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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 18, 2005 FBO #1483
SOLICITATION NOTICE

A -- An Enhanced Collaborative Software Environment for Information Fusion - Sole source modification to existing contract with University of Massachusetts.

Notice Date

12/16/2005
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541710 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
 

Contracting Office

US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008
 

ZIP Code

07703-5008
 

Solicitation Number

W15P7T-06-R-P612
 

Response Due

1/6/2006
 

Archive Date

3/7/2006
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The US Army Communications-Electronics Life-Cycle Management Command Acquisition Center, on behalf of Fusion Based Knowledge for the Future Force (FBKFF) plans to negotiate a sole source modification to contract W15P7T-05-C-P621 with the University o f Massachusetts for a task related to Information Fusion. This research effort is a result of a solicited proposal from the FBKFF Project being conducted within the Fusion and Technologies Branch, AMSRD-CER-IW-FF at I2WD Fort Monmouth, NJ to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Computer Science Department to build upon the initial proof-of-concept investigation of applicability of advanced blackboard and multi-agent system (MAS) techniques for creating a collaborative information-fusion environment for Army analysts and decision makers within the Armys Br igade Combat Teams. Under the existing contract, the contractor conducts R&D to advance the scientific foundations in the problem domain, and to develop and enhance software that will increase the speed and accuracy of intelligence analysis in support of answering commanders PIRs under severe information overload and challenging time constraints for making tactical decisions. The contractor is required to: illuminate a number of the key sources of complexity underpinning the problem of answering PIRs; i ncorporate the development of new algorithms and computational representations in a highly flexible and responsive software architecture; demonstrate speed and accuracy improvements in answering PIRs with respect to the identified sources of complexity in the context of government-furnished scenarios and data sets; and to document the results, approach, rationale, interpretations and conclusions in a Final Scientific and Technical Report. The software developed will be delivered to the government in a wo rking prototype system. Technical Point of Contact is Dr. Gerald Powell (732)-532-2429. Contractual Point of Contact is Andrew Dellomo (732)-532-3569. Reference Note 22.
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07 ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208 Fort Monmouth NJ

Zip Code: 07703-5008

Country: US
 

Record

SN00953810-W 20051218/051216212240 (fbodaily.com)
 

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