WAEDS supports the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Defense Counterproliferation Office and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to provide CWMD intelligence analysis, including production and dissemination, visualization, web development, business analytics, intelligence business operations, and compartmented programs support to the analytic workforce. This task order will provide the bulk of the intelligence community and the Department of Defense’s (DOD) WMD and CWMD intelligence analysis and intelligence support to critical operations through highly technical and scientific skillsets.

“As America faces the most challenging national security environment in half a century, WAEDS seeks to advance the CWMD mission with an accelerated trajectory the nation hasn’t experienced since the early 2000s,” said Lisa Bishop, a senior vice president in Booz Allen’s national security business. “The work is both foundational to the DIA mission and transformational at the same time through the technical support and expertise that we will add to this mission across multiple agencies and commands. This win is the latest example of how Booz Allen is applying advanced technology to solve the nation’s most complicated challenges and make America safer.”

Booz Allen brings highly technical skillsets to WAEDS, including intelligence analysis across all functional disciplines, WMD expertise, data science, and language-enabled analysis. The company will also apply expertise spanning cybersecurity, physics, missile systems, and other advanced technologies to strengthen U.S. national security. Work on the contract will take place primarily in Reston and Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with additional locations across the United States and globally.

“This win underscores our proven ability to execute, train, and proliferate compliant, timely, relevant, and actionable intelligence production along with our depth and breadth of technical expertise with WMD-related technologies,” said Tucker Moore, a vice president in Booz Allen’s national security business. “As the largest provider of intelligence analysis to DIA and the combatant commands, Booz Allen’s technical capabilities in data science, AI and machine learning, and digital modernization enable us to accelerate DIA’s mission at scale.”

Source: Booz Allen

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Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen established the DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office in December 2017 in one of the most significant reorganizations of the Department in a decade. If enacted into law, this legislation would permanently establish the office and grant it new authorities to protect the American people against evolving WMD threats. The CWMD Office is currently led by Assistant Secretary James F. McDonnell, who was appointed by President Trump in May 2018.

“The United States faces rising danger from terrorist groups and rogue nation states who could use weapons of mass destruction to harm Americans,” said Secretary Nielsen. “Although DHS has broad authorities to guard against radiological and nuclear dangers, we don’t have the authorities we need to do the same against biological and chemical threats. We must stay a step ahead of our enemies, and this legislation would help us do that. I applaud the House Homeland Security Committee for their leadership in developing this legislation—especially Chairman Michael McCaul and Rep. Dan Donovan—and all House members who voted to enhance our defenses against WMD threats. I now urge the Senate to do the same—to pass this legislation and send it to the President’s desk for signature.”

Source: DHS

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The office consolidates key DHS functions and will lead the Department’s efforts to counter WMD threats. It will also allow for greater policy coordination and strategic planning, as well as provide greater visibility for this critically important mission.

“The United States faces rising danger from terrorist groups and rogue nation states who could use chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents to harm Americans,” said Secretary Nielsen. “That’s why DHS is moving towards a more integrated approach, bringing together intelligence, operations, interagency engagement, and international action.  As terrorism evolves, we must stay ahead of the enemy and the establishment of this office is an important part of our efforts to do so.”

The United States faces a rising danger from threat actors who could use chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents to harm Americans or U.S. interests.  Intelligence analysis shows terrorist groups are actively pursuing WMD capabilities, are using battlefield environments to test them, and may be working to incorporate these methods into external operations in ways we have not seen previously.  Certain weapons of mass destruction, once viewed as out-of-reach for all but nation states, are now closer to being attained by non-state actors.  A terrorist attack using such a weapon against the United States would have a profound and potentially catastrophic impact on our nation and the world.

The CWMD Office will be led by James McDonnell, who was appointed by President Trump in June 2017 to serve as the Director of the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO).

Source: DHS

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The Army Contracting Command – New Jersey (ACC-NJ), on behalf of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT)) and the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) is releasing this competitive combined synopsis/solicitation to establish a Section 815 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for Prototype Projects under 10 U.S.C. 2371b with a new or established consortium, to develop and mature technologies in the critical field of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD).

It is the Government’s intention to enter into an OTA with only one (1) consortium that can best meet the Government’s defined scope provided below. By definition, the consortium is an organized group of entities that agree to participate under a common rule set. The consortium should be open to new membership and display a broad array of expertise and experience connected to the domains identified herein. Prospective members must agree to the terms of the consortium. A consortium comprised of educational, nonprofit, and commercial organizations with broad and open membership is required to provide the Government a partner able to collaborate across barriers that include military/civilian, public/private, local/regional/national, and political/jurisdictional concerns.

The Government, in conjunction with the consortium, shall perform prototype projects designed to enhance mission effectiveness and to develop and mature technologies in the field of countering weapons of mass destruction. Possible requirements would encompass activities that span all phases of acquisition as described in the DODI 5000.02, from the development and execution of the Materiel Development Decision (MDD) through the Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA) Phase, Technical Maturation/Risk Reduction (TMRR) Phase, Engineering and Manufacturing Phase (EMD) as well as the award of potential follow-on Production and Deployment contracts and instruments (including both Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and Full Rate Production (FRP)).

Full information is available here.

Source: FedBizOpps

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The Army Contracting Command – New Jersey (ACC-NJ), on behalf of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT)) and the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) is releasing this notice to inform interested parties about the Government’s intent in establishing an Other Transaction Agreement for Prototype Projects under 10 U.S.C. 2371b (OTA) with a new or established consortium to develop and mature technologies in the critical field of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD).

The Government, in conjunction with the consortium, shall perform coordinated research and development projects designed to enhance mission effectiveness and to develop and mature technologies in the field of countering weapons of mass destruction. Possible requirements would encompass activities that span all phases of acquisition as described in the DODI 5000.02, from the development and execution of the Materiel Development Decision (MDD) through the Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA) Phase, Technical Maturation/Risk Reduction (TMRR) Phase, Engineering and Manufacturing Phase (EMD) and the Production and Deployment Phase (including both Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and Full Rate Production (FRP)). The desired consortium for this OTA should have the full breadth, depth, ability, and expertise to support high-level technologies as they relate to Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction in the following six (6) domains (non-inclusive):

Counter-Proliferation Technologies and Capabilities: To enable Special Forces, as well as theater special operating forces, and CBRN units to operate in complex environments to support countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction/CBRN. This can include capabilities for situational awareness and information systems, advanced sensors and platforms, unmanned systems and robotics, sensitive site exploitation and forensics, and chemical and biological intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. Possible requirements include:
• Development/enhancement of a hand-held, rapid biological detection and identification capability for special operating forces in support of sensitive site exploitation (SSE) missions and for identification during offensive and direct action missions.
• Development/enhancement of a safe, robust, sample collection capability for use by special operating forces, technical support working groups and crisis response forces operating in support of SSE missions.

Defensive Operations: To rapidly develop, demonstrate, implement and transition technologies to defend DoD personnel, facilities, and materiel. This includes technologies to gain and maintain situational awareness and understand of the actions of adversaries. Related areas of interest include technologies for detection, analytics, vulnerability assessments, and operational readiness. Possible requirements include:
• Development/enhancement of a sensor system that can non-intrusively detect and identify chemical warfare agents and other threat materials.
• Development/enhancement of procedures and methods to work more closely with civil support teams and all components of the armed forces to equip them with capabilities to protect against CWMD threats.

Hazard Mitigation: To rapidly develop, demonstrate, implement and transition technologies to improve concepts and designs that address the ability to safeguard or decontaminate personnel, facilities, and materiel. Related areas of interest include non-intrusive diagnostics, transport/removal, and ability to destroy or neutralize CWMD threats. Possible requirements include:
• Development/enhancement of medical countermeasures to vaccinate and protect the Warfighter from potential exposures to CWMD threats.
• Development/enhancement of a system or system of systems that can be used to neutralize and dispose of bulk CWMD threats.

Threat Protection: To rapidly develop, demonstrate, implement and transition new materials and technologies to meet individual and collective protection requirements. Related areas of interest include ocular, respiratory, percutaneous, and materiel protection. Possible requirements include:
• Development/enhancement of a capability for protecting the interior of critical airlift assets from cross-contamination by chemical and biological contaminated personnel and equipment under transport.
• Development/enhancement of a safe, suitable and effective self-contained breathing apparatus that supports special operating forces specific requirements for the execution of CWMD missions.

Experimentation and Innovation: To rapidly develop, demonstrate, implement and transition improved concepts and technologies that support advanced technology and/or enhanced capability demonstrations including new ideas for improved testing. Possible requirements include:
• Development/enhancement of an integrated set of detection, identification, situational awareness, and decision support capabilities that have the ability to support a Commander’s decision making process in real-time.
• Development/enhancement of a capability that allows the utilization of global defense laboratories to compress the time between the discovery, detection, or encounter of a CWMD threat to a decision for combating and addressing the threat.

Emerging Technologies: To rapidly develop, demonstrate, implement and transition proposed technologies, systems, processes, concepts, or designs that exhibit new or innovative approaches to advance engineering development. Areas of interest include autonomy, analytics, decision-support capabilities, biotechnology, early warning, and material science.

Full information is available here.

Source: FedBizOpps

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