Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Boosting Innovative GEOINT (BIG)

Amendment 6. This amendment applies only to Topic Area 6: Advanced Geospatial Analysis. Paragraph 7.2 of the BIG BAA is amended by adding the following paragraph: 7.2 Special Support Contractors The Government will use MITRE for administrative and Subject Matter Expert support during source selection and during the term of any resulting contract. MITRE will be prohibited from submitting white papers and proposals for Topic Area 6: Advanced Geospatial Analysis. The exclusive responsibility for source selections will reside with the Government. Proprietary information submitted in response to this BAA Topic will be protected from unauthorized disclosure as required by Subsection 27 of the Office of Procurement Policy Act as amended (the Procurement Integrity Act)(41 U.S.C. 423)(hereinafter referred to as - the Act) as implemented by the FAR. MITRE is bound contractually by the Protection of Information and Nondisclosure Agreements clause with respect to proprietary information. By submitting a white paper or proposal in response to this BAA Topic, the Contactor consents to the Government disclosing Contractor proprietary information the aforementioned contractors for the purposes indicated. Amendment 5. This amendment slightly changes the wording in Appendix A, Topics, 1.5.1, 2nd para. (Changes in purple): NGA seeks algorithms and methods that can be easily integrated into existing analytic products such as; spatially-tagged time series data, geospatial data (i.e., shapefiles, geoJSON), raster heat maps, geo-tagged summary statistics, terrain classification and coverage maps, elevation data, point clouds and 3D models, machine learning models, event collections, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and user interfaces that provide access to such algorithms and methods geospatial accuracy, confidence values, and capture of error metrics are important. NGA is particularly interested in data derived from novel sources and adheres to government or industry geospatial standards, where possible. Amendment 4. This amendment adds unclassified Topic 6 "Advanced Geospatial Analytics". Please note that Topics 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are closed. Topic 6 is open for White Paper submission until 21 September 2017, 11:59 AM. Topic 6 is Unclassified. The latest BAA with Topic 6 is attached: U_BIG_FinalHM0476-16-BAA-0001Amend4_22Aug17 Description of Topic 6 requirements are in Appendix A of the BAA. Amendment 3. This ammendment adds unclassified Topic 5 "Sensor Independent Complex Data for Backprojection (SICD-B) Please note that Topics 1, 2, & 3 are closed and Topic 4 is open for White Paper submission until 12 April 2017, 11:59 AM. Topic 4 is Classified. The latest BAA with Topic 5 is attached : U_FINAL_BIG_HM04760160BAA-0001 v3 31 March 2017 Description of Topic 5 requirements are in Appendix A of the BAA. Amendment 2. This amendment adds CLASSIFIED Topic 4 "Future Persistent Systems Analytics" Please note that Topics 1, 2, &3 are CLOSED. Please see the attached BIG BAA U_FINAL_BIG_HM0476-16-BAA-0001 Amend v2 15 Mar 17 For Topic 4, offerors must be registered on the unclassified ARC (Section 5.2) before accessing the classified ARC (Section 11). Instruction for Topic 4 are in Section 11. ********************* CORRECTION *********************** FOR TOPIC 4, PLEASE SEE CLASSIFIED ARC BAA FOR WHITE PAPER AND PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS. Section 11.1 of the BIG BAA is changed (attached).