FBO Notice Date 11/06/19
BIDS Reference Number 362
Document Type: Modification
Research & Development

Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG (W911QX) Adelphi, 20783-1197

A -- Special Notice - 3rd Annual DoD Artificial Intelligence (AI) Industry Day SOL W911QX20R0005SNOTE DUE 111419 POC Annual DoD AI Industry Day, Email AI@arl.army.mil
Amendment 1: ATTENTION: For those wanting to submit capability briefs/presentations, but are unable to participate in a 1:1 panel session or are unable to attend the 3rd Annual DoD AI Industry Day, please submit the presentations via email to osd.pentagon.ousd-intel.mbx.dod-ai@mail.mil no later than 14 November 2019. Refer to the following website for Event and Registration Details as well as capability brief/presentation format: http://www.cvent.com/d/3hqmfr. All submissions must be in accordance with the guidance provided at this website.

Special Notice - Industry Day Announcement

The Army Research Laboratory (ARL), together with the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT or"Project Maven") and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), are hosting the 3rd Annual DoD AI Industry Day on November 13, 2019 to discuss AI software prototyping activities and future industry participation. Alltechnical businesses engaged in AI/ML are invited to submit information on their capabilities (see website listed below for more information).

The ARL Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Scientific Research added the "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" (AI/ML) topic in 2017 under the Information Sciences Campaign. The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning topic can be found by searching announcement "W911NF-17-S-0003" at Grants.gov or FBO.gov.


Over the course of the program, Project Maven and the JAIC have developed a broad range of nascent algorithms using a variety of approaches that have processed tremendous volumes of DoD data to generate a new repository of algorithmic output and metadata. In addition to pursuing innovative ideas to process the raw DoD data, Project Maven and the JAIC are also seeking innovative AI approaches on how to analyze the newly generated AI output and library of AI algorithms.

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In support of Project Maven and the JAIC AI prototyping, the DoD is holding an AI Industry Day focusing on the following areas:
1. Training Data: Standardizing, cleansing, preparing, and managing data for AI algorithm training, including new labeling techniques and tools for analytics and metrics of training data.
2. Data and Inference Platforms: Newor improved methods for aggregating joint all-domain data sources across all warfighting functions in scalable development and production cloud platforms.
3. Algorithms: Frameworks and tools for creating AI/ML algorithms, and the algorithms themselves, for AI prototyping against raw data as well as against AI generated metadata.
4. User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX): Interfaces to combine traditional, foundational intelligence data and AI; run the AI in inference against raw intelligence data; and provide display, search, and analysis capabilities across all combined data at scale.
5. Integration at the Edge: New or improved processes and methods for integrating AI/ML within systems at the edge to bring AI/ML to constrained, or RF-denied, computational environments; to include multi-sensor/sensorfusion innovations incorporating AI for on-platform understanding and platform automation.
6. Testing: New methods to test, evaluate, anddetermine the effectiveness of AI/ML approaches, including comparisons between approaches.

 
The DoD is interested in market research on these focus areas for any data types, techniques, and use cases, with particular interest on the data types, techniques, and uses cases provided below:

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Event and Registration Details: The one-day Industry Day will consist of presentations in the morning followed by an opportunity for networking and 1:1 panel sessions in the afternoon. Attendees are limited to two (2) representatives per company. Attendees can request an optional 1:1 panel session during registration.

ATTENTION: For those wanting to submit capability briefs/presentations but are unable to participate in a 1:1 panel session or are unable to attend the 3rd Annual DoD AI Industry Day, please submit the presentations via email toosd.pentagon.ousd-intel.mbx.dod-ai@mail.mil no later than 14 November 2019. Refer to the following website for Event and Registration Details as well as capability brief/presentation format: http://www.cvent.com/d/3hqmfr. All submissions must be in accordance with the guidance provided at this website.

Note: This notice is being issued for planning and information purposes only. It does not constitute a solicitation, nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government will not pay for any effort expended in responding to the notice, or participation in this event (to include attendees travel costs), nor will the Government accept proposals as a resultof this notice. Meals will not be provided at this event.

Point of Contact(s):
osd.pentagon.ousd-intel.mbx.dod-ai@mail.mil

CITE: https://www.fbo.gov/notices/f69e9b07a4df90a85ba3ad02b570d12b