FBO: Federal Business Opportunities

In accordance with FAR 35.016 Broad Agency Announcement, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in four main areas of interest: Command and Control and Combat Support (C2/CS); Information Sharing; GIG Network Infrastructure; and GIG Network Operations (NetOps). Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems state-of-the-art. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.

DISA seeks Command and Control and Combat Support innovative proposals to: (a) improve Coalition Partner Information Sharing; (b) Network Infrastructure improvements driven by the Intelligence Community's need for larger bandwidth and storage capabilities; and (c) improvement that will strengthen the DISA/Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and Network Operations (NetOps) capabilities.

DISA seeks Information Sharing innovative proposals that provide enhancements to collaborative and iterative crisis action planning and execution tools, including support for crisis action planning tools, joint force protection, and coalition interoperability.

DISA seeks GIG Network Infrastructure innovative proposals that provide enhancements that focus on providing the Intelligence Community with enhanced Computing and Communications Infrastructure capabilities providing agile, adaptive, and capabilities-based IT. These capabilities include wideband networking integrated with smart remote data storage, data conferencing and collaboration, and search and visualization.

DISA is looking for GIG Network Operations innovative ways to provide a synergy between DISA and STRATCOM operations, using different systems working together, to provide alerting, visualization, and collaboration capability to provide capabilities to Combatant Commanders.

The BAA will be open from the date of posting through January 14, 2010.  Reviews will be conducted continuously on receipt of concept papers. If proposal abstracts are submitted, full proposals are due no later than sixty (60) days after receipt of Government comments.

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