On November 21,
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) posted a presolicitation
notice about the SAFFIRE acquisition.
NGA is providing
this Pre-Solicitation Notice of its intent to conduct a Full and Open competition
for the SOM AAA Framework For Integrated Reporting and Exploitation (SAFFIRE)
requirement. NGA anticipates release of a Solicitation / Request for Proposal
(RFP) on or around December 9, 2019 with the intent to award a single contract
for this requirement.
The
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition
is 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services. The Product Service Code is
D302, IT and Telecom-Systems Development.
BACKGROUND:
NGA has a mission-critical need for sustaining and improving manual Structured
Observation Management (SOM) production and storage and integrating these
capabilities with Computer Vision (CV) processing. This includes enabling
SOM production capabilities to discover, access, and consume CV-generated
information and refining and refactoring the SOM data management capabilities
to support CV-generated information (training data, Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNNs), detections, and automated observations). This effort will
include developing and deploying a CVI environment that allows NGA and its
partners to evaluate, train, configure, and deploy CV algorithms into the
production framework. SAFFIRE architecture will support National System
for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) and Allied System for Geospatial Intelligence
(ASG) mission requirements.
It is
contemplated that the solicitation will be posted to the CLASSIFIED
Intelligence Community – Acquisition Research Center (IC-ARC) website
(https://acq.nro.ic.gov). To create a classified ARC account, you must first
create an unclassified ARC account by visiting https://acq.westfields.net and
clicking on the “Register” link at the top right of the page. Be sure to
include your classified email address as you will not be able to access you classified
account without it. Once you have finished the registration process on the
unclassified system and validated your account by clicking the link you were
sent via email, you will need to wait 2 business days for your classified ARC
account to be automatically created.
Once
you have waited 2 business days, you will be able to log into your classified
account using the same email and password you used on the unclassified system.
This will bring you to a page where you can click a button to send yourself a
verification email to the classified email account you listed when creating
your unclassified account.
To
log into the classified ARC, visit https://acq.nro.ic.gov/ from a TS network
such as NMIS, NSAnet, CWE, AWAN, CWAN, JWICS, etc. If you do not have access to
a TS network but possess a TS/SCI clearance, a reading room will be
available.
Full information is available here.
Source: SAM
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