SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Proposers Day Announcement - Integrated Battle Command
- Notice Date
- 11/12/2004
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- SN05-10
- Response Due
- 12/9/2004
- Archive Date
- 12/24/2004
- Description
- DARPA will host a Proposers Day Conference in support of the Integrated Battle Command (IBC) program on 15 December 2004 at Hilton Arlington & Towers: 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, VA 22203 beginning at 8:00am and lasting until 4:30pm. The purpose of this conference is to provide information on the Integrated Battle Command program; promote additional discussion on this topic; address questions from potential proposers; and provide a forum for potential proposers to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities. Questions from attendees at the Proposers? Day may be used to shape any subsequent BAA. It is anticipated that a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the program will be released after the conference. Attendance at this Proposers? Day is voluntary. Attendance is not required to propose to any subsequent BAA. The Integrated Battle Command program will develop transformational technologies to enhance the capability of commanders and staffs to plan and conduct future campaigns by integrating joint, effects-based operations. The objective of the program is a prototype Commander?s Automated Decision Support System, which will consist of a suite of software tools that enable the creation of command-specific, customized, decision support capabilities by the ad hoc implementation and on-the-fly confederation of individual software tool components. This will provide a transformational capability to conduct the unpredictable campaigns of the future. These ?decision aids? will apply over the full continuum of near-simultaneous missions required in a campaign including major combat operations and various security, stability and reconstruction operations. The goal of IBC is to deliver automated tools to assist the commander and staff in areas such as: understanding and visualizing the current and forecast battlespace, generating and assessing the consequences of political, military (air, land and sea), economic, social, information operations, and infrastructure (PMESII) effects, constructing and evaluating plans that are based on the impact of multi-dimensional effects and the interaction among effects, and, collaborating with superiors and subordinates in a coalition environment. DARPA envisions a technical approach based on three innovative technologies: Tool-Making-Tool Kit: a radically new class of decision support and planning tool technologies, with user friendly interfaces, that enable the users (not computer scientists) to create complex planning systems, decision aids, collaboration aids, simulations, etc. that are tailored to a particular military campaign on-the-fly as the campaign unfolds. This is a paradigm shift based on the commercial model for developing software products. Software Confederation Web: a radically new class of software-integration-web technology to enable the ad hoc, on-the-fly confederation of large ensembles of software components, when and, as they are needed. This is a paradigm shift for creating large software systems by way of a self-forming system of systems Interaction Manager: an intelligent user interface that manages the interaction between humans and computers (two-way) and between heterogeneous ensembles of planning tools, decision aids, simulations, information and knowledge sources as well as other software components. This is a paradigm shift to allow the computer to model and adapt to the human?s objectives rather than just having the human understand the computer?s data. The first phase of the program will focus on the core capability and a tool-making-tool kit to assist in predicting and analyzing PMESII effects as a function of various diplomatic, information, military, or economic (DIME) actions. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Please send an e-mail to Canon P. Sobay (csobay@snap.org), Phone: (703)522-5123, no later than 9 December 2004 if you plan to attend. In your e-mail, please include your name, company name, phone number, e-mail address, and citizenship. Foreign nationals should complete and return a DARPA Foreign National Visitor Request (DARPA Form 60) not later than 9 December 2004, if you wish to attend the Conference. A DARPA Form 60 will be sent to those who identify that they are not US citizens in their registration e-mail. The Proposers? Day will be unclassified and open to all potential bidders. The IBC program may be subject to U.S. Export Controls (International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)) and National Security regulations. All performers must meet the requirements for participation set by those regulations. The Proposers? Day is voluntary. Attendance is not required to propose to this BAA. Proposers? Day conference fee is $75. This information will also be available through the IBC website: http://www.darpa.mil/ato/solicit/IBC/index.htm. Additionally, attendees who would like to share information at the conference may bring posters to display outside of the conference room. The poster session, will allow interested parties to meet with you and discuss your capabilities and innovations related to this topic. If you plan to bring a poster, please notify Canon P. Sobay when you register for the Proposers? Day Conference. Attendees who bring posters should bring in their own easels. All material to be displayed at the conference must be approved in advance by both the organization that funded the research and the DARPA Program Manager. The DARPA Program Manager will screen the proposed material for sensitive, but unclassified material and approve in advance any presentations. It is the presenter?s responsibility to ensure that all material they plan to present at the IBC Proposers? Day Conference has been approved by the funding organization in advance. The IBC Proposers? Day Conference will be open to the public. An electronic copy of all material to be presented must be provided to the DARPA Program Manager for review by December 3, 2004. There will be no exceptions to this requirement. NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE CONTRACTING OFFICER BELOW WITH RESPECT TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, BUT INSTEAD DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES AS STIPULATED HEREIN.
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