SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Request for the submission of White Papers for INSCOM Technology Needs
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Army Contracting Command - ACC - WRN - INSCOM (W911W4)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- W911W4-17-R-0023
- Point of Contact
- Rajni Anderson, Phone: 7034284424, Austin Herbert,
- E-Mail Address
-
rajni.m.anderson.civ@mail.mil, austin.p.hebert.civ@mail.mil
(rajni.m.anderson.civ@mail.mil, austin.p.hebert.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation Number: W911W4-17-R-0023 Notice Type: Special Notice-Request for white papers Original Set Aside: N/A Set Aside: N/A Classification Code: R -- Professional, administrative, and management support services NAICS Code: 541 -- Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services/541330 -- Engineering Services Synopsis: Request for the submission of White Papers for INSCOM Technology Needs THIS IS A REQUEST FOR THE SUBMISSION OF WHITE PAPERS ONLY. Responses to this notice will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. This notice is for planning purposes only, and does not constitute an Invitation for Bid, Request for Proposal, Solicitation, and Request for Quote, or an indication that the Government will contract for the items contained in this notice. This request is not to be construed as a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract, nor does the Government intend to pay for any information submitted as a result of this request. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any cost associated with submission of the information being requested or reimburse expenses incurred to interested parties for responses to this notice or any follow-up information requests. No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a bid package or solicitation. There is no bid package or solicitation. All interested sources must respond to any future solicitation announcements separately from responses to this request for the submission of White Papers. G7 executes INSCOM's materiel and materiel-centric responsibilities as a Capability Developer and as the Army proponent for design and development of select operational level and expeditionary intelligence, cyber, and electronic warfare systems. Within G7, the Integration and Assessment Division (IAD) integrates and assesses mature Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) using operationally relevant data within a Government test environment to determine if COTS solutions meet INSCOM needs to support Intelligence, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare requirements. Additional Info: INSCOM G7 has identified areas for which we are requesting White Papers from Industry on mature COTS solutions relevant to the following Focus Areas and requirements: 0001: Open Source Intelligence: - Voice detection, recognition, and machine translation (voice-to-text) algorithms and a platform to process data at scale to support OSINT and All Source missions. - Rapid recognition/tracking of individuals in social media as they employ multiple user names or personas, or move to new or pre-planned contingency accounts/platforms. - Open Source Web Monitoring Capability that provides the capability to monitor foreign web content, to include video, in an integrated user interface with embedded language translation (voice-to-text, text-to-text) and analyst alerting features. - Capability to audit use of OSINT tools and data to ensure compliance with Intelligence Oversight regulations, laws, and policy. The auditing must provide alerting of questionable intelligence activities. - Access to non-US data sources for publically available information originating outside the US, in particular, social media websites and popular forums in countries and regions of interest. - OSINT training and simulation capability to virtualize training on OSINT analytic tools and research methods, to include internet simulation/emulation to drive training scenarios and objectives. - Automated sentiment analysis capabilities. - Automated account management capability to issue and manage user accounts in automated/semi-automated fashion, a process currently performed manually. 0002: Cyber: - Software applications that process and exploit blue network data and enable predictive analysis by intelligence analysts in order to support defensive cyber operations. - Cyberspace tools that support close-access offensive cyberspace operations from the terrestrial and aerial layers in support of land operations to defeat adversary anti-access and area denial efforts. - Cyberspace tools and platforms capable of conducting surveillance and reconnaissance (C-SR) and delivering non-lethal fires against adversary tactical military communications, critical infrastructure, and ground force vehicle-borne weapon and maneuver systems. 0003: Process/Exploit/Disseminate and Big Data: - Moving Sensor PED to the Sensor Platform. - Protecting data and against Insider threats. - Big Data Language Translation. - Big Data Face Detection and Recognition in Images and Video as a service. - Improved data streaming/data compression techniques and software that transform raw data into compressed data for transmission over constrained bandwidth or disconnected operations while minimizing loss of fidelity. - Effective cross-domain solutions that allow dissemination of data across security domains. - Effective data translation algorithms to transform similar data sets (particularly geospatial data sets produced by different countries) that are not completely compatible/interoperable. - Analytic and Visualization Tools that support Big Data Analytics at the point of ingestion, data indexing and correlation, efficient processing, storage, and/or exploitation of data, automated text translation of data, Situational Awareness and Common Operational Picture. 0004: Other: - Comprehensive Counter-UAS capability to support all echelons of Army Operations. - Modern Collection capabilities to counter rapidly evolving technology, with the ability to collect and process multi-discipline, multi-modal, multi-phenomena data to detect, track, and understand adversary behavior, capabilities, and intentions by exploiting traditional data and/or exploiting new phenomenon such as behavioral biometrics, social media, and the internet of things. - Collection Management Modernization capability that supports the rapid assessment and re-deployment of collection systems to maximize capabilities of both organic assets and other available resources including a Sensor Common Operating Picture (COP) that displays the location, status, and effectiveness of assets. - Solutions for a non-GEO satellite low-profile planar antenna that provides the capability for satellite switching, that can operate in the Commercial and Military Ka-bands, provide a minimum of 20Mbps throughput, and weight and power no more than the current 17 inch parabolic antennas used on current Army ISR aircraft. - Smaller, lighter, smarter, modular AISR sensors. - Integrated multi-function display with COMSEC port capable of loading mapping data. - Real-time network monitoring capability to identify threat vectors. - Long Range Key Printer and software program to decode keys to physically create a key from a long range photo regardless of the angle, distance, or lighting. - Lock Tampering detection software supports determination of how a lock was tampered with based on the detected changes from the lock's baseline. Instructions for the submission of White Papers: To respond to this Request for the submission of White Papers, please provide no more than a 20 page White Paper describing the COTS solution offered for assessment. Please provide one original electronic copy. White papers must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF Format. Please explicitly include the following in the response: - Focus Area that the COTS solution applies to - Maturity of COTS solution (Technology Readiness Level) - Existing Government Intellectual Property Rights, if any - Per unit Licensing Costs, and availability of No-Cost Evaluation Licenses - Existing Information Assurance/Cyber Security Authority to Operate and/or Certificate of Networthiness - Name, telephone number, and an e-mail address of a Point of Contact having the authority and knowledge to discuss responses with government representatives White Paper Format: - Page Count - 20 pages, excluding Cover Page - Paper Size - 8.5 x 11 inch paper - Margins - 1 inch - Spacing - single spaced - Font - Times New Roman, 12 point for text, legible for tables and figures - Copies - One (1) electronic copy NOTE: 1) Do not send.ZIP files; 2) Do not send password protected files. The initial response will undergo a technical assessment that may be followed by requests for clarifications or an invitation for oral presentations/demonstration, with a desired end state of vendor participation in government conducted technology assessments. This is, in no manner, an opportunity to submit a proposal for research and development funding. No awards will be made from this Request for the submission of White Papers. Responses will be reviewed by both Government and Contractor personnel. Contractor personnel provide Systems Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) support, and are under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. All submissions will be acknowledged as received by INSCOM, and then staffed to requiring activities with corresponding capability gaps. Submissions are due on 28 May 2017 by 1500 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Early submissions are highly encouraged. The response should be sent with the Solicitation Number promptly displayed on the subject line to the POCs listed below: Point of Contact: Austin Hebert, austin.p.hebert.civ@mail.mil, and Rajni Anderson, rajni.m.anderson.civ@mail.mil, Contracting Officer-Contracting Office Address: Attn: Rajni Anderson, IAPC-DOC, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060-5246, United States
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 8825 Beulah Street, INSCOM, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 22060, United States
- Zip Code: 22060
- Zip Code: 22060
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