Attachment_I_Schedule_of_Milestones_and_Payments.xlsx

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Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
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This file is a milestone and payment schedule template for all Other Transaction (OT) Agreements under the PINPOINT program. Proposers are required to complete the spreadsheet to document proposed milestones, due dates, deliverables, and associated payments for their research and development efforts. The instructions emphasize that each milestone must represent a measurable, demonstrable completion event—such as completing a baseline execution plan, achieving research and development milestones, or submitting final reports—with corresponding deliverable descriptions that go beyond generic labels like "Report" or "Status/Progress." Payments must reflect actual comprehensive costs to achieve each specific milestone rather than dividing the total contract value evenly across milestones; notably, no advance payments are permitted.

The template provides instructional guidance on milestone development, including three detailed examples spanning kickoff meetings with technical approach presentations, equipment acquisition, and molecular design investigations with specific performance metrics. Exit criteria examples demonstrate the level of detail expected, such as submittal of kickoff briefing charts or milestone reports describing design approaches and simulation results. The template itself is a suggested framework; proposers are encouraged to develop their own milestone schedules as appropriate for their proposed effort. All milestones and targets must be keyed to the Task Description Document, with timeframes expressed as months after agreement award (AAA), and the highlighted sections of the template are designated for government use only and should not be completed by proposers.

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Milestones instructions Please complete this schedule of milestones and payments spreadsheet for all OT Agreement. This should contain information about proposed milestones, due dates, deliverables, and payments associated. The results from payable milestones will be used for strategic planning and/or inform programmatic decision. At a minimum, key critical milestones must be included for the proposed effort. Tasks and targets should be keyed to the Task Description Document. Note that "AAA" denotes "after agreementt award", and the highlighted sections are not to be filled out by proposers.

Helpful notes for Milestones:

• Each milestone will mark the completion of a measurable event (i.e., completing a baseline execution plan, completing measurable events in the performance of the research and development of the technology, completing and submitting the final report, etc.).

• Deliverable narrative should provide description of what is being delivered, the word “Report” is not sufficient. “Status/Progress/Reports” cannot be milestones.

• The milestone description will show how the milestone will be demonstrably completed.

• Payments associated with each milestone must reflect the actual comprehensive costs to achieve milestone completion. (Note do not take total cost and divide by number of milestones)

• Although this is a R&D effort the amounts against each milestone should NOT be the same. consider what actually goes into the pricing of that particular milestone as each milestone should have its own cost. (If amounts remain the same, please clearly expand the deliverable description)

• The milestones need to be more definitive and consider what actually goes into the pricing of that particular milestone.

• The milestone description will show how the milestone will be demonstrably completed.

• No advance payments on milestones

Three Milestone Examples:

•Kickoff Meeting presentation including project design, acquisition of equipment, and overall workflow leading to accomplishment of deliverables. Kickoff briefing package will include team organization, technical approach and research goals, expected results and schedule, and risk and mitigation strategies
•Kick-off meeting presentation with description of proposed effort to include the description of proposed concept, focus area and potential application domain; Justification of proposed approach based on preliminary analyses or modeling; Justification of the benefits of the proposed scheme in achieving beyond-XXX performance in the potential application domain; Description and preliminary analyses of the proposed concept metrics that will be achieved during the period of performance, and comparison of these metrics to the current XXX. All supporting positions identified in the proposal are assigned to personnel, and names are provided to the Government. Order materials and equipment.
•Design XXXX molecule candidate(s) and investigate simulated molecular conformation changes induced by the onset and offset of near infrared (NIR) light in the range of 750 nm to 900 nm, as well as simulated binding to target protein(s) of interest in the presence of NIR light. METRIC: XXXX candidates demonstrate molecular conformation change in the presence of NIR light in the range of XXX to XXX nm, and bind to target protein(s) of interest in the presence of NIR light in a simulated environment.

Two Exit Criteria Examples:

• Submit kickoff meeting charts and Initial Test Plan

• Submit Milestone report describing design approach and molecular structure(s) of XXXX and simulation results.

Milestone and Payment Schedule

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Milestone #Milestones (Description)Exit Criteria/DeliverableDue
DatePaymentFundedCLIN
SUBCLINACRN
… This is a suggested schedule of milestones. Propose your own as needed …
1Kickoff Meeting: A briefing on the technical plan for the effort to include milestone schedule and path to accomplish the objectives of the agreement.
• Kickoff meeting briefing slides that is acceptable to DARPA.Month 1 After Agreement Award (AAA)
1… Propose your own as needed …
Total Agreement$ - 0$ - 0
*Tasks and targets are keyed to Task Description Document
HIGHLIGHTED SECTION NOT TO BE FILLED OUT BY PROPOSERS

Attachment 3 - Schedule of Milestones and Payments

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