On
April 23, the U.S. Air Force, on behalf of the Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence, posted a request for information for publicly
available information evaluation. Responses are due by May 10.
The
Department of Defense (DoD) as directed by the Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence (OUSD(I)) requires a solution to evaluate publicly
available information (PAI) in real time, in order to provide increased
situational awareness, force protection, and Indications and Warnings (I&W)
to Combatant Commands and Military Services on global events.
The
solution should leverage a variety of publicly available sources, evaluate
content to detect emerging events and threats as they are developing, and push
alerts to users based on user-defined areas and topics of interest, such as
threats to US Forces (i.e., Force Protection, terrorist events, disaster
relief, etc.) and event geolocation, both in CONUS and OCONUS. Solution must be capable of distributing
alerts in near real-time via email, web-based applications, and mobile
platforms.
Information and the first indication of a situation is often available quicker and in more abundance through publicly available means than through defense only channels. The early receipt of information provides commanders and DoD member’s additional decision space which can be imperative in the protection of forces and assets as well as enable them to tip and cue additional assets or take additional actions.
Full information is available here.
Source: FedBizOpps
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