Task Area 5 - Requirements Analysis

Optimal Solutions  Under this task area, the contractor shall assist the government with the design, development, installation, testing, and validatation of applications and databases to determine optimal cross-functional solutions vital to the integration process.  The contractor shall develop schedules and implementation plans with definable deliverables, including parallel operations where required, identification of technical approaches, and a description of anticipated prototype results.  The contractor shall also develop data collection tools, conduct surveys, hold meetings with customers, analyze data, and consolidate and refine user requirements.

Support  The key to satisfying users is the analysis of requirements including the design, development, installation, testing and validation of applications and databases for enterprise use.  The contractor shall assist the government with the development of schedules and implementation plans with definable deliverables, including parallel operations where required, identification of technical approaches, and a description of anticipated prototype results.

Support for Computer Network Defense Applications The contractor shall assist the government with researching, designing and building, using either or both spiral and incremental technology development approaches, to develop, document, test, certify, and validate various applications to stay on the leading edge of new technologies designed for network operations management and computer network defense purposes. This includes the necessary research and development of deliverables that may, in the course of their life-cycle, change the end product depending on the maturation of technology and addition of new or improved capabilities.