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A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT - BOMB DAMAGE ASSESSMENT (BDA) AND INFORMATION WARFARE SOL BAA 94-08 POC Joetta Bernhard, CONTRACTING OFFICER, A/C 315, 330-2308; TANDI PAUGH, LABORATORY Program Manager, A/C 315, 330-4518. REANNOUNCEMENT of BAA 94-08, which was originally published on 28 Feb 1994. Part I of II - BOMB DAMAGE ASSESSMENT (BDA) AND INFORMATION WARFARE. The total funding on this BAA has been increased by $1.5 million from $4.5 million to $6.0 million. This reannouncement is published for industry convenience. There is no change in the technical description. Rome Laboratory is soliciting White Papers for various innovative scientific studies and experiments in two research areas: Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) and Information Warfare. New and improved capabilities are being sought to improve the Air Force effectiveness in these areas. The improved Air Force capabilities in these areas must be constructed within the context of operations anywhere in the world within the Global Reach/Global Power concept. Solutions to basic research and engineering innovative approaches utilizing a range of cartographic sources based on Air Force requirements in BDA and INFORMATION WARFARE will be sought. Proposed solutions should address the intelligence analyst requirements for a compact automated database, analytic capability, message handling, and communications interface to support pilot briefings, target material management, flight planning, strike assessments and reporting. This BAA will consist of tasks to formulate, construct, and assemble information from a range of sources with an open systems environment. Proposed workstation technology demonstrations will be utilized to access, fuse, and disseminate data to support a graphical representation of a crisis. Innovative techniques are being sought for configuring workstations for experimentation at Rome Laboratory and user evaluations. Proposed techniques should be compatible with Combat Intelligence Systems and operations associated with Composite Wings. Proposed techniques will leverage such technologies as spatial query, 2D and 3D animation, storyboard chronology, shared blackboard collaboration environment, distributed, intelligent, and multi-media representation. Human Computer Interaction will also be necessary since the system must be user friendly to allow using cartographic data as intelligence information, i.e. certain terrain can only support certain activity. White Papers are sought in the BDA domain which will lead to improved BDA accuracy and improved timeliness. Highly accurate retargeting is required by eliminating targeting redundancy on damaged targets which wastes critical mission sorties. White Papers for improving the timeliness and accuracy of BDA through new and innovative techniques are sought in the following areas: (1) fused, all-source BDA sensor techniques including Imagery, SIGINT, and other BDA sensor techniques, (2) improved BDA sensor distribution and BDA report distribution techniques, (3) new and improved rapid cartographic techniques for BDA, and (4) new ideas for a systems modeling and simulation approach to define and model the BDA function from BDA sensor collection, processing, report generation, distribution and retargeting through the Air Force mission planning and execution cells. Research ideas are sought in these areas or any other BDA area leading to highly improved BDAs in terms of accuracy and timeliness. Those White Papers found to be consistent with the intent of this new Rome Laboratory BDA thrust may be invited to submit a technical and cost proposal. Evaluation of proposals will be performed using the following criteria: (1) Assessed improvement to the overall accuracy and timeliness over present BDA methods for targeting nominations within the Air Force planning and execution elements, (2) Sensitivity to a total systems perspective for timely and accurate BDA so that an improvement thrust does not degrade but improves the total BDA capability from sensor collection and processing to impacting the target nomination list and the resultant Air Tasking Order (ATO), and (3) Cost benefits. No other evaluation criteria will be used in selecting proposals. The technical criteria will also be used to determine whether the White Papers submitted are consistent with the intent of this BAA and of interest to the Government. Technical point of contact for all matters relating to the call for Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) White Papers is Richard Simard, Rome Laboratory/IRRE, 32 Hangar Road, Griffiss AFB NY 13441-4514. Telephone: A/C 315, 330-4591. Rome Laboratory is soliciting White Papers for various studies and capabilities and experiments to increase the Air Force's understanding and capabilities in the area of INFORMATION WARFARE within the context of Global Reach/Global Power. US Forces require rapid access to a wide variety of information to perform their missions. The information required must be reliable, and specific information tied to planned operations must be protected. We must preserve and ensure the integrity of our information from exploitation and corruption while denying, delaying, or confusing our potential adversary's ability to act in battle. Innovative basic research approaches are being sought in the INFORMATION WARFARE areas of (1) maintaining the integrity and confidence level of our information elements, (2) planning functions, (3) improved concepts to deny the adversary's ability to decide and act in battle, and (4) protection of information from timely enemy exploitation. Concepts and capabilities are needed to support a wide variety of missions including worldwide joint missions. Priority will be given to those ideas which most significantly increase the protection and integrity of our information systems and which have the widest global applicability. Consideration should be given to wide variations in adversarial command and control structures as well as variations in threat systems. The new concepts and capabilities should address the information needs of US, allied, and threat command and control systems for air warfare. The full spectrum of military operations should be considered. Those White Papers found to be consistent with the intent of this BAA may be invited to submit a technical and cost proposal. Evaluation of proposals will be performed using the following criteria: (1) Assessed improvement to Information Warfare capabilities, (2) Widest global applicability, (3) Impact on existing assets in implementing the concept, (4) Impact on enemy command and control and situation perception, and (5) Cost benefits. No other evaluation criteria will be used in selecting proposals. The technical criteria will also be used to determine whether the White Papers submitted are consistent with the intent of this BAA and of interest to the Government. Technical point of contact for all technical matters relating to INFORMATION WARFARE is Tandi Paugh, Rome Laboratory/IRAP, 32 Hangar Road, Griffiss AFB NY 13441-4514. Telephone: A/C 315, 330-4518. This is the end of Part I. (0177)

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