Broad Agency Announcement 23-05 Amendment 1 admin update

AMENDMENT 1 to BAA FA8750-23-S-7005

The purpose of this modification is to make the following changes: Part I Overview Information, the following paragraph is updated as follows: Pre-Proposal Communication between Prospective Offerors and Government Representatives: Dialogue between prospective offerors and Government representatives is encouraged. Technical and contracting questions can be resolved via email submission (see Section VII). Discussions with any of the points of contact shall not constitute a commitment by the Government to subsequently fund or award any proposed effort. Only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the Government.

Offerors are cautioned that evaluation ratings may be lowered and/or proposal rejected if proposal preparation (Proposal format, content, etc.) and/or submittal instructions are not followed. No other changes are 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 or ARA ANNOUNCEMENT TYPE: Modification

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) TITLE: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Solutions for Evolving Scenarios (SSES)

BAA NUMBER: FA8750-23-S-7005

PART I – OVERVIEW INFORMATION

This announcement is for an Open, 2 Step BAA which is open and effective until 25 SEP 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 2pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 25 SEP 2028, the following submission dates are suggested to best align with projected funding:

FY24 by 15 NOV 2023

FY25 by 15 AUG 2024

FY26 by 15 AUG 2025

FY27 by 14 AUG 2026

FY28 by 13 AUG 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: Seeking innovative research to develop emerging Cyber and SIGINT real-time processing solutions to improve tactical information collection, geolocation, extraction, identification, analysis, simulation and reporting in support of the Intelligence Community. Overall program goals include providing situational awareness for worldwide signals and network intelligence sources; provide sensor data collection and processing with a network-centric approach; understand the adversarial battlespace; provide multi-platform/multi-intelligence support to both protect and increase the blue coalition warfighting capabilities. A key objective is to advance the state-of-the-art capabilities by providing the warfighter with real-time tools to quickly assess and precisely pinpoint the right decision to mitigate the tactical threat and ensure battlespace dominance.