Performance Work Statement TORDS Parachute Rigger Support

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

Reconnaissance Training Company, Detachment Yuma Proving Ground Advanced Mobile Training Team (AMTT), Advanced Infantry Training Battalion
School of Infantry (West)
Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System (TORDS) – Equipment/Personnel Training Support

1. Background

Department of War units maintain a High-Altitude High-Opening (HAHO) and HighAltitude Low-Opening (HALO) capability to enable elements of the organization to clandestinely insert into areas of operation where adversaries employ advanced anti-access/area-denial technologies. The primary method for personnel and equipment to insert with maneuver or reconnaissance elements is the Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System (TORDS).

The United States Marine Corps has established the Advanced Mobile Training Team (AMTT) to train qualified Military Free Fall (MFF) Marines and Soldiers across the Department of War in the proper deployment and tactical employment of the TORDS. As relevant to this acquisition, this training comprises of two distinct curricula:
1. Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System-Equipment (TORDS-E) 2. Tandem Offset Resupply Delivery System-Personnel (TORDS-P)

To be eligible for the TORDS-E course, a parachutist must have completed a minimum of 100 MFF jumps with the Multi-Mission Parachute System (MMPS), the Parachute System 2 (PS-2), or service-approved variants. To attend the TORDS-P course, the parachutist must have completed a minimum of 200 MFF jumps with the MMPS/PS-2 (or approved variant) and hold an active MFF Jumpmaster (MFFJM) qualification.
The training continuum of the requesting unit and the organic capacity of military parachute riggers cannot fulfill the high volume of required MFF jumps needed to conduct TORDS-E/P certifying courses in a cost-effective and timely manner. The AMTT deploys throughout the United States to conduct TORDS-E/P courses lasting up to 21 training days. Students execute multiple jumps per day, with all daytime

training jumps accompanied by an instructor flying in freefall to deliver mid-air coaching, debrief videography, and in-flight lifesaving intervention capabilities.

The AMTT employs one military parachute rigger who is dual-hatted as an active TORDS-E/P instructor and cannot inspect and pack high volumes of parachute systems while actively instructing in the air. To ensure safety, operational momentum, and training throughput, contracted parachute rigger packing and maintenance support is required to augment organic capabilities.