Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Architecture and Integration Directorate (AFLCMC/XA) develops innovative approaches that bring multi-domain systems capabilities, characterizes new technologies and systems through studies, demonstrates recurrent and rapid development to enable fast prototyping, and leverages test and capability transitions to yield cost effective warfighting capability. Activities within AFLCMC/XA span from hardware technology, software technology, multi-level security analysis to open architecture design and implementation.
The SOW establishes the requirements for the AFLCMC/XA Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract within three categories:
- Category 1: Development Planning - Capability Development and Development Planning includes any activities associated with concept development/maturation modeling, simulation & analysis, product support planning, and future technology integration. Contractors should be able to conduct hardware and software development to support activities up through Low Rate Initial Production while also completing associated systems engineering plans and models. Contractor activities may range in classification from UNCLASSIFIED to TS//SCI//SAR and should also consider factors related to engineering cost, product support, and test and evaluation.
- Category 2: Systems Development - Systems Development consists of innovative approaches to develop a wide range of systems addressing warfighter needs and supporting future program launch across the AFLCMC/XA portfolio. Systems development approaches characterize new technologies and system concepts providing evolutionary, revolutionary, and disruptive capabilities for the United States Air Force (USAF), AFLCMC/XA, Joint and other partners. Key sample attributes include, but are not limited to, open source infrastructure, early systems-engineering, integration of COTS/GOTS/Development both hardware and software, product support planning, cyber security planning, innovative capability development and transition applied within varying levels of security ranging from UNCLASSIFIED to TS//SCI//SAR.
- Category 3: Synthetic Environment Development - Simulation Development includes, but is not limited to, development, testing, deployment, and operation within a simulated environment. Simulation Development encompasses hardware and software solutions accounting for factors of product support, test and evaluation, and engineering. Simulation will operate and occur at varying levels of fidelity across geographically distributed sites and across multiple security levels ranging from UNCLASSIFIED to TS//SCI//SAR governed by personnel and facility access.
