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70 -- SOURCES SOUGHT FOR IMAGERY EXPLOITATION TECHNOLOGIES SOL NMA202-99-RFI17 DUE 012999 POC Brian Wolfe, Contracting Officer, wolfeb@nima.mil or Technical POC, Ted Cody, codye@nima.mil The National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) 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. Pathfinder 2000 (Pf 2000) faces the challenge of identifying technologies that can simultaneously provide improved capabilities in both the imagery analysis and geospatial information domains. Pf 2000, scheduled from December 1998 through September 1999, will assess the state-of-the-art and state-of-convention in semi-automated or automated image understanding(machine vision) tools which could be applied to imagery and geospatial exploitation. For the purpose of this RFI, exploitation should be considered to include all of the steps involved from the time imagery becomes available at an exploitation site until a product (imagery intelligence or geospatial data product)is completed. In imagery intelligence, we are interested in tools which assist in change detection, target recognition, and battlefield awareness in wide area search, point target surveillance, site monitoring, I&W, etc. In geospatial products and services, we are interested in tools that assist in feature extraction and attribution for modeling and simulation, cartography, mission planning and rehearsal, etc. Pf 2000 is interested in all image formats and media, including motion imagery (video). If your organization is a developer or vendor (commercial, laboratory, or academia) of in semi- automated or automated tools in these areas, has been a participant in previous Pathfinders, or has capabilities which can potentially benefit the Pf 2000 activities, we request the following information: Indicate potential interest to participate in Pf 2000. Provide a point of contact who is familiar with the activities of your organization (organization name, POC name, phone number, fax number, and email address). Provide a brief description of past, present, and future capabilities, activities, programs, and issues. Provide information on current models, versions, and types of hardware and software used. Provide data sources and types, scenarios, input and output formats and products used and desired, lessons learned, merits and shortfalls, unmet needs, etc. Pf 2000 is interested in technology that is Beta or better with which you have the intent to market, either through your own auspices or through an agent. Depending on the responses to this RFI, Pf 2000 intends to narrow the scope of the Pathfinder assessment. Pf 2000 may respond with a questionnaire to ascertain additional information about your tools, and information from the questionnaire may be used during the assessment. The assessment is to include three parts: (1)a functional assessment by potential users based on a presentation of approximately 20 minutes by the vendor or developer; (2)a technical assessment by potential users of approximately a half-day based on a live demonstration of the system or tool and hands-on experience by the potential users, possibly using one or more test data sets which may be provided by NIMA; and (3) a cost assessment by the Pf 2000 staff based on data provided by the vendor or developer. Please send your responses by email to codye@nima.mil; by fax to (202) 863-3150, Attn: Pf 2000 Team; or by mail to Mr. Edward (Ted) Cody, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Washington Navy Yard, Building 213, Mail Stop N-06, 1200 First Street, S.E., Washington, DC 20303-0001. Pathfinder 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. Please respond by 29 January 1999 in 3-6 pages. In response please refer to NMA202-99-RFI17. Posted 01/06/99 (I-SN285528). (0006)

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