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A -- SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMEN DATA REPRESENTATION AND INTERCHANGE SPECIFICATION (SEDRIS) DATA FORMAT DEVELOPMENT EFFORT SOL STRICOM/ARI's Broad Agency Annoucement (BAA) 97-02 DUE 042397 POC Ms. Vallerie M. Redd (407) 380-4625 Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) through its Broad Agency Announcement 97-02, under paragraph 1-E, Topic II entitled, "SEDRIS Advanced Prototype Initiatives," in coordination with the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) and the Department of Defense (DoD) Modeling and Simulation Executive Agents for Environmental Representations, is pursuing the development of a SEDRIS format. This format is intended to be transparent to the user and normally accessed via the SEDRIS Read and Write APIs. Synthetic environment databases can be very large, performance in data storage and retrieval should be considered in the design. Interested parties are encouraged to submit white papers prior to submitting proposals. The white papers will be reviewed to determine whether or not the proposed effort is within the scope and interest of this solicitation. Subsequently, offerors will be notified whether or not their white paper was favorably received. Favorable review of a white paper does not constitute selection of the proposed effort for contract award and will not establish a binding commitment for the Government to fund the effort. An offeror submitting a proposal in response to this announcement may request a cost reimbursable type of contract, a cooperative agreement or an other transaction agreement, if the proposal meets the requirement for that type of submission. Proposals will be evaluated by a technical review board using at least the following criteria: overall scientific and technical merit; understanding of the problem; technical experience and education of the personnel performing the work; and the background or past experience of the offeror in developing data formats. White papers must be received at STRICOM no later than 5:00pm eastern standard time on 23 April 1997. Favorable notification of white papers will be accomplished by 5 May 1997. Final proposals will be required no later than 27 May 1997. The anticipated contract award date is 31 July 1997. Additional information regarding SEDRIS can be obtained by accessing the SEDRIS World Wide Web (WW) site at http://www.sedris.net or by contacting Mr. Larry Grosberg at (407) 384-3832. All white papers are to be sent to Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), ATTN: Mr. Larry Grosberg (AMSTI-EC), 12350 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826-3275. Please address questions concerning content and format of your white papers to Ms. Vallerie Redd, (407) 380-4625 or e-mail your request to reddv@stricom.army.mil. Note: It is expected that non-government personnel, who have signed non-disclosure agreements, will participate in the technical review of white papers and or proposals submitted in response to this announcement. This is not a synopsis for a new BAA. If you are already in receipt of STRICOM's BAA 97-02, there is no need to request an additional copy in order to respond to this synopsis.***** (0098)

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