Transportation Security Innovative Concepts Broad Agency Annoucement

The BAA has been amended for the purpose of extending the response due date through 30 May 2014.

The BAA has been amended for the purpose of extending the response due date through 28 February 2014.

This publication constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2) and 35.016.
 

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is interested in receiving proposals for research projects that support the TSA mission of ensuring the safety of the nation's transportation. To this end, TSA seeks research across broad strategic areas which offer potential for advancement and improvement of TSA security operations, technologies, processes, human-factors, and capabilities. TSA is specifically interested in research that will provide for near term improvement of current security operations and capabilities. These areas include but are not limited to:

        Passenger and Baggage Screening
        Threat Assessment and Dissemination
        Cargo Screening
        Credentialing
        Exit Lane Control
 
A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), other solicitation, or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare TSA's broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines.

The TSA will not issue paper copies of this announcement. TSA reserves the right to fund all, some or none of the proposals received in response to this BAA, a factor of which will depend upon availability of funds. TSA provides no funding for direct reimbursement of proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of TSA to treat all proposals as sensitive competitive information and to disclose their contents for the purposes of evaluation.