The Department of the Air Force, Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force has a requirement to provide expert advice and support with the management, improvement, and integration of AF/A4 Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection (LEF) activities.

The 2022 National Defense Strategy demands that the Air Force focus on great power competition in environments where logistics and supply lines that once enjoyed relative sanctuary are now susceptible to attack. This will require command and control across all domains – sea, land, air, space, and cyber. To meet and exceed these requirements, as defined in the Sustainment Strategy Framework (SSF) the Air Force will, “transform the sustainment enterprise from a federation of fragmented organizations, focused on local optimization, to Total Force, operational readiness-focused network.” As part of the broader Department of Defense (DoD) effort to better support the warfighter and to meet financial improvement audit readiness timelines, the Air Force (AF) is focused on transforming and optimizing the sustainment (A4) enterprise to meet operational and financial readiness requirements as described in the National Defense Strategy. Ensuring alignment to higher-level strategies (ie. National Military Strategy, National Defense Business Operations Plan, Air Force Business Operations Plan, Digital Air Force Strategy, Artificial Intelligence Strategy, etc), Air Force Operating Concepts (ie. Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), Logistics Under Attack, etc), A4 Strategic Focus Areas and Strategic concepts (ie. Persistent Logistics, Strategic Sustainment Framework, Installation Investment Strategy, Integrated Base Defense, etc) and applicable capability, governance and planning processes supporting A4 equities, is a critical part of this effort is transforming its business processes, remediating and modernizing its systems and organizational structures, and capitalizing on advanced data analytics and methods. A major focus of this effort is the integration of activities and information systems across the AF’s logistics enterprise to better meet the needs of the military in all theaters. The AF/A4 Sustainment Strategic Framework outlines four “highly interdependent” lines of effort to meet the current and future requirements of the NDS: enhancing mission generation, improving enterprise material support, expanding enterprise repair networks, and capitalizing on new data analytics methods. AF/A4 CIO efforts and future projects are critical to achieving the desired end state outlined in this strategy.

The AF/A4 CIO is transforming its Portfolio Management methodology and approach (to include governance, strategy, data, technology insertion and innovation processes) to enable the LEF Enterprise with the strategic, operational, and tactical agility to rapidly deliver operational effects to the order of battle and effectively manage the ~$2.8B IT portfolio of information systems. The team oversees and manages 3 Program Elements (checkbooks) and must navigate through a panoply of mandates and processes to remain compliant, legal and cyber secure. This effort shall include:

• Reducing approximately 140+ IT systems to a much smaller number and re-host any remaining to an approved cloud environment.
• Preparing the remaining Logistics applications identified for migration to the cloud onto an approved cloud environment.
• Continuing to effectively and efficiently conduct secure operations (Risk Management Framework (RMF)) closest to the mission for security (change management).
• Streamlining and improving policy development and update processes.
• Developing a plan to educate and train competent, ready cyber security workforce.
• Achieving and sustaining FIAR on behalf of A4 in coordination with other organizations and MAJCOMs.
• Developing and institutionalizing rapid technology insertion (or innovation) processes across A4 domains. h. Developing and integrating data standardization, governance, analytics, and policies.

AF/A4S – DoD requires experience in administrative, clerical, technical, and military work that involves protecting property, equipment, data, and materials. These protection responsibilities require knowledge of protection related laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques involved in maintaining order and protecting life and property. The protection portfolio includes, but is not limited to, the following activities.

• Program and project management of protection related security technology systems.
• Policy, regulatory expertise and program and project management of specialized protection portfolio programs (i.e. Tactical Air Base Defense, Counter-small UAS, Military Working Dog, Small Arms and Lite Weapons), amongst others.
• Policy, regulatory expertise and program and project management of law enforcement related activities, to include criminal case management, indexing, and related law enforcement systems and technologies.

Scope

• This TO will support the Directorate of Resource Integration (AF/A4P), the Directorate of Logistics (AF/A4L), and Directorate of Security Forces (AF/A4S) to include supporting communities. The contractor shall provide expert managerial, financial, business process reengineering, and IT-related expertise in support of the full portfolio of LEF functional processes, systems/initiatives, and the activities associated with maintaining, improving, and integrating those systems/initiatives. This includes providing CIO-type IT support, strategic planning, integration, compliance support, and IT and functional governance across the AF logistics portfolio, Financial Improvement Assessment Remediation (FIAR) timelines, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) support, business intelligence support, as well as support to other logistics modernization and transformation programs and activities. AF/A4 serves as the FIAR Secretariat for all A4 processes and systems. This includes remediation tracking, reporting, recommendations, system remediation, and process work-arounds. The AF/A4’s CIO and CIO Support Division responsibility spans the portfolio systems, consisting of approximating 300+ systems, and includes AF logistics emerging and fielded program support such as Mobile Technology integration, Repair Network Integration (RNI), Basing & Logistics Analytics Data Environment (BLADE), Theater Integrated Combat Information Management System (TICMS) and legacy support programs. Support also includes policy and strategy development, project support, BEA development/maintenance, governance support, resources management and Program Objective Memorandum advocacy, and functional requirements management and definition for the BLADE capability.

Objective

• The objective of this TO is to provide expert support in the areas of business-oriented planning, design, and monitoring. The primary objective is to provide expert monitoring, oversight, strategy, change management, and guidance to the A4 CIO and staff as legacy logistics systems and data are integrated into the overall mission of the AF/A4 and new capabilities are deployed based on industry best practices (e.g. Agile development), and provide infrastructure recommendations and re-hosting opportunities to more effectively and efficiently support DevSecOps. An additional objective of this TO is to provide A4 Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection policy development and Enterprise A4 Governance management in order to guide the development and execution of the Enterprise Logistics Strategy.
• AF/A4 requires expert support to advise the functional and CIO staff as it undertakes a significant transformation to facilitate functional and IT best practices throughout the domain. While there are pockets of consistency in the workload of this organization, most of the work is unstructured, complex, cutting edge, involves technological unknowns and is often subject to changing requirements and priorities. While the current focus is primarily on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) functional systems, standardization into civil engineers and security forces is expected to rapidly gain traction. This will require change specialists to work with the field level systems and capability owners. This requirement is currently focused on the LSCM functional systems with standardization into security forces area. As part of the AF’s migration plan, work with the field-level systems and capability owners also includes technology strategy, oversight, compliance, advocacy, and development of compliance artifacts and roadmaps to justify funding. The contractor shall be responsible for reviewing higher level strategies and developing A4 CIO strategic products to help shape the strategic landscape as part of development and execution of an IT Innovation Management Framework operating concept that takes into consideration the entire A4 CIO Portfolio as well as how best to ensure alignment across the AF Enterprise.
• The contractor shall be required to have deep, expert knowledge and understanding of the A4 business processes, technical baselines of A4 IT systems and technical baselines of the AF and DoD hosting platforms to enable rapid and thorough COA development, assessment, recommendations and decisions. The contractor shall also have expert knowledge of A4 business and IT & Operational Technology (OT) integration challenges, and have past performance in developing and providing solutions for enterprise integration and long-term supportability in this or an equivalent space.