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A -- FY96 ARL BAA AMENDED SYNOPSIS SOL DAAL01-96-R-ARL SOL DAAL01-96-R-ARL POC POC: Karen Wishnow, ARL BAA Coordinator, (301) 394-3690, kwishnow@arl.mil. FY97 ARL Broad Agency Announcement - Amendment 1 - This synopsis is an additional topic to the Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED). This amendment will be available on the ARL Home Page (http://w3.arl.mil/baa) TOPIC 5.6 Logistics Decision Support. The HRED is seeking proposals for innovative research, design, development, integration, and technical support to extend the decision support capabilities currently being demonstrated in the Logistics Anchor Desk. Primary interest is in advanced decision aids to assist key logisticians at strategic, operational, tactical levels to rapidly generate and evaluate logistics support concepts, monitor and assess logistics support plans, anticipate and analyze the combat impact of disruptive logistics events, analyze, manipulate, and present data from heterogeneous data sets, and synthesize and present coherent, succinct logistics briefings. The research results, after evaluation exercise environments, may also include demonstration and validation of the proposed improvements in an operational site under the Joint Logistics Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration. Typical decision aids encompass knowledge-based planning and scheduling technlogies including analysis, animation, comparison, and visualization tools, explanation, automatic graphics generation, multi-echelon interaction, shared map and data presentations, intregrated planning techniques to allocate common resources, interactive planning, and dynamic replanning. Narrowly focused proposals (e.g., one supply class or service) and broadly based proposals (e.g., integration of several logistics analysis tools) are acceptable. The proposed technical approach must demonstrate the following charateristics: (a) Understanding of the full spectrum of joint logistics planning and execution functions of crisis action planning, mobilization, deployment, sustainment, redeployment, and demobilization as practiced at strategic, operational, and tactical levels. All responsible sources may submit a bid or proposal which will be considered by the Agency. No telephone requests will be honored. (0323)

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