U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Contracts Office (CETEC-CT), 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315-3864

A -- TOPOGRAPHIC SCIENCES Sol BAA 96-01, Due 033197, POC BAA Administrator, John Griffin, (703) 428-6265, Fax (703) 428-6656, e-mail: griffin@tec.army.mil. The U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) is interested in receiving abstracts and proposals for research and development (R&D), Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDA)s, or Cooperative Agreements in the topographic sciences. TEC's mission is to provide the uniformed soldier, at all echelons, with superior knowledge of the battlefield and to support the nation's civil and environmental initiatives through research and development in the topographic and related sciences. To accomplish this mission, TEC has developed knowledge and research capabilities in fields which make extensive use of remote sensing technologies and spatial data generation and protrayal. These fields include terrain analysis and characterization, passive and active spectral signature identification, photogrammetry, battlefield viewing, battlefield and terrain-related simulation and modeling, precise surveying and mapping, high-accuracy Global Positioning System development, image analysis, data management, geographic information systems, and data/image fusion. This BAA is active for twelve months or until superseded, whichever is earlier. Potential offerors are encouraged to initiate discussions with the Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) associated with each of the topics and to submit abstracts prior to proposals if required by that TPOC. The entire BAA is to be requested by fax, electronic mail or U.S. mail from the BAA Administrator at the address given above. The specific areas of interest or topics and brief descriptions of their content are as follows: Topic #1; Climate and Terrain Integration Enhancements. The topic objective is to enhance the capability to spread terrain and climate information over a map background. Concept proposals are specifically requested for; investigating current methodologies for spreading terrain and climatic information through interpolation/extraction; developing empirical methods (geostatistical, inferential, rule-based) that allow the spreading of various terrain and climatic parameters over a spatial surface and methods to assess the goodness-of-fit of the spreading algorithms; among others. (TPOC Joseph Watts (703) 428-6840 or Kevin Slocum (703) 428-8124). Topic #2; Exploitation Capabilities Enhancements. The objective of this research is to perform analysis and exploitation of multi- and hyperspectral data sets taken from remote platforms. Exploitation efforts include: rapid mapping, disaster assessment, pollution monitoring, crop growth, geological exploration, drug enforcement, terrain trafficability, and surveillance of military subjects/targeting. Numerous tool sets have been developed but provide only limited assistance. No single tool set is ideally suited to perform all the desired manipulations for ultimate analysis and exploitation. Of specific interest are concepts for integrating and automating the data analysis/exploitation activities for the above applications while minimizing the human intervention requirement. (TPOC Robert Rand (703) 428-7896). Topic #3; Battlefield Visualization Research. The area research objective is to develop and demonstrate capabilities to improve the end-to-end battlefield visualization process. Battlefield visualization is defined as: the process whereby the commander develops a clear understanding of his current state and then subsequently visualizes the sequence of activities that will move his force from its current state to the desired end state. Innovative concepts are solicited for: rapid collection and processing of high resolution digital terrain elevation and feature data; novel uses of low-cost PC technology for 3-D database exploitation and database construction; techniques for management of dynamic terrain databases and for integration of terrain, intelligence, and situational awareness data; and mission planning and course of-action analysis software. (TPOC Michael Tolson (703) 428-6704). This notice and the BAA 96-01 comprise the total BAA. No additional information will be made available and no formal RFP or any other solicitation regarding this announcement will be issued. The government reserves the right to select all, some, or none of the proposals received. No portion of this BAA will be set aside for Historically Black Colleges and Universities or Minority Institutions due to the impracticality of reserving discrete areas of research. Proposals and Proposal Abstracts must be submitted by U.S. mail only. Any submission by fax or electronic mail will be disregarded. (072)

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