The Land-based Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS) Product Office Request for Information (RFI)

Background
The Land-based Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS) Product Office is conducting market research in the area of the LPWS logistics supportability development, contractor logistics support (CLS), and Government Furnished Property (GFP) accountability, management and maintenance. This effort includes programmatic, systems engineering, quality and configuration management, integration, test support, logistics, training, fielding, sustainment and integrated product support of the implementation of the LPWS capability in support of areas of responsibility (AOR), training requirements, LPWS Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases and other international agreements as directed by the LPWS PO.

Work Details
The specific tasks include providing end-to-end systems engineering support across all functional disciplines to analyze operational and logistics performance, evaluate and recommend design changes to improve LPWS performance and operational availability and reduce total ownership costs. Functional expertise is required in program management, hardware and software design engineering, systems engineering, testing, logistics supportability and development, safety, quality assurance, configuration management, data management, reliability, cybersecurity and physical and operational security.
Other tasks involve incorporating publication change requests into existing technical publications generated from Department of the Army Forms 2028, incorporating provisioning changes to LPWS Army-unique spare and repair parts and Navy-Army common items.
Providing logistics analysis and modeling of the public/private maintenance facilities, procedures and itemization of retail and wholesale spares required to maintain the LPWS fleet to meet Army’s operational readiness goals.
Additionally planning and executing follow-on logistics demonstration; maintaining and updating the LPWS Operator and Maintainer Technical Manuals; planning and executing LPWS operator deployment new equipment training (NET) for air defense units in preparation for deployment; maintaining accountability and maintenance of LPWS GFP to include LPWS basic issue items; planning and developing modification work orders (MWO) and applying the MWO kits to the LPWS fleet within the continental United States (CONUS) and OCONUS sites; providing CLS for the CONUS and OCONUS LPWS fleet including all maintenance, supply and transportation requirements to support the LPWS PO engineering and testing mission readiness exercises; live fire support operations; AORs; providing Foreign Military Sales planning support including attending meetings with the LPWS PO; assisting in cost and schedule development; letter of request responses; answering RFIs.