What the buyer needs
AI summaryThe 55th Contracting Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base conducts market research for Air Force Weather, which requires advanced scientific, computational, and software engineering capabilities. The contractor must serve as the unified, authoritative software steward for core modeling and data assimilation baselines to sustain, advance, and operationally transition the next-generation Numerical Weather Prediction enterprise. Interested parties must submit detailed capability responses addressing nine specific technical areas, including experience with MPAS, MET/METplus, and JEDI software systems. The buyer will evaluate responses to identify sources capable of meeting requirements without unacceptable risk, and all questions are due by 4:30 pm on November 6, 2026.
Scope of work
- Unified software-system stewardship, governance, release management, configuration management, and integration for MPAS, MET/METplus, and JEDI
- Development, sustainment, integration, and release of large scientific software code bases using Python, Fortran, C++, or comparable languages
- Atmospheric modeling, physics and dynamics, physics parameterization development, cloud processes, land-surface or coupled Earth-system modeling, and data assimilation
- Objective verification, validation, and diagnostic tools development, sustainment, and application for atmospheric or environmental prediction models
- Ingestion, evaluation, processing, and assimilation of space-based, commercial, experimental, or next-generation environmental observations
- Software assurance, cybersecurity, configuration management, and testing practices for scientific software in cloud and high-performance computing environments
- Evaluation, adjudication, testing, documentation, and integration of external or open-source software contributions into authoritative code baselines
- Managing existing organizational relationships, dependencies, licensing, governance, and repository access
Minimum qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to provide coordinated stewardship, governance, release management, configuration management, scientific planning, and software integration for MPAS, MET/METplus, and JEDI
- Primary responsibility for developing, sustaining, integrating, or releasing large scientific software code bases using Python, Fortran, C++, or comparable languages
- Demonstrated experience developing, sustaining, or applying objective verification, validation, and diagnostic tools for atmospheric or environmental prediction models
- Experience ingesting, evaluating, processing, or assimilating space-based, commercial, experimental, or next-generation environmental observations
- Demonstrated software-engineering, configuration-management, cybersecurity, and software-assurance practices applicable to scientific software supporting Government environments
Documents to include with your response
- Responses to the nine Sources Sought capability questions
- Concise qualification summaries of proposed technical leads
How to submit
- Instructions
- Interested parties shall provide sufficient, specific information responding to the Sources Sought questions to demonstrate capability to meet IDIQ PWS requirements
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
Awards in the same category (Computer Systems Design Services). This is not this requirement's award history.
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