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Leader Training

BIA Number: 17000.5

Pricing Information

The Program anticipates a funding level of up to $60,000 for the contract award(s) resulting from this BIA.

Description of Effort and Task

To coordinate, define, and refine the Future Combat Systems (FCS) training concept, training approach, and FCS training tasks.

The Future Combat Systems (FCS) training program is planning on utilizing the systems powerful computing properties to perform embedded training for most of the recurring training within the Army's Objective Force. The FCS distributed networked system of systems (SoS) contains a vast amount of data.

The FCS program is interested in receiving descriptions of existing capabilities and experience in the development of Leader Training that will enhance the capability of leadership in a UA environment. Of major interest are the following:

  • What innovative methods are available for accelerating the pace of Leader Training?
  • What tools are available for building the products of Leader Training?
  • How best does the leader control and manage the information displayed?
  • What training method would best support leader training?
  • Leaders learn through experience. How can we best use a combination of simulation and real-time situations to enhance the learning process?

Number, duration(s) and location(s) of meetings - None

Schedule Milestones

Subcontract Start Date - 10/15/02
Subcontract Completion Date - 12/01/02
Initial Coordination Meeting - 10-20-02
Interim Coordination Meeting 11/10/02
Final Coordination Meeting 11/22/2

Data Requirements
Initial input - 10/25/02
Final input - 11/2502

Deliverables
Study: Report describing method of conducting training in a joint/coalition environment using innovative ideas that develop Leader Training that enhance the capability of leadership in a UA environment. Of major interest are the following: What innovative methods are available for accelerating the pace of Leader Training? What tools are available for building the products of Leader Training? How best does the leader control and manage the information displayed? What training method would best support leader training? Leaders learn through experience. How can we best use a combination of simulation and real-time situations to enhance the learning process? The report should present any study already completed (or one in process), and methods to address these topics.

Evaluation Criteria

Offerors should ensure that their proposals address the following:

  • Demonstrated credibility of the proposed technical approach
  • Degree of understanding of the technical aspects of the work and related issues
  • Relevance and history of performing similar work
  • Availability of resources to successfully conduct the proposed work.
  • Responsiveness to general BIA instructions

We will apply these considerations in the following areas:

  • Demonstrated understanding of Army's Leader training.
  • Demonstrated understanding of training in the field.
  • Demonstrated use of modeling and simulation in training the leader.