The contractor is required to provide a team largely comprised of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who deeply understand SOF and their partner organizations. This team must be proficient in using key training tools, including the Joint Training System, Joint Training Tool (JTT), Defense Readiness Reporting System, Universal Joint Task List (UJTL), and the Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS). They will use these tools to support government activities across the globe, both in the identification of their training requirements and in the planning and execution of joint training events.
- Full-time Roles: Core positions in exercise planning, scenario design, operations support, senior SOF advising, senior operations and plans, and integrated support across other functional roles, domains, and mission areas.
- Part-time Roles: Surge support for training scenarios, intelligence integration, and interagency collaboration, including SMEs in specialized domains.
- Flexibility and Cross Utilization: Personnel must be adaptable and prepared to operate across functional, operational, and regional domains with government guidance or direction.
Performance Focus Areas:
- Integration with USSOCOM and partner commands to ensure seamless exercise planning and execution.
- Ability to rapidly respond to short-term episodic training events world-wide.
- Scenario Development & After-action Reviews to drive continuous improvement and readiness.
- Compliance & Performance Monitoring: Strong internal quality controls (QCP) and real-time reporting to meet government expectations.
- Adaptive Management: Contractor-led oversight with contract Integrator roles ensuring cost, schedule, and mission alignment.
Contractor personnel will directly support government-led efforts. They will not independently plan or execute training and readiness program requirements but will be responsible for:
- Providing cross-functional and regionally aligned support, including participation in Joint Training Teams, Exercise Control Groups, Operational Planning Cells, and Battle Staff Readiness teams.
- Providing real-time operational support to planning and readiness events, ensuring such activities align with USSOCOM’s strategic priorities and are responsively adapted to satisfy dynamic changes in the type and degree of event support required.
- Assisting with integration and evaluation of SOF specific tasks.
- Coordinating and delivering detailed scenario development, exercise scripting, task performance observations, and after-action reviews to ensure continuous improvement and enhanced warfighting capabilities.
- Documenting performance and adapting support based on government priorities.
The contractor must maintain a robust management framework, including:
- Management & Controls: Provide contract Integrator and Task Leads for end-to-end contract oversight, performance monitoring, and adaptation to changing mission needs. Contract Integrator must have an extensive SOF background and both the authority and experience to oversee cost, schedule, and performance for all task orders.
- Quality & Compliance: Maintain a Quality Control Plan (QCP) aligned with government standards, and ensure all personnel meet specified and implied deliverables.
- Reporting: Submit required monthly and quarterly reports, including updates on staffing, performance, and travel costs.
- Training & Export Control: Ensure personnel meet all onboarding, training, and export control compliance requirements, as enabled by vendor having International Traffic in Arms Regulations licenses for applicable countries.
- Continuous Process Improvement: leverage resources to perpetuate an environment that fosters incremental enhancements in performance – and event related outcomes and deliverables.
