Commander, USAINSCOM SPT Bn (PROV), Attn: IASB-DCO, 8825 Beulah Street, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246

D -- DEVELOPMENT OF PATHFINDER/SENTINEL, VERSIONS 12.0 -- 16.0 SOL DASC01-97-R-0007 DUE 043097 POC Hans J. Goeth, 703-706-2258; Contracting Officer, Cheryl D. Jamison, 703-706-2766 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via e-mail, hjgoeth@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command intends to award a one year contract with four -- one year options to provide updated versions of an existing system known as Pathfinder/Sentinel for the National Ground Intelligence Center. The primary objective of Pathfinder/Sentinel is the integration of multiple sources of data utilizing analytical tools. The effort will focus on current and future distributed multi-tasking computing environments in use within the defense and intelligence communities. This effort will ensure the Government receives fully functional and Government owned intelligence analysis applications, algorithms and software. The development of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system will cover the acquisition and pre-processing of data, methods for accommodating multiple formats, analytical tools and methods, collaboration, communicating analytical results, development of reference tools and improving the connectivity between local and remote users in the intelligence community. This requirement also includes delivery and training of personnel of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system as it is developed and the performance of surveys of computer hardware and software that may be applicable to the development of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system to include advantages/disadvantages of using commercial software for the development effort. Specifically the contractor shall develop the capability to access and transfer data from additional data sources to include Government data bases, messaging and cable feeds, personal analysts files and commercial/public data sources to the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Capability of the system will include the development of the ability to access and transfer data between mainframes, mini-computers and microcomputer hardware and software to access, transmit, download, pre-process and convert data base formats to a common Pathfinder/Sentinel system format. Data types to be accessed and transferred include text, audio, video, graphics, photographic (digital and analog), numeric and symbolic. Automated analytical tools will be developed to exploit textual and multimedia multi-formatted data. Analytical methods to be automated include content and contextual analysis, pattern analysis, change detection, network analysis, author connectivity, facility analysis, organizational analysis, timelining/temporal analysis, spatial/geographic analysis, collaborative analysis and advanced text searching capabilities. Development of enhanced automated sorting, collation linking and filtering processes will be required as they are identified. Develop software enabling analysts to export the results of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system analysis to finished reports, briefings or any product used to communicate with decision makers. Develop tools to export findings to existing relational data base. Procure, test and evaluate commercial off the shelf software for inclusion into the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Automate and provide a user interface to system and administration functions that include file and data management, connectivity, communications and networking. Develop software to integrate the Pathfinder/Sentinel system into existing automation architectures within the intelligence community and the provision of network connectivity within the intelligence community. Automate the process, display and visualize quantitative and text-based data extracted or identified by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Provide the capability to display text data content and meaning, entity associations (people, organizations, places and things), numeric data and geographic data drawn from data loaded into the Pathfinder/sentinel system. Develop Web-based versions of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system applications that include advanced searching, browsing, visualization, geographic plotting and alerting functions to be applied to distributed data located on a wide area network. Develop applications and capabilities within the Pathfinder/Sentinel system that allows users to collaborate across a wide area network and allow users to share resources and findings generated by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system and to work jointly on displays, overlays and generated output from the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Integrate chat features and video teleconferencing functions as designated. Develop software to automatically identify, extract and tag entities (people, organizations, facilities, locations, military units, equipment, quantitative and economic data). Extraction tools will include features supporting user created dictionaries, automatic identification of the position of extracted entities in the source text and the transfer of extracted data to other tools in the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Integrate commercial off the shelf and Government owned software as designated. Integrate software from other Government agencies and commercial vendors. Commercial off the shelf software utilized by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system includes Memex 4.X, Excaliber RetrievalWare 5 and 6, OILSTOCK 4.X, Claritech's InfoNuggets, UMIX GUI builder, XRTgraphics tool kit, OpenWindows 3.0, Motif, Common Desktop Environment (CDE), Mosaic, Netscape, Solaris and IRIX. Install, configure, integrate, troubleshoot, support and train the Pathfinder/Sentinel system at user sites as designated. Integration and support will include configuration of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system for site computing architectures, establishing data feeds and data bases, establishing new users, providing hot-line support, answering user questions, troubleshooting software problems, providing follow-up services for the Pathfinder/Sentinel system training and provide training for site system administrators in maintaining the Pathfinder/Sentinel system software and data bases. All proposed personnel and facility shall possess a Top Secret security clearance with a special background investigation (SBI) and must meet Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility requirements as determined by the United States Army Central Personnel Clearance Facility by the date of contract award. Toensure timely processing, all solicitation requests should be received within 15 calendar days after publication of this notice. Solicitation requests must be in writing. Solicitation requests may be e-mailed to the following address: hjgoeth@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. Solicitation requests via fax may be sent to: 703-806-1156, Attn:H.J.Goeth. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Telephonic inquiries will not be honored. See Note 26.***** The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command intends to award a one year contract with four -- one year options to provide updated versions of an existing system known as Pathfinder/Sentinel for the National Ground Intelligence Center. The primary objective of Pathfinder/Sentinel is the integration of multiple sources of data utilizing analytical tools. The effort will focus on current and future distributed multi-tasking computing environments in use within the defense and intelligence communities. This effort will ensure the Government receives fully functional and Government owned intelligence analysis applications, algorithms and software. The development of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system will cover the acquisition and pre-processing of data, methods for accommodating multiple formats, analytical tools and methods, collaboration, communicating analytical results, development of reference tools and improving the connectivity between local and remote users in the intelligence community. This requirement also includes delivery and training of personnel of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system as it is developed and the performance of surveys of computer hardware and software that may be applicable to the development of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system to include advantages/disadvantages of using commercial software for the development effort. Specifically the contractor shall develop the capability to access and transfer data from additional data sources to include Government data bases, messaging and cable feeds, personal analysts files and commercial/public data sources to the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Capability of the system will include the development of the ability to access and transfer data between mainframes, mini-computers and microcomputer hardware and software to access, transmit, download, pre-process and convert data base formats to a common Pathfinder/Sentinel system format. Data types to be accessed and transferred include text, audio, video, graphics, photographic (digital and analog), numeric and symbolic. Automated analytical tools will be developed to exploit textual and multimedia multi-formatted data. Analytical methods to be automated include content and contextual analysis, pattern analysis, change detection, network analysis, author connectivity, facility analysis, organizational analysis, timelining/temporal analysis, spatial/geographic analysis, collaborative analysis and advanced text searching capabilities. Development of enhanced automated sorting, collation linking and filtering processes will be required as they areidentified. Develop software enabling analysts to export the results of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system analysis to finished reports, briefings or any product used to communicate with decision makers. Develop tools to export findings to existing relational data base. Procure, test and evaluate commercial off the shelf software for inclusion into the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Automate and provide a user interface to system and administration functions that include file and data management, connectivity, communications and networking. Develop software to integrate the Pathfinder/Sentinel system into existing automation architectures within the intelligence community and the provision of network connectivity within the intelligence community. Automate the process, display and visualize quantitative and text-based data extracted or identified by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Provide the capability to display text data content and meaning, entity associations (people, organizations, places and things), numericdata and geographic data drawn from data loaded into the Pathfinder/sentinel system. Develop Web-based versions of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system applications that include advanced searching, browsing, visualization, geographic plotting and alerting functions to be applied to distributed data located on a wide area network. Develop applications and capabilities within the Pathfinder/Sentinel system that allows users to collaborate across a wide area network and allow users to share resources and findings generated by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system and to work jointly on displays, overlays and generated output from the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Integrate chat features and video teleconferencing functions as designated. Develop software to automatically identify, extract and tag entities (people, organizations, facilities, locations, military units, equipment, quantitative and economic data). Extraction tools will include features supporting user created dictionaries, automatic identification of the positionof extracted entities in the source text and the transfer of extracted data to other tools in the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Integrate commercial off the shelf and Government owned software as designated. Integrate software from other Government agencies and commercial vendors. Commercial off the shelf software utilized by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system includes Memex 4.X, Excaliber RetrievalWare 5 and 6, OILSTOCK 4.X, Claritech's InfoNuggets, UMIX GUI builder, XRT graphics tool kit, OpenWindows 3.0, Motif, Common Desktop Environment (CDE), Mosaic, Netscape, Solaris and IRIX. Install, configure, integrate, troubleshoot, support and train the Pathfinder/Sentinel system at user sites as designated. Integration and support will include configuration of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system for site computing architectures, establishing data feeds and data bases, establishing new users, providing hot-line support, answering user questions, troubleshooting software problems, providing follow-up services for the Pathfinder/Sentinel system training and provide training for site system administrators in maintaining the Pathfinder/Sentinel system software and data bases. All proposed personnel and facility shall possess a Top Secret security clearance with a special background investigation (SBI) and must meet Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility requirements as determined by the United States Army Central Personnel Clearance Facility by the date of contract award. To ensure timely processing, all solicitation requests should be received within 15 calendar days after publication of this notice. Solicitation requests must be in writing. Solicitation requests may be e-mailed to the following address: hjgoeth@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. Solicitation requests via fax may be sent to: 703-806-1156, Attn:H.J.Goeth. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Telephonic inquiries will not be honored. See Note 26.***** The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command intends to award a one yearcontract with four -- one year options to provide updated versions of an existing system known as Pathfinder/Sentinel for the National Ground Intelligence Center. The primary objective of Pathfinder/Sentinel is the integration of multiple sources of data utilizing analytical tools. The effort will focus on current and future distributed multi-tasking computing environments in use within the defense and intelligence communities. This effort will ensure the Government receives fully functional and Government owned intelligence analysis applications, algorithms and software. The development of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system will cover the acquisition and pre-processing of data, methods for accommodating multiple formats, analytical tools and methods, collaboration, communicating analytical results, development of reference tools and improving the connectivity between local and remote users in the intelligence community. This requirement also includes delivery and training of personnel of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system as it is developed and the performance of surveys of computer hardware and software that may be applicable to the development of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system to include advantages/disadvantages of using commercial software for the development effort. Specifically the contractor shall develop the capability to access and transfer data from additional data sources to include Government data bases, messaging and cable feeds, personal analysts files and commercial/public data sources to the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Capability of the system will include the development of the ability to access and transfer data between mainframes, mini-computers and microcomputer hardware and software to access, transmit, download, pre-process and convert data base formats to a common Pathfinder/Sentinel system format. Data types to be accessed and transferred include text, audio, video, graphics, photographic (digital and analog), numeric and symbolic. Automated analytical tools will be developed to exploit textual and multimedia multi-formatted data. Analytical methods to be automated include content and contextual analysis, pattern analysis, change detection, network analysis, author connectivity, facility analysis, organizational analysis, timelining/temporal analysis, spatial/geographic analysis, collaborative analysis and advanced text searching capabilities. Development of enhanced automated sorting, collation linking and filtering processes will be required as they are identified. Develop software enabling analysts to export the results of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system analysis to finished reports, briefings or any product used to communicate with decision makers. Develop tools to export findings to existing relational data base. Procure, test and evaluate commercial off the shelf software for inclusion into the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Automate and provide a user interface to system and administration functions that include file and data management, connectivity, communications and networking. Develop software to integrate the Pathfinder/Sentinel system into existing automation architectures within the intelligence community and the provision of network connectivity within the intelligence community. Automate the process, display and visualize quantitative and text-based data extracted or identified by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Provide the capability to display text data content and meaning, entity associations (people, organizations, places and things), numeric data and geographic data drawn from data loaded into the Pathfinder/sentinel system. Develop Web-based versions of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system applications that include advanced searching, browsing, visualization, geographic plotting and alerting functions to be applied to distributed data located on a wide area network. Develop applications and capabilities within the Pathfinder/Sentinel system that allows users to collaborate across a wide area network and allow users to share resources and findings generated by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system and to work jointly on displays, overlays and generated output from the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Integrate chat features and video teleconferencing functions as designated. Develop software to automatically identify, extract and tag entities (people, organizations, facilities, locations, military units, equipment, quantitative and economic data). Extraction tools will include features supporting user created dictionaries, automatic identification of the position of extracted entities in the source text and the transfer of extracted data to other tools in the Pathfinder/Sentinel system. Integrate commercial off the shelf and Government owned software as designated. Integrate software from other Government agencies and commercial vendors. Commercial off the shelf software utilized by the Pathfinder/Sentinel system includes Memex 4.X, Excaliber RetrievalWare 5 and 6, OILSTOCK 4.X, Claritech's InfoNuggets, UMIX GUI builder, XRT graphics tool kit, OpenWindows 3.0, Motif, Common Desktop Environment (CDE), Mosaic, Netscape, Solaris and IRIX. Install, configure, integrate, troubleshoot, support and train the Pathfinder/Sentinel system at user sites as designated. Integration and support will include configuration of the Pathfinder/Sentinel system for site computing architectures, establishing data feeds and data bases, establishing new users, providing hot-line support, answering user questions, troubleshooting software problems, providing follow-up services for the Pathfinder/Sentinel system training and provide training for site system administrators in maintaining the Pathfinder/Sentinel system software and data bases. All proposed personnel and facility shall possess a Top Secret security clearance with a special background investigation (SBI) and must meet Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility requirements as determined by the United States Army Central Personnel Clearance Facility by the date of contract award. To ensure timely processing, all solicitation requests should be received within 15 calendar days after publication of this notice. Solicitation requests must be in writing. Solicitation requests may be e-mailed to the following address: hjgoeth@vulcan.belvoir.army.mil. Solicitation requests via fax may be sent to: 703-806-1156, Attn:H.J.Goeth. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Telephonic inquiries will not be honored. See Note 26.***** (0057)

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