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Notice for Enhancing the Land Force Support System (including demonstration at Army Innovation Day 2020)
The Department of Defence via the Defence Innovation Hub (Defence) is seeking innovation proposals that will assist Defence to enhance the digitisation of Land Force Support System (LFSS) capabilities to ‘sense and respond’ and ‘simplify capability systems’. Army’s Contribution to Defence Strategy describes how Army’s teams contribute to the achievement of Strategic Defence Objectives for a safe, secure and prosperous Australia. Army’s teams have always adapted to new challenges but are now experiencing changes to the character of warfare at a rate faster than many of Army’s processes and structures were designed for. Army has termed this Accelerated Warfare. Accelerated Warfare focuses our thinking on how we prepare for accelerated change, for operations today and into the future. Accelerated Warfare identifies the need for conducting and sustaining land combat operations across a spectrum of conflict (cooperation, competition and conflict). It requires that the Army be connected, protected, lethal and enabled. It means that Army must deliver a support system able to sustain land combat operations in an effective and efficient manner through the leveraging of technology – to provide a balanced, agile and sustainable force. The LFSS synchronises effects (including industry) to prepare, project and sustain training and operation. It must be effective during conflict and aim to be as efficient as practicable during cooperation and training in Australia. The system must be digitised, scalable, protected, agile, resilient, integrated to function across the spectrum of conflict in a range of environments. The system must be survivable in both environments of electronic and physical threat.The LFSS environment encompasses the CIS network, the capability systems and command and control.
This Call for Submissions comprises this Challenge Statement, the Terms and the Assessment Criteria and Process. The Challenge focuses on leveraging technologies to improve situational awareness, decision cycles, simplify processes and optimise support outcomes. The LFSS encompasses all logistics, combat service support, deployable infrastructure and health functions to prepare, project and sustain the Joint Land Force across a diverse range of environments.
The Challenge: Defence is seeking innovative proposals that enhance the Land Force Support Systems’ ability to ‘sense and respond’ in the following areas: Bulk Commodity Visibility, Personnel/Patient Tracking and Deployed Principal Item Management.
Defence has embarked on a number of activities to improve situational awareness, enhance the physical systems and simplify the LFSS while improving agility, resilience, and assurance including the following:
•JP9111 – Joint Command and Control which is developing a recognised logistics picture that combines data from the logistics transactional system and command and control networks.
•ICT2283 – The Enterprise Resource Planner which will use an SAP product for all logistics, finance and estate transactions.
•L200 – Land C2 system.
•JP8190 – Deployable Bulk Fuel.
•L8140 – Deployable Force Infrastructure (Includes Bulk Water).
•JP2060-3 – Deployable Health
Proposals may complement work associated with the above projects and must align with a sub-theme below:
Sub-theme 1: Bulk Commodity Visibility (fuel, water, ammunition, rations)
Examples of this theme include:
•Enhanced sensor/transactional support systems that reduce manual transactions and improve situational awareness of bulk commodities
•Sensors to assist in the accounting, management, storage, testing, and distribution of bulk fuels and POL.
Sub-theme 2: Personnel/Patient Tracking
Examples of this theme include:
•Personnel tracking systems,
•Improved patient visibility and care status
Sub-theme 3: Deployed Principal Item Management
Example of this theme include:
•Enhanced sensor/transactional support systems that reduce manual transactions and provide positive control of deployed land materiel
Submissions to this CFS can be made using the “Special NoticeCall for Submissions Smart Form”. This form can be accessed from the Innovation Portal. A submission can be made any time before the Closing Time identified above.
Please refer to the Special Notice at https://www.innovationhub.defence.gov.au/call-for-submissions/
Respondents must have a valid ABN or NZBN in order to participate in this procurement processes
Proposed schedule is to conduct a demonstration of the technology for user trial and evaluation with the Australian Army within 12 to 15 months after contract commencement.
https://www.innovationhub.defence.gov.au/call-for-submissions/