Booz, Allen & Hamilton, 1050 South Academy Blvd., Suite 148, Colorado Springs, CO 80910

A -- HYPERSPECTRAL TECHNOLOGY EXPLORATION SOL Scout-1 POC Mrs. Michelle Truly, 719-570-3159 E-MAIL: Mrs. Michelle Truly, truly_michelle@bah.com. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking new, innovative and promising hyperspectral technologies as part of a new program named "Scout." This program is designed to explore creative, new technologies and concepts for insertion into planned and future Air Force systems. The Scout program consists of three phases, each lasting one year. The objective of Phase I is a technology survey of industry, academia, and government labs, to identify innovative and high potential technologies. Booz, Allen & Hamilton is executing this phase and will fund four to eight short fixed price studies to further investigate the most promising technologies. The RFP will include details of the study selection criteria. Booz, Allen is willing to sign non-disclosure agreements with program participants. In Phase II, the technologies identified in Phase I will be further studied, along with the production of detailed design documents and roadmaps. Phase III will include development of demonstration hardware and functionality for a select number of technologies. The first phase of this study is intended to include many different types of technologies and concepts, to include: novel systems concepts (integrated technology solutions), sensor/payload concepts and technologies (optics, detectors, scan approaches, etc.), and on-board data processing (preparation, editing, compression, feature extraction, etc.) The purpose of this request for information is to solicit interest and points of contact for further participation in this activity. Booz, Allen & Hamilton will provide a Request for Proposal (RFP) to those organizations that respond to this RFI. Booz, Allen will select four to eight participants to provide a full proposal to negotiation of a three month study effort to further define these hyperspectral technologies and concepts. The RFP will define the level of detail and the form for the proposals. A schedule for Phase I is shown below: 08 February 1999 RFI responses due 22 February 1999 RFP released 22 March 1999 Proposals due 05 April 1999 Studies award for 4-8 studies 28 June 1999 Studies completed If your organization is interested in participating in this program, please provide the following information to the address listed: (please limit response to three pages or less.) A. Name of organization. B. Contact information (name, phone number, street address, email address, phone, fax number) C. Indicate if organization is industry, academic or government D. Indicate area of technology interest E. Description of technology, concept or approach that your organization is involved in (i.e. Focal plane arrays, detectors, optic, on-board processing, etc). F. Indicate organization business or research specialty (system development, data provider, software vendor, etc.) G. Brief description of previous work in this area (one paragraph or bullets) Send responses and questions to Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Attn: Mrs. Michelle Truly, 1050 S. Academy Blvd., Suite 148, Colorado Springs, CO 80910. Please contact Mrs. Truly at (719) 570-3159, fax (719)597-8131, or email: truly_michelle@bah.com with any questions. Posted 01/15/99 (W-SN288369). (0015)

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