Amendment 8: ceiling increase and second repub v4

AMENDMENT 8 to BAA FA8750-23-S-7008

The purpose of this modification is to increase the ceiling and republish the original announcement, incorporating any previous amendments, pursuant to FAR 35.016(c).

This republishing also includes the following changes:
Part I, Overview Information:
BAA Estimated Funding is increased to $99.9M;
Updates the award range;
Types of Instruments that may be awarded, adds language regarding Other Transactions for Prototypes;

Part II, Full Text Announcement:
Section II.1, BAA ceiling, fiscal year breakout of funding is updated; award range is updated; Section III.2.b.2, updates the FOCI guidance;
Section IV.4.b, updates the provision date;
Section IV.4.c, updates the CFR hyperlink;
Section IV.4.e, adds language regarding OTs;
Section V.2.b.2.e; corrects numbering;
Section VI.1, updates proposal formatting language;
Section VI.7, updates the provisions;
Section VII: updates the OMBUDSMAN.

No other changes have been made.

NAICS CODE: 541715

FEDERAL AGENCY NAME: Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate, 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, NY, 13441-4514 BAA ANNOUNCEMENT TYPE: Modification

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

TITLE: Adaptive Fusion, Analysis & Reasoning of multi-source data (AFAR)

BAA NUMBER: FA8750-23-S-7008

PART I – OVERVIEW INFORMATION

This announcement is for an Open, 2 Step BAA which is open and effective until 29 Aug 2028. Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only. While white papers will be considered if received prior to 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time (EST), the following submission dates are suggested to best align with projected funding: FY24 by 12 Sep 2023 (Please note: For only FY24, AFRL is seeking whitepapers for just the following Focus Areas: A - Adaptive Knowledge and Information for Target Analysis and B - Enhancing Moving Target Engagement at Scale (EMoTES)) FY25 by 15 Jul 2024
FY26 Focus Area B3 by 28 APR 2025
FY26 by 15 Jul 2025
FY27 by 15 Jul 2026
FY28 by 15 Jul 2027

Offerors should monitor the Contract Opportunities on the SAM website at https://SAM.gov in the event this announcement is amended.

CONCISE SUMMARY OF TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT: The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate is seeking innovative approaches for the fusion, analysis and reasoning of multi-source data to advance their analytical operations in support of their Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) and Cyber Science mission. This announcement is comprised of four research areas: (A) Adaptive Knowledge and Information for Target Analysis (AKITA), (B) Enhancing Moving Target Engagement at Scale (EMoTES) and (C) Publicly Available Information (PAI) Ensemble Fusion (PEF), and (D) Agentic AI Workflows for Dynamic Operational Contexts (AWARD) where each has research areas that taken together comprise the focus of AFAR research and development.