Performance Work Statement

Performance Work Statement (PWS)
for the
3d Reconnaissance Battalion Military Freefall Support (Lake Elsinore, CA) 1.0. General.
United States Marine Corps (USMC) Reconnaissance units maintain a High-Altitude High-Opening (HAHO) and High-Altitude Low-Opening (HALO) capability to enable elements of the organization to clandestinely insert into areas of operation with enemy employing advanced anti-access technologies. These elements frequently require augmentation from other units to bring additional skill sets and collections capabilities or to bring additional equipment to increase the sustainment of long duration missions. These insert methods enhance the unit’s force protection as it conducts ground reconnaissance during Phase-0 to Phase-4 Joint Operations decreasing risk to force and risk to mission. The currently reduced availability of military aircraft to support military freefall (MFF) training has caused a subsequent reduction in capability for Reconnaissance units. Contracted air support is required to supplement military aircraft to attain the volume of jumps needed in the battalion for sustainment. Additionally, the primary method for personnel and equipment to insert with the Reconnaissance elements is the use of the Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System (TORDS). The USMC has established courses to train Reconnaissance Marines in this area; however, they have a prerequisite that is often met only after many years of MFF training. Historically, Marines and Sailors have not had the opportunity to maintain military freefall jumper and jumpmaster currency while serving with Reconnaissance Training Company. That requirement is for a parachutist to have attained 100 MFF jumps with the Multi-Mission Parachute System (MMPS) to attend the Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System-Equipment (TORDS-E) course and 200 MFF jumps to attend the Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System-Personnel (TORDS-P) course. The TORDS-P course also requires the Marine to be a MFF Jumpmaster (MFFJM).
Previously, the few Marines meeting these requirements and having attended the courses are in a rank that often precludes their employment at the base unit level or are in a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) that is not employed at the base level. The training continuum of the unit and the available support of Marine Corps aviation can only be adjusted so far and currently cannot fulfill the volume of required MFF jumps needed. The most effective method for attaining this number of jumps safely as well as for supporting the required MFF progression and