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On July 29, the Department of Defense (DoD) posted a sources sought notice for Scientific Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA) II. Responses are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on August 9.
The DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) is designated as a Federal Cyber Center, is the DoD Center of Excellence for Digital and Multimedia (D/MM) forensics, and serves as the operational focal point for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity program. To fulfill its mission, DC3 has collaborated with The Secretary of the Air Force, Concepts, Development, and Management (SAF/CDM) Office and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Headquarters, Cyber Division (XRY) to bring complex cyber operational capabilities to the Air Force.
SAF/CDM explores new concepts, develops emerging opportunities, and manages high-priority projects and programs to provide innovative solutions to Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD). AFOSI/XRY is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the Air Force Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence (LE/CI) cyber mission against criminal and foreign intelligence threats. To meet current and projected workload requirements DC3, its current partners SAF/CDM and AFOSI, and adjacent stakeholders must augment its military and civilian workforce with appropriate, highly skilled, analytic, and cyber oriented technical professional services support.
Specifically, Scientific Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA) II support to apply knowledge of cyber operations, LE/CI concepts, architectures, systems, hardware (HW) / software (SW) components & protocols, and technologies to analyze proposals, project plans and deliverables for accuracy, compliance, security, and completeness for the Government.
The SETA II support team requires extensive expertise in systems engineering, cyber–Law Enforcement (LE)/Counterintelligence (CI)/Counterespionage (CE) tools and techniques, as well as a deep understanding of cyber operations, cyber threats, risk mitigation, government acceptance testing, program management, and financial management. Specific tasks encompass technical analyses for trade studies, cyber capability assessments, lab testing, tool evaluations, support for field test demonstrations, system performance tracking and documentation, vendor market surveys, supportability technical data development, training, transition planning, and implementing new capabilities within a flexible enterprise system architecture environment.
This support also involves developing workflow solutions for the enterprise service management infrastructure, utilizing both classified and unclassified system data sources for the AF Cyber system architecture. This includes improving processes and introducing technical innovations to display operational system and support data for end-users, support providers, and Government stakeholders.
Furthermore, the Contractor will provide engineering and technical enterprise service support, including feasibility studies, analysis of alternatives, technical services during planning, construction or installation phases, inspection, and evaluation of engineering projects to including independent validation and verification and penetration testing as necessary, and related services to support platform, tools, or capability instantiation. Throughout these tasks, adherence to relevant DoD and AF guidance and Instructions is paramount.
Review the DC3 SETA II sources sought.
Source: SAM
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