Request for White Paper

Area of Interest:
The Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security (USW(I&S)) requires a prototype solution to replace the legacy Budget and Intelligence Related Database (BIRD). USW(I&S) is responsible for overseeing intelligence resource execution across the Department. The current BIRD system, developed and maintained by multiple contractor teams over more than a decade using disparate technology stacks and evolving priorities, now suffers from outdated software frameworks, inefficient code, and an overly complex database schema. These deficiencies impede timely analysis, increase manual workload, and limit the ability of analysts to support senior leader decision-making on intelligence resources.

USW(I&S) seeks a modern, flexible, and extensible system that enables efficient ingestion, cataloguing, analysis, and visualization of intelligence resource data. The desired end-state is a single, user-friendly platform that supports rapid querying, analytic dashboards, and an intuitive interface (including special intelligence-enabled natural language queries) so that analysts can produce accurate, timely insights and the Congressional Justification Book (CJB) with significantly reduced manual effort.

The prototype solution must deliver the following core capabilities (additional modules may be required based on evolving USW(I&S) priorities):

Ingestion and management of current and historical Intelligence Resource data and execution data. Data will be uploaded by multiple users spanning the Department of War, i.e. Agencies and Services. Access to and ability to upload shall be controlled by the Office of the USW(I&S). Financial management query tool and data analytics supported by Super Intelligence so users can interact with the database for in-depth analysis. This tool should have the ability to create data visualizations. User defined Visual Dashboard creation capability that utilizes resource data uploaded into the system database. Congressional Justification Book (CJB) Generator capable of combining quantitative data and narrative inputs from both internal and external stakeholders to produce the CJB. This tool shall take input from users spanning the Department of War, i.e. Agencies and Services. Access to and ability to input shall be controlled by the Office of the USW(I&S). System should operate at multiple classification levels, i.e. development at an UNCLASSIFIED level that is transferable to the SECRET and TOP SECRET networks; data held at a lower level should be replicated to the higher level.