CSO Announcement - Demos of Innovative Commercial AI Solutions_Final.pdf

Commercial Solutions Opening Demonstrations of Innovative Commercial AI Technologies

INNOVATIVE COMMERICIAL DEMONSTRATION SUMMARY

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in collaboration with the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI) is seeking demonstrations for commercial technologies to foster innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities relevant to the following areas of AI technological exploration:

- Data Readiness

- AI System Assurance

- Synthetic Data Generation

- Edge/Fog Deployments and Management

- Data Labeling

- Integration with 5G

- Models and Simulation for AI / AI for M&S

- AI security

In this context, “innovative” is defined as any technology, process, or method, including research and development that is new as of the date of proposal submission or any application of a technology, process, or method that is new as of proposal submission.

Under the Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) as authorized by Section 879 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY 2017 (Pub. L.

114-328) and is considered to be a competitive procedure for the purposes of 10 U.S.C. chapter 127 and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102. This Announcement is considered a general solicitation and therefore, is considered a competitive process and includes evaluation criteria for selection for potential award.

This Announcement may result in multiple awards of various demonstrations as a result of this CSO competitive process.

PROPOSAL ACCEPTANCE PERIOD

Proposals for this CSO will be accepted by the Government from one year from the date of this announcement being placed on beta.SAM. At a minimum, the Government will review any proposals submitted to this announcement on a monthly basis.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Proposals will be evaluated to determine if the proposed innovative AI technology can demonstrate the following:

1.) An innovative solution in one of the AI areas of technological exploration outlined above;

2.) A quick, reasonable, and efficient way for the DoD to test the innovative commercial solution, within a specified duration, whether outside or integrated within the DoD infrastructures or networks, as appropriate.

3.) Terms of consideration, whether monetary or non-monetary (ex: provision of data), with all terms to be determined as fair and reasonable by the contracting officer.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

Proposals shall be submitted to the following Points of Contact (POC):

Mr. Jason Caulkins at jason.e.caulkins.civ@mail.mil

Ms. Stephanie Wilson at stephanie.wilson35.civ@mail.mil.

Proposals must be in a format such as Word or Excel and be written in clear, concise, layman style statements. Proposals shall not include any proprietary information and all formulas used for cost information shall be visible. No hard numbers are to be input. All proposals shall be commercially priced and come with any and all relevant supporting documentation associated with the pricing.

Proposals shall not exceed one page, not including the cover page.

Proposals shall include a cover page with the following information:

1.) Name of Company

2.) Company Address

3.) Company POC to include name, phone number, and email)

4.) Company Cage Code and DUNS

Interested vendors for this CSO Announcement shall address the following questions in the proposal submissions:

1.) Describe your demonstration solution. Please detail any distinguishing features, mailto:jason.e.caulkins.civ@mail.mil mailto:stephanie.wilson35.civ@mail.mil characteristics, or constraints of the solution as it relates to this announcement.

2.) Describe how your demonstration solution will integrate easily, for the purposes of quick demonstration, with existing IT infrastructure and artificial intelligence platforms within DoD, use of existing models from government, industry, academia and open source.

3.) Describe the consideration requested in exchange for the DoD’s testing of the innovative commercial solution (e.g. provision of Government owned data, payment of money for services required to assist the DoD in testing the product, cloud consumption usage needed for the demonstration, etc.)

QUESTIONS

Questions regarding this Announcement should be sent to the POCs as stated in the Instructions for Proposal Submission.

DISCLAIMERS

Use of Contractor Support

Non‐Government advisors may be used in the evaluation of the proposals and already have signed Non‐Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) with the Government. The Government understands that information provided in this Announcement is presented in confidence and may contain commercial or financial information and agrees to protect such information from unauthorized disclosure to the maximum extent permitted and as required by law. A respondent’s participation under this announcement indicates concurrence with the aforementioned use of contractor support personnel.

• MITRE

• Tuknik Government Services

• Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab

• ERPi

• Redhorse

• Elder Research

• Cyberpoint

• Barbaricum