OpportunityTitle: Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) Research Initiatives at The Naval Postgraduate School
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: 1. All responsible sources from U.S. academia, U.S. research institutions, U.S. laboratories outside the Federal Government, U.S. industry, and accredited foreign universities may submit proposals under this FOA.Federally Funded Research &amp; Development Centers (FFRDCs), including Department of Energy National Laboratories, are not eligible to receive awards under this FOA. U.S. Government schools of higher education, Navy laboratories and warfare centers as well as other Department of Defense and civilian agency laboratories are also not eligible to receive awards under this FOA and should not directly submit proposals in response to this FOA. If any such organization is interested in research described herein, the organization should contact baa@nps.edu.University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) are eligible to submit proposals under this FOA unless precluded from doing so by their Department of Defense UARC contract.Some topic areas may cover export-controlled technologies. Research in these areas is limited to &#8220;U.S. persons&#8221; as defined in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) -22 CFR &#167;120.1 et seq. Please see Application and Submission instructions below on protecting such information from public distribution. 2.  Cost sharing or matching is not required.3.  Individuals are not eligible to apply. 4.  U.S Academic InstitutionsAccording to Executive Order 12333, as amended, paragraph 2.7, &#8220;Agencies within the Intelligence Community are authorized to enter into contracts or arrangements for the provision of goods or services with private companies or institutions in the United States and need not reveal the sponsorship of such contracts or arrangements for authorized intelligence purposes. Contracts or arrangements with academic institutions may be undertaken only with the consent of appropriate officials of the institution.&#8221;
Description: The Naval Postgraduate School Center for Multi-INT Studies (CMIS) has a bold vision to transform the field of intelligence and seeks to vastly improve the current state of the art in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). To this end, CMIS supports innovative, independent research that has the potential to expand knowledge in related areas.As real-time, accurate and actionable intelligence products are demanded by analysts, warfighters, and decision makers, linear, human-intensive processes are no longer sufficient. The capabilities of current and future adversaries, and the dynamism and complexity of the environments in which they operate, necessitate vast improvements in the timeliness and execution of intelligence-cycle processes.Humans do not have the cognitive ability or the time to analyze the vast quantities of multi-source, multi-dimensional data that are now available. Revolutionary decision support, situational awareness, sensemaking, inferencing, reasoning, and visualization capabilities must be employed to expediently unlock the information contained in these myriad streams of data.CMIS envisions a future where cognitive technologies can anticipate strategic and tactical information needs, perceptively orchestrate distributed sensors across every domain (cyber, human, terrestrial, air, sea, space, etc.), and deliver timely and accurate recommendations to kinetic and/or non-kinetic agents (human and/or machine) to employ required actions.This future of intelligence collection and analysis is realized as a highly automated loop with five functions: 1) information about a target is automatically synthesized from large stores of Multi-INT data,2) a model of target behaviors uses this information as evidentiary support of hypothesized activities, 3) information value calculations determine what next information to obtain, and 4) efficient algorithms orchestrate the employment of a diverse set of sensors to collect information that produces increased information and intelligence value, 5) analysts and decision-makers are informed by the automated loop and the automated loop receives information and guidance from the analysts and decision-makers.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Business POC
GrantorContactText: Janet Norton &lt;br/&gt;Contract and Grant Officer &lt;br/&gt;