MODIFICATION
42 -- Emerging Technologies for First Responders’ Capability Gaps
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2015
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 922190
— Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
- Contracting Office
- Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Washington, District of Columbia, 20528, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20528
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-15-04
- Archive Date
- 12/25/2014
- Point of Contact
- Matthew Monetti, , Sharon Flowers, Phone: 202-254-6816
- E-Mail Address
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Matthew.Monetti@hq.dhs.gov, Sharon.Flowers@hq.dhs.gov
(Matthew.Monetti@hq.dhs.gov, Sharon.Flowers@hq.dhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is seeking information on emerging technologies that address challenges faced by the United States' first responder community. Information will be used to assess technologies' ability to provide a solution to previously identified high priority capability gaps, which are outlined below. The Government is considering hosting a demonstration and operational assessment of promising technologies in Fiscal Year 2015. Currently, only Government developed technologies are anticipated to be demonstrated, but the potential exists for privately developed technologies to be included as well. Companies, educational institutions, laboratories and other organizations are invited to submit information on their products. There will be a selection of technologies to be invited to participate in one or more components of the DHS S&T Operational Experimentation program during the summer of 2015. The Government will not provide any funding for participation in any events and does not promise any acquisition will result from such participation. The events will involve the demonstration of technologies under different settings. Details of the events and associated expectations will be provided along with invitations that are sent to those selected. This is a Request for Information (RFI) only, as defined in FAR 15.201(c) and 5.205(c). Responses should be focused on the technology areas identified below and must be Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 or above. The Government does not intend to make an award on the basis of this RFI. Responses will be treated as information only. Companies that respond will not be paid for the information submitted and the Government will not pay for any submission preparation/related costs. Documents submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned. The Government is under no obligation to provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted under this RFI. There is no guarantee that any submission in response to this RFI will result in a Government invitation to the demonstration and operational assessment. The Government may or may not use any responses to this RFI as a basis for a subsequent project. Submissions should address one or more of the following capability gaps for law enforcement personnel, emergency management agencies, and public safety providers: • Situational Awareness: defined as the capability to obtain and distill specific knowledge concerning threats, hazards and conditions in a timely matter to support incident management decisions across all phases of a catastrophic incident response. o The ability to know the location of responders and their proximity to risks and hazards in real time. Geolocation of responders (identify their location on the incident scene tied to latitude, longitude and altitude coordinates or area-specific designations such as a street address), in all environments (in other words, indoors, outdoors and maritime), combined with simultaneous awareness of incident hazards. o The ability to detect, monitor and analyze passive and active threats and hazards at incident scenes in real time. Remote monitoring of threats and hazards, combined effects assessment, and automated Red-Force tracking. o The ability to rapidly identify hazardous agents and contaminants. This includes improved standoff detection and identification of multiple hazards, multi-sensor integration and analysis, and risk assessment and decision support to command. o The ability to incorporate information from multiple and nontraditional sources,(for example, crowdsourcing and social media) into incident command operations. • Communications: defined as the capability to seamlessly and dynamically connect multiple persons or entities and convey meaningful and actionable information to all relevant parties. o The ability to communicate with responders in any environmental conditions (including through barriers, inside buildings and underground). Improve communication systems to operate effectively in all environments, e.g. utilizing multi-sensory communications systems integrated with PPE; voice and data communications through all physical and electronic environments, and disaster resistant communications systems. o Communications systems that are hands free, ergonomically optimized, and can be integrated into PPE. Integrating communication means with PPE to reduce the number of devices responders have to carry as well as improving range and clarity. • Command Control and Coordination: defined as the ability to identify incident priorities, allocate scarce resources and exchange relevant information to make effective decisions in a stressful environment. o The ability to remotely monitor the tactical actions and progress of all responders involved in the incident in real time. Allocating responders in real time and integrating their actions into a workflow system remotely. o The ability to identify trends, patterns and important content from large volumes of information from multiple sources (including nontraditional sources) to support incident decision-making system. This system should be capable of integrating large amounts of data, identifying emerging trends and patterns and filtering for key information. o The ability to identify, assess and validate emergency-response-related software applications. • Responder Health, Safety and Performance: defined as the ability to identify hazards to public safety personnel and develop appropriate mitigations to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with response activities. o Protective clothing and equipment for all responders that protect against multiple hazards, e.g. developing a modular mission-specific protective layers and wearable materials and systems that can easily decontaminated. • Logistics and resource management: defined as the ability to identify, acquire, track and distribute mission-specific equipment, supplies and personnel in support of catastrophic incident response. o The ability to identify what resources are available to support a response (including resources not traditionally involved in response), what their capabilities are and where they are, in real time). A logistic management system that allows resource data to be exchanged and provides a clear resource-related common operating picture to help allocate available responders. o The ability to monitor in real time the status of resources and their functionality in current conditions, such as providing data concerning the functionality of specific resources that could improve the incident command's ability to make resource allocation decisions. • Casualty Management: defined as the ability to provide rapid and effective search and rescue, medical response, prophylaxis and decontamination for large numbers of incident casualties and identify appropriate sheltering, transportation and destination options. o The ability to remotely scan incident scene for signs of life and decomposition to identify and locate casualties and fatalities. Need technologies capable of detecting signs of life or death, incident-specific casualty modeling and prediction, and integrating data and decisions made to model and predict incidents. Improve the indoor, outdoor and subsurface casualty geolocation capability. All information received will be treated as public knowledge. Therefore, do not submit proprietary information in response to this RFI. Specific information sought includes: 1. Company information, including name, address, point of contact, URL, and the number of employees. 2. A point of contact for follow-up information, and the point of contact's phone number and e-mail address. 3. Product name, capability gap(s) addressed, brief description, operational context(s), and specifications. 4. Cost information, such as purchase price and General Services Administration (GSA) schedule information, if available. No feedback will be given on any of the product submission. The point of contact may be contacted following submission for more detailed product information. Submittals Only electronically submitted submissions will be accepted. The Government will answer all written questions, and requests for clarification regarding this posting. No telephone calls will be accepted. Submissions, questions, and written requests for clarification shall be submitted to the following point of contact: Matthew Monetti ( Matthew.Monetti@hq.dhs.gov ). E-mail your non-technical questions to Sharon Flowers, DHS Contracting Officer (Sharon.Flowers@hq.dhs.gov).
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