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A -- THE BIG IDEA ONE-TOUCH MAINTENANCE ENVIRON. INTEGRATION & DEMONSTRATION EFFORT SOL NMA201-00-R-0004 POC Steven Johnson, Fax 301-227-5573 & E-mail: johnsonsj@nima.mil WEB: For more information about the BIG IDEA, http://www.opengis.org/thebigidea/. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, johnsonsj@nima.mil. The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), Bethesda, MD, intends to issue a solicitation for the procurement of services to fulfill the requirements of Spiral 1, One-touch Maintenance Environment, under the BIG IDEA program. The solicitation will be released on or after 15 February 2000. Any firm interested in the procurement should so indicate no later than 15 February 2000 in order to insure its receipt of the solicitation. Requests to be placed on the solicitation mailing list as well as any questions should be forwarded to Steven Johnson, via e-mail at johnsonsj@nima.mil. NIMA will make the solicitation available to interested parties either through posting it on the NIMA website, e-mailing or postal mailing or any combination of these three methods. The BIG IDEA research and development (R&D) program will develop an Integrated Information System (IIS) that allows geospatial and imagery intelligence information to be stored as objects in a geospatial framework. The vision of the BIG IDEA is described in the Big Idea Concept Visualization (CV) document, which is available for review on the website listed below. The CV document provides a functional description of NIMA operations in context of the major roles that are accomplished by an information provider. NIMA's plan is to design, develop and/or integrate the services (software and/or hardware) necessary to accomplish the roles in a distributed web-like environment. All formally released technical documentation pertaining to the BIG IDEA is currently available on the OpenGIS Consortium homepage at http://www.opengis.org/thebigidea/. The objective of the BIG IDEA is to provide NIMA and its extended enterprise (outsourcing producers, co-producers, commercial information providers) with capability to efficiently and effectively maintain global geospatial and imagery intelligence information in order to meet the increasingly demanding timelines and complexity of information NIMA's customers are requesting. Key attributes of this capability include: 1. Information content as objects not thematic layers; 2. Information content may be arranged by dimensions in any number of ways; 3. One representation/one ID for every object (manmade and natural) contained in the information environment; 4. Objects may exist in true 3D space, and may have temporal attribute; 5. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) interface that influences what will be maintained, when it will be maintained, and who will do the maintenance; 6. Pluggable Standards-based commercial-off-the-shelf (SCOTS) software components built in accordance with commercially accepted interface specifications and standards (such as OpenGIS Consortium (OGC), Object Management Group (OMG), WWW Consortium (W3C), etc.) 7. Integrated, heterogeneous platform services; 8. Scaleable, n-tier distributed operating environment; 9. Open protocols and published interfaces; 10. Choice of programming languages, tools and hardware platforms; and 11. Extensible, net-enabled application service capability. The IIS will be developed and fielded using a spiral development approach. Each spiral will focus on the development of services to accomplish one or more roles/sub-roles. Each spiral will typically consist of three phases: 1. Testbed; 2. Operational Prototype; and 3. Production System. Spiral 1, One-touch Maintenance Environment, will focus on the "information maintainer" role with heavy emphasis on the one representation /one ID object maintenance environment. In summary, the Phase 1 requirement will consist of each contractor (or in conjunction with partners) providing demonstrations of its commercially available product(s) that address the One-touch Maintenance Environment requirements. Each contractor will explain how its product(s) will fit into the overall architecture. Each contractor will also develop a system description document, a milestone schedule, and cost proposal for the Phase 2 operational prototype. In addition to addressing the Phase 1 performance requirements in their proposals, Offerors will also be asked what processes they will use to ensure that standards and specifications used will be commercially "Adopted" or "Emerging". Offerors may also be expected to address the potential costs for Phase 2 performance. NIMA's current plan is for the Phase 1 effort to be accomplished in an unclassified environment. However, access to classified information will be required for Phase 2 and Phase 3. NIMA plans to make multiple Phase 1 awards. Based on performance in Phase 1 as well as contractor cost estimates for the Phase 2 effort, NIMA will down-select from the Phase 1 contractors to N-number of contractors for the Phase 2 requirement. NIMA will use the same process to down-select from Phase 2 to one or more contractors for fulfillment of the Phase 3 requirement. NIMA will not exclude new entrants into the Phase 2 or 3 selection process as long as the interested party(s) can successfully demonstrate the required capabilities with no investment on NIMA's part. Posted 01/14/00 (W-SN416105). (0014)

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