REQUEST FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGIES THAT MAY BE APPLICABLE TO SUPPORT OF CI/HUMINT ACTD ACTIVITIES The Battle Command Battle Lab-Huachuca [BCBL(H)], U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, AZ, is the Operational Manager for the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Counter-Intelligence (CI) Support Tools (HICIST) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD). The demonstration phase of this ACTD will end in 2001. The Department of Army has a major effort underway to support "digitizing the Army" with the latest state-of-the-art technology. However, historically and currently, the CI and HUMINT communities have not enjoyed the benefits of new technology modernization. The primary motivation for this ACTD is to examine state-of-the-art technologies and to determine their value and relevance to improving supporting CI/HUMINT operations. The objectives of this RFI are: (1) To solicit information, i.e., "white papers", which describe technologies that may be applicable to the ACTD's efforts and CI/HUMINT operations. Papers describing basic research are NOT desired. An ACTD must be able to use the technology. However, it is understood and acceptable, that the technology may be in a basic prototype "state." (2) To canvass industry for technologies that may be available to support "experiments" in Mar 00 and Nov 00. The military use and application of the desired technology is for the following CI/HUMINT applications: Tactical through strategic operations. (2) Force Protection. (3) Reconnaissance Forces, specifically for division and corps Long-Range Surveillance (LRS) teams, and (4) Special Operations Forces (SOF). Innovative, state-of-the-art, technologies of interest to BCBL(H): Miniature, Bio-Metric Sensors. Bio-metric verification is a method whereby an individual's unique physical or behavioral characteristics such as fingerprints, retinas, palm prints and voice fluctuation, can be used to verify truthfulness and/or identity. Because they are unique to each individual, bio-metrics can prevent fraud or deception. Unlike a password, a bio-metric cannot be lost, stolen or recreated. Also, using a RF type tag (invisible to the source) on an individual, will enable the physical tracking of the source's location. There are multiple applications for these devices to include: source tracking (as they travel), surveillance, source data-basing and identification, counter-terrorism (i.e. lie detector), and force protection. (2) Voice Translation Device. A hand-held translation device to assist CI/HUMINT personnel in the field. It should be capable of voice-to-text, voice-to-synthesized-voice, and document scan. It should have a plug-in language module capability (to allow flexibility in the field). Looking for a device with the capability to initially demonstrate in five languages (French and German for Tactical Operations Center (TOC) operation scenarios and Arabic, Korean and Serbo-Croation for refugee screening/force protection scenarios). The device should be capable of evolving to address voice fluctuations and dialects of the mother language, and have the capability to accept additional language plug-in type modules. (3) Tactical Communications. Technology sought: a. Medium to long-range, high and medium data rate, communications enabling both voice and data (ex: collected sensor information) transmission for strategic-to-tactical connectivity, and b. Hand-held communications systems providing secure, Low Probability of Intercept/Low Probability of Detection (LPI/LPD) transmission. (4) Association Software. The use of "association software" means software that is not only able to provide multi-layered diagrams depicting structures and associations among all elements in the structure, but also maintains the underlying association relationships. An example diagram might be a hierarchy, a "tree", of people and their relationships to other people in that organization. Then, an example of an underlying association, would be another layer associated with this personnel tree containing the projects, activities, of every person in the organization, and the relationships of all personnel and project associations to any potential person or project in the tree. Some common nomenclature for this includes "link analysis" and "database associations." This RFI is looking for innovative implementations of, solutions for, this "association software". Use of this software would be on a notebook-type personal computer and working in a Windows environment. During the "life" of an ACTD, various demonstrations and "experiments" will occur. IMPORTANT: The word "experiment", for use in this Request For Information (RFI), does NOT mean a scientific experiment performing stand-alone engineering tests on some hardware or software. The technology will be evaluated for performance, but in conjunction to its "value" to the warfighter, as part of an operational, military-relevant, experiment. Two key experiments in support of the ACTD will occur in Mar 00 and Nov 00, and will not exceed two weeks each. During Mar 00, technologies approved for use in these experiments, will be used by HUMINT and CI military personnel during realistic field operations.Their "value" will be observed and evaluated. The most promising candidates will "play" in the Nov 00 experiment, the intent here being that those most promising technologies will be recommended to the Army Acquisition Community as candidates for transition as an approved Army technology and/or system. Contractors who choose to partake in these experiments will do so AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. The potential benefits to the contractor are twofold: (1) There will be technology exposure to a number of organizations participating in the experiments. There is the potential for individual non-ACTD related business opportunities. (2) The successful technologies will be recommended for Army procurement. RFI Sequence of Events: (1) No later than 15 Nov 99, a "white paper", not to exceed 3 pages, is requested from interested contractors which should describe the software/hardware capabilities of technology that supports the goals of this announcement. (2) Following receipt of the papers, BCBL(H) personnel will review the technologies described. (3) Those vendors whose technologies appear most relevant to the ACTD's goals, will be contacted and invited to perform demonstrations, within two weeks of their notification. Place of demonstration will be determined on a case by case basis.(4) Successful demonstrations will result in either invitations to participate in the experiments and/or invitations to support the ACTD's longer-term efforts. Point of contact: LTC Kathy DeBolt, ACTD Operational Manager, BCBL(H), (520) 533-4657 and MAH Jerry Schlabach, BCBL(H), (520) 533-3530 E-MAIL: Click here to reach a point of contact within the, deboltk@huachuca-emh1.army.mil or schlabachj@huachuca-emh1.army.mil. Posted 11/01/99 (W-SN396683).

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