US Army Intelligence Wants to Know How Algorithms Can Improve Intelligence Processing, Analysis and Reporting

The following item was posted online yesterday on the U.S. government’s contracting website fbo.gov: 

The US Army, Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD), is seeking information on algorithms, tools, & workflows to address the need for improved real-time multi-INT fusion and processing, exploitation, & dissemination (PED). Intelligence includes the position/location reports and/or target signatures that are derived from various multi-INT sensors. The multi-INT analyst is challenged with an ever-growing quantity of intelligence from multiple sources and does not have the tools to rapidly combine data and identify meaningful events.

To this end, the Army is seeking PED applications that accelerate the processing of intelligence, increase the richness of exploitation, facilitate dissemination, expedite and enhance analyst RFI fulfillment, and improve commander situational awareness. Applications may lend themselves to either real-time or forensic use or both. Examples of such algorithms include (but are not limited to) the following:

Real-time algorithms will reside directly on the sensor platform, with the purpose of rapidly processing, correlating, and reducing multi-INT data for immediate situational awareness as well as maximizing available bandwidth to a ground station or PED cell. Forensic algorithms take advantage of the wider range of data available on the cloud along with the increased processing power available to provide enhanced products with full situational and historical context. The primary focus of this request is the enhancement of real-time user workflow.

Responders must clearly specify:

the utility of algorithms for real-time and forensic analysis

the utility of real-time algorithms for onboard processing

the utility of real-time algorithms for data/bandwidth reduction

the ability of algorithms to enhance user workflow

the ability to expand algorithms to cloud-based computing

the software licensing rights of the proposed technology

Written inputs are requested within 40 days of this announcement. Responders are requested to submit one electronic copy to usarmy.apg.cerdec.mbx.i2wd-radar-rfi@mail.mil. There is a 10MB email limit. If classified submission is required, request how and where to send through the e-mail address provided. If electronic submission is not available, submit one hard copy to Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, Radar and Combat ID Division, Bldg 6003, Aberdeen Proving Ground 21005. Responses shall not exceed 25 pages in length. The Government does not intend to pay for this information.

The only individuals authorized to respond to this RFI are US citizens.

No Foreign Nationals can support this submission. 

ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division A, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-1846

Place of Performance:

ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division A 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground MD

21005-1846

US

Point of Contact(s):

Myong Parker, 443-861-4638