MODIFICATION
A -- BAA03-06
- Notice Date
- 2/24/2003
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- BAA03-06
- Response Due
- 12/31/2003
- Archive Date
- 1/15/2004
- Point of Contact
- Anthony Cicala, Contracting Officer, Phone (571) 218-4639, Fax (703) 696-2208,
- E-Mail Address
-
acicala@darpa.mil
- Description
- The purpose of this Modification 03 to BAA03-06 is to instruct reviewers to ignore Modification 02 and Amendment 01 posted on 24 FEB 03. Modification 03 herein is applicable. The purpose of MODIFICATION 03 to BAA03-06 is to incorporate Technical Topic Area #18 entitled Connectionless Networks, and to provide specific instructions for Submission of Proposals by interested parties. 1. Reference Industry Day Workshop Announcement entitled Connectionless Networks, Solicitation Number SN03-10 posted on 20 FEB 2003. 2. BAA03-06 is modified as follows: a. The following Technical Topic Area is added to BAA03-06 under the heading of TECHNICAL TOPIC AREAS: (18) Connectionless Networks b. For the new Technical Topic Area added herein, respondents are directed to bypass Step 1 - Executive Summary, and Step 2 - Proposal Abstract, and proceed directly to Step 3 - Full Proposal Submission, as described in the Proposer Information Pamphlet (PIP) to BAA03-06. Respondents are directed to comply with all other requirements of the PIP for BAA03-06, unless the information described in the Modification herein specifically instructs the respondent to do otherwise. c. Respondents are directed to provide their Full Proposal Information to the Government for evaluation purposes within 45 days of the posting of this Modification in FedBizOpps, and no later than 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on that applicable date. 3. The following specific information related to Topic Area (18) Connectionless Networks is applicable: PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The Connectionless Networks (CN) program will develop technology to allow radio networks to send and receive messages without any initial link acquisition, or any previous sharing of routing information. This will, in turn, improve energy per bit of delivered information by as much as 100 - 1000 times compared to conventional and near-term deployable communications systems such as contemplated by both commercial and military users. TECHNICAL APPROACH: The approach is to exploit current signal processing components, intelligent (processing and memory intensive) routing, and availability of situational information to demonstrate a total energy savings of at least 100 times typical connection oriented network applications, such as DARPA SUO SAS . Initially candidate technologies and designs will be investigated and modeled. This would be followed with fabricated devices that implement this technology. These very significant increases in efficiency will arise from a number of sources, including: * Elimination of the acquisition preamble, through use of pre-corrected frequency and timing, and multiple hypotheses detection. * Consolidation of physical, media access, network and transport layer headers and elimination of the requirement to distribute routing information throughout the network * Scalability beyond the node counts possible with Internet technology within a small Service area. This phase of the CN Program will address Integrated Layer Design and Performance Prediction. This approach will investigate specific technology requirements for each of the ISO layers, leading to the development and analysis of sets of Implicit Protocols. The effort will consider both layer-specific and layer-integrating approaches, with particular attention given to combining the physical layer and media access, and to the functionality of a network and transport layer. A simulation-based approach will be implemented to identify promising techniques for further development in the later phases. A significant challenge in defining the combined Physical and Media Access Layer is the development of Acquisitionless link operation. This will require that receiver and transmitter be closely matched in time, frequency, carrier phase, and clock interval. Implicit determination of phase (for interesting symbol rates) is beyond the accuracy of the low power and miniature time sources available today (although MEMS Atomic clocks and Direct Synthesis may address this shortfall in the future). Defining the Network and Transport Layer packet routing operation will require development of a unique solution from the techniques used in the Internet Protocol (IP) family. These are optimized for static and relatively persistent connectivity. Even the dynamic SUO SAS radio establishes a fixed connectivity and subnet structure for variable durations. During this phase, it is envisioned that multiple organizations will be provided the opportunity to investigate specific aspects of the CN technology. Multiple approaches will be investigated for layer-specific and layer-integrating approaches, and analysis will predict the performance that can be achieved. The analysis will address implementation complexity, on-board processor and memory capability/power, overhead, scalability and performance. PROPOSAL FORMAT & SUBMITTAL INFORMATION NOTE: For submission of proposals herein, the following information supercedes that delineated in the PIP for BAA03-06: Except for the attached bibliography or as noted below, Volume I shall not exceed thirty (30) pages. Where appropriate, maximum page lengths for particular sections are shown in braces { } below. Otherwise, the number of pages for each section is at the discretion of the proposing organization (so long as the 30 page limit is not exceeded). Offerors should not propose efforts exceeding twelve (12) months. Any such proposal doing so may be disregarded. Multiple awards during CY 2003 are anticipated. Follow on efforts may be conducted at a later time, either through DARPA or a Military Services Agent, however, the government is under no obligation to conduct any follow on effort. Proposal Submissions are expected to be unclassified, but in the event any portion thereof may be classified, respondents are instructed to follow the information delineated in the PIP to BAA03-06. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Government intends to use employees and subcontractors of SRA International, Inc. (Adroit C4ISR Center) of Fairfax, Virginia and DPM Consulting to assist in administering the evaluation of the proposals and to provide advice regarding portions of the technical content of the proposals to the Government evaluators. These personnel will have signed, and will be subject to, the terms and conditions of non-disclosure agreements. By submission of its proposal, an offeror agrees that its proposal information may be disclosed to employees of SRA and/or DPM Consulting for the limited purpose stated above. Only Government evaluators, however, will make technical evaluations and award determinations under this BAA. Questions of a technical nature should be addressed to Preston Marshall, DARPA/ATO, email: pmarshall@darpa.mil. The Alternate point of contact for technical questions is Vic Jaroch, email: vjaroch@snap.org. Questions of a contractual nature should be addressed to Anthony E. Cicala, Contracting Officer, DARPA/CMO, email: acicala@darpa.mil.
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