidders should be finishing Business Development and Capture activities aggressively and preparing their submissions now. They should be near completion of teaming decisions, as well as have their proposal plan and zero hour schedule ready. For those who feel they’re behind the curve, there may still be time to mount a winning campaign, but not much. If you think you can win but are too far behind, call in consultants to have the critical mass. Time to kick it into high gear.
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