The Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Test Center, 412th Test Wing, 412th Test Engineering Group has requirement for instrumentation configuration management support and development.

The Instrumentation Loading, Integration, Analysis and Decommutation (ILIAD) design allows different organizations to contribute and share information relevant to the design, maintenance, and support of real- time instrumentation systems. ILIAD is designed to provide the tools necessary to manage information, program instrumentation, analyze test data and perform mission playback. The primary goal is to support flight line personnel, test engineers and technicians with automated tools for programming support, pre- flight validation, in flight telemetry, decom, display of EU data and post-test analysis for airborne and ground-based systems. The system has been designed to enable engineers to batch process jobs for the conversion of digitized raw data into user specified raw samples or engineering units that can be output into several format types. The system supports an enterprise level web-based data mining application which allows multiple engineers to concurrently search, retrieve and analyze large amounts of test data – quickly and readily. These systems operate on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) computer hardware, data storage systems, associated peripherals and components assembled, configured, and integrated to meet instrumentation configuration requirements.

• The Contractor will be required to provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, vehicles, supervision, incidental supplies, and services, except those specified as Government Furnished Property (GFP), perform design, system integration, installation, configuration, start-up, initial operation and data analysis, and training for Cloud Hybrid Edge-to-Enterprise Evaluation & Test Analysis Suite (CHEETAS) Knowledge Management systems organized into Solution for Advanced Fast Analysis of RDT&E Information (SAFARI) configurations. Services related to the Instrumentation Loading, Integration, Analysis and Decommutation (ILIAD) system. The support includes maintenance and operational services; engineering technical and development services; supplies, tools, and equipment; system integration; emergency repairs; manuals, documentation, and licenses, to include legacy systems.
• The Contractor may be required to operate outside of ordinary business hours and to operate away from their home office and well-developed Government facilities.  The Contractor may be required to operate both within CONUS and OCONUS in conjunction with official United States activities.  The United States Government granted security clearances will be required.
• Unless otherwise specified, the Contractor is required to provide Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products and services as described in their product and service price list to satisfy the requirements and be in readiness to integrate and support both new and legacy COTS Automatic Data Processing Equipment (ADPE) products which will be provided as Government Furnished Property.
• The Contractor will be required to provide or integrate individual ADPE, data center products and systems products that are consistent with rapid ingest, transport, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of flight test data sets, and processing flight test data acquisition system configuration software, and suitable for use as CHEETAS systems.
• The Contractor will be required to provide CHEETAS software and required licenses to support new CHEETAS and ILIAD system installations and requirements.
• Required services include providing multiple OEM equipment system integration, Dell/EMC legacy system integration, technical support, fabrication, and delivery of one-of-a-kind ADPE and other special support hardware systems built to the user’s specifications, as required in orders. Some equipment may be sourced from multiple vendors and manufacturers or may be issued by users as GFE.  Services to support CHEETAS systems, SAFARI systems, Big Data and Data Mining techniques including data management, data storage, data analysis, data structure, and data display software, tools, equipment, systems, and procedures to examine flight test data sets and to report findings and results, consistent with requirements identified in order requirements.  Services to support the ILIAD software suite include technical support (answering questions about usage, configuration, suitability, and correct performance of software); flight test data acquisition system configurations troubleshooting; identifying and correcting data errors, data transport, and data interface incompatibilities and errors; software engineering and development; change control; configuration control; and configuration management of the ILIAD Toolset will be required. Thorough working and programming knowledge of C, C+, C++, JET, SQL, SQL Server, and SQL Server Express software is required.
• Required Maintenance includes ADPE system sustainment maintenance, ADPE routine and emergency repair, telephone diagnostic support, on-site, diagnostic support, software sustainment, software emergency repair, depot repair service, diagnostics, recommended maintenance actions, recommended repairs, actual repairs, verification, and validation of the repaired system.
• Required System Enhancements and Modifications include Software Enhancements, Hardware Enhancements, Configuration Management and Reporting, Source Code and Software archiving, equipment integration, technical support, fabrication, and delivery of one-of-a-kind special support hardware built to the user’s specifications, as required.
• The capability statement should demonstrate their Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is consistent with ISO/IEC TR 29110 “Systems and Software Engineering – Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities (VSEs)”, or other recognized commercial best practice for SDLC.
• Maintenance is defined as services required to resolve cybersecurity issues; or to restore correct operation and performance of designated hardware, software, and/or database systems; or to minimize operating flaws (i.e. bugs), and enhance compliance with security classification, cybersecurity, information assurance, government accreditation requirements, and industry best practices.
• Enhancement is defined as a modification beyond a configuration change that adds or alters functionality to an item, or substantially increases its reliability, maintainability and useful life beyond ordinary sustainment or repair. The modification shall be at the request of the Government to meet a specific requirement. Enhancements shall also include modification for compatibility with new target operating systems, system architectures or Government operational environment requirements. An existing product that is on the product price list that adds capability to a system without modification is not considered an enhancement.
• Other required services include technical interchange meetings, requirements reviews, preliminary design reviews, critical design reviews, meeting minutes, technical reports, prototyping, component and system testing, verification and validation testing, and other technical reviews and technical activities as needed, consistent with system engineering best practices and task requirements.
• Software developed under this contract shall include Government Purpose rights to original or source code, and to build files and procedures necessary to create running software for use and distribution. Databases developed under this contract shall include Government Purpose rights to the database schema, structure, all queries, and views, and to all additional scripts or code used to manipulate the database. Hardware developed under this contract shall include Government Purpose rights to system design, architecture, and implementation details and specifications.