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SECTION A - SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Buyer Name: DENISE SVEZZESE

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United States Army

Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005

Broad Agency Announcement

W56KGU-15-R-0022*

*Due to system changes and limitations, the requirements of BAA Solicitation W15P7T-12-R-A216 are being reposted under BAA Solicitation

W56KGU-15-R-0022

COMMAND AND CONTROL APPLICATIONS FOR THE DECISIVE EDGE COMMAND, POWER & INTEGRATION (CP&I) DIRECTORATE

January 27, 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS_________________

Part I Introduction Section A

Part II General Information Section A

Part III Scope - Research Interests Section A

Part IV Research Interest Topics Section A

Part V Topic Response Requirements Section L

Part VI Submission Preparation and Format Section L

Part VII Submissions Section L

Part VIII Full Proposal Evaluation Section M

APPENDIX________

Appendix A- Contract Price Proposal Cover Sheet, Standard Form 1411-1, can be found in Section J, Attachment 0001.

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PART I______

INTRODUCTION____________

This document is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) sponsored by the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Research, Development and

Engineering Center (CERDEC). This BAA will be valid through 16 August 2017, unless sooner terminated at the governments discretion. This

BAA is issued under the provisions of paragraphs 6.102(d)(2) and 35.016 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which provides for the competitive selection of research and development proposals submitted in response to this announcement. Accordingly, full proposals selected for award are considered to be the result of full and open competition and fully compliant with PL 98-369, entitled The

Competition in Contracting Act of 1984. Solicitation No. W56KGU-15-R-0022 will be used for this effort. All awards made in accordance with this BAA will be selected via a two-step process. All offerors must submit white papers as detailed in PART VI, Section L. After the white papers have been evaluated, only those offerors whose white papers are deemed most beneficial to the Government will be asked to provide a formal full proposal for further evaluation and potential contract award in accordance with PART VIII, Section M.

Prospective offerors should note that this BAA is an expression of interest only and does not commit the Government to make an award or pay proposal or white paper preparation costs generated in response to this announcement. For this solicitation, the costs of response preparation are not considered allowable direct charges to any resultant contract or any other contract. No contract award will be made unless appropriated funds are available.

Proposals will be considered from all organizations interested in conducting scientific research. This includes colleges and universities, non-profit research institutions, commercial firms, small business and small disadvantaged business concerns, historically black colleges and universities, and minority business enterprises and institutions. Other prospective offerors include commercial companies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and Canadian firms participating in the Defense Sharing Development

Program.

All submissions, to include white papers and full proposals, should be directed to Denise Svezzese, Contract Specialist, 443-861-4650, email: denise.l.svezzese.civ@mail.mil or Nina Bushnell, Contracting Officer, 443-861-4649, email: nina.m.bushnell.civ@mail.mil. No contract award will be made unless appropriated funds are available for research and development. Prospective offerors are reminded that only a duly warranted contracting officer may obligate the Government to an agreement involving the expenditure of Government funds.

Questions concerning contractual, cost or pricing, or proposal format matters may be directed to Denise Svezzese, Contract Specialist, 443-861-4650, email: denise.l.svezzese.civ@mail.mil or Nina Bushnell, Contracting Officer, 443-861-4649, email:

nina.m.bushnell.civ@mail.mil.

Technical questions shall be directed to the Contract Specialist and/or Contracting Officer. Technical questions will then be forwarded to the technical point of contact (TPOC) responsible for specific research areas of interest under PART IV, Section A. Prospective offerors are advised that all communication, prior and after white paper/full proposal submission, shall be routed through either Denise

Svezzese, Contract Specialist, 443-861-4650, email: denise.l.svezzese.civ@mail.mil or Nina Bushnell, Contracting Officer, 443-861-4649, email: nina.m.bushnell.civ@mail.mil, email: mailto:renee.m.gardner6.civ@mail.mil.

Interested parties should be alert for any BAA amendments or additional areas of research interests that may be published under this BAA on the Army Single Face to Industry webpage, available at https://acquisition.army.mil/, or on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) webpage, available at https://www.fbo.gov/.

PART II_______

GENERAL INFORMATION___________________

The U. S. Army CERDEC is soliciting proposals under this BAA for the performance of research, development, design, and testing that directly supports advancement of battlefield technologies in the area of Command and Control (C2). The aim of this BAA is to discover technical approaches to improve and enhance current and future land warrior capabilities, flexibility, and responsiveness in line with

CERDECs strategic vision for enhancing Warfighter capabilities to operate in a symmetric and unsymmetrical environment.

CERDECs plan is to support multiple and potentially multiphase efforts that pursue the design, development, integration, and demonstration of critical and enabling technologies and systems attributes pertaining to COMMAND AND CONTROL APPLICATIONS FOR THE

DECISIVE EDGE. Proposed efforts will primarily be of time, material, and services with aims at resolving technical barriers as identified under PART IV, Section A.

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It is anticipated that proposals submitted in response to this BAA would range in scope of effort from study/analysis type work with limited data and hardware/software deliverables to larger efforts for component developments, techniques, and demonstrations with breadboard and/or prototype style deliverables. The Government realizes that varying technical/scientific approaches will be employed by potential offerors.

The Government anticipates use of a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) type of contract in connection with this BAA. The Government reserves the right to alter the type of contract. Offerors may propose alternate contract types providing that the alternative is supported in the proposal. Alternative contract types, if proposed by the offeror, will be negotiated before award.

To be eligible for award of a contract, all prospective offerors, with the exception of other governments, including state and local government agencies, must meet certain minimum standards pertaining to financial resources, adequacy of accounting systems, ability to comply with performance schedules, prior record of past performance, integrity, organizational structure, experience, operational controls, technical skills, facilities and equipment. For additional information and guidance concerning qualifications and standards for responsibility of prospective contractors, please refer to Part 9 of the FAR.

There are certain post-employment restrictions on former federal officers and employees (Section 207 of Title 18, United States Code).

If a prospective offeror believes a potential conflict of interest may exist, the situation must be brought to the attention of the

Contracting Officer before expending time and effort in proposal preparation.

Offerors shall make their proposals valid for at least 180 days. The Government reserves the right to make an award at any time during the life of this BAA. The Government also reserves the right to fund all, some, one, or none of the full proposals received under this

BAA.

The Government shall consider Contractor Teaming Arrangements, as set forth in FAR Subpart 9.6, or Defense Research and Development

Pools as set forth in FAR Subpart 9.7.

The Government requires that prospective offerors prepare and submit white papers in accordance with instructions in PART VI, Section L, prior to preparing a full proposal. This will assist prospective offerors in avoiding the expense of preparing a full proposal that may not be selected for award under this BAA. Format and submission preparation requirements are further explained under PART VI, Section

L.

All white papers and full proposals will be reviewed and responded to regardless of its final disposition. Once again, the Government will not be responsible for any costs associated with the preparation and delivery of submissions.

PART III________

SCOPE RESEARCH INTERESTS_________________________

Program Description(s):

The U.S. Army CERDEC CP&I Directorate has the mission of research, design, development, initial acquisition, integration, demonstration, and testing of a variety of experimental, inventory, commercial-off-the-shelf and other electronic Command, Control, Communications, and

Computers Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems for a variety of Army missions.

The goal is to support CERDECs Strategic Thrust for Battlefield Technology Application by providing technical and operational capabilities that makes the planning and execution of battlefield operations as responsive, flexible, and successful as other aspects of

U.S. Warfighting. Proposed technical approaches may apply to operations both before and after the cessation of hostilities. This announcement emphasizes approaches that address the very different challenges presented by urban fighting and dramatically enhance war fighter capabilities; for example, the ability to interact, maneuver, and operate under a time constrained environment. These changes should generally result in lower casualties, lower collateral damage, and the effective use of combat power.

The specific topics of interest revolve around the research and development of technologies may provide revolutionary improvements to the entire spectrum of Cloud Computing, Cognitive Technology and Decision Enhancing Technology.

In order to achieve the capabilities described above, CP&I Directorate will pursue the design, development, integration, and demonstration of critical and enabling technologies and system attributes pertaining to citied areas of interest. Offerors should emphasize radical concepts that may contain high technical risk, but if enabled, would have commensurate high military payoff. The

Government is not interested in extensions to existing CERDEC programs or minor improvements to operational capability. Rather, CERDEC is seeking innovative concepts that will provide either an entirely new military capability or will enhance existing capability by orders of magnitude (based on demonstrable relevant metrics).

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Offerors should be prepared to support the technical feasibility of their concept or idea, and then be prepared to demonstrate and discuss successive phases leading toward technology development. Offerors should also be prepared to propose a base effort supporting the technical feasibility of their concept or idea, and to propose pre-priced options or subsequent phases that further lead toward technology development. It is envisioned that the effort proposed will have a base effort of 12 months and two (2) option periods of 12 months. Offerors should not propose total efforts exceeding 36 months.

PART IV_______

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPICS________________________

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC ONE (1)_______________________________

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RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC TWO (2)_______________________________

Research Interest: Adapting Mission Command Software for Cognitive Workload Reduction

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Mission Command Division

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this topic is to leverage technology to identify and address cognitive challenges in the distributed environment, and to thereby help soldiers at all echelons make better decisions more quickly. The technology developed will help soldiers to use all information in the Warfighting network most effectively, making sure that data and the way it is presented at any point in time are in alignment with the soldiers cognitive requirements and contextual framework. The proposed approach should address challenges such as multiple systems that manipulate the same data in inconsistent formats, stress, temporal constraints, static user interfaces that do not respond to changes in battlefield situations, and the underutilization of people and systems in the Warfighting network, which could be leveraged more effectively to foster the efficient use of combat power.

DESCRIPTION: As the military transitions to providing soldiers with information superiority, information overwhelms the soldier and increases duress in time critical situations. Much of this information contains more detail than is required, received from many different sources (human and sensor), and is presented in a variety of modes (text, voice, image). This highly detailed information often overloads the battlefield network processing resources and is not aligned with human cognitive capabilities when presented to the soldier. Transmitting the highest quality information to and from mobile nodes in the battlefield in a timely manner and a user-friendly form to support command and control systems rapid conveyance of networked knowledge will require a complex mix of cross layer capabilities.

The optimal approach balances the use of the different alerts and presentation designs to adapt the raw information to suit the situation and is device independent. The resulting form of the information must support the needs of the requestor, get to the requestor in a timely fashion, and convey the information appropriately. The key is understanding the communication network concept such as who is talking to whom and what they are talking about, overreliance or underutilization of information systems, how the requests for information will be used, and how the raw information can be viably changed are important to solving this problem.

A system of systems approach is the ultimate goal such that a C2 application will be aware, for example, of the point and role in the mission, communication/network status and then act upon that information to efficiently and effectively transmit or present information while also optimizing the shared resources of the host information system. Adaptive applications must have the smarts to adjust in a logical way so as to keep distributed collaboration synchronized, maintain the Commanders intent, and enable the soldier to accomplish the mission through the augmentation of information technology.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC THREE (3)_________________________________

Research Interest: Emerging Mission Command

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Mission Command Division

OBJECTIVE: CERDEC CP&I Directorate is interested in empowering agile and adaptive commanders and leaders at the lower echelons for network-enabled mission command through integrated and intuitive decision support capabilities encapsulating staff-level expertise across the full spectrum of operations. The objective of this effort will be to leverage or create the necessary decision support

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services, intuitive visualizations and natural user interfaces (NUI), and agile infrastructure and integration techniques between the

Programs of Record (POR) within the Command and Control, Network Operations, and Networked Fires and Effects communities to improve situational awareness and understanding leading to decisive action. The target payoff is to reduce Warfighter decision cycle time and data overhead, optimize network transport configuration and performance through mission characterization, increase small unit time-critical targeting capability, and deliver incremental and evolving capabilities to POR customers. This effort will integrate solutions with the CERDEC Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) and the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

(ARDEC) Weapons and Software Engineering Center (WSEC).

DESCRIPTION: As the Army shifts focus from Battle Command to Mission Command, there is even greater emphasis on decentralized execution.

However, leaders are constrained in making timely decisions at the lowest practical echelon because there is limited or no staff-level expertise, a lack of integrated decision support capabilities, and limited situational awareness (SA) slowing the overall operations process. At the lower echelons, where the commander or leader does not have support staff, Warfighters may be tasked with performing staff-level functions (such as Intelligence Officer, Operations Officer, etc.). However, they may have limited training and experience in performing those functions using the available tools. The tactical edge needs focused decision support tools encapsulating staff expertise that intuitively provide relevant, fused information to improve SA and ensure operational adaptability to changing priorities. The tools should provide the user with the expertise and experience that is available in higher echelon staff elements in order to accomplish the assigned tasks, as well as train the user to perform the tasks and leverage the available tools more effectively through operational use of the tools. The overarching theme is to increase the Company units effectiveness, which may also involve delivering capabilities targeted for two echelons above and below.

The goals of the I-DECIDE Demonstration Project will be to:

- Design, develop, enhance, and integrate decision support services with existing PORs to reason and predict decision response.

- Develop intuitive visualizations and incrementally-revealed features in user interfaces for FSO tools to increase SA & display of relevant info.

- Co-develop integration techniques, agile architectures, and fire control targeting hardware and software between Command and

Control, Network Operations and Networked Fires and Effects.

I-DECIDE will be working with and transitioning results to partners from:

- Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control and Communications Tactical (C3T) Project Manager (PM) Battle Command (BC)

- PEO C3T PM Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2)

- PEO C3T PM Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T)

- PEO Soldier PM Soldier Warrior (SWAR)

- PEO Soldier PM Soldier Weapons (SW)

Additional tasks will focus on support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Oh By The Way (OBTW) and Deep Green efforts and experimentation at the Brigade Combat Team Integration Exercise, PM Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Network Modernization (NM) Test Bed, and others.

Note: Research Interest Topic (3) of this Broad Agency Announcement is a continuation of effort under BAA W15P7T-08-R-P001.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC FOUR (4)________________________________

Research Interest: Unmanned Systems

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platform Division

OBJECTIVE: Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Command, Power & Integration (CP&I)

Directorate is interested in performing research and development relative to Unmanned Systems Command and Control (C2) technologies to enable complex interactions and teaming between Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) platforms and manned platforms/devices and Unmanned Ground Sensors (UGS). This technology shall facilitate mission planning and collaborative mission execution in urban and complex environments.

DESCRIPTION: Currently fielded unmanned systems, especially at company or below, are not integrated into the mission command structure, but designed to be tele-operated or used with waypoint navigation. Tele-operation often takes 100% of the operators attention, and in many cases a single system requires multiple operators for effective use (ex: Raven). Waypoint navigation allows for a high level control, but still requires the operator to plan waypoint and monitor mission. Resources required to execute these tedious/repetitive missions often take away valuable personnel from other missions and places a significant cognitive burden on the operators.

Additionally, due to the current standalone operator control units (OCU), the data collected by current unmanned systems is not immediately available for analysis or accessible across the network.

The development of new technologies which fully integrate these heterogeneous unmanned vehicles and sensors into the command structure

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to facilitate the teaming of manned/unmanned vehicles and dismounted soldiers becomes critical to utilizing these systems as force multipliers. Likewise, adopting mature technologies to transition from centralized to distributed coordination of multiple teamed

UAS/UGV/UGSs enable rapid decision making and response to changing operational environments. This will ultimately enable a better understanding of a commander's intent and mission goals to match tactical behaviors to mission needs allowing an increased level of autonomy.

Greater situational awareness and C2 can be brought to the tactical edge through the development of software services which improve the ability to monitor and task multiple unmanned assets in order to facilitate increased autonomy as well as mission complexity. This includes improvements in mission planning and task execution capability, task prioritization based on mission need (ISR, fire control, netops, etc) and asset availability, improvement in ability to monitor and manage task progression, improved visualization of those assets along with applicable status displays, dissipation of incoming sensor data, and monitoring of software services/algorithms that enable collaborative UAS/UGV/UGS teaming.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC FIVE (5)________________________________

Research Interest: Flexible Electronics

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platform Division

OBJECTIVE: Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Command, Power & Integration (CP&I)

Directorate is interested in performing research and development relative to flexible electronics technologies to enable bodily worn flexible display systems to be light weight, low power and have a small form factor. This flexible technology shall facilitate mission planning, collaborative mission execution, and viewing of streaming video from air and ground sensor systems in a multitude of battlefield type environments. These soldier worn flexible systems would also be used by first responders, homeland security and border patrol units.

DESCRIPTION: Currently fielded soldier display systems are cumbersome and heavy with glass displays and rigid electronic systems. These current systems are more likely to be dropped and damaged or lost. The current systems greatly decrease soldier mobility in carrying out a variety of mission requirements that require agility and mobility.

The development of these new flexible technologies would give the war fighter greater mobility and increased situational awareness while carrying out the mission. The benefits include improvements in mission planning and task execution capability, task prioritization, management of task progression, improved visualization, dissipation of incoming sensor data, and monitoring of streaming sensor video from a variety of sources.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC SIX (6)_______________________________

Research Interest: Pseudolite Systems

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this effort is to design, develop and demonstrate Global Positioning System (GPS) pseudolite technologies.

Projects considered under this solicitation will ultimately provide improved situational awareness and support to mission command and decision enhancing technologies.

Description: CERDEC is interested in near term solutions for pseudolite systems which support and augment GPS signals that can be degraded or denied by either friendly or hostile electronic transmission or by natural obstacles. Pseudolites provide GPS protection and reliability by broadcasting GPS-like signals using terrestrial or near-terrestrial transmitters. In moderately degraded environments, pseudolites aid acquisition of GPS satellite signals. In severely degraded environments, pseudolites can be used as a source for positioning and timing. Pseudolites rely upon GPS signal reception when available for precise and accurate determination of the pseudolite Position, Velocity, and Timing (PVT) information. The Army is interested in specific technologies that could improve the potential effectiveness of pseudolites such as: (1) command and control software with analysis tools to aid in the positioning of pseudolites; (2) command and control data links compatible with Army mission command systems; (3) effective anti-jam GPS antennas; (4) shaped beam output antennas; (5) conformal antennas; (6) distributed aperture antennas; (7) anti-tamper technologies; (8) high efficiency, fast-response power amplifiers; (9) celestial navigation devices to provide a backup position source; (10) differential GPS corrections that could be sent over the pseudolites; and (11) alternative technologies for providing precise time to the pseudolites.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC SEVEN (7)_________________________________

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Research Interest: Vehicle Navigation System (VNS)

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this topic is to develop, design, and demonstrate ground vehicle mounted position, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems, for the benefit of mission command and decision enhancing technologies for the battlefield.

Description: Specifically CERDEC is interested in a near term solution for non-autonomous and autonomous ground vehicle platforms to include a scalable and upgradeable hardware solution that provides Position, Navigation and Timing information in GPS challenged and denied environments. The VNS design should be configurable to balance minimization of essential components, and therefore overall cost of the system, commensurate with mission and operational functionality. Considerations for VNS designs should allow upgrading to GPS military code (M-code). The VNS should be packaged such that SWAP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) will be minimized and will include interfaces for encryption keying, user interface or display, and connectors for external power, antenna, and multiple electrical interfaces including Ethernet that can route PNT data. The VNS should be compatible with the network timing protocol (NTP), the precise timing protocol (PTP), and be able to take aiding sensors from the vehicle if available to improve its navigation and timing solution.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC EIGHT (8)_________________________________

Topic eight was a duplicate of Topic seven, and is deleted.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC NINE (9)________________________________

Research Interest: Inertial Navigation

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this topic area is to identify, develop, demonstrate and advance inertial navigation technology. The technologies sought will be considered to provide improved situational awareness capabilities and support mission command and decision enhancing technologies for the battlefield and its commanders.

Description: Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) are comprised of Inertial Sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes which measure specific forces and angular rates. CERDEC is interested in ideas for inertial sensors and systems targeted for dismounted soldier and vehicle navigation platforms that allow navigation in GPS denied conditions. This includes novel gyroscope and accelerometer sensor designs utilizing, but not limited to: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), mechanical, optical, and atomic domains that meet the

Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C) goals for the platforms considered. Also of interest are calibration techniques to improve long term performance such as: sensor self-calibration, velocity updating, and range aiding techniques.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC TEN (10)________________________________

Research Interest: Positioning

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this topic area is to identify, develop, demonstrate and advance the state of-the-art with respect to location determination and/or orientation technologies, for the benefit of improved mission command and decision enhancing technologies.

Description: Location determination involves using sources that are external to the platform to establish position information such as:

Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Multi Global Navigation Satellite Systems (Multi GNSS), radio navigation, celestial navigation, terrain matching, Signals of OPportunity (SoOP), and radio atmospheric signals (sferics). Particular aspects of interest to CERDEC are advanced GPS receiver hardware including but not limited to new RF front end designs, non-traditional RF correlator configurations and designs, novel antenna designs, software defined GPS receivers as well as concepts that address integrity monitoring of the GPS signals themselves or of the GPS navigation solution. This could be done in any of a variety of ways including algorithmically or through hardware techniques. Utilization of GNSS signals is also an area of potential interest, including methods to allow standard GPS receivers to track non GPS signals (i.e. GPS receiver software modifications for tracking Galileo satellites). Also of interest are concepts and proposals which leverage emerging and planned future signals, for example, upgradable to M-Code signals as well as new receiver architectures including advanced tracking and acquisition algorithms. These algorithms might, for example, decrease the Time

To First Fix (TTFF) or increase resistance to jamming. Lastly, anti-jam GPS or GNSS antennas and related techniques will be considered as well.

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RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC ELEVEN (11)___________________________________

Research Interest: Aiding Sensors for Navigation Systems

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal for this topic is to identify, develop, demonstrate and advance navigation aiding technologies for dismounted soldiers and ground vehicle platforms where GPS performance is degraded or unavailable. Ultimately projects considered and selected for funding under this topic will provide improved situational awareness capabilities and support of mission command and decision enhancing technologies.

Description: Primary considerations for aiding sensors include Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWAP-C), as well as the ability for the aiding sensors to improve GPS position accuracy or maintain similar performance for extended periods of time in the absence of GPS signals. Systems that do not emit radiation or have minimal and/or controlled radiated emissions are considered more favorable.

Physical hardware modularity, ease for embedding, adapting or optimizing to fit onto a range of military platforms (e.g. dismounted soldiers, combat vehicles or possibly aerial vehicles) and the ability for future systems upgrades, including software, are highly desirable characteristics. The ability for proposed systems to function properly, and adhere to architectures anticipated, in the Army

Common Operating Environment (COE) is also considered highly advantageous. Example technologies of possible interest, in particular for aiding sensors for military navigation systems, include and are not limited to: (1) Vision-based navigation systems and techniques including advanced computer tracking, mapping and feature identification and extraction algorithms, optical-lens technology and miniature solid-state materials, devices and cameras; (2) Systems based upon light-detection and ranging (LIDAR) or laser-detection and ranging (LIDAR/LADAR); (3) Radio-frequency (RF) ranging, especially that which consumes minimal radio bandwidth and power, and which has minimal impact on adjacent radio communications systems; (3) Velocity sensors, speed detectors, magnetometers and other passive sensors for advanced orientation and navigation techniques; and (4) Network-assisted navigation systems and concepts.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC TWELVE (12)___________________________________

Research Interest: Navigation Sensor Fusion

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this topic area is to identify, develop, demonstrate and advance the area of navigation sensor fusion for mounted and dismounted soldier applications. Projects selected for consideration will be applicable to mission command and decision enhancing technologies.

Description: Navigation Sensor Fusion involves the combining of information from multiple diverse navigation aiding sensors (cameras, magnetometers, laser rangefinders etc) to arrive at an optimal Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Solution. CERDEC is interested in the following aspects of sensor fusion technologies: (1) Open Architecture Sensor Fusion Designs that are non-proprietary and flexible to facilitate modification and tailoring to mission requirements and ease interfacing and integration of an array of random new and existing sensor types; (2) Plug-and-play architectures to reduce sensor integration and configuration complexity, time and costs while standardizing software, electrical and mechanical interfaces; (3) Compressive sensing algorithms using but not limited to modeling and sampling techniques to efficiently acquire and process optimal sensor data to construct and/or contribute to an accurate navigation solution; and (4) Over-determined sensors/techniques where sensor data, capabilities and applications are fused and optimized to provide the most robust and accurate navigation solutions.

RESEARCH INTEREST TOPIC THIRTEEN (13)_____________________________________

Research Interest: Biomimetics for Navigation Purposes

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this topic area is to identify, develop, demonstrate and advance the state of the art in Position, Navigation and

Timing (PNT) through biologically inspired technologies, as they relate to mission command and decision enhancing technologies.

Description: CERDEC is interested in the application of biomimetic technologies to any of the other PNT topics (6-12) of this BAA. Of interest are the following areas: (1) Biomimetic processes, models, systems and techniques used by vertebrate and invertebrate species

(e.g. Cataglyphis ants, halictid bees, migratory birds, fish) that can be applied to solve complex PNT technical challenges. Specific items of interest include novel sensors based on biomimetic processes which can potentially be exploited for attitude, orientation

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and/or navigation purposes, and also the use of tailored algorithms for application to PNT technical challenges; (2) Synergistic fusion of biomimetic and traditional PNT technologies and materials; and (3) Optimization of size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) of PNT systems by application of biologically inspired systems.

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Research Interest: Timing for PNT Systems

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Computing Platforms

Objective: The goal of this topic area is to identify, develop, demonstrate and advance the area of accurate timing sources and time transfer technologies for Army applications, as they relate to mission command and decision enhancing technologies.

Description: Timing characteristics of interest include: accuracy, long- and short-term stability, and low phase noise under environments commensurate with military specifications. High accuracy clocks are necessary to provide time to a variety of Army systems in GPS denied environments. Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C) are concerns for dismounted soldier and ground/aerial manned/unmanned vehicle platforms. Examples include but are not limited to: miniature atomic clocks, atomic frequency standards, and tightly coupled

GPS receivers/clocks. An additional area of interest includes wireless time transfer methods to preserve time accuracy.

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Research Interest: Commanders Virtual Staff

Division: CERDEC, CP&I Directorate, Mission Command Capabilities Division

OBJECTIVE: The Army is interested in computer automation to assist the Commander in understanding, visualizing, describing, and directing tasks for the Staff, as well as, providing Commander and Staff with cognitive/intelligent agents that would support the execution and management of the operations process. The target echelon is Battalion, but the solution should be scalable to accommodate

Brigade and Company level in the future. Ideal technologies would be those that address the problem yet are extensible and able to incorporate third party contributions.

DESCRIPTION: This topic addresses two challenges. The first challenge is the current suite of Mission Command (MC) systems that constrain Commanders and Staff to large command posts requiring specialized personnel to run, operate, and maintain the system in order to facilitate complex decisions in a timely manner. The second challenge is that MC data is stove-piped and dispersed between MC and other Warfighter Function (WfF) systems, making collaboration between systems and users extremely difficult. The two challenges combined create a reality in which the unit is immobilized with unsynchronized data that is hard to understand, hindering the Commander from gleaning the necessary information to make accurate and perceptive decisions.

To mitigate these challenges, the Army has already started an effort to centralize MC data, as referenced in COE V.3 Unified Data document. The purpose of this BAA topic is to take the next step in utilizing the centralized MC data to support the Warfighters operationally by: (1) automating tasks, processes, and data analyses, and (2) optimizing the gathering and presentation of these analyses for decision making. The following four subtopics would support this idea of needing to create a better understanding of available and relevant information and the automation of tasks. Solutions proposed for the following four subtopics need to support the environment outlined in COE V.3.

Subtopics:

Workflow Structure:__________________

Software tools that support the synchronization of Commander and Staffs execution of tasks, processes, and procedures within a flexible and modifiable framework to support various unit Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The solution needs to support workflows conducted in a COE V.3 environment via standard interface by monitoring and incorporating lightweight collaboration and sharing between multiple WfFs. The solution should be extensible to support various workflow domains and operational environments. The workflow structure coordinates the computation afforded by the

Running Estimate, Planning Assessment, and Execution Monitoring subtopic and functionality from the Task Automation subtopic. The result would then be sent to Assessment Visualization subtopic solution for further processing.

Running Estimate, Planning Assessment, and Execution Monitoring: This subtopic provides the necessary_______________________________________________________________ software algorithms and models to continuously monitor the execution of tasks and provide planning analysis across

WfFs. Currently, the running estimate is done in an analog way with a heavy cognitive burden on the Commander and

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Staff. The cognitive burden is caused by excessive data coupled with the lack of tools to support their analysis. The proposed subtopic solution should leverage existing capabilities, functionalities, and algorithms available in the current or proposed WfFs systems. These solutions are queued by the Workflow Structure subtopic, and results are displayed in the Assessment Visualization subtopic solution.

Assessment Visualization: This subtopic describes the presentation of data in such a way as to enable________________________ the Commander to expedite decision making in a high-cognitive burden environment. This subtopic should display the analyses gathered from the other three subtopics and should be presented here in the most understandable manner to the user. The subtopic solution should allow the users to quickly understand and discern the overview of what the analysis is representing, and if desired by the users, allow the data to be disaggregated to lower level assessments. The main goal of the subtopic is to assemble the information into actionable data points for the Commander and Staff based upon the current situation and their current focus in the decision process. The solution should leverage existing or new widgets/apps in COE V.3 Command Post Computing Environment (CP CE).

Task Automation: This subtopic should provide the Commander and Staff the ability to automate simple_______________ processes and procedures. Solution should also propose automatable tasks to the user. Level of automation scales based on user preferences, skillset, or trust. This subtopic solution allows the user to modify which tasks in the Workflow

Structure and Running Estimate, Planning Assessment, and Execution Monitoring subtopic solutions to be executed automatically.

In the end, the solutions should be user focused. The solutions should be flexible and modifiable by the users, easy to use, and the relevant information should be displayed in a useful manner based on the data. The solutions should not try to revolutionize or entirely change the units SOP. Instead, the solutions should enhance, support, and aid the units current SOP. The goal is to enable the existing systems to more seamlessly support the units SOP.

The solutions should allow the decision makers to effortlessly aggregate and manage critical information by aiding the synchronization across various WfFs. This would reduce the need for iterative, manual situational reporting by the WfFs that are often labor and time-intensive.

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SECTION L - INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS, AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS

PART V______

TOPIC RESPONSE REQUIREMENTS___________________________

REQUIREMENTS TO BE ADDRESSED IN SUBMISSIONS:

In addition to the requirements specified in PART VI, Section L of the BAA, it is recommended that the following be addressed in submissions if applicable:

Any expected deliverables, to include:

Hardware:_________

- Quantity

- Cost

- Warranties

- Physical interfaces

- Expected performance parameters

- Documentation/manuals/specifications/etc

Software:_________

- Operating system

- Platform

- Compatibility with existing commercial protocols

- Interoperability with commercial protocols

- APIs

- Portability of Software solutions

- Documentation/manuals/specifications/etc

Reports:________

- Monthly

- Technical Report

- Final

Reviews:________

- Kick-off Meeting

- Final Review

Other:______

- Leveraging from a past or existing DOD research program

- Leveraging commercial technology

- Utilization of Commercial-Off-the Shelf(COTS)/Government-Off-the-Shelf(GOTS)

- Utilization of open systems / open standards

- Proprietary nature of technology or product solution

- Intellectual property rights

- Ability to be integrated with other technologies or into other C2 systems

- Portability of solutions to other DOD platforms

- Potential transition strategies

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SUBMISSION PREPARATION AND FORMAT_________________________________

6.1 SUBMISSION INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES.

6.2 Information and Guidelines for Preparation and Submission of White Papers

The purpose of the white paper is to permit the submitter to present an explanation of the idea/concept, its technical merit, and military relevance in a cost effective and efficient manner. The submitter should articulate the innovative concept and technology

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development needed with respect to demonstrable metrics. Offerors should explain in the white paper the feasibility of idea/concept transition to the military, other government agencies or organizations, or other interested users, as applicable. Additionally, offerors should clearly specify the intended demonstrable improvements over current systems, explain transition paths, specify tentative schedules, and provide a rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate of cost. The submission of the white paper should be used by the offeror to avoid unnecessary expenses often incurred in proposal generation for ideas that may not be of interest to the

Government. CP&I Directorate will endeavor to respond to white papers in an expeditious and timely manner.

If CP&I Directorate does not have any interest in your white paper you will be notified by a formal letter. If CP&I Directorate is interested in your white paper, you will be encouraged by a formal letter to submit a full proposal. The Governments full proposal request letter may ask the offeror to focus in on a specific concept proposed, or abandon other proposed concepts deemed less valuable by the Government.