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Opportunity |
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DoD Communities of Interest |
C4I |
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Integrated Information Intelligence (I3P) |
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19 February 2021 |
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Government Organization |
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MFCC) |
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Description This notice is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and. This is Market Research Only in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 10. This is not a solicitation. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) NOTICE ONLY. This RFI is for informational and planning purposes only and it does not constitute and does not constitute an Invitation for Bids, Request for Proposals (RFP), or Request for Quotations (RFQ) or a promise to issue a bid, RFQ, or RFP in the future. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any actual procurement of materials, machinery, or services. Respondents are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI are solely at the responding parties' expense. Respondents are solely responsible for properly marking and clearly identifying any proprietary information or trade secrets contained within their response. The Government will not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly marked and clearly identified. Proprietary information received in response to this source sought will be safeguarded and handled in accordance with the Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. 1905). No determination as to the viability of this potential requirement has been made at this point and there is currently no solicitation for this effort. By responding to this market research, you provide the Government permission to share your submitted capabilities and contract information with other Government organizations in relation to similar requirements for market research purposes. Background, Purpose, and Objective PM MCCO provides direct acquisition support to the Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MFCC) and acts as liaison to MFCC on behalf of the Commander, MCSC. In this role, PM MCCO assisted with the procurement of an OSINT tool designed to provide a capability for real-time analytics on diverse, rich, global, multi-language publicly available information (PAI) acquired through a managed attribution framework. Data sources were derived from across the social media spectrum and a number of commercial threat intelligence vendors. The current OSINT capability, named the Integrated Intelligence Platform (IIP), intended to enable an OSINT/Cyber Common Operating Picture with geographical and counterintelligence rendering, bolstered by modern artificial intelligence technologies (such as natural language processing, machine translation, etc.) intended to speed the OSINT Analyst’s ability to rapidly survey data, identify hidden trends, and produce actionable intelligence. Concurrently, but separately, the Capabilities Development Directorate (CDD) within Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC) Deputy Commandant (DC) for Combat Development and Integration and the Information Maneuver Division (IMD) within DC for Information had been working to identify requirements within the Marine Corps Information Environment Enterprise (MCIEE) for PAI and OSINT analytics capabilities. IMD and CDD found that existing, individually procured solutions do not answer all requirements for any of the various members of the MCIEE. They further found that these existing disjointed efforts were precluding the development of enterprise PAI and OSINT solutions. In coordination with PM MCCO, IMD and CDD initiated outreach across the DoD, CYBERCOM, MCIEE, and MFCC to capture existing requirements for a service/enterprise PAI & OSINT Capability Needs Statement (CNS) which will provide needed capabilities for MCIEE communities such as COMSTRAT, Cyber, MCIA, MCIOC, etc. This CNS is intended to allow entry into a sustained Program of Record utilizing the DoD’s Software Acquisition Pathway. To ensure this CNS, and subsequently delivered capability, is fully informed by its intended user, CDD has released a calling message for a combined Operational Planning Team (OPT), staffed by PAI and OSINT stakeholders from across HQMC, the Fleet Marine Force, and MFCC. In addition to capturing requirements for a PAI and OSINT analytics capability, this OPT will clarify the differing missions and authorities which would drive and govern use of such a capability. An industry day, supported by this RFI, is a part of ensuring a fully informed CNS. The primary goal of this RFI are: Currently, draft desired capabilities include requirement for managed attribution, persistent managed attribution, edge analytics, commercial threat intelligence, geospatial selector discovery, link analysis and graph analytics, dark web monitoring, social/media analytics, open source dashboard, master data model, data lake/storage, intelligence orchestration and dissemination, cross domain data transfer and aggregation, international video/news data, PAI data mining and battlespace awareness, operations to inform and/or influence engagements (ex. sentiment analysis, narrative/summary generation, etc.), deployable functionality. This list is not fully inclusive, under development, and to be informed by briefs/discussion at the upcoming OPT. As the lead program management office for this effort, PM MCCO is conducting market research in accordance with FAR Part 10 in advance of a potential solicitation to identify market presence and availability of companies who can provide the required Information Technology Non-Personal Support Services to PM MCCO, as described in this RFI. Contractor services for Integrated Intelligence Platform (IIP) are currently provided under a delivery order awarded against NASA SEWP GWAC: NNG15SD26B - M67854-19-F-4600 ThunderCat Technology, LLC The period of performance on this delivery order is scheduled to end on September 29, 2021 and contains additional options that may or may not be exercised in order to allow for additional time while a follow-on effort is put in place. Additional Information Responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract, nor do they affect a potential offeror’s ability to respond to any future synopsis/solicitation, which may or may not follow or restrict the U.S. Government’s eventual acquisition approach. |
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USMC Integrated Information Intelligence (I3P)
Due Date: 19 February 2021 Description: This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE / REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) announcement on behalf of the Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC), PMM-173 Marine Corps Cyber Operations (PM MCCO) Program Office.