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3.0 BASE SUPPORT:
U.S. Citizenship:
Employee must be a U.S. citizen. For the purpose of base and network access, possession of a permanent resident card (“Green Card”) does not equate to U.S. citizenship.
TRAVEL:
Contractor will be required to travel when authorized to participate in customer business line related travel, to include meetings and conferences, to fulfill respective mission goals. Such travel will only be as directed and coordinated through the Government two weeks in advance of all contractor travel in order to obtain proper authorizations. The specific travel locations, duration, and number of trips will be upon direction of the Government without modification to the task order, as long as adequate travel funding is available in accordance with the resulting task order. When travel is identified, the contractor shall provide an estimate of all travel costs by location, broken out by item, to the Reef System’s Program Manager and Government for review prior to travel.
SECURITY:
DELIVERABLE:
Contractor Progress, Status and Management Report (PSMR).
On a monthly basis, the contractor shall provide a status report. The information will be on project status and describe the work accomplished. The contractor shall also identify any issues/problems anticipated in schedule or cost ceiling during the next reporting period.
The report shall have five sections:
Technical Report – Study/Services:
Point of Contact for Immediate Consideration:
Art Mata
amata@reef-sys.com
Remote Senior Clinical Research Psychologist (25-7 RHB Senior Clinical Psychology Researcher Support)
Anywhere, USA · Government/MilitaryRemote Senior Clinical Research Psychologist (25-7 RHB Senior Clinical Psychology Researcher Support)
INTRODUCTION:
The 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is the first human-centric warfare wing to consolidate human performance research, education and consultation under a single organization. Established under the Air Force Research Laboratory, the 711 HPW is comprised of the Human Effectiveness Directorate (RH) and the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM). The Wing delivers unparalleled capability to the Air Force through a combination of world class infrastructure and expertise of its diverse workforce of military, civilian and contractor personnel encompassing 75 occupational specialties including science and engineering, occupational health and safety, medical professions, technicians, educators, and business operations and support.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
The contractor shall meet all requirements per the basic contract and provide professionally and technically qualified individual(s) to perform all tasks in the following paragraphs to fulfill the requirements of this task order. The contractor employee shall provide research investigation study support for the Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air and Space Biosciences Division. As the Optimization of Human Capital (OHC) Program of Record (PoR) expands into its next phase, 711 HPW/RHB will need the services of a clinical psychologist with operational Air Force experience to serve as the psychological subject matter expert (SME) for OHC. The contractor employee shall interface with RH and 711 HPW Staff, as well as USAF experts and consultants in this field. The contractor shall be responsible for providing support to research by serving as an Associate Investigator, tasked to design, monitor, and collect accurate data from human performance studies, analyses, and research and provide expert level consultation on biopsychosocial topics.
Mandatory Qualifications:
INTRODUCTION:
The 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is the first human-centric warfare wing to consolidate human performance research, education and consultation under a single organization. Established under the Air Force Research Laboratory, the 711 HPW is comprised of the Human Effectiveness Directorate (RH) and the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM). The Wing delivers unparalleled capability to the Air Force through a combination of world class infrastructure and expertise of its diverse workforce of military, civilian and contractor personnel encompassing 75 occupational specialties including science and engineering, occupational health and safety, medical professions, technicians, educators, and business operations and support.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
The contractor shall meet all requirements per the basic contract and provide professionally and technically qualified individual(s) to perform all tasks in the following paragraphs to fulfill the requirements of this task order. The contractor employee shall provide research investigation study support for the Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air and Space Biosciences Division. As the Optimization of Human Capital (OHC) Program of Record (PoR) expands into its next phase, 711 HPW/RHB will need the services of a clinical psychologist with operational Air Force experience to serve as the psychological subject matter expert (SME) for OHC. The contractor employee shall interface with RH and 711 HPW Staff, as well as USAF experts and consultants in this field. The contractor shall be responsible for providing support to research by serving as an Associate Investigator, tasked to design, monitor, and collect accurate data from human performance studies, analyses, and research and provide expert level consultation on biopsychosocial topics.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- The contractor employee shall have an Advanced degree (PhD) in Clinical, Counseling, or Clinical Health Psychology from an accredited institution, with an APA accredited internship, and an active state license in good standing to practice clinical psychology.
- The contractor employee shall possess a board certification in Clinical Health Psychology or Behavioral Sleep Medicine due to the nature of the program, though candidates without these additional certifications will be considered.
- The contractor employee shall have at least five (5) years of operational or medical leadership experience with Air Force populations within the last 10 years to provide the team with necessary and current expertise for this position.
- The contractor employee shall have experience as an operational psychologist, aeromedical psychologist, director of psychological health, leadership position in an Air Force medical treatment facility, or other operational position that would have provided the candidate with a broad understanding of the system in which the Air Force Warfighter operates.
- The contractor employee shall have at least two (2) years of research and development; studies and analysis; process improvement research; and/or program development research within the last 10 years. The experience shall be in a relevant area with focus on design, development, application, and evaluation of human subject’s experiments and data collection and can be demonstrated in the previously identified operational positions or by publications in peer reviewed psychological or related journals.
- The contractor employee shall have graduate course work and/or experience in clinical research design and development, and in writing published peer reviewed behavioral science research reports.
- The contractor employee shall have a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in place with their company based on the potential access to confidential, proprietary, and/or sensitive information. The NDA shall be provided to the Government Program Manager by start of performance.
Tasks:
- The contractor employee shall exhibit competence in the rigorous methods of scientific inquiry and analysis. With the ability to employ scientific and analytical techniques to define, quantify, and recommend the feasibility of assigned projects, studies or problems, and perform independent analysis leading to unique analytical research proposals and studies that recommend alternative courses of action to OHC Program personnel.
- The contractor employee shall ensure discovered problems are clearly defined through data collection, research, and investigation of objectives and relevant criteria.
- The contractor employee shall serve as the psychological SME to the senior research coordinator as they prepare and maintain test results, technical information, reports, and briefings on progress, and provide evaluation, analysis and recommendations for ongoing and proposed human performance research. The number of presentations, reports, and papers shall be determined based upon the relevance of research findings as they become available.
- The contractor employee shall design strategic research plans in consultation with the senior research coordinator and 711HPW/RHB Research staff. The contractor employee shall assist in the planning of research objectives outlined by 711HPW/RHB Research staff. The contractor employee shall coordinate, plan, and liaison with 711HPW/RHB Research staff regarding project goals, reporting of results, development of data collection strategies, and analyses/interpretation of data.
- The contractor employee shall identify additional questions to be answered, provide or critique essential elements of analysis, and provide alternatives to be considered, as well as suggest analytical techniques to be employed.
- The contractor employee shall be the psychological SME to the OHC PI for the design and implementation of psychological interventions to be studied under OHC. The contractor employee responsibilities include providing direct support to the
- Performance & Resilience Optimization (PRO) Program research personnel and laboratory settings for the execution of RDT&E.
- The contractor employee shall travel to implement the intervention or related data collection in the event the research coordinator and other support personnel are unavailable to travel.
- The contractor employee shall perform and complete assignments involving work with diverse and dynamic groups. The contractor shall establish and maintain a constant and effective working relationship within the division, the directorate, 711 HPW, MAJCOMs, Air Staff, academia, business, and industry customers, partners and stakeholders for coordination, support and changes to the performance of assigned work. The contractor employee shall maintain effective working relationships with principal investigators, program managers, researchers and support staff involved in the acquisition of medical systems and conduct of human performance research.
- The contractor employee shall have an exceptionally high capacity for working autonomously, performing assigned tasks with minimal supervision, have strong attention to detail, have strong English skills, good organizational skills, initiative in performing assigned tasks, and the ability to follow-up complex projects.
- The contractor employee shall serve as the Clinical Psychology SME to other related research efforts within the Air and Space Biosciences Division, or its research partners, as deemed appropriate by the OHC PI.
- The contractor employee shall maintain confidentiality of data and contents of technical reports that are deemed sensitive and not releasable to the general public. All relevant publications and presentations will be coordinated and approved for release/classification level by 711HPW STINFO process.
- The contractor employee shall support the coordination and response to organizational taskers, administrative requests, and interfacing with 711 HPW leadership and staff in support of the PRO Program as needed.
3.0 BASE SUPPORT:
- When work is conducted remotely, the contractor and/or employee are responsible for office space, furniture, equipment, telephone service and internet services. When work is conducted at Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB), the contractor shall be provided office/laboratory space, furniture and equipment, routine office/laboratory supplies, computer hardware and software necessary to perform tasks described in this PWS. The government will also provide telephone service and access to a fax machine and a copier when work is completed on WPAFB. All software and hardware, passwords/access to military Internet/E-mail and applicable database will be available within the scope of the contract, regardless of location. The contractor shall comply with local, AF and DoD policies at all times while completing official government business.
- Work will be accomplished fulltime at an off-site location begging on 9 February 2025. Any changes shall have prior approval by the Contracting Officer or Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
- The work schedule is based on the needs of the contract and fulfillment of project objectives. Although the contractor employee’s work schedule flexibility is permissible, the contractor shall be expected to participate in team meetings and interact with government personnel, as needed, during regular duty hours (Monday – Friday, 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM). Although schedule may have to be flexible, it will not exceed 40 hours per week.
U.S. Citizenship:
Employee must be a U.S. citizen. For the purpose of base and network access, possession of a permanent resident card (“Green Card”) does not equate to U.S. citizenship.
TRAVEL:
Contractor will be required to travel when authorized to participate in customer business line related travel, to include meetings and conferences, to fulfill respective mission goals. Such travel will only be as directed and coordinated through the Government two weeks in advance of all contractor travel in order to obtain proper authorizations. The specific travel locations, duration, and number of trips will be upon direction of the Government without modification to the task order, as long as adequate travel funding is available in accordance with the resulting task order. When travel is identified, the contractor shall provide an estimate of all travel costs by location, broken out by item, to the Reef System’s Program Manager and Government for review prior to travel.
SECURITY:
- Individual SECRET Clearances IAW DD254. The Contractor shall obtain a U.S. security clearance at the minimum level of "Secret" for all contractor personnel required to have access to classified information or require IT-II level access. Onsite contractor personnel should have an active clearance prior to reporting for duty in support of any task order.
- The contractor shall provide OPSEC protection for all sensitive/critical information and indicators involved in execution of this contract/Task Order, as defined by AFI 10-701 (Operations Security). 711 HPW Critical Information and Indicators are protected under the 711 HPW Operations Security Program and the 711 HPW Critical Information and Indicators List (CIIL). Contractor employees granted access to critical information and indicators shall be provided initial OPSEC training by the 711 HPW OPSEC Coordinator upon in-processing and prior to being granted access to CIIL items related to the contract/Task Order. The contractor shall also participate in 711 HPW’s annual OPSEC training and education programs, which includes periodic updates and refresher training on CIIL items applicable to the contract/Task Order. The 711 HPW OPSEC coordinator shall evaluate the OPSEC posture of AF contract activities and operations.
- All documents, including papers, abstracts and posters shall be cleared by AF prior to public release.
DELIVERABLE:
Contractor Progress, Status and Management Report (PSMR).
On a monthly basis, the contractor shall provide a status report. The information will be on project status and describe the work accomplished. The contractor shall also identify any issues/problems anticipated in schedule or cost ceiling during the next reporting period.
The report shall have five sections:
- Project Title, Time Period of report, Date
- Performance: Current status of deliverables, measured against project expectations.
- Schedule: Have scheduled activities and milestones been completed on or before time, and impact of delays.
- Costs: Are there any actual or significant deviations, are significant costs adequately explained in terms of project plans? (i.e., large initial equipment purchase, followed by labor related costs.)
- Risk: Are there known or anticipated opportunities or events that will or can affect project.
Technical Report – Study/Services:
- All reports and data shall be submitted in a non-proprietary, easily transferrable format.
- All reports, data, findings and literature shall be property of the 711 HPW/RH. The contractor shall not reuse or distribute project information without the express permission of 711 HPW/RH and shall retain all 711 HPW/RH origin markings.
Point of Contact for Immediate Consideration:
Art Mata
amata@reef-sys.com