The Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, NIWC Pacific has a continuing requirement for Cyber Warfare Support.

Cyberspace Operations are the employment of cyberspace capabilities where the primary purpose is to achieve objectives in or through the cyberspace domain. This domain is defined by the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) as “a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures, including the internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems and embedded processors and controllers.” The successful execution of Cyberspace Operations requires the integrated and synchronized employment of offensive, defensive, and Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN) operations, underpinned by effective and timely operational preparation of the Operating Environment. Cyberspace Operations missions encompass Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO), Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO), and DODIN Operations, based on their intent, not on the specific effects created, or the capabilities used. OCO are intended to project power by the application of force in and through cyberspace; they include operations to attack automated systems (e.g., Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)), and the interaction between the physical, social and biological networks that define human-machine interaction. DCO are intended to defend DoD or other friendly cyberspace domains, including network operations that encompass friendly C4ISR and Information Operations (IO) functions that occur within the cyberspace domain. DODIN Operations are actions taken to design, build, configure, secure, operate, maintain, and sustain DoD communications systems and networks in a way that creates and preserves data availability, integrity, and confidentiality, as well as user/entity authentication, authorization, and non-repudiation. DODIN Operations includes cyber security activities, security engineering, and all other activities and actions taken to ensure the integrity of systems, networks, and nodes that enable friendly use of the cyberspace domain. These missions are planned and executed at all levels of military operations, and commanders use Joint Functions concepts to integrate cyberspace capabilities into operational planning and execution, and to synchronize Cyberspace Operations with other operations and effects within the battlespace.

• The scope of this contract will include efforts to examine the architecture, engineering, functionality, interface and interoperability of Cyberspace Operations systems, services and capabilities at the tactical, operational and strategic levels, to include all enabling technologies. This will include operational exercise design and construction, operations and requirements analysis, concept formulation and development, feasibility demonstrations and operational and technical support. This will include efforts to analyze and engineer operational, functional and system requirements in order to establish national, theater and force level architecture. Further, these requirements will drive engineering plans, interface and systems specifications and definitions, and implementation, including hardware acquisition for turnkey systems. Additional efforts will include requirements verification and validation, engineering analysis, technical documentation, software and hardware design and implementation as well as systems integration, test and evaluation and demonstration, applying a systems engineering approach to development while ensuring secure development practices through DevSecOps methodologies. Research and development in advanced technology and special technical operations requires periodic Contractor augmentation of a technical or scientific nature to meet technical as well as operational commitments and/or requirements. Contractor support is also required to supplement or provide personnel with specific expertise that is limited or not available at NIWC Pacific. Areas of expertise that may be required include, but are not limited to: Cyberspace Operations doctrine/tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP); policy and strategy; operational planning, analysis and intelligence assessment; measures of effectiveness (MOE) and measures of performance (MOP) development and evaluation; electronic warfare; quantum computing; machine learning & artificial intelligence (AI); wargaming, modeling and simulation; systems engineering, systems analysis; computer hardware and software engineering and development, implementation and integration; operational research and analysis; communications and networking hardware; protocols; and security; and Configuration Management (CM) to ensure system baselines, version control, and traceability throughout the lifecycle.