On August 16, the Defense Intelligence
Agency posted a request for information for Mapping the Defense Intelligence
Enterprise AI/ML Ecosystem. Responses are due by 11:00 a.m. Eastern on August
23.
Virginia Contracting Activity (VACA) anticipates
establishing a contract under North American Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) Code 541690, “Other Scientific and Technical Services” with a
Small Business standard of $15,000,000. VACA is issuing this notice in order to
solicit capability statements from QUALIFIED 8(a) sources to ensure sufficient
competition exists to meet the Government’s requirements. It is the
Government’s intent to use information gathered in response to this notice to
assist in market research to determine whether to, in accordance with
applicable laws, set-aside, solicit offers from all responsible sources or use
the GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS). GSA FSS holders are encouraged to submit
their current GSA FSS number(s) and appropriate SIN(S). The anticipated length
of performance is one (1) twelve (12) month Base Period. (Firm Fixed Price).
This is a sources sought for non-personal services to
provide the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) an agile internal support and
surveillance effort focused on mapping, illuminating and discovering gaps and
infrastructure breakages, or necessary linkages, and recommending innovation in
business processes, efficiencies, or demonstrating redundancies for the whole
of the of the Defense Intelligence Agency AI/ML Ecosystem.
In order to support
the DIA Strategy to enhance the whole of its AI/ML Ecosystem, and inform future
investments, DIA seeks to improve capabilities for applying artificial
intelligence and machine learning to conduct all source analysis and
collection, research, information monitoring, automated reporting, and database
development. DIA also seeks to understand industry capabilities for applying
artificial intelligence and machine learning to thematic data management and
data transformation in a way that allows a semi-automated approach to the
extract-transform-load (ETL) burden for collected data. The contractor response
shall at a minimum support the following objectives for this requirement:
- Identify ongoing AI/ML developmental or finished AI/ML projects, tools, capabilities, and processes, working with Mission Owner Stakeholders
- Provide services in support of the Research and Development & Innovation Development Process within DIA
- Recommend training plans/programs in support of ongoing AI/ML projects
- Recommend means to streamline, reduce duplication of work and improve agility/speed by discovery of business processes used for AI/ML projects and capabilities by mission owners
- Recommend implementable solutions to streamline, reduce duplication of work and improve agility/speed of existing or future recommended AI/ML capabilities
- Analyze conceptual data models and associated business processes/rules/algorithms which allow for appropriate data transformation to derive analytic and operational insight from data
Full information is available here.
Source: FedBizOpps
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