F-35 "Lightning II" Training Systems and Simulation

The F-35 "Lightning II" Program Office intends to issue an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide a full range of analysis, modeling and simulation, design, development, production, modification, test and evaluation, laboratory infrastructure, sustainment, delivery, refurbishment, relocation, and product support of training systems and simulation products for the F-35 Air System.  The training and training systems and simulation products will provide training events and qualification exercises which, to the extent practicable, give pilots, aircrew and maintainers events identical to those performed in the aircraft.  The complexity and evolving nature of the F-35 air system requires that training systems and simulation products and training are developed and implemented concurrently with the aircraft.  F-35 Training Systems and simulation products need to provide a robust, dynamic and accurate representation of the delivered air system and associated subsystems prior to or when delivered to the fleet and in support of operation test. Integral to the success of the F-35 mission is the ability to complete these efforts in the most efficient and timely manner possible. The IDIQ will serve as the contracting vehicle for procurement of such efforts. These capabilities would be integrated into the Training Infrastructure System (TIS) Operational Environment (OE) for usability within the training center classrooms.