Autonomy Baseline Manager (ABM)   3

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) intends to issue a full-and-open, competitive solicitation, pursuant to FAR Part 15 procedures, in the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal year 2023 (FY23) for the FY23 through FY28 Autonomy Baseline Manager (ABM), a role that performs systems engineering oversight and management of autonomous systems development and the associated central software repository for unmanned autonomy artifacts (except data), processes, and procedures.

The ABM will lead the development and maintenance of applicable processes, procedures, and related documentation necessary to establish, maintain, and grow the capabilities and utilization of the Unmanned Vehicles (UxV) autonomy baselines. As such, ABM efforts will also include:

Collaboration with Platform Autonomy Architects and Service Vendors to ensure their respective uses and modifications to autonomous system capabilities are aligned with Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) PMS 406 autonomy baseline requirements;
- Collaboration with Platform Autonomy Architects and Service Vendors to support integration testing and documentation of objective quality evidence for requirement validation;
- Interaction with Government representatives and organizations in addition to third-party vendors and other ecosystem participants to ensure efficient and successful utilization of standardized system engineering practices, the Rapid Autonomy Integration Laboratory (RAIL) computing environment, and its autonomy-related artifacts;
- Analysis and assessment of delivered software artifacts to identify future growth areas for PMS 406's consideration and proposal of autonomy capability build planning in support of future efforts;
- As required, the development of processes and tools to ensure third-party provided autonomy code/baseline software is compliant with Unmanned Maritime Autonomy Architecture (UMAA) standards, RAIL software specifications, cyber security guidelines, and Autonomy Framework Working Group (AFWG) -authored design / architectural guidance.

The ABM Contractor must have the capabilities to achieve the following PMS 406 objectives:

Assist the U.S. Navy in managing, maintaining, and evolving the maritime autonomy baseline requirements and associated artifacts for applicability to any and all UxVs;
- Assist the U.S. Navy in integrating new software capabilities, delivering future autonomous capabilities and functionality, and enhancing existing autonomous capabilities in legacy and future UxVs using DevSecOps and Agile software methods via clearly delineated Systems Engineering practices;
- Catalog, assess, and analyze the processes and tools in the DevSecOps pipelines to rapidly evolve autonomous capabilities in UxVs and the efficient and effective use of maritime autonomy artifacts;
- Maintain and increase cross-program and cross-platform commonality for autonomy systems, leveraging prior developments and capabilities to the fullest extent practicable;
- Leverage UMAA compliance to provide interoperability across UxV platforms and classes and actively promote and assess the use of UMAA;
- Manage and support the use of a central repository for unmanned autonomy artifacts, processes, tools, and procedures;
- Provide systems engineering support of test and evaluation of independent autonomy services/components and integration with specific platforms including the development of test and evaluation documentation at inception through technical oversight and review during the Developmental Testing, Operational Testing, and delivery phases; and
- Coordinate, collaborate, and support multiple entities under a complex and evolving stakeholder environment in the development, integration, and use of autonomy artifacts, processes, tools, standards, and procedures.

NAVSEA will issue the formal solicitation associated with this notice electronically via SAM.gov at https://sam.gov/ which is the official Government-wide Point of Entry. The Government will not provide printed copies of the solicitation. Interested firms should monitor SAM.gov for the release of the solicitation.

Contracting Office Address:
N00024 NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND
1333 Isaac Hull Avenue SE Washington Navy Yard, DC 20376

Point(s) of Contact:
Mr. Daniel Magrino
Procuring Contracting Officer, SEA 02636
daniel.k.magrino.civ@us.navy.mil
Phone: 202-781-3544