MODIFICATION
A -- Office of Smart Collection Office Wide Broad Agency Announcement
- Notice Date
- 5/5/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- 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-15-01
- Archive Date
- 6/10/2016
- Point of Contact
- Dr. Edward Baranoski, Fax: 301-851-7673
- E-Mail Address
-
dni-iarpa-baa-15-01@iarpa.gov
(dni-iarpa-baa-15-01@iarpa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- BAA Summary - IARPA's Office of Smart Collection is soliciting proposals for research that will maximize insight from the information the Intelligence Community collects, in a timely fashion. General Information - All administrative or contractual questions about this BAA should be transmitted to dni-iarpa-baa-15-01@iarpa.gov. If e-mail is not available, fax questions to 301-851-7673, Attention: IARPA-BAA-15-01. All questions must include the name, e-mail address, and phone number of the requestor. Do not send questions with proprietary content. IARPA will accept questions until two weeks before the closing date of this BAA. Consolidated questions and answers will be periodically posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website (https://www.fbo.gov/) and linked to the IARPA website (http://www.iarpa.gov); answers will not be sent directly to the requestor. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) often selects its research efforts through the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process. The BAA will appear first on the FedBizOpps website, http://www.fedbizopps.gov, and then be linked to the IARPA website at http://www.iarpa.gov. The following information is for those wishing to respond to this BAA. 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 Smart Collection (SC). The mission of the Office of Smart Collection is to dramatically improve the value of collected data from all sources. The Office seeks to achieve this goal by, among other activities, developing new sensor and transmission technologies, new collection techniques that more precisely target desired information, and means for collecting information from previously inaccessible sources. In addition, the Office pursues new mechanisms for combining information gathered from multiple sources to enhance the quality, reliability, and utility of collected information. The following topics (in no particular order) are of interest to SC: o Innovative methods or tools for identifying and/or creating novel sources of new information; o Sensor technologies that dramatically improve the reach, sensitivity, size, weight, power and duration for collection of broad signal or signature types; o Methods for combining different measures and/or sensors to improve performance and accuracy of systems; o Approaches for assessing and quantifying the ecological-validity of behavioral, neuro- and social science research; o Innovative approaches to gain access to denied environments; o Secure communication to and from collection points; o Tagging, Tracking, and Location (TTL) techniques; o Electrically small antennas and other advanced radio frequency (RF) concepts; o Agile architectures that intelligently distill useful information at the collector; o Innovative means and methods to ensure the veracity of data collected from a variety of sources; o Automated methods for sensor data fusion without predefined interface descriptions; o Approaches to enable signal collection systems to conduct more effective targeted information acquisition rather than bulk collection; and o Tools to identify and mask signal streams and records that contain personal information to avoid unauthorized collection and dissemination. 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. Added: <input type="hidden" name="dnf_class_values[procurement_notice][description][1][added_on]" value="2016-05-05 10:50:44">May 05, 2016 10:50 am Modified: <input type="hidden" name="dnf_class_values[procurement_notice][description][1][modified_on]" value="2016-05-05 10:52:25">May 05, 2016 10:52 am Track Changes The new IARPA-wide Research BAA, IARPA-BAA-16-07 has been released. IARPA-BAA-16-07 is for any seedling submissions and remains open until 2 May 2017. The current Program-wide BAA, 15-01 closes on 10 May 2016 and will archive shortly thereafter. If you have any questions email us at dni-iarpa-baa-16-07@iarpa.gov.
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