SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Human Language Technologies (HLT)
- Notice Date
- 12/4/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL/RQK - WPAFB, AFRL/RQK, 2130 Eighth Street, Building 45, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433, United States
- ZIP Code
- 45433
- Solicitation Number
- BAA-AFRL-RQKH-2016-0004
- Archive Date
- 5/6/2016
- Point of Contact
- Caitlin Frost, Phone: (937) 713-9890, Kimberly D. Warren, Phone: (937) 713-9844
- E-Mail Address
-
caitlin.frost@us.af.mil, kimberly.warren.2@us.af.mil
(caitlin.frost@us.af.mil, kimberly.warren.2@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), Human-Centered Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Division, Human Trust and Interaction Branch (711 HPW/RHXS), seeks innovative research to develop human language technologies (HLTs) that will provide the warfighter with enhanced capabilities to utilize and exploit foreign language information. Much of the information needed to effectively understand, anticipate, manage, and operate in the global environment is found in foreign language speech, text, videos, and images; however, there is a critical lack of linguists and automated tools to understand, translate, and to effectively exploit this information. This shortfall is especially common and problematic for lesser spoken languages that have high military interest but lack sufficient linguists and automated language processing capabilities. Even for languages where speech and other language processing tools do exist, overall accuracy and performance can still be insufficient, depending on the domain and application, to effectively support operations. The objective of this program is to conduct research and develop HLTs in the areas of automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT), natural language processing (NLP), information extraction (IE), information retrieval (IR), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), and other speech and language processing technologies. Major application areas of interest include multilingual multimedia information extraction and retrieval (MMIER) and speech-to-speech translation (S2ST). The HLT Program within 711 HPW/RHXS has developed an in-house prototype system for MMIER called "Haystack" and has also developed a prototype S2ST system. Research and technology developed under this effort will be integrated into these applications, the applications configured for individual customer requirements, and then ultimately transitioned for operational use. Research will be conducted at the Unclassified, Secret Collateral, and Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) level. The anticipated dollar value for this acquisition is $10M over a 5 year period of performance. This is a pre-solicitation notice only. It is anticipated that a BAA providing more details into this program will be released in the January 2016 timeframe. The BAA will be available at www.FedBizOps.gov. An Industry Day will be held shortly after the BAA is posted. Direct any questions to the contracting points of contact identified in this announcement or the technical point of contract, Mr. Joseph Steuver, 711 HPW/RHXS, phone 937-255-8015, e-mail: Joseph.Steuver.1@us.af.mil. Persons planning to attend the Industry Day must have at least a Secret Clearance. Appropriate clearances and base access must be obtained in advance. Questions regarding clearances/base access may be directed to Ms. Michelle Grigsby, 937-255-8229, Michelle.Grigsby.1@us.af.mil. Please note that requirements may change and this is not a guarantee that a solicitation will follow.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN03961088-W 20151206/151204234327-451f686e5d79d4211b3288c23c655e97 (fbodaily.com)
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