The purpose of the contract will be to inform and enable addressing Installation & Mission Support (I&MS) challenges by implementing data-centric solutions to improve efficiency, achieve greater cost-effectiveness, and enhance I&MS capabilities for AFIMSC and the Air Force at large.
This effort will require non-personal services of approximately 25 – 35 full-time equivalent contractor support staff.
Most of the work will be unclassified; however, some of the wargaming operations research tasks will need to be performed at the secret level on Government-provided facilities. Additionally, the data-centric solutions developed, deployed, and managed under this contract will utilize existing Air Force and/or Department of Defense-managed enterprise data platforms, such as VAULT, Envision, Advana, etc.
Source: RFI, March 2025
The AFIMSC Studies, Analyses, Assessments, and Lessons Learned Directorate (AFIMSC/A9) has two (2) GS-1515 Operations Research Analysts (ORAs) Government employees to support the analysis needs of AFIMSC’s globally integrated management, resourcing, combat support operations, Airmen, Guardians and family services, base communications, chaplain, civil engineering, contracting, logistics readiness, public affairs, security forces and financial management programs.
During the AFIMSC stand up, the Air Force estimated the need for analytical support to be approximately 14 full time ORA staff. However, the center has never had this level of analytics support staffing, either organically or through contractor support staffing. As a result, the lack of analysts has led to challenges with AFIMSC/A9’s ability to provide the analytic capabilities needed to support AFIMSC strategic initiatives.
A combined organic and contractor support staff AFIMSC/A9 team and augmented contractor support can be leveraged to give AFIMSC the analytical depth to maintain a data-driven synergy across all 78 Air Force and Space Force Installations in support of AFIMSC, DoD, OEIs, and National Defense Strategies, Department of the Air Force (DAF) Analytic Priorities, and DAF Project Phalanx (PAD 22-03 Analytic Organization Implementation).
This is a non-personal services contract to provide full-time equivalent operations research and advanced data analytics contractor support staff services in direct support of AFIMSC organizations. The primary physical work locations for day-to-day support will be within Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA). Travel may be required to support mission needs at other locations.
The purpose of the contract will be to inform and enable addressing Installation & Mission Support (I&MS) challenges by implementing data-centric solutions to improve efficiency, achieve greater cost-effectiveness, and enhance I&MS capabilities for AFIMSC and the Air Force at large.
Specifically, this contract will provide a range of Data Science and Operations Research capabilities for all headquarters AFIMSC Directorates, to include but not limited to, Modeling and Simulation, Optimization, Artificial Intelligence Application, Risk Analysis, Game Theory, Data Visualization, Data Lake Migration and Integration, Metric Development and Refinement, Cloud Integration, Robotic Process Automation, Data Hygiene, and Data and Record Management. Additionally, this contract will provide support to manage interfaces between existing systems and processes as well as continual product management and improvement of existing dashboards, databases, visualizations and tools.
The contractor shall provide collaborative analytical support to AFIMSC senior decision makers and develop critical insights across the enterprise. The contractor shall provide staff to augment existing AFIMSC government personnel in support of AFIMSC’s push into more advanced data analytics to include support in a number of areas such as Simulation, Optimization, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Advanced Statistical Analysis, Regression, Data Science, Decision Analysis, Performance Metric Development, Risk Assessment, Scheduling, Process Improvement, Process Automation, and other areas within the Operations Research technical domain. Through personnel augmentation the contractor shall provide a surge analytical capability that is currently unavailable at AFIMSC.
Analytic support will entail using Data Fabric platforms (Envision, VAULT, ADVANA, BLADE, UDL, etc.) and employing operations research analysis using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation software, SAS, Tableau, Microsoft Power Platform, and open-source coding (using Python, R, etc.), existing tools developed with Visual Basic, and other available software for tool development and analysis. Expertise and familiarity in this area is beneficial for advanced analysis and tool development. Experience and familiarity with wargaming, i.e., Futures Game (FG), Long Duration Logistics Wargame (LDLW), Global Engagement (GE), etc. is of benefit to the modeling and simulation analysis that will be provided during those events. The focus of effort can include sustainment of existing tools, as well as new development of tools and analysis. Administrative support will entail capturing meeting minutes, scheduling meetings, assisting with RFIs to answer taskers, report writing, bullet papers, and other project management related activities.
A broad categorization of work projects across AFIMSC fall into the major categories detailed below:
- AFIMSC/A9 & HQ
- General Innovation Assistance
- Special Project Design/Support (PRISM, ATLAS)
- PSU Dedicated Support
- Democratize Data Enablement: Data Science Education
- Explore Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Application
- Enterprise Planning Transformation
- Mission-Essential Projects
- Time Sensitive and Critical Problems
- Support & Collaboration with SAF/CO (Chief Data Office)
- AFIMSC Directorates
- I2S Metrics
- Energy Assurance Analysis
- Energy/Utilities Performance
- Basing and Beddown Planning Transformation
- Cloud integration of multiple Civil Engineer data platforms
- PSU Basing Support Program Development
- Strategic Capacity and Compatibility Analysis Transformation
- Geospatial Program Transformation
- AMP Manager Direct Support
- Facility Operations Cost Growth Modeling
Source: PWS, March 2025
The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (AFIMSC) serves as the single intermediate-level headquarters responsible for providing installation and mission support capabilities to 78 Air Force and Space Force installations, nine major commands, and two direct reporting units with an annual budget of approximately $8 billion. The AFIMSC cross-functional team provides globally integrated management, resourcing, and combat support operations for Airman and family services, base communications, chaplain, civil engineering, contracting, logistics readiness, public affairs, security forces, and financial management programs.
The AFIMSC/A99 Operations Research & Advanced Analytics has two organic 1515 Operations Research Analysts (ORAs) to support center activities on a daily basis. The AFIMSC cross-functional team provides globally integrated management, resourcing and combat support operations for Airman and family services, base communications, chaplain, civil engineering, contracting, logistics readiness, public affairs, security forces and financial management programs. During the IMSC stand up, the Air Force estimated the need for analytical support to be approximately 14 full time staff. The center has not had this level of staffing, either organically or through augmented support contracting. The lack of analysts has led to challenges with the center and limited AFIMSC/A99’s ability to execute the fully developed and defined analytic agenda. A combined AFIMSC/A99 organic team and augmented contractor support can be leveraged to give IMSC the analytical depth to maintain a data-driven synergy across all 78 Air Force and Space Force Installations in support of IMSC, DoD, OEIs, and NDS Strategies, DAF Analytic Priorities, and DAF Project Phalanx (PAD 22-03 Analytic Organization Implementation).
Source: PWS, April 2024
