What the buyer needs
AI summaryThe 55th Contracting Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, on behalf of Air Force Weather, is conducting market research to identify advanced scientific, computational, and software engineering capabilities. The selected contractor must serve as the authoritative software steward to sustain, advance, and operationally transition the next-generation Numerical Weather Prediction enterprise, including supporting the Model for Prediction Across Scales framework, the METplus Suite, core data assimilation baselines, and artificial intelligence integration. Eligibility is restricted to onshore United States organizations performing work offsite at their own office premises. Interested parties must submit all questions by 4:30 PM CST on November 6, 2026, and deliver their market research responses by November 12, 2026, at 12:30 PM CST. The buyer will use responses solely for planning rather than proposal evaluation.
Scope of work
- Coordinated stewardship, governance, release management, configuration management, and integration for MPAS, MET/METplus, and JEDI
- Developing, sustaining, integrating, or releasing large scientific software code bases using Python, Fortran, C++, or comparable languages
- Atmospheric modeling, atmospheric physics and dynamics, physics parameterization development, cloud processes, land-surface or coupled Earth-system modeling
- Objective verification, validation, and diagnostic tools development and application for prediction models
- Ingesting, evaluating, processing, or assimilating space-based, commercial, experimental, or next-generation environmental observations
- Software assurance, cybersecurity, secure coding, automated build/test/CI, and vulnerability management in cloud and HPC environments
- Evaluating, adjudicating, testing, documenting, and integrating external software contributions while avoiding code divergence
Minimum qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to provide coordinated stewardship, governance, release management, and software integration for MPAS, MET/METplus, and JEDI
- Experience with primary responsibility for developing, sustaining, integrating, or releasing large scientific code bases in Python, Fortran, or C++
- Expertise in atmospheric modeling, atmospheric physics and dynamics, parameterization development, and data assimilation
- Demonstrated experience developing, sustaining, or applying objective verification, validation, and diagnostic tools for prediction models
- Demonstrated experience ingesting, evaluating, processing, or assimilating space-based or advanced environmental observations
- Demonstrated software-engineering, configuration-management, cybersecurity, and software-assurance practices for Government or controlled environments
Documents to include with your response
- Responses to Sources Sought Questions addressing unified stewardship, code-base experience, expertise, V&V, data capability, cybersecurity, external contributions, and organizational dependencies
- Concise qualification summaries of proposed technical leads demonstrating prior responsibility for comparable research, development, or implementation efforts
How to submit
- Instructions
- Interested parties shall provide sufficient, specific information to demonstrate current 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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