The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, Transportation Security Laboratory has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) plans to sponsor a two-phase effort to support the development of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms for Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) systems located at airort security checkpoints. The lab proposes a spiral-based research and development effort that ill improve cupping commercially-available AIT systems to meet TSA requirements, using a system of ATR algorithms as an enabler. The ATR algorithms will exploit specific image features of known threats such as guns, knives, improvised explosive devices and homemade explosives. Phase 1 will include a government evaluation of technical reports, proposals, system design documentation, preliminary and critical design reviews, and test plans. This one-year effort will be followed by a one-year Phase II that will include further development of selected algorithms as well as an application window for vendors that had previously submitted algorithms can propose algorithms for evaluation. It will conclude with an assessment of ATR systems. The BAA is expected to be released around March 18. Sol. No. AIT-ATR-TargetedBAA. Contact: Emily Graham, contracting officer, 202-254-5611, [email protected].