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D -- APPLICATIONS OF ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS TO THE DETECTION AND EVALUATION OF THE PRESENCE OF INFORMATION WARFARE SOL DCA100-96-R-0062 DUE 090696 POC Purnell Drew, Contract Specialist, (703) 607-6897, or Leo Milanowski, Contracting Officer, (703) 607-6908. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the New Mexico State University to assess the applicability and make recommendations on the application of the Q-analysis and Q-connectivity theory as a tool for detecting and evaluating the effects of Information Warfare. New Mexico State University will study the applicability of Q-connectivity theory, and its associated mathematical foundations in algebraic topology, investigate possibilities for attaching weights to complexes in order to help derive the intrinsic global properties of the generating combinatorial dynamical system, investigate the potential for Q-connectivity concepts and provide technical report detailing research and associated finds. See Note 22. (0207)

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