Army Research Laboratory, ALC Procurement Division, ATTN: AMSRL-CS-AL-PC, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783-1197

A -- FY97 ARL BAA AMENDED SYNOPSIS SOL DAAL01-97-R-ARL SOL DAAL01-97-R-ARL POC Beth Minnick, ARL BAA Coordinator, (301) 394-3991, bminnick@arl.mil. FY97 ARL Broad Agency Announcement -- Amendment 9 -- This amendment is available in its entirety on the ARL homepage (http://w3.arl.mil/baa). The purpose of this amendment is to announce that the Information Sciences and Technology Directorate (ISTD) of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is soliciting research proposals for a Cooperative Agreement as defined in 31 USC 6305. This Cooperative Agreement will be a collaborative research program in the research topic outlined below and will be conducted between the recipient and the Software Technology Branch of the ISTD of ARL. Proposals submitted under this amendment are subject to requirements that differ from those set forth in the ARL BAA in the following areas: 1) Research Topic 2) White Paper Preparation and Submission 3) Proposal Preparation and Submission 4) Proposal Evaluation 5) The research topic described in this amendment is set aside exclusively for HBCU/MI consideration. 6) Proposals submitted in response to this amendment will only be considered if the offeror is located within a 50 mile radius of Atlanta, GA 7) To be considered for award, all proposals submitted under this amendment must be received at ARL by 4:30PM Eastern Time on 13 March 1998 at the following address: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, ALC Procurement Division (ISTD Cooperative Agreement), ATTN: AMSRL-CS-AL-PC (Beth Minnick -- BAA Monitor), 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197 -- Proposals submitted under this amendment are limited to the following research topic: Computer Science/Software Technology Research. The goal of this Cooperative Agreement will be to explore basic and applied research in the areas of 1. Collaborative Planning/Collaborative Decision Making for Army Warfighters -- battlefield visualization, distributed collaboration, information distribution, group dynamics, knowledge representation, Commander's intent, agent technology, data mining, whiteboard technology, and the internet. 2. Tactical Internet/Intranet Technologies forCommand and Control -- the goal of this research area is to reduce software life cycle costs, increase modularity and interoperability, increase the productivity of software development and support organizations, increase the quality and reusability of components, systems, and products delivered. 3. Database Research -- explore ideas and prototype tools for advanced data management concepts; implement and experiment with simultaneously and transparently accessing and manipulating data from many different databases; investigate new ideas, and design implement, and evaluate prototype data management tools that support the Army Information Architecture and Army moderization efforts. 4. Software Engineering Research -- develop concepts for prototype components of software engineering technologies that reduce software life-cycle costs, increase modularity and interoperability, increase productivity of software development and support organizations, and ease the quality and reusability of delivered components, systems, and products; explore technologies that achieve substantial software development, requirements analysis and definition software management, complexity, and quality metrics, reuse, transition to Ada, re-engineering, maintenance, and artifical intelligence tools for software engineering. 5. Additional research efforts within the scope of the Cooperative Agreement but not explicitly addressed by any other area. The research proposed must initiate and sustain both evolutionary research responsive to recognized needs of the current military system, as well as revolutionary research not specifically focused on current military applications but capable of providing exciting new opportunities for meeting our future defense requirements. The Army is driven by requirements pertinent to development of the digital battlefield. (TPOC: Glenn Racine, (404) 894-3110) All responsible sources may submit a bid or proposal which will be considered by the Agency. No telephone requests will be honored. (0034)

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