SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition
- Notice Date
- 11/3/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-SN-11-06
- Archive Date
- 11/24/2010
- Point of Contact
- Proposers' Day Coordinator,
- E-Mail Address
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DARPA-BAA-11-03@darpa.mil
(DARPA-BAA-11-03@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PROPOSERS' DAY WORKSHOP DARPA will host a Proposers' Day Workshop in support of DARPA-BAA-11-03, Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition program on November 15th, 2010 at the Capital Conference Center, 3601 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201 from 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM. The purpose of this workshop is to provide information on the Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition 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. PROGRAM OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION: The goal of Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition is to develop three-dimensional ground-truth maps of trace gases in urban areas. These maps will provide chemical concentration data for subsections of typical urban areas comprised of a mix of residential and commercial buildings, highways, public transportation, and utilities. Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition encompasses two technical areas: Urban Data Collection and Urban Data Modeling. These technical areas are designed to complement one another; however a team does not necessarily need to address both. The Urban Data Collection Technical Area will develop and characterize a representative set of local urban sources, defined as discrete and identifiable operations such as gasoline stations, fast food restaurants, and dry cleaning stores that have particular emissions patterns. Chemical, meteorological, topographical, and supporting data (e.g., 3D shape files of buildings, imagery, etc.) will be collected and quantified from these locations for multiple periods of time, spaced throughout the seasonal cycle. Additionally, releases of environmentally benign tracer gases will be used to validate and refine collection statistics. The Urban Data Modeling Technical Area will allow accurate urban chemical map generation using sparse field-collected data. These maps will synthesize coarse data streams of the kind described above, and output comprehensive maps of all atmospheric trace gases present in the area at a finer resolution. The model will additionally incorporate known chemical properties of various trace gases to assist in prediction of transport and dispersion through urban environments. The effort includes validation and verification exercises designed to test model predictions against data collected by Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition collections and related efforts. This program is intended to leverage the capabilities presently being developed by the Hyperadsorptive Atmospheric Sampling Technology (HAST) and Panoptic Analysis of Chemical Traces (PACT) programs. DARPA will provide information on HAST and PACT at the Proposer's Day Workshop and make those briefings available to all potential proposers after the Proposers' Day Workshop. DARPA further anticipates that the capabilities developed by the Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition effort will enable future efforts that automate the analysis of the data stream output by the HAST and PACT systems, including anomaly detection, source attribution, efficient sampling strategy development, and the generation of actionable intelligence. Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition Proposers' Day Workshop participants are strongly encouraged to prepare posters describing areas of capabilities in order to facilitate communications, interactions, and teaming discussions during the poster session. Potential participants should note that formation of teams with sufficient expertise to address one or both of the major technical areas described in the forthcoming BAA will be critical to the success of Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition. DARPA will not be funding component technologies that address only a subset of one of the technical areas listed in the Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition solicitation. The Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition Proposers' Day will facilitate the formation of teams with the necessary expertise to respond to the BAA. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Participants must register NLT November 9th, 2010 at the following website: https://www.schafertmd.com/conference/cicuda/. Workshop details including registration, poster session, meeting location, and lodging are given on the registration website. Directions to the facility and other materials are also available on the website. There is no registration fee for attending this workshop. Due to space limitations of the conference facility, attendance will be limited to the first 100 registrants, and no more than two representatives per organization. The Proposers' Day will be unclassified and open to the general public. All attendees will be required to present government-issued photo identification upon entry to the event. Additionally, all US Citizens are required to submit a US Citizenship Verification form in order to attend this workshop. Non-US citizens are required to submit a DARPA Form 60 "Foreign National Visit Request". The completed Citizenship Form or DARPA Form 60 must be emailed to: DARPA-BAA-11-03@darpa.mil, no later than November 9th, 2010. Both documents are available for download at the registration website. All administrative and technical questions should be directed to DARPA-BAA-11-03@darpa.mil. Please refer to the Chemical Cartography: Urban Data Acquisition Proposers' Day Workshop (DARPA-SN-11-06) in all correspondence. This announcement is not a request for proposals; any so sent will be returned. The Proposers' Day does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals or proposal abstracts. Attendance is voluntary and is not required to propose to any potential related Broad Agency Announcements or potential research solicitations on this topic. DARPA will not provide reimbursement for any costs incurred to participate in this Proposers' Day.
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