DHS S&T Issues Several Calls Against Silicon Valley Program Solicitation
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued three calls against its streamlined acquisition solicitation used by its Silicon Valley Innovation Program. The calls against the Other Transaction Solicitation are for identity and anti-spoofing of non-person entities, energy harvesting fabrics, and dynamic mapping. Under OTS Call 9 (Sol. No. HSHQDC-17-R-00051), DHS components have common requirements across their mission sets to ensure that non-person entities such as sensor platforms, wearable devices, small unmanned aerial vehicles, and other network-enabled devices can be identified with a high degree of assurance and are not being spoofed. Under Call 8 (HSHQDC-17-R-00050), S&T is seeking non-traditional power sources to power the various equipment used by first responders without adding to their current weight burden. S&T is looking for innovative energy-harvesting smart fabric technology for integration into its Next-Generation First Responder Program. Under Call 7 (HSHQDC-17-R-00049), S&T is looking for technology that provides first responders responding to an incident with situational awareness regarding the interior landscape of buildings. Ultimately, the technology should also have the ability to capture dynamics updates when structural changes occur, such as when the wall of a building collapses in the middle of a firefight, and transfer that information to the incident commander. S&T established the Silicon Valley Innovation Program to reach out to start-up and other non-traditional companies to provide potential solutions to meet DHS mission needs. Respond by May 3, 2018. Contact: [email protected].
Army Conducting Market Research on Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector
The Army has issued a market survey to obtain industry comments on a draft performance work statement for the Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector (MPCAD). The objective of the effort is to design, develop, test, produce and support the MPCAD configurations, which are Army/Marine Corps Dismounted, Air Force Dismounted, Army Mounted, and Navy Mounted. The requirement is for the MPCAD systems engineering and manufacturing development phase, low-rate initial production, and full-rate production. Sol. No. MPCAD541512. Respond by May 16. Contact: Angel Quander, contract specialist, [email protected], 410-436-8565.
DNDO Issues RFI for Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detection Systems
The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has issued a Request for Information on the state of the art in Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detectors (SPRDs) to support the agency’s Human Portable Tripwire (HPT) program. The HPT program is executing a commercial-off-the-shelf acquisition. The HPT SPRDs are intended to worn by operators as standard equipment providing a passive or tripwire capability for constant, non-deliberate scans to increase the operator’s ability to detect gamma and neutron radiation sources and identify radiological and nuclear isotopes. The devices must also prove a warning to the operator of potentially harmful levels of radiation. Sol. No. SPRDs_RFI. Respond by: May15. Contact: Jennifer D’Addio, contracting officer, [email protected], 202-254-8988.
TSA Releases BAA for Operational Demonstrations
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Innovative Demonstrations for Enterprise Advancement (IDEA), seeking individual solutions or processes applicable to a component of the transportation screening system or a solution that integrates multiple elements of the screening process through integrated systems. Under the BAA there are six submission categories: Mobile Screening Solutions; Security Design Solutions; Queuing and Passenger Flow; Training, Development & Performance; New Detection Capabilities; and General Submissions, which don’t fit into the first five categories. The purpose of the IDEA effort is to encourage the development of diverse, forward-looking solutions to increase the probability achieving enhanced security effectiveness, threat detection, operational efficiency, and passenger satisfaction across the transportation security ecosystem. The effort is being managed by TSA’s Innovation Task Force. Sol. No. HSTS04-17-R-BAA001. Reply by July 15. Contact: Maud Lecalot, contract specialist, [email protected], 571-227-3052.
CBP Conducting Market Survey for Radomes for Radar
The Federal Aviation Administration, on behalf of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is conducting a market survey for radomes applicable to the Lightweight Surveillance and Track Acquisition Radar system. The survey is also being done to obtain the information necessary to determine whether adequate competition exists to set aside the potential acquisition among small businesses. Sol. No. 27198. Contact: Robert LaFollette, [email protected], 405-954-7384.
CBP Issues Solicitation for the Smart Safe Services Pilot
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a solicitation for its Smart Safe pilot that will examine a potential cash management solution that stores and secures currency and includes technological features such as a cash counter, the automated verification of currency, storage of funds, and transmission of deposit details to the bank for account settlement. The solution also entails an all-inclusive model, which provides a single point of contact managed with a single contract for all related services, including installation and de-installation, maintenance, support, courier services and banking services. CBP says it is responsible for collecting $44 billion in duties, taxes, and fees annually, a significant amount of which is collected in cash and checks at ports of entry across the country. The process contains inefficiencies and risks that the agency would like to minimize through Smart Safe effort. Sol. No. HSBP-RFI-2-5-17. Respond by May 26. Contact: Joseph Ohene, contracting officer, [email protected].
DHS S&T Seeks Participants for First Responder Tech Assessment
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate National Urban Security Technology Laboratory is considering conducting an operational assessment of technologies in August called the Critical Incident Management Technology Assessment (CIMTA). The upcoming assessment is a program designed to bring together urban first responder communities and technology developers to identify emerging technology solutions to capability gaps that can be applied during a critical incident response occurring in an urban environment. S&T is issuing a Request for Information for Participation for CIMTA. Sol. No. DHS-ST-RFI-0001. Contact: [email protected].
DHS S&T Transition to Practice Program Announces 2017 Cohort
The Department of Homeland (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate Transition to Practice Program has released its 2017 cohort of cyber security technologies that were developed with federal funding. The eight new TTP technologies are: Cyber Human Language Analysis, Reasoning and Inference for Online Threats developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory; Quantitative Attack Space Analysis and Reasoning, also developed at Lincoln Lab; A Novel Intrusion Prevention System for Android, developed by Mitre Corp.; Akatosh: Automated Cyber Incident Verification and Impact Analysis, developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Real-Time Cyber-Physical Attack Detection, ORNL; StreamWorks: Continuous Pattern Detection on Streaming Data, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Keylime: Enabling Trusted Platform Module-Based Trust in the Cloud, Lincoln Lab; and Policy Enforcement and Access Control for Endpoints, Worchester Polytechnic Institute. These technologies “will help strengthen the cyber defenses of critical networks in the public and private sectors,” says Robert Griffin, acting under secretary of S&T.