MODIFICATION
A -- Infospace Concept Exploration and Development
- Notice Date
- 9/29/2005
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, NY, 13441-4514
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-BAA-05-03-IFKA
- Description
- The purpose of this modification is to: (1) clarify the technical objectives; (2) change the recommended date for FY 06 submissions to 28 Oct 2005; (3) change the individual award time periods and dollar ranges under Award Information; and (4) change the technical point of contact. No other changes have been made. DATES: It is recommended that white papers be received by the following dates to maximize the possibility of award: FY 06 by 5pm Eastern time on 28 Oct 05; FY 07 by 01 Nov 06; and FY 08 by 01 Nov 07. White papers will be accepted until 2pm Eastern time on 30 September 2009, but it is less likely that funding will be available in each respective fiscal year after the dates cited. FORMAL PROPOSALS ARE NOT BEING REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. See Section IV of this announcement for further details. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION: The Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome Research Site, is soliciting white papers under this announcement for innovative technologies to support the development and operation of information management technology in accordance with AFRL Information Management technology goals. This solicitation is divided into two technical areas : Area (1): COI Creation and Deployment Frameworks and Tools. This area seeks to provide formalisms, capabilities, and tools that will enable the creation and management of COI infospaces. These formalisms, capabilities, and tools will be both interactive and automated depending on their use context, and will provide a meaningful and substantive foundation from which to evolve practical, operations-ready COI infospaces. The users of these formalisms, capabilities, and tools will be primarily non-programmer Information Management Staff (IMS) personnel. The goal of this research area is to provide the IMS with the ability to scope, define, specify, and characterize the COI information producers and consumers as well as the processes and information flow requirements, and to capture this information within a formal framework. The intent is that the formalization and capture of this information will provide the mechanisms by which functionally operational COIs are dynamically instantiated and maintained. Further, the semantics and structure of the information produced and consumed must be captured to facilitate the mediation and/or transformation of disparate but semantically similar information. In addition, the semantics of the COI infospace must also be captured to facilitate interoperability at the COI level. Successful proposals in this research area will contribute innovative approaches to the mitigation of the slow and arduous COI information engineering process by providing formal approaches, capabilities, and tools that enable the rapid creation and deployment of COI infospaces. Area (2): Agile, Survivable, Reconfigurable, and Self-healing Information Management Infrastructures . Current research in the area of net-centric technologies is focused primarily on static ground-based infrastructures. Very little consideration has been given to the architectural, design, deployment, and operational requirements for establishing similar information management and dissemination capabilities in environments that are highly mobile and operate under extremely uncertain conditions. In order to enable and exploit the promise of net-centricity across the spectrum of military operations, it is essential that we begin to understand the technical challenges these environments present and begin to architect practical solutions that address these challenges. In future military operations, dynamic mobile networking will provide the information sharing "plumbing" over which net-centric operations will enable the promise of significant improvements in situational awareness and control. The true promise of these improvements will only be realized when the middleware that exploits these networking capabilities can provide a sophisticated infrastructure that facilitates value-added information sharing. This information infrastructure must be agile and adapt to the continuously changing networking and information environment. Ground-based information management infrastructures assume that the producers and consumers of information are known a priori and change very infrequently. Further, these infrastructures assume that the network is always operational and the connections are fast and clean. By contrast, in highly mobile environments (Airlift, CSAR, TST, etc.), assets that produce and consume information enter and leave the information domain (or COI) constantly, and with little or no advanced warning. Indeed, the sum total of information available and/or required within a given information domain is constantly in flux. The network environment is continually subject to interference, instability, intermittent connectivity, and wide variations in quality and availability. Regardless of these circumstances it is critical that information management infrastructure continue to work effectively and efficiently in order deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. We are seeking research proposals that are considerate of the entire scope of this problem domain but are themselves focused on addressing the specific issues of agile, survivable, reconfigurable, and self-healing information management infrastructures that continue to function effectively and efficiently in highly uncertain mobile environments. Successful proposals will suggest innovative approaches that will enable these capabilities in limited network and computing environments where bandwidth, latency, compute, and storage are premium. Further, proposed demonstration of research results within the context of a reasonable Air Force scenario will inform the selection process. II. AWARD INFORMATION: Total funding for this BAA is approximately $15M. Principal funding of this BAA and the anticipated award of contracts will start approximately the third quarter of FY 05. The anticipated funding to be obligated under this BAA is broken out by fiscal year as follows: FY 05 - $0.7M; FY 06 - $4M; FY 07 - $4.3M; FY 08 - $3.6M; and FY09 - $2.4M. For Area 1, individual awards will not normally exceed 12 months with dollar amounts ranging between $100,000 to $200,000. For Area 2, individual awards will not normally exceed 18 months with dollar amounts ranging between $300,000 and $400,000. Awards of efforts as a result of this announcement will be in the form of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions depending upon the nature of the work proposed. SUBMISSION DATES AND TIMES: It is recommended that white papers be received by the following dates to maximize the possibility of award: FY 06 by 5pm Eastern time on 28 Oct 05; FY 07 by 01 Nov 06; and FY 08 by 01 Nov 07. White papers will be accepted until 2pm Eastern time on 30 September 2009, but it is less likely that funding will be available in each respective fiscal year after the dates cited. Submission of white papers will be regulated in accordance with FAR 15.208. AGENCY CONTACTS: Questions of a technical nature shall be directed to the cognizant technical point of contact, as specified below: Mr. James Hanna Telephone: (315) 330-3473 Email: James.Hanna@rl.af.mil Questions of a contractual/business nature shall be directed to the cognizant contracting officer, as specified below: Lori Smith Telephone (315) 330-1955 Email: Lori.Smith@rl.af.mil The email must reference the solicitation (BAA) number and title of the acquisition.
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