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1. REQUESING aGENCY. Department of the Air Force (AF), Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Air University (AU), A6 Communications, 55 LeMay Plaza So., Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6334
   
   


2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES. HQ Air University has a requirement to provide its faculty and students with a plagiarism detection solution that will be used to evaluate all coursework written submissions for plagiarized content.
   
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3. BACKGROUND. The focus for an adequate plagiarism detection or content similarity tool is to locate and identify instances of plagiarism or copyright infringement. The ability to plagiarize work has been made easier with the use of the internet. AU holds its students to a high ethical standard. A tool that will detect plagiarism and content similarity will assist in maintaining our high standards of excellence.
   
   

1. SCOPE. The following are required for any plagiarism detection tool provided as a solution for use within The Air University. The Plagiarism Detection Tool solution must:
   
   
   
   
   1. Evaluate manuscript submission against academic databases from universities and global databases
   
   
   2. Evaluate papers to detect similarity with internet resources
   
   
   3. Evaluate papers to detect similarity to other AU submissions
   
   
   4. Produce an Originality Report and score based on matching text (which includes references)
   
   
   5. Provide a comprehensive citation-based plagiarism detections analysis
   
   
   6. Provide a comparative analysis of content similarity
   
   
   7. Produce a similarity score outcome of the content similarity analysis
   
   
   8. Be Internet browser and device agnostic
   
   
   9. Support the use of search engines for further comparative analysis
   
   
   10. Display the percentage of plagiarism, the percentage of uniqueness, and the text relevant to the plagiarized content to diminish the effects of plagiarism
   
   
   11. Produce a plagiarism report
   
   
   12. Provide user tutorials
   
   
   13. Provide 1,000 FTE faculty accounts
   
   
   14. Provide 12,000 FTE student accounts
   
   
   15. Track and analyze academic writing for plagiarism infractions
   
   
   16. Identify when students have manipulated text to circumvent similarity checks
   
   
   17. Report detailing the percentage of written material matched other sources
   
   
   18. Include publications from all leading peer-reviewed journals in similarity check
   
   
   19. Check for unauthorized sharing of work between students within the institution and
       
       across different institutions.
   
   
   20. Provide resources that equip educators to address underlying skill gaps leading to
       
       plagiarism
   
   
   21. Private repository that prevents submissions from being shared outside of the Air
       
       University node
   
   
   22. Connect with typical STEM journals (~100), to ensure student have not plagiarized work
       
       that has been published in these technical publications
   
   
   23. Provide all functionality of the tool in a Software as a Service (SaaS) Commercial Cloud
       
       Environment
   
   
   24. Be available 24/7/365 to AU users
   
   
   25. Provide Technical Support for AU user issues
   
   
   26. Allow AU Faculty and Staff the ability to remove AU submitted documents and
       
       associated plagiarism report data from cloud storage locations at any time
   
   
   
   

1. GENERAL INFORMATION:
   
   
   
   
   1. Period of performance (POP) – 1 Mar 23 thru 29 Apr 28
   
   
   2. Air university/A6 point of contact (POC) for this contracted effort is Mr. Mark Roy (334) 953-9095, mark.roy@us.af.mil
   
   
   
   

Air university/A6 technical point of contact (TPOC) for support service is Mr. Kevin Frasier, (334) 953-4441, kevin.frasier.1@us.af.mil