SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- IARPA's Office of Incisive Analysis Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 3/10/2014
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Washington, District of Columbia, 20511, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20511
- Solicitation Number
- IARPA-BAA-14-02
- Archive Date
- 4/9/2015
- Point of Contact
- Dr Rita Bush,
- E-Mail Address
-
dni-iarpa-baa-14-02@iarpa.gov
(dni-iarpa-baa-14-02@iarpa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- IARPA-BAA-14-02 APPENDICES A and B IARPA-BAA-14-02 IARPA invests in high-risk, high-payoff research that has the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries. This BAA solicits abstracts/proposals for the Office of Incisive Analysis (IA). IA focuses on maximizing insights from the massive, disparate, unreliable and dynamic data that are - or could be - available to analysts, in a timely manner. We are pursuing new sources of information from existing and novel data, and developing innovative techniques that can be utilized in the processes of analysis. IA programs are in diverse technical disciplines, but have common features: (a) create technologies that can earn the trust of the analyst user by providing the reasoning for results; and (b) address data uncertainty and provenance explicitly. The following topics (in no particular order) are of interest to IA: oMethods for estimation and communication of uncertainty and risk; oMethods for understanding the process of analysis and potential impacts of technology; oMethods for measuring and improving human judgment and human reasoning; oMultidisciplinary approaches to processing noisy audio and speech; oMethods and approaches to quantifiable representations of uncertainty simultaneously accounting for multiple types of uncertainty; oDiscovering, tracking and sorting emerging events and participating entities found in reports; oAccelerated system development via machine learning; oTestable methods for identifying individuals' intentions; oMethods for developing understanding of how knowledge and ideas are transmitted and change within groups, organizations, and cultures; oMethods for analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic data; oMethods to construct and evaluate speech recognition systems in languages without a formalized orthography; oMultidisciplinary approaches to assessing linguistic data sets; oMechanisms for detecting intentionally falsified representations of events and/or personas; oMethods for understanding and managing massive, dynamic data in images, video, and speech; oAnalysis of massive, unreliable, and diverse data; oMethods to make machine learning more useful and automatic; o4D geospatial/temporal representations to facilitate change detection and analysis; oNovel approaches for mobile augmented reality applied to analysis and collection; oMethods for assessments of relevancy and reliability of new data; and oNovel approaches to data and knowledge management facilitating discovery, retrieval and manipulation of large volumes of information to provide greater access to interim analytic and processing products. This announcement seeks research ideas for topics that are not addressed by emerging or ongoing IARPA programs or other published IARPA solicitations. It is primarily, but not solely, intended for early stage research that may lead to larger, focused programs through a separate BAA in the future, so periods of performance generally will not exceed 12 months. Offerors should demonstrate that their proposed effort has the potential to make revolutionary, rather than incremental, improvements to intelligence capabilities. Research that primarily results in evolutionary improvement to the existing state of practice is specifically excluded.
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