SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Needs Statement
- Notice Date
- 8/24/2021 6:54:37 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- 5611 COLUMBIA PIKE FALLS CHURCH VA 22041 USA
- ZIP Code
- 22041
- Solicitation Number
- RRTO-20210824-W-RDDT
- Response Due
- 9/21/2021 2:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 10/06/2021
- Point of Contact
- RRTO Innovation Outreach
- E-Mail Address
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osd.pentagon.ousd-atl.mbx.rrto-innovation@mail.mil
(osd.pentagon.ousd-atl.mbx.rrto-innovation@mail.mil)
- Description
- Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Needs Statement The Department of Defense�s (DoD) Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) will conduct a Solutions Meeting on behalf of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Transformational Capabilities Office (AFRL/TCO) in Late Fall 2021, which will be conducted virtually. The meeting will provide selected innovative companies with an opportunity to make short technical presentations to government representatives about their technologies and products. There is a potential for companies to be selected for pilot projects or experimentation if their technology appears to match the needs below. The National Defense Strategy describes an environment characterized by the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition of nation-states that seek to shape the world consistent with their ideologies. The reappearance of old and entrance of new rivals is largely driven by access to commercial technologies and advanced technological developments that weren�t previously available during the Cold War � giving our competitors a lower barrier of entry in many different domains. To mitigate these risks, the DoD is looking to build a more agile force that is strategically predictable, but operationally unpredictable. This includes investments to develop resilient and survivable information ecosystems and the ability to transition from large, monolithic infrastructures to redundant, dispersed and resilient capabilities managed by a legion of small, cooperating, high-powered and geographically distributed teams. While individual team members are diverse and highly skilled, they may not have sufficient training or expertise to initially pick up the reigns at the tactical edge and immediately fill-in for their operational counterparts. In addition, while local teammates clearly know their own potential, they may not know the location or operational proficiencies of remote collaborators � so, they need to discover and exploit those relationships despite intermittent and contested communications and potential loss of enterprise services. Consequently, AFRL/TCO is looking for technologies in the following areas that promote, utilize, or enable innovative solutions to enable agile execution of distributed decision makers that traditionally conduct operations at hierarchically fixed nodes linked by static communications pathways: Distributed Human-Human Teaming Machine-aided analysis Work-team coordination and synchronization Calibrated trust amongst distributed teammates Artifact-driven production support for team goals such as analyses, plans, tasks, and/or presentations for decision-makers. Decision-aiding elastic/resilient communications in denied/degraded environments Maximally efficient distributed teams Technology solutions to preserve the richness of face-to-face interpersonal communications in contested environments. Work aides that enable rapid, appropriate reliance between individual contributors across heterogeneous, multi-organizational , ad hoc teams AI-Enabled Planning in Contested Environments Automated decision-aids for the planning, execution, and assessment of complex, interdependent task structures Objective/Task-hierarchy identification, tracking, de-confliction across elastic virtual teams Dependency identification, tracking and management as well as analysis and identification of �brittle� points of a plan and its sub-plans. Coordination of both planning processes and plans between physically distributed teams, tracking interactions, requests (resources, tasks, etc.), with an emphasis on disconnected and degraded communications environments. Tracking, management, and analysis of multiple plan options, subplan options, branches and sequels including analysis of plan option scores to decision-makers against specified metrics. Analysis of execution status, to include new information, as it impacts plans both in execution as well as subsequent plans and options. Workflow-Based Models and Automated Systems Deployment Workflow modelling technologies and automation of defining and modelling complex systems-of-systems workflows. Middleware management tools to facilitate automated deployment and management of services. Software applications, services, and information dependency management technologies to include the visualization of complex systems architectures. Flexible hybrid-cloud technologies to enable the rapid deployment of tailorable systems. Uni- and bi-directional data coherency solutions. Cross-system awareness and orchestration technologies to manage distributed systems-of-systems deployments. Companies interested in participating in the Solutions Meeting should submit one (1) application to RRTO Innovation via email to osd.pentagon.ousd-atl.mbx.rrto-innovation@mail.mil. Only one application is permitted per company, NOT one application per topic area or company business unit. The following information is required in the application. All application information should only be contained in the body of the email. No attachments are allowed. Email subject line �Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Warfighter Application� Company name Website address POC, email, phone number and alternate POC if desired A succinct single paragraph description (100 words or less in length and no bullets) of the technology that the company plans to discuss if they are selected to present at the Solutions Meeting.� This description must focus on the technology and the envisioned use of that technology, and not a description of the company.� Select the one technology area of the three bolded technology areas above that your technology BEST fits. Do not list multiple technology areas. All applications must be received on or before 5:00 PM EDT, September 21, 2021. Submission of an application does not guarantee an invitation to the Solutions Meeting. Selected companies are responsible for their travel and all other expenses associated with participation in the Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Warfighter Solutions Meeting.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Falls Church, VA 22041, USA
- Zip Code: 22041
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 22041
- Record
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