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D -- DEVELOPMENT OF PATHFINDER, VERSION 11.0 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. U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command intends to place an order with Presearch Inc., against BOA DAHC90-92-G-0004 for the acquisition of the following statement of work: The objective is for the contractor to develop Version 11.0 (V11.0) of Pathfinder. Integration and fusion of multiple sources of data through Pathfinder analytical tools is the goal. Effort focuses on developing Pathfinder to take advantage of multi-tasking, multi-user, windowing, graphics, image display capabilities, large disk space and processing speed afforded by UNIX systems. Scope of this order involves development of Pathfinder V11.0 and all aspects of RDT&E necessary to ensure receipt of fully functional and Government owned intelligence applications, algorithms and software. Pathfinder development shall cover acquisition and pre-processing of data, methods for accommodating multiple formats, analytical tools and methods, communicating analytical results, developing reference tools, and improving connectivity between local and remote Pathfinder users in the Intelligence community. This order also includes delivery and training of personnel on the Pathfinder system as it is developed, performance of computer hardware and software surveys which may enhance development of V11.0 and identify advantages/disadvantages of using commercial software. Pathfinder was designed to automate the labor intensive methods used in analyzing electronic intelligence. Task: Develop Version 11.0 based on requirements and specifications issued by the COR. There shall be one official release of V11.0 during the performance period. Subtask a: Develop capability to access and transfer data from additional data sources to software applications in Pathfinder. Data sources include Government data bases, message/cable traffic, personal analysts files, commercial and public data sources. Subtask a.1: Develop software to transfer data between mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputer hardware/software to access, transmit and download electronic data to Pathfinder software. Subtask a.2: Develop software to pre-process and convert data base formats to a common Pathfinder format. Development of a common, flexible capability to load heterogeneous data sets into Pathfinder format. Subtask a.3: Develop capability to load audio, video, graphics, photographic, numeric and symbolic data into Pathfinder. Subtask a.4: Develop capability to clean-up, edit and normalize all data loaded into Pathfinder. Includes editing all data entities from primary Pathfinder results windows and development of tools to create and maintain alias tables for organization/facility names, country names and people names. Alias tables will be developed for application on all Pathfinder analytical tools. Develop tools to identify and eliminate duplicate records in Pathfinder data bases. Subtask b: Develop automated analytical tools to exploit multimedia and multi-formatted data. Analytical methods of interest to be automated include link, pattern, relational, content, contextual, and temporal analysis, timelining and intelligent text searching capabilities. Develop enhanced automated sorting, collation, linking, filtering and natural language processes. Subtask b.1: Integrate software for intelligent search and retrieval of textual information. Text searching tools include boolean logic, ranked relevance, stem and fuzzy logic, integration of on-line dictionaries, thesauri, lexicons, reference materials to enhance query building and software to cluster and categorize electronic text files for analysis and storage. Develop tools to accomplish advanced concept retrieval and query by example. Task also includes adaptation of Pathfinder application programming interfaces with commercial text retrieval products. Subtask b.2: Enhance existing software and develop new software to enhance automatic identification, extraction and tagging of critical data elements that include proper names of people, places, organizations/facilities, military units, countries, projects/programs, equipment nomenclature, temporal data, roles and missions embedded in large volumes of untagged text. These elements will be transferred to the Pathfinder structure so they can be edited, added to, viewed graphically, linked, exported as electronic files, printed and used to retrieve the original documents. Develop capability for users to identify and tag entities with a user friendly mechanism. Develop an editor that highlights tagged entities identified by the software in the text file, allows the human indexer to select additional entities using mouse clicks and then loads the data into Pathfinder input records with a user friendly mechanism. Develop capability for Pathfinder to automatically enhance its knowledge base by incorporating human indexer selected data to improve Pathfinder accuracy. Develop software to identify relationships between identified elements so relationships can be displayed graphically. Subtask b.3: Develop and integrate software to reveal hidden relationships, links and patterns between elements contained in volumes of textual data. Software is for visualizing patterns, links, relationships, concepts and meaning of large quantities of textual information. Subtask b.4: Develop enhanced automated reporting, sorting, collation and filtering processes. Subtask c: Improve existing software and develop new software that enables analysts to capture, manage, annotate, link, and export results of analysis to finished intelligence products, relational data bases, geographical information systems, graphics, desktop publishing programs and INTELINK. Develop software to export records and tool output in SGML and HTML. Subtask c.1: Develop software to export results of analysis to written reports, briefings or any product used to communicate with decision makers. Develop capability to export results to commercial word processing, desktop publishing and graphics programs. Procure, test and evaluate commercial off the shelf software for inclusion into Pathfinder. Subtask c.2: Develop software to export analytical results into designated commercial relational data bases. Procure, test and evaluate commercial off the shelf software. Subtask c.3: Develop software to export analytical results into designated commercial or Government geographical information systems. Procure, test and evaluate commercial off the shelf software (COTS). Subtask c.4: Develop software to model processes, situations, events and alert the user when new information in the databases meets a condition of the model. Software will run continuously in the background and monitor incoming data flows. Subtask d: Develop reference tools using designated presentation and authoring software. Subtask d.1: Develop reference tools and materials using designated regions and countries of the world covering areas as threat perception, past and current force development, capabilities, readiness, procurement and proliferation of weapon systems. Tools will include structured arguments and other techniques to evaluate a country's internal military requirements based on factors including economics, geopolitics, cultural, demographic, environmental, government, religion, training and education. Subtask d.2: Develop reference tools covering all Pathfinder documentation such as users guide, system administration guide and training documentation for V11.0. Subtask e: Automate and provide a user interface to system and network administration functions. Subtask e.1: Develop software to automate/provide a friendly user interface for file/data management. Software will assist users in locating, saving, printing, establish permissions and ownership. Subtask e.2: Develop software to automate/provide friendly user interface for interaction with compartmented mode workstation operating systems or other designated security management software. Subtask e.3: Develop software to automate/provide a friendly user interface for resource sharing, configuration management, connectivity, communications and networking. Develop software to integrate Pathfinder into existing automation architectures at designated sites with network connectivity between designated sites. Subtask f: Adapt designated tools for the Web environment. Develop Web versions of all searching functions, GIS, CAMEO, browsing and link analysis tools. Subtask g: Integrate COTS and Government owned software into Pathfinder and make Pathfinder compatible with future releases of operating systems, graphical user interfaces and other designated commercial and Government owned software. Pathfinder program currently uses or will include SunOS V4.1.3, SOLARIS 2.X, IRIX 5.X, DEC UNIX, Microsoft NT, OPENWINDOWS V3.0, MOTIF, Memex V4.X and 5.X, Excaliber RetrievalWare, LOTUS 123, Oilstock 4.X, ArcView, InfoNuggets, NetMap, I2 Analyst Notebooks and Netscape. Subtask h: Maintain and support installed software at all designated test and evaluation sites. Support includes troubleshooting, providing a user hot-line during normal business hours (8 A.M. -- 5 P.M.) and making service calls as needed. 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 order/contract award. All offerors responses must present clear, complete and convincing evidence of their capability to accomplish this requirement and that it is advantageous to the Government to consider their proposal. This is a notice of intent only and no solicitation is anticipated to be issued. See Note 22.***** (0057)

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