AFRL posts updated SSES BAA

On December 28, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) posted an updated Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Solutions for Evolving Scenarios (SSES) broad agency announcement (BAA).

This announcement is for an Open, 2 Step BAA which is open and effective until 10 Dec 2025.  Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only.  While white papers will be considered if received prior to 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 10 Dec 2025, the following submission dates are suggested to best align with projected funding:

  • FY24 by 15 August 2023
  • FY25 by 15 August 2024

Offerors should monitor the Contract Opportunities on the Beta SAM website at https://beta.SAM.gov in the event this announcement is amended.

Seeking innovative research to develop emerging SIGINT real-time processing solutions to improve tactical information extraction, identification, analysis and reporting in support of the Intelligence Community.  Overall program goals include providing situational awareness for worldwide signals and network intelligence sources; sensor data collection and processing with a network-centric approach; identification of critical processes to understand the adversarial battlespace, and multi-platform/multi-intelligence support to increase the blue coalition warfighting capabilities.

One of the key objectives is to advance the state-of-the-art capabilities by providing the warfighter with real-time tools to quickly assess and precisely pinpoint the right decision to mitigate the tactical threat and ensure battlespace dominance.

This BAA is a follow-on to BAA RIK 2014-0010, titled “SIGINT Collection, Processing and Exploitation.

Review the full AFRL SSES BAA.

Source: SAM

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