BACKGROUND: The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is responsible for developing and fielding an integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), integrating land, sea, air and space-based assets to defend the United States, Friends and Allies, and Deployed Forces from ballistic missile attack. The BMDS program is composed of a number of elements and programs with numerous contracts and prime contractors that must be integrated to create one unified system. The MDA program uses a capability-based spiral development approach that uses key knowledge points for Block development and fielding. The MDA leadership requires integrated decision support capability at both the MDA Integration Synchronization Group (ISG) and the Program Change Board (PCB). These capabilities must visualize the decision trade space including MDA goals, priorities, and element/functional baseline interdependencies. The MDA leadership requires a collaborative decision support environment for complex MDA decisions and a more “virtual” collaborative environment across different geographic regions for straight forward decisions. The Decision Support System is a complex system comprised of people, business processes, workflows, system automation, and decision models, with governance and standards to support MDA leadership in synchronizing and integrating the BMDS Baselines (Resource, Schedule, Technical, Contracts, Test, and Operations) for rapid development of decision options and trade-offs for program cost, schedule, and performance. Reference attachment, Sources Sought/Request for Information, dated November 20, 2008. This reference is for INFORMATIONAL purposes only; responses to the Sources Sought/Request for Information are not being requested at this time and will not be accepted. DESCRIPTION: This is a coordination notice for participation in Industry Days. There is no solicitation available at this time. The Government will not compensate industry participants for travel, lodging or any other expenses associated with Industry Days. Interested businesses are invited to participate in Government provided briefing/question and answer sessions on 12 August 2009, and optional Industry-Government One-on-One sessions on 13-14 August 2009. Industry Days will be held at the MDA Von Braun II facility on Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville AL. Activities will begin at 0800 on 12 August 2009 and One-on-One sessions will be scheduled individually for the 13th and 14th of August 2009. Participation for briefings and One-on-One sessions is limited to four (4) personnel per company. TENTATIVE INDUSTRY DAY AGENDA – 12 AUGUST 2009 TIME TOPIC 0800 Check-In 0900 WELCOME 0915 Requirements 1000 Technical Database 1045 BREAK 1100 Resource Database 1145 LUNCH 1315 Schedule Database 1400 BREAK 1415 MDA Enterprise Architecture 1445 Contract Type and Structure 1500 BREAK 1515 OCI Constraint 1530 RFP Schedule 1545 Contract Security Requirements 1600 BREAK 1615 WRAP-UP Question Answers 1700 Completion INDUSTRY DAY AGENDA – 13-14 AUGUST 2009 One-on-One Sessions (30 minutes per company) For DSS Industry Day registration, submit the attached Industry Day Registration Form to Ms. Kathleen Stempeck and Mr. Duane Garner, via an e-mail titled ‘DSS Industry Days’, at [email protected] and [email protected]. Registration must be submitted no later than 1600 MT on 5 August 2009. You will be registered, scheduled for a One-on-One session (if requested) and provided with the Visit Authorization Request (VAR) submittal information and the meeting location access instructions. ACQUISITION SCHEDULE: Current high level milestones for this acquisition assume the following accelerated schedule: Industry Day #1 – 12-14 August 2009 Release DRAFT RFP – 9 September 2009 Pre-Solicitation Industry Day – 25 September 2009 Release FINAL RFP – 14 October 2009 Pre-Proposal Industry Day – 23 October 2009 Proposals Due – 25 November 2009 Contract Award – 2nd Quarter FY 2010 Start Performance – 1 April 2010 OCI CONSIDERATIONS: The acquisition of the Decision Support System services under the forthcoming solicitation may create actual or potential conflicts of interest (OCIs) for offerors and their prospective subcontractors or other team members. In assessing and addressing conflicts of interest, MDA will follow the guidance in FAR Subpart 9.5. Offerors will be responsible for ensuring that they and their proposed subcontractors or other team members are not restricted from participating in the forthcoming Request for Proposal due to an OCI related to any MDA-funded contract or subcontract; Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) development, fielding or sustainment related contracts or subcontracts; or other significant, non-BMDS related business relationships with firms doing business with, or in support of, the MDA. It is MDA’s policy that, consistent with GAO and court decisions, impaired objectivity (bias-type) OCI’s cannot be adequately mitigated through firewalls and/or separate corporate divisions. An impaired objectivity OCI is not mitigated if a contractor performs BMDS development, fielding or sustainment efforts and a firewalled affiliate and/or separate organizational component provides separate Decision Support System services. For purposes of this competition, therefore, MDA does not intend to award any contracts to any contractors, subcontractors, or other team members who also participate in the development, fielding or sustainment of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Also, MDA does not intend to grant OCI waivers of bias-type (i.e., biased ground rules and impaired objectivity) as part of this procurement process. The solicitation will provide further information relating to impaired objectivity and other OCIs and how to have them addressed and preliminarily resolved prior to offer submission. Additionally, the solicitation will include a clause(s) in Section H that will establish restrictions and obligations to avoid, neutralize or mitigate OCIs.

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