A -- RESEARCH & DEVELPOMENT

Notice Date

March 19, 2001

Contracting Office

Bid Office, SPAWARSYSCEN, Code D21B, 53570 Silvergate Avenue, Bldg. A33, Room 0061, San Diego, CA 92152-5112

ZIP Code

92152-5112

Solicitation Number

N66001-Q-01-0251

Response Due

April 3, 2001

Point of Contact

Purchasing Agent: Kimberly A. Lowrey, (619)553-4380. Contracting Officer: Sylvia Proffit, (619)553-3292.

E-Mail Address

Purchasing Agent (lowrey@spawar.navy.mil)

Description

The Government intends to procure on a sole source basis to SenseMaking Technologies Corporation a technical report on Self-Synchronizing Collaborating Units: Augmenting the Creation and Sharing of Team cognitive Constructs and Artifacts. This is a combined Synopsis/Solicitation in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations Part 13. No RFQ will be made available. Faxed quotes are acceptable and must be received on or before COB of the closing date. Quotes may be faxed to (619553-1062 or sent via email to lowrey@spawar.navy.mil. Questions may be directed to the Purchasing Agent responsible for this announcement via e-mail. SPECIFICATIONS: The scope of this level of effort contract is to conduct research, which shall focus on further delineation of the Group Cognition Model, and to reduce the burden and increase the effectiveness of Command and Control in self-synchronization. Pre-battle planning, strategic battle planning, tactical battle planning and operations, execution, feedback, and lessons learned are parts of the "living" battle plan which supports self-synchronization. Research on collaborating participants who must perform joint tasks will be conducted and will provide guidance in augmenting the capacity of shipboard crews to achieve self-synchronizing joint actions among warfare units. The contractor shall conduct research and experiments, which will begin to identify team cognitive constructs that are used to create and share interpretations of stimuli that is both task specific and those relevant to collaboration on task specific joint actions. This research will provide the basis for future research and experiments on team cognitive constructs to understand how these constructs can be used to augment (1) reconciling conflicts in meaning over the same display, (2) relating relevant constructs with diagrammatic representations, (3) interpreting Battle Commander intentions, (4) identify the defining value(s) in the overlapping figures in diagrams, (5) developing methodologies for sharing information about cognitive constructs, and (6) dynamically creating ad hoc team constructs in novel situations. The contractor shall identify how existing technology supports the creation and sharing of stimuli, including cognitive constructs. The contractor shall identify baselines for employment of push and pull technology to manage stimuli needed to achieve self-synchronization. The contractor shall identify improvements in outcomes such as: knowledge created and shared, team enhancements, and process performance. Note 22 applies, however all offers received within 15 days (in lieu of 45 days) after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. See number notes from any Monday editions of the CBD. NOTE: The full text of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) can be accessed at http://farsite.hil.af.mil. Offerors must complete and submit with their quote copy a copy of the 52.219-1 Alt I/II, Small Business Program Representation. CCR registration is required for resulting award. Information may be found at http://ccr2000.com. NAICS Code: 61171/SRD: $5.0.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010321/ASOL005.HTM (W-078 SN50G5Q1)