NGA opens BIGISLAND

On April 4, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) posted an update to its Boosting Innovative GEOINT-Science and Technology (BIG-ST) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). Topic 5, Better Ingested GEOINT – Identifying Artificial Intelligence and Manually Manipulated Media (BIGISLAND), is open.

The BIG-ST BAA invites proposers to submit innovative concepts to address hard GEOINT problems that align to one or more of the following technical domains:

(1) Foundational GEOINT

(2) Advanced Phenomenologies

(3) Analytic Technologies

The BIG-ST BAA is a general announcement of NGA’s research interest, including criteria for selecting proposals and soliciting the participation of all offerors capable of satisfying the Government’s needs.

The requests for abstracts and/or proposals are transmitted via Topic Calls that are published separately under the BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation at various times during the open period of the General Solicitation. Topic Calls will be published via updates to the BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation site on Sam.gov, Grants.gov (Opportunity ID:351404), and/or the Acquisition Research Center (https://acq.westfields.net). Interested parties should periodically check these websites for updates.

No submissions shall be accepted to the General Solicitation; abstracts and proposals will only be reviewed in response to Topic Calls.  Please refer to the Topic Calls for Abstract and Proposal due dates.

Closed Topics:

Topic 1 – Geospatial-Intelligence Foundational Model (GFM) is closed

Topic 2 – Magnifying University Science Expertise (MUSE) is closed.

Topic 3 – VLBI+G Signal Chain Development (VLBI+G) is closed.

Canceled Topics:

Topic 4 – Production of Radio Frequency (RF) Surveys from Commercial On-orbit Passive RF (RF-COP) is cancelled.

Active Topics:

Topic 5 – Better Ingested GEOINT – Identifying Artificial Intelligence and Manually Manipulated Media (BIGISLAND) is open.

Review the NGA BIGISLAND BAA.

Source: SAM

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