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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 07, 2004 FBO #1046
SOLICITATION NOTICE

A -- BAA04-14 Innovative Architectures for Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS)

Notice Date

10/5/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541710 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
 

Contracting Office

DHS - Direct Reports, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Procurement Operations, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Washington, DC, 20528
 

ZIP Code

20528
 

Solicitation Number

HSHQPA-04-X-00344
 

Response Due

10/25/2004
 

Archive Date

11/8/2004
 

Description

The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) invests in projects offering the potential for revolutionary changes in technologies that promote homeland security and accelerates the prototyping and development of technologies that reduce homeland vulnerabilities. HSARPA performs these functions in part by awarding procurement contracts, grants, cooperatives agreements, or other transactions for research or prototypes to public or private entities, businesses, federally funded research and development centers and universities. The emergency responder community has a need to acquire, synthesize, communicate and share critical information. These abilities are key elements in an effective response to any emergency situation. This need has become more critical as the emergency responder community prepares to employ more coordinated responses to emergency situations and new terrorist threats facing our nation. It is crucial to ensure that all information flowing into and out of the focal point of incident command is managed properly to ensure optimal use in supporting command and control and decision support. This BAA seeks proposals to develop an innovative new architecture to support the information management and sharing requirements of the emergency responder community. After the completion of these studies, HSARPA anticipates competing and funding a follow-on program to develop and field test technologies and systems which are found to be most advantageous during the architecture study phase. The ability to manage personnel, direct equipment, and seamlessly communicate, gather, store, redistribute, and secure any mission critical information needed by incident commanders and emergency responders during an emergency situation defines Unified Incident Command & Decision Support (UICDS). At present, the emergency responder community, composed of law enforcement, fire departments, emergency medical teams, chemical weapons response teams, radiation and nuclear specialist, etc. have had limited success in the area of coordinated response due to inadequate, insecure, and incompatible training tools and information technologies. The full capabilities of information management technologies should be brought to bear on behalf of the emergency responder community in the form of a system that allows incident commanders and emergency responders to manage the flow of data, voice, and video information in addition to other forms of information. The very nature of emergency situations and the complexity and volume of information flowing into and out of incident command positions demand a more integrated information management architecture. UICDS systems based on this highly interconnected and integrated architecture should meet the needs of the entire emergency responder community and its design should allow for integration, when needed, between local, state, and federal information management,situation awareness and C4ISR systems. The integration of individual local, state, and/or federal information management systems should create an interconnected, information sharing ?network of networks? whose overall capabilities are greater than the sum of its individual parts. The research, development, and launch of a UICDS information management system is crucial to the future operations of incident commanders and emergency responders. The goal of this BAA is to harness innovative ideas in an effort to create an information management and sharing architecture specifically designed to meet the needs of incident commanders and emergency responders throughout the nation and realize a robust, fully functional UICDS information management system to enhance the safety and effectiveness of this nation?s emergency responder community.
 

Place of Performance

Address: Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Washington, D.C.

Zip Code: 20528

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00688987-W 20041007/041005211520 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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