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B -- NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICE SEEKS HELP SOL RFI-SYNOPSIS-51 DUE 062499 POC Kim Johnson, Technical POC, Phone (703)325-6421, Email johnsoka@acq.osd.mil -- Norman Harrison, Contracting Officer, Phone (310) 363-6871, Fax (310) 363-1753, Email Noraman.Harrison@losangeles.af.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=R&;ProjID=RFI-SYNOPSIS- 51&LocID=901. E-MAIL: Kim Johnson, johnsoka@acq.osd.mil. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). The National Security Space Architect (NSSA) is gathering advanced technology information regarding Mission Information Management (MIM). For the purpose of this RFI MIM comprises all aspects of gathering mission-essential information from data and information collection to providing the resulting information and knowledge to mission-executing entities. Providing the right information to the right customer at the right time requires that the information be defined, generated, formatted, communicated, and managed. In this context, we are viewing MIM in terms of the information customers, information providers, and the networks that will connect the two. Providers include national and tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, as well as commercial and open source systems. Networks include commercial and Government space and terrestrial communications networks. Customers range from the National Security Community, DOD, and Intelligence Community to other civil agencies such as the Justice Department, FEMA, NASA and NOAA. Customer needs continue to drive the government development and acquisition of technology. Our intent is to leverage commercial initiations and enterprises as much as possible in the satisfaction of government needs. Your response to this request will be used to assist NSSA in developing information- or knowledge-centric architectures for the time period 2010 -- 2025. NSSA is responsible for developing architectures across the range of National Security space mission areas. The architectural process integrates future requirements and a broad spectrum of future military, civil, and commercial capabilities into candidate architectures; conducts independent analyses to assess the merits of each architecture; and presents alternatives to the National Space Senior Steering Group for incorporation in National Security Planning Guidance (DPG, JIPG).This RFI seeks information that will help the NSSA assess the evolutionary and revolutionary technologies available to support MIM in the 2010-2025 timeframe. As a general framework, the questions should be looked at in light of potential technological solutions for end-to-end customer requirements such as; task/cue, collect, process, transport, store, index, search/retrieve/filter, exploit, assess, fuse, validate, visualize, and collaborate. Specific questions are: a. What technologies do you consider high payoff for future information management architectures and developments? What advances do you foresee in remote sensing, data information/knowledge processing, and computing? b. What enabling technological advances do you foresee in artificial intelligence, data compression, encryption, multi-level security, protocols, cognitive science, software engineering, evolutionary computing, etc.? c. What standards are you considering proposing, developing, establishing or implementing to support standardization with government customers? d. What new communication technologies or networks do you envision for the 2025 timeframe that has applicability to information management? e. What unique commercial, information management concepts are being considered which could support both small-scale and very large scale government applications? What analytical tools or simulations to assess information management capability are you currently aware of or pursuing? What evolutions/breakthroughs in the areas of knowledge management and decision support do you envision for the 2010 timeframe? Request a 1-2-page abstract describing your proposed discussions with the NSSA. A two-day window is being set aside for 29/30 June 1999 at Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly, Virginia, for thirty minute presentations by interested commercial organizations, to be followed by a thirty minute question and answer period. Classified meetings will be held 30 June 1999, if required. Please contact the CDR Kim Johnson, (703) 325-6421, NLT 24 June 1999 if you would like to participate. If follow-up trips or visits to an organization_s location are warranted (e.g. demo), they can be arranged during or after the presentations. SMC/XRI is issuing this RFI on behalf of NSSA. This synopsis is for a Request For Information only and does not constitute a commitment on the part of the Government to purchase or acquire systems or services. The government will not pay for data or time expended on this RFI. Posted 05/28/99 (D-SN337115). (0148)

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