SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) - 2ND DRAFT PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
- Notice Date
- 11/13/2008
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U. S. Army Materiel Command, RDECOM Acquisition Center - Research Triangle Park, RDECOM Acquisition Center - Research Triangle Park, ATTN: AMSSB-ACR, Research Triangle Park Contracting Division, P.O. Box 12211, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211
- ZIP Code
- 27709-2211
- Solicitation Number
- W911NF-08-R-0013
- Response Due
- 2/20/2009
- Archive Date
- 4/21/2009
- Point of Contact
- Umetria Thomas, 919-549-4385<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army RDECOM Acquisition Center, RTP Contracting Division, on behalf of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, is issuing a SECOND DRAFT Program Announcement (PA), W911NF-08-R-0013, for the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA). The purpose of the United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA) Program Announcement (PA) is to solicit offers to establish a new Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) in the area of Network Science consisting of three research areas focused on Social/Cognitive Networks, Information Networks, and Communication Networks. Each of these basic research areas is to be led by an academic institution and will be referred to as an Academic Research Center (ARC). The fourth research area, Integration Research, referred to as the Integration Research Center (IRC), is focused on achieving integrated information-social/cognitive-communications networks by promoting and performing cross-cutting basic research, implementing theory, computation and experiment that characterize and provide insights into the interplay and composability of these interacting complex networks, and advancing the basic research breakthroughs through an applied research program. In addition to performing and leading basic research on network science integration issues, the IRC will perform applied research and execute the management and transition responsibilities of the CTA. The Army envisions this alliance will bring together government, industrial, and academic institutions to address research and development to enable Network-Centric Warfare and Network-Centric Operations. The SECOND DRAFT NS CTA PA has been posted at the NS CTA website: www.arl.army.mil/networkscience. This PA will result in the award of two instruments: (1) a cooperative agreement as defined at 31 U.S.C. 6305 for the execution of the Fundamental Research Component; and (2) a procurement contract as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6303 for the execution of the Technology Transition Component. The cooperative agreement for the Fundamental Research Component will be awarded to a Consortium consisting of four Principal Members. Three of the Principal Members will come from the three ARCs (one from each Center) described above with the fourth coming from the IRC. Each Principal Member may also include General Members as necessary and appropriate to fulfill the goals of the NS CTA Program. The Principal Members associated with the ARCs for Information Networks, Social/Cognitive Networks, and Communications Networks must be academic concerns. Further, each of the three ARCs is required to include an HBCU/MI as the Principal or as a General Member. The Principal Member for IRC may be an academic, non-profit or industrial concern, and will be the Lead of the Consortium. The procurement contract will be awarded to the Principal Member or General Member specified as such in the IRC proposal that is selected for award. Individual tasks will be issued under the procurement contract as transition opportunities are identified from the research results under the cooperative agreement. Under this PA, proposals are sought to select the four Principal Members for the NS CTA. Proposals must address only one of the three ARCs or the IRC. The proposed Principal Member for each ARC and the IRC is responsible for submitting the proposal on behalf of any General Members included in their proposal. Should an offeror desire to propose under more than one of the Centers, a complete separate proposal must be submitted for each area. There will be one cooperative agreement award that will be made to a Consortium consisting of the four Principal Members selected for award and any General Members included in their proposals. There will be one contract award to the Principal Member or General Member specified in the IRC proposal that is selected for award. Planned funding levels for the NS CTA are set forth in the PA. Contingent upon available funding, the Army expects to support the Network Science consortium for five years with an option for an additional five years.
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