HR001118S0027-Amendment-01.pdf

The purpose of Amendment 1 to HR001118S0027, the Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) Broad Agency Announcement, is to revise Sections 1.1.1 and 4.2.4 as described below:

1.1.1 Organisms, Targets, and Environments

Proposers are expected to enumerate the anticipated details of their system capability;

specifically, the organisms they intend to use, their target set, and the geographical region(s) associated with the overall system deployment, including both the Technical Area1 presence as well as Technical Area 2 hardware functionality. Detailed information on each technical area is provided below.

Proposers may choose from any marine organism to serve as their living sensor. Viable categories of organisms are as follows: single or clustered organisms (e.g., a fish or a school of fish), populations of organisms (e.g., a reefscape), micro-organisms, or engineered organisms (e.g., genetically modified bacteria). PALS systems will not leverage marine mammals, and as such, any proposal regarding the use of marine mammals will be deemed non-responsive. The organism selected must demonstrate a pronounced and characterizable response to M/UUV presence and must be called out in sufficient detail at the time of proposal to assess the likelihood of success.

4.2.4 Submission Information

For Full Proposals Requesting Cooperative Agreements:

Proposers requesting cooperative agreements must submit proposals through one of the following methods: (1) electronic upload per the instructions at https://www.grants.gov/applicants/apply-for-grants.html; or (2) hard-copy mailed directly to DARPA. If proposers intend to use Grants.gov as their means of submission, then they must submit their entire proposal through Grants.gov; applications cannot be submitted in part to Grants.gov and in part as a hard-copy. Proposers using Grants.gov do not submit hard-copy proposals in addition to the Grants.gov electronic submission.

Submissions: Proposers must submit the three forms listed below.

SF 424 Research and Related (R&R) Application for Federal Assistance, available on the Grants.gov website at https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_SF424_2_0-V2.0.pdf. This form must be completed and submitted.

To evaluate compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. A§ 1681 Et. Seq.), the Department of Defense is using the two forms below to collect certain demographic and career information to be able to assess the success rates of women who are proposed for key roles in applications in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics disciplines. Detailed instructions for each form are available on Grants.gov.

https://www.grants.gov/applicants/apply-for-grants.html https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_SF424_2_0-V2.0.pdf

Research and Related Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded), available on the Grants.gov website at https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_KeyPersonExpanded_2_0- V2.0.pdf. This form must be completed and submitted.

Research and Related Personal Data, available on the Grants.gov website at https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_PersonalData_1_2-V1.2.pdf.

Each applicant must complete the name field of this form, however, provision of the demographic information is voluntary. Regardless of whether the demographic fields are completed or not, this form must be submitted with at least the applicant’s name completed.

Grants.gov Submissions: Grants.gov requires proposers to complete a one-time registration process before a proposal can be electronically submitted. First-time registration can take between three business days and four weeks. For more information about registering for Grants.gov, see http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/additional-baa.

Hard-copy Submissions: Proposers electing to submit cooperative agreement proposals as hard copies must complete the SF 424 R&R form (Application for Federal Assistance,) available on the Grants.gov website http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_SF424_2_0-V2.0.pdf

Failure to comply with the submission procedures may result in the submission not being evaluated. DARPA will acknowledge receipt of complete submissions via email and assign control numbers that should be used in all further correspondence regarding proposals.

https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_KeyPersonExpanded_2_0-V2.0.pdf https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_KeyPersonExpanded_2_0-V2.0.pdf https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_PersonalData_1_2-V1.2.pdf http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/additional-baa http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms/sample/RR_SF424_2_0-V2.0.pdf