SUMMARY_OF_CHANGES_W911NF-17-S-0003_Amendment_01.pdf
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This document provides an amendment to the Army Research Laboratory Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research. The amendment adds new areas of research focus including artificial intelligence and machine learning to increase the government's capacity to process vast amounts of collected data through the application of algorithms. New areas of research include frameworks and tools for algorithm creation, tailored algorithms for computer vision and language tasks, innovative computational environments, new labeling techniques for supervised deep learning, edge computation methods, algorithm evaluation techniques, interfaces for algorithm outputs, and techniques for algorithm training and validation. The amendment also adds an appendix outlining scheduled dates for future amendments to the announcement on November 1st of 2017 through 2021 and March 1st and June 1st of each year.
Summary of Changes W911NF-17-S-0003 Amendment 01
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SUMMARY OF CHANGES
W911NF-17-S-0003 Amendment 01
Army Research Laboratory Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research
1. The following is added to Special Notes section of the announcement as item #3:
See Appendix 2 for a Schedule of Amendments. Applicants are encouraged to frequently check Grants.gov and FBO.gov for updates and amendments to this BAA.
2. The following is added to Section II.A.4:
k. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The Government currently collects more data than it can meaningfully process. This includes image and video data, structured data sets for a variety of combat and non-combat missions (e.g. health, maintenance, logistics, and operations), and various, stove-piped, unstructured, massive data sets that exist primarily in the form of text documents. The vast scale of data collection challenges human-driven/human-only solutions to collection and processing.
The goals of this work are to increase the government’s capacity to process that data by assisting and augmenting analysts through the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms, to include deep learning algorithms. Research will focus on experimental investigation and prototype development of AI/ML algorithms and capabilities.
In addition, this research program will focus on helping analysts perceive and understand dynamic and unknown environments. Another research focus area includes the creation comprehensive models of real-world environments in which AI/ML entities facilitate course of action development by displaying intuition and improvisation characteristics in real-time, dynamic scenarios.
Elements of this research effort include new frameworks and tools for the creation of algorithms; tailored algorithms to perform discrete tasks, particularly in the fields of computer vision and language; innovative AI/ML computational environments; new labeling techniques to generate massive scale annotated data for supervised deep learning techniques; new methods of edge computation to bring deep learning algorithms to constrained computational environments; methods to evaluate and determine the effectiveness of algorithmic approaches;
interfaces for the display, search, and interaction with algorithmically derived metadata and tabular structured algorithmic output; new techniques, hardware, software, and tools for the training, testing, and validating of algorithms; and storage and indexing capabilities for local algorithmically-produced data.
TPOC: Michael Lander, (301) 394-2367, michael.d.lander2.civ@mail.mil.
3. The following is added to the announcement as Appendix 2:
APPENDIX 2: SCHEDULE OF AMENDMENTS
Amendments to this BAA will be issued according to the following schedule to incorporate programmatic or administrative changes to this document, if necessary.
NOTE: Amendments may be issued more frequently at the discretion of the Government.
Estimated Date of Issuance November 1, 2017 March 1, 2018 June 1, 2018 November 1, 2018 March 1, 2019 June 1, 2019 November 1, 2019 March 1, 2020 June 1, 2020 November 1, 2020 March 1, 2021 June 1, 2021
(End Summary of Changes)
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