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70 -- SOURCES SOUGHT FOR MOTION IMAGERY EXPLOITATION TOOLS DUE 121898 POC Brian Wolfe, Contracting Officer, wolfeb@nima.mil or Technical POC, Ted Cody, codye@nima.mil The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), Technology Insertion and Assessment Office, Technology Assessment Division (TAT), Pathfinder 2000 Motion Imagery Team has submitted the following Request for Information (RFI) regarding Motion Imagery Exploitation tools or systems: (see Background below). NIMA's mission is to provide relevant and timely imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial products and services to consumers. To support that mission, tools and technologies are needed to assist imagery and geospatial analysts in the exploitation of ever-increasing amounts of imagery to serve a demanding and expanding customer population. Pathfinder is a process within the NIMA Technology Assessment and Insertion Office to identify, assess, and recommend key technologies and tools for insertion (for information about the Pathfinder process, see Internet URL http://164.214.2.59/TAT/). Pathfinder 2000 (Pf 2000) faces the challenge of identifying technologies that can simultaneously provide improved capabilities in both the imagery analysis and the geospatial information domains. If you or your organization is involved in the area of motion imagery exploitation or otherwise believe that you have capabilities that can potentially benefit the motion imagery assessment team's activities described below, we are requesting such information. Please mail, e-mail, or fax (not more than 6 pages, please) your response to the RFI to the address or numbers listed below by December 18, 1998. The RFI: If you are a developer (government or commercial) or vendor in the area of tools for exploitation of motion imagery: 1. Provide us with a point of contact (organization name, POC name, phone and fax numbers, e-mail) who is familiar with your organization's activities. 2. Provide us with a brief description of your past, present, and future motion imagery exploitation capabilities, activities, and programs. 3. Provide information on current Y2K-compliant motion imagery exploitation tools or systems you produce or use, and the types of hardware and software (including versions) that are part of or used in conjunction with those tools or systems. 4. Provide information on how compliance with Y2K was determined. 5. Provide information about image/mapping data types and sources used, the scenarios used, the output products/formats used, lessons learned, merits and shortfalls, and unmet needs. 6. Indicate potential interest in being considered in NIMA's assessment of motion imagery exploitation tools. Background: NIMA wishes to evaluate software tools that can assist in the exploitation of motion imagery. For the purpose of this RFI, "exploitation" should be considered to include all of the steps involved from the time raw motion imagery becomes available at an exploitation site until a final product (imagery intelligence or geospatial data product) is completed, filed locally, and ready for delivery to users. We are interested in finding DEVELOPERS or VENDORS who are experienced in the exploitation of motion imagery (including video) for mapping, terrain visualization, reconnaissance, surveillance, monitoring, situation awareness, change detection, targeting, fire direction, or other aspects of military operations. The types of motion imagery that are within the scope of this RFI include but are not limited to video, other wavelength (such as IR) moving picture imaging (where a sequence of still images is captured at a rate usually measured in frames per second), and digital or digitized moving images of natural scenes (not synthetically generated scenes or models). We are interested in commercial off-the-shelf technology, "beta or better," that is compliant with commercial standards such as MPEG-2 and NITF 2.0 or later (for still image chips extracted from motion imagery), as profiled in the Video Imagery Standards Profile (VISP), Version 1.3 (or later), which can be found at [http://www.ismc.nima.mil/vwg/vwg_docs.html]. The PF2000 Motion Imagery team is also expressly interested in systems that can operate under Windows NT and UNIX versions of the Defense Information Infrastructure/Common Operating Environment (DII/COE). Vendors/developers with tools/systems that are not yet compliant with the VISP or DII/COE, including most notably the MPEG-2 family of standards, should cite what actions (if any) are under way to make them compliant. Significantly superior motion imagery exploitation systems that are non-compliant with the VISP or DII/COE may also be considered provided there is documented vendor interest in bringing such systems into eventual compliance. NIMA's motion imagery systems may require substantial security services. In your answer to this RFI, please describe the security services your tools/systems provide. Depending on the responses to this RFI, Pf 2000 may narrow the scope of focus on motion imagery. Pf 2000 intends to conduct an assessment of all the tools/systems within the narrowed scope. The assessment is to include three parts: (1) a functional assessment by potential users based on materials submitted and a presentation by vendors/developers, lasting approximately 20 minutes; (2) a technical assessment by potential users lasting approximately half a day based on a live demonstration of tool/system capabilities, possibly using one or more data sets provided by NIMA, and hands-on experience by the potential users; and (3) a technical and cost assessment by the Pf 2000 staff based on data provided by the vendor/developer. Please send your responses to Mr. Edward (Ted) Cody by e-mail to codye@nima.mil, by fax to (202) 863-3150, or by mail to Pathfinder, ATTN: Mr. E. Cody, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, NIMA/TAT, Mail Stop N-06, Washington Navy Yard, Building 213, 1200 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20303-0001. Pf 2000 may respond with a questionnaire to ascertain additional information about your tools/systems, and information from the questionnaire would be used during the various assessments described above. This is an open and participative process. Should you determine that sharing of some information is not desired, please clearly mark or indicate the specific portions, and we will make every effort to protect that data and honor your request. This process is being conducted as described in SD-2, "Buying Commercial & Non-developmental Items: A Handbook," April, 1996. SD-2 can be found in the DoD Discretionary Documents of the Reference Library of the Defense Acquisition Deskbook at http://web.deskbook.osd.mil/". Please respond by December 18, 1998. Thank you for your interest and participation. Posted 11/20/98 (I-SN273580). (0324)

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