SeaPort-e

SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) Multiple Award Contract (MAC) vehicle is the Navy's electronic platform for acquiring support services in 22 functional areas including Engineering, Financial Management, and Program Management. NAVSEA Warfare Centers established Seaport-e to provide a web-based, e-business procurement portal, to facilitate performance-based service acquisition, leverage buying power, improve business intelligence and reduce cycle time. The SeaPort-e portal provides a standardized, efficient means of soliciting offers from amongst the diverse population of large and small businesses and their approved team members. All task orders are competitively solicited, awarded and managed using the SeaPort-e web based platform.

Overview of ISS Capabilities

ISS is a leading edge solution provider for enterprise and system data, services, and application challenges.  ISS has built hundreds of operationally deployed systems, in all domains – “From Space to Mud and Everything Between”™. With solutions based upon modern, proven technology designed to capitalize on dynamic service-oriented constructs, ISS delivers innovative C2, ISR, Intelligence, visualization, fusion, collaboration and cyber solutions that work today and in the future. Key operational ISS projects include: CIDNE™, the official reporting tool used by CENTCOM in Iraq and Afghanistan; WebTAS®, a powerful intelligence analysis, situational assessment and dissemination tool; CICOP, which provides the common operation picture for the CI community; CyberSWIC, an Air Force cyber C2 system; ISR-STAKE, a planning tool at operational level for theater and tactical ISR assets; ACUMEN, a campaign planning and assessment tool that aids in effects synchronization and effects tracking and AF NTI, the standard for Air Force National Tactical Integration of intelligence data operational at all USAF DGS. ISS plays a key role in development of the JSpOC infrastructure to support space operations.

In addition, ISS has subject matter experts (SMEs) specializing in IED analysis, air domain and maritime domain analysis among other areas. The company's technical capabilities include a large cadre of cleared Java J2EE developers, web developers experienced in using JSP, JSF, Flash, Flex and Air, and a robust R&D group specializing in data mining, predictive analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, fusion, and artificial intelligence.

The ISS team has capabilities in the following SeaPort-e functional categories in Zones 1 through 5:

	1 Northeast	2 National Capital	3 Mid-Atlantic	4 Gulf Coast	5 Midwest	6 Southwest
3.1 R&D Support	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.2 Engineering	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.3 Modeling & Simulation	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.4 Prototyping	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.5 System Des Doc/Tech Data	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.6 Software	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.8 Human Factors	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.10 Configuration Management	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.11 QA Support	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.12 IS/IA/IT Support	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.14 Interoperability/T&E/Trials	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.18 Training	X	X	X	X	X	X
3.20 Program Support	X	X	X	X	X	X

Team Members

ISS utilizes a team of subcontractors who provide targeted expertise in key functional service areas. Each is a world-class technologist that brings innovative solutions to the challenges of the SeaPort-e customer community. All of ISS’s initial subcontractors are small businesses. The company is open to bringing new teammates on board that have unique technologies and capabilities that will enhance our SeaPort-e program initiatives.

The Design Knowledge Company (TDKC)

Business size: Small Business

Technical Capability Summary:

SeaPort-e Functional Areas:
1. Research & Development
3. Modeling and Simulation
4. Prototyping
5. Documentation and Technical Data Support
6. Software Development
8. Human Factors
11. QA Support
12. Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support
14. Interoperability Test & Evaluation

Triquetra Technologies (T2) Inc.

Business size: Small Business

Techincal Capability Summary:

SeaPort-e Functional Areas:
2. Engineering and Process engineering support
3. Modeling, simulation and analysis support
5. Documentation and Technical Data Support
6. Software Development
11. QA Support
14. Interoperability Test & Evaluation
20. Program Support

Volant

Business size: Small Business

Technical Capability Summary:

SeaPort-e Functional Areas:
2. Engineering, System Engineering and Process Engineering Support;
5. System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support;
10. Configuration Management (CM) Support;
11. QA Support
12. Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support
18. Training
20. Program Support

The National Security Cyberspace Institute, Inc. (NSCI)

Business size: Small Business

Technical Capability Summary:

NSCI has a proven track record in the assessment of new concepts and leading-edge technologies to satisfy air, space and cyberspace integration requirements.  An example of this is our work in support of the U.S. Strategic Command’s (USSTRATCOM) Joint Functional Component Command for Global Strike (JFCC-GS). This Omaha-based team brings extensive experience and subject matter expertise in virtually all facets of the Global Strike mission and has been instrumental in the early success of the Integrated Strategic Planning and Analysis Network (ISPAN) program, a net-centric mission planning and execution system employed by USSTRATCOM. The NSCI team conducted requirements analysis and documentation, experimentation, assessment and transition of prototypes into the ISPAN Program of Record. We also formed the principal cadre for providing operator training for the staffs of USSTRATCOM and several of its subordinate Joint Functional Component Commands. This training and requirements collection assistance has expanded to include other Combatant Commands,  the United Kingdom, and Australia.
 
The NSCI team brings an in-depth knowledge of Joint Publication 5-0, Joint Operation Planning, providing unmatched familiarity with current doctrine for conducting joint, inter-agency and multinational planning activities across the full range of military operations. Moreover, NSCI personnel have received formal training in a wide range of C2 courses,  complemented by real-world employment of several command and control systems of record, such as ISPAN, the Global Command and Control System-Joint (GCCS-J) and Theater Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS). These qualifications combine to make NSCI ideally suited to evaluate and make recommendations regarding proposed  systems and processes against the backdrop of current capabilities.

Seaport-e Functional Areas:
2. Engineering, System Engineering and Process Engineering Support;
5. System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support;
10. Configuration Management (CM) Support;
11. QA Support
12. Information Assurance
14. Interoperability Test & Evaluation
18. Training
20. Program Support

Modus Operandi, Inc.

Primary POC:  George Eanes
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Phone: (321) 473-1403

Business size: Small Business

Technical Capabilities
Modus Operandi (MO) is a software technology company focused on accelerating information discovery, integration and fusion for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) customers in the defense and intelligence communities. MO provides software products and services in the areas of systems integration, natural language processing/text analytics, semantic data representation and integration, real-time and event-driven semantic data enrichment, ontology-based query and retrieval of structured and unstructured information and machine reasoning. Our products are built around open standards and open source solutions.

SeaPort-e Functional Areas:

3.1 R&D Support	Strong
3.2 Engineering Support	Strong
3.3 Modeling	Moderate
3.4 Prototyping	Moderate
3.5 System Des Doc/Tech Data	Strong
3.6 Software	Strong
3.10 CM Support	Moderate
3.11 QA Support	Some
3.12 IS/IA/IT	Moderate
3.14 Interoperability/T&E/Trials	Strong
3.18 Training	Moderate

Guardrail Common Sensor (SSES)
SSES#DAAB07-02-D-P002 Northrop Grumman Subcontract #7500038836
US Army CECOM
Jason Sbraccia, Program Manager, Northrop Grumman, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (410) 297-5756
Modus Operandi (MO) has experience integrating new technologies into existing system architectures, such as the Guardrail Common Sensor (GRCS) family of systems.  GRCS provides near real-time signal intelligence (SIGINT) and targeting information to Army battle field commanders.  MO has been supporting software development and integration efforts on the architecture, development and migration of mission critical capabilities to modernize the Army’s airborne and ground-based GRCS. Responsibilities include development of deployment ready software, legacy software enhancements, test and validation and in theater software baseline fielding.  A significant portion of this effort involves migrating legacy applications for use in modern net-centric environment.  MO has leveraged its government sponsored R&D efforts to develop tools and methods to migrate legacy data and algorithms on GRCS.  These migration efforts include normalizing and exposing GRCS data via service-oriented architecture (SOA) for network based index and search services.  GRCS data was exposed via an ontological data model which is capable of mediating and harmonizing heterogeneous structured and unstructured data stores.  Furthermore, MO has migrated mission critical GRCS algorithms which were developed over 20 years and highly embedded/coupled for access via SOA based services.  These SOA services are targeted for DCGS-A and associated reference architecture.

WebTHREADS Enhancement (DEEP Phase II SBIR Enhancement)
Contract #FA8750-07-C-0040
AFRL / USAF
Deborah Cerino, Program Manager, AFRL, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (315) 330-1445
Modus Operandi applied its Wave® Exploitation Framework (Wave-EF) technology to enhance an existing system called WebTHREADS that was developed by the Air Force to process Human Intelligence (HUMINT). Originally developed at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), WebTHREADS is currently under sustainment at Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC).  MO integrated the Wave-EF Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology into WebTHREADS to improve the performance of the extraction of 14 Essential Elements of Information (EEI) (e.g. locations, facilities, personalities, phone numbers, organizations, control measures, etc.) from unstructured data sources.  The effort was focused on improving the performance of the EEI extraction to help analysts build case files and reduce the time required to identify actionable intelligence.  The Wave-EF NLP components were integrated into WebTHREADS and replaced the legacy technology.  This enhancement was done to maintain the existing WebTHREADS user interface that users were accustomed to but significantly enhance the performance of the system finding EEIs.  In addition to the integration of our NLP technology into the WebTHREADS system, MO also developed software and processes that allowed the use of a standard information retrieval metric standard, called F-measure, developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to measure the performance of our algorithms.  The F-measure was used to determine how much better EEIs were identified with our Wave-EF NLP technologies than with the original WebTHREADS keyword search and regular expression algorithms.  MO’s algorithms improved the performance of the EEI extraction across all EEI types.

US Marine Corps Semantic Wiki for Intelligence (Harmony Phase II SBIR)
Contract # W15P7T-08-C-E401
US Marine Corps / US Army CECOM
Ken Caswell, US Army Technical Lead, Chief SBIR Lead, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (443) 861-3802
This US Marine Corps Phase II enhancement leverages Wave-EF technology to build a DIB-enabled semantic wiki. MO participated in Empire Challenge 2010, where the semantic wiki for intelligence was used to analyze documents to extract events related to IEDs and high-value individual tracking.
MO developed a system that allows Marine Corps intelligence analysts to rapidly search large amounts of unstructured data, find critical patterns, and other essential elements of information and share their work with other analysts. The MO developed system is based on a semantic wiki that makes data more visible, accessible, and understandable. The wiki supports a collaborative environment and avoids much duplication of effort yet aiding individual efforts. Adding semantic capabilities to the basic wiki provides finer grained, more accurate searches, as well as providing the capability to automatically generate pages and some page content. MO coupled the semantic wiki capabilities with text analytics to address the problem of integrating relevant information from unstructured documents. MO’s text analytics: 1) identifies events of interest to analysts such as IED events, observation events (sighting of a high value individual or HVI), and travel events (movement of an HVI from one location to another), 2) transforms them into Resource Description Framework (RDF) “triples”, and 3) persists the RDF in a triple store that supports advanced queries.  Analysts can automatically create pages for these events by importing them into the semantic wiki from the triple store. Collectively these analytic tools combined in the semantic wiki expose DCGS-MC data to DIB searches without the need to manually create metadata cards (a means to identify data) and insert them into a DIB metadata catalog (MDC).

Virtual Metadata Catalog (vMDC) (Blackstone Phase I SBIR Enhancement)
Contract #W15P7T-10-C-H619
Ken Caswell, US Army Technical Lead, Chief SBIR Lead, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (443) 861-3802
Modus Operandi (MO) built a virtual Metadata Catalog (vMDC) / prototype to expose SIGINT data for U.S. Army intelligence analysts. The goal of this phase II SBIR enhancement was to automatically expose technical SIGINT data to the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB) without the use of a metadata catalog.
The current solution uses manual posting and a fixed database to store pre-published metadata cards or metacards. MO’s solution, called a virtual Metadata Catalog (vMDC) or a Dynamic Resource Provider (DRP), generates metacards only as relevant SIGINT data is requested via a DIB search.  It was developed with a search interface built as an Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) compliant component and compliant with the DIB v2.0 interface and future specifications. A custom adaptor was then built to connect to the specific back-end SIGINT data store. Now that data store can respond directly to DIB queries, serving up metacards.  The end customers are joint users across the DoD and intelligence community.

Customer Satisfaction Points of Contact (POCs)

Program Manager:  Steve LeFevre

Contract Administration:  JoAnne Trujillo

Small Business Manager:  Doug Huggins

Task Orders Awarded

No current Task Orders at this time.

ISS Quality of Service Program

Quality Assurance (QA) is an important contributor to service delivery and customer satisfaction. ISS program management gathers indications of overall health of program products and processes from the quality assurance process via associated documentation and evaluation reports. The quality assurance process improves services delivered on SeaPort-e as well as the management and technical process used during the execution of Delivery Orders.

SeaPort Home

For more information, please visit the Navy SeaPort-e home website at: http://www.seaport.navy.mil/default.aspx

For more information on ISS's participation in the SeaPort-e program please contact Steve LeFevre at: 571-481-9136