On October 31, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
posted information about the presolicitation conference for the Spectrum
procurement. Activities are scheduled for November 19at the Air
Force Research Lab in Dayton, Ohio. Questions should be submitted by 12:00 p.m.
Central on November 7, and the registration deadline is 12:00 p.m. Central on
November 7.
The Spectrum program is responsible
for delivering a material database system that contains surface reflectance
spectra, Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDF), thermal, and
electrornagnetic properties of materials. Spectrum is a key component to the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) requirement to deliver
non-literal exploitation capabilities to the National System for Geospatial Intelligence
(NSG) and to the Allied System for GEOINT (ASG) through the development of
technologically-advanced models and the measurement of material signatures.
The Spectrum program is in part a
continuation of the Materials Measurement Program conducted under the previous
NEFDS contract. The NEFDB is a central repository for high-quality data and
parameters related to the optical, thermal, and electromagnetic properties of
various material samples. Also included are statistical quantities relating to
the measurement error and material variability. The NEFDS software provides a
series of exploitation algorithms for calculation of parameters necessary for
spectroradiometric exploitation, including aperture radiance, bidirectional
reflectance distribution function (BRDF), as well as thermal and
electromagnetic bulk properties. These algorithms were initially developed as
models under the NEEDS contract.
The Spectrum program involves material measurements, weathering and contamination studies, Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) model development, uncertainty analysis, algorithm development, and material spectral analysis and taxonomy. In addition, the program will become the curator and integrator of an Intelligence Community (IC)-wide spectral database.
Full information is available here.
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