Industry Day for Advanced Analytics & Data Science for Naval Warfare Planning and Execution_

This notice replaces 14-SS-012 in its entirety. The Office of Naval Research is interested in research that will forge major advancements towards a well- developed and robust Naval Big Data Ecosystem that enables more sophisticated and powerful analytics for supporting Naval Warfighting applications. To accomplish this objective, ONR seeks to make advancements in four key Thrust Areas: (1) Development of a robust Naval Data Science foundation that addresses data representations and ontologies required to support a wide range of Naval Warfare Mission Areas; (2) Identifying, acquiring, ingesting, and indexing Data Sources pertinent to Naval Warfighting Missions; (3) Development of advanced analytics for Naval Warfare Mission Areas; and (4) Development of data protection and security mechanisms to ensure the integrity of data used throughout the analytic process. The overall objective of this effort is to achieve unprecedented access to data; to extract new and deeper insights by exploiting data in new and innovative ways; and to apply those new insights to improving Naval Warfare activities. A major goal of this effort is to significantly improve the Naval community's real-time ability to bring together information from National systems and sensors with information from Naval combat and weapon systems and sensors. In the past, the ability to merge these types of information to support tactical warfighting has been extremely limited. Emerging technologies (such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, and more effective Cross Domain technologies) are enabling us to overcome many of the technological and infrastructure limitations that limit the ability to integrate and exploit national and tactical data sources. BAA 14-009 (forthcoming) will seek to leverage the power of these emerging technologies to develop innovative and ground-breaking analytic capabilities that enhance threat assessment and prediction, combat ID, integrated fires, and Naval mission planning and execution. Enhancements to these capabilities will be focused on two Naval Warfare Areas: Anti-Submarine Warfare and Integrated Air/Missile Defense. An Industry Day will be conducted at the unclassified level for potential Offerors on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 in McLean, VA. The purpose of the meeting will be to provide interested parties with a better understanding of the scope of the Data Focused Naval Tactical Cloud program and objectives of this BAA. The briefing will be held at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) with check-in beginning at 8:00 a.m. (EST). All interested parties are required to pre-register at https://www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/register.asp?m=4269&c=16 by 3:00 p.m. (EST) on Monday, June 16, 2014. Pre-registration is mandatory; WALK-IN REGISTRATION WILL NOT BE PERMITTED. If requested attendance exceeds capacity, it may be necessary to limit attendance, and organizations will be so notified. ONR will reply via email on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to confirm attendance of registrants.