SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Prognosis Bidder''s Conference
- Notice Date
- 8/7/2002
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- SN02-23
- Response Due
- 9/27/2002
- Point of Contact
- Leo Christodoulou, DARPA Program Manager, Phone 703-696-2374, Fax 571-218-4553,
- E-Mail Address
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none
- Description
- Prognosis Bidder?s Conference SN02-23. The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring a conference on Prognosis for Combat Asset Readiness. This conference will be held September 26-27, 2002, at the Radisson Hotel Old Town in Alexandria, VA. DARPA is interested in exploring basic research efforts to develop core technologies that will provide revolutionary and transformational capability to US Forces. The aim of the conference is to make the community aware of DARPA?s interest in prognostic technologies and methodologies for (near) real time asset capability prediction with specific emphasis on materials and structures. It is intended that this conference provide a forum for interested parties to explore potential teaming opportunities in order to facilitate the preparation of white papers and/or proposals that may be requested under a DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that is under consideration. The specific objective of the Prognosis program is to go beyond existing condition-based maintenance, prognostic health management, or life extension programs and to establish predictive capability far beyond failure prediction. It is the intention of this program to provide commanders with the tools and quantitative predictions to adaptively manage, deploy, and use combat systems/platforms to the limit of their current and future capability. Thus, this will enable their full integration into the warfighters? evolving network-centric plan. Technical areas of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) advanced sensor technologies and interrogation tools capable of real time sub-critical flaw detection, assessing evolving damage, and deleterious microstructural changes; (2) beyond state-of-the-art physics of failure methods for predicting evolution of damage from multiple and coupled damage mechanisms; (3) mathematical constructs relating the physics-of-failure mechanisms to realistic capability predictions with known ranges of uncertainty; (4) global system or subsystem signature deconvolution algorithms for detecting and localizing damage; and (5) real time and hierarchical reasoners and an operational, user-functional and error tolerant architecture capable of integrating various sensor data with failure progression model predictions. The conference will consist of presentations from DARPA and other Government agencies that have interest in this area. Conference participants will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding DARPA?s and the Services? vision and plans. Interested parties unable to attend the meeting are encouraged to submit their questions via e-mail at SN02-23@darpa.mil. All questions and answers will be posted on the meeting website. In addition, there will be a poster session to facilitate interaction and team forming amongst the participants. The session will be limited to 30 poster presentations, with size restrictions for each poster of 4 feet by 4 feet. Potential bidders are strongly encouraged to prepare posters. Poster presenters will be required to submit a short abstract describing areas of capabilities and interest in order to stimulate communications, interactions, and team prospecting. The abstracts will be printed in a booklet given out to all attendees at the conference. To sign up for a poster presentation slot, attendees must submit their poster abstract when they register on-line on the conference website. Only the first 30 registrants to submit abstracts will be granted a poster presentation slot. Attendees must register in advance on-line at http://www.eventmakeronline.com/dso/View/index.asp?MeetingID=128. Conference details can be found at this website, including hotel information, directions, agenda, registration fee and registration form. Registration cutoff is September 16, 2002, or at attendance capacity. Space is limited and it is recommended that you register early. For further administrative information contact Heather Heigele (SN02-23@darpa.mil). Please refer to the "Prognosis Conference" in correspondence.
- Record
- SN00135606-W 20020809/020808085526 (fbodaily.com)
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