Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program is amended as follows:NIMA BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)NMA501-03-BAA-0001, is amended as follows: The Proposal Due date of the BAA is changed from 26 Mar 2003 to 3 Apr 2003. The full text of the BAA can be seen at: www.nima.mil/poc/contracts/baa.html Additional changes to the BAA above include: Page 12 of 28, line 4 change from "W/liter (200 W/kg at power.." to read "Wh/liter (200 Wh/kg at power..." Page 27 or 28, paragraph 9. SIGNIFICANT DATES. PROPOSAL DUE FROM 26 MAR 2003 TO 3 APR 2003. ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS FROM: 28 Mar 2003 to 9 Apr 2003 and LETTER OF INTENT TO RECOMMEND FOR AWARD from: 28 Apr 2003 to 30 Apr 2003. Point of Contact: Grants and Contracting Ms.Jo Ann Moore at 703 735-3122, Technical Issues Mr. Stephen Malys at 301 227-7452. The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the DS&T's Chief Scientist announce a Fiscal Year 2003 competition for the DCI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program. The mission of the DCI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program is to establish long-term relationships and mentoring of postdoctoral researchers and to provide research institutes with an understanding of the Intelligence Community's research requirements. The program will foster partnerships with postdoctoral researchers as they move into career positions and provide innovative solutions to Critical Intelligence Community problems. Through this competition, the Chief Scientist (CS) expects to make awards in specific research topics. All awards will be based on merit competition. Depending on the quantity and quality of proposals received, the CS may not make any award(s) under a particular research topic. In the event more funds become available additional awards maybe made at a later date based on initial evaluation results. Typically each award will be: for a basic period of one year (funded incrementally), with a potential option for a second and third year, and for the amount of $100,000 per year/per grant. This DCI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program competition is specifically for the research topics listed below. Offerors are advised to read the Broad Agency Announcement BAA NMA 501-03-BAA-0001 at www.nima.mil/poc/contracts/baa.html. It explains the program research needs upon which the topics are based and the terms and conditions of this competition. AREAS OF INTEREST: The BAA describes twenty-two (22) research areas, comprising some of the Intelligence Community's most current technology interests. These descriptions provide offerors with a frame of reference. The DCI encourages innovative ideas that address these interests. Offerors are urged to consider the research issues posed and, as appropriate, to contact our research topic chiefs to discuss potential efforts. Inquiries are welcome. Note that while technical contacts are listed for a topic, proposals must be submitted only to the addressees shown in the Broad Agency Announcement. With completion of the first phase, the call in this announcement is seeking qualified postdoctoral research investigators interested in being funded to support research in the specified topical areas and to support interactions with the Intelligence Community advisors. Potential Fellows must be associated with an accredited U.S. university or college. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must be a U.S. citizen. The principal investigator / university mentor, is NOT required to be an U.S. Citizen. SUBMISSION HIGHLIGHTS. The Government will evaluate all proposals submitted under the terms and conditions of this BAA. Government-paid consultants or subject matter experts may be involved in the evaluation and selection processes. General. The CS, through NIMA as his executive agent, intends to award with FY03 funding. To be considered and evaluated the Government must receive the full proposal by the due time and date (26 March 2003) identified in the BAA. NIMA will send the offeror an acknowledgment of receipt of the submission, and will follow-up later with a notification letter announcing whether the proposal is being recommended for an award. Acknowledgment and notification will be sent to the principal investigator via e-mail, according to the schedule in the BAA, with a copy to the appropriate university administrative office. Proposals will be evaluated against criteria in the BAA. The estimated grant start date identified in BAA should be used for budget and proposal purposes. You may, however, request a later start date and may therefore develop your budget based on your proposed start date. Submission. Proposals shall be formatted as one .doc file (or "zipped".doc file) of a size not to exceed 1.95 Megabytes in total. The Government's mail servers will not accept files of a greater size. The proposal shall reference BAA Number NMA 501-03-BAA-0001. Proposals shall be submitted electronically by e-mail and simultaneously to
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[email protected]. Content: Proposals must be complete and self-contained to qualify for review. Proposals shall be prepared single-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font, with at least one-inch margins on top, bottom and sides, on 8½" by 11" paper. The Intelligence Community is concerned with research in specific areas of science and engineering. For this reason, all proposals must adequately describe the technical objectives and approaches, support of principal investigator and Postdoctoral Fellow, and expenditures for equipment, all of which will be evaluated by qualified reviewers. Separate attachments, such as institutional brochures or reprints that are not germane to the proposal, are discouraged. The proposal shall include all of the following items. Cover Page The cover page shall include the BAA number (NMA501-03-BAA-0001), proposal title, and topic or research area of interest. The cover page must also indicate the name, phone number, fax number, postal address, and e-mail address of both the principal investigator AND an appropriate official in the university's research administration office. Project Description: The project description portion of the proposal shall be limited to three pages and shall: Describe the proposed research objectives and approach to be undertaken. State the objectives and approach and the relationship to state-of-knowledge in the field and to similar work in progress. Include appropriate literature citations and prior work. Discuss the nature of expected results. Describe the expected outcomes and relevance to the Intelligence Community research need. Identify other parties to whom the proposal has been/will be sent. Resume: The Resume shall be limited to two (2) pages each and shall provide the credentials of the principal investigator, demonstrating why the offeror is qualified to do the work proposed. If a Postdoctoral Fellow has been identified, an additional resume, two (2) pages in length, may also be included. Cost: Beginning on a new page, the financial portion of the proposal should contain cost estimates in sufficient detail for meaningful review. The annual cost must be no greater than $100,000. At least 50% of this cost should be allocated for direct support of one full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, including salary and fringe benefits. The remaining funds can be allocated to a fraction of the principal investigator's time, unique equipment needed to conduct the proposed research, other direct costs and university overhead. For proposal purposes, use the later of the estimated award start date per BAA or the offeror's proposed start date. Exceptions to the above-recommended allocation will need to be approved by the Chief Scientist. The cost proposal must include the total cost of the project, as well as a breakdown of the amounts by source of funding (e.g., funds requested from the DCI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, and/or institutional funds to be provided as cost sharing). The costs should be broken down for each year of the program and shown by three distinct totals: a total for the basic year and a total for each of the optional follow-on years. Although expected to be short, there is no page limit for the cost section of the proposal. Cost elements should include, but are not limited to: Time being charged to the project by the principal investigator and Postdoctoral Fellow, and their commensurate salaries and benefits. Costs of equipment based on most recent quotations and broken down in sufficient detail for evaluation (equipment costs should be budgeted primarily during the first year). Allowable equipment will ordinarily be limited to research equipment and apparatus not already available for the conduct of the work. General-purpose equipment, such as a personal computer, is not eligible for support unless primarily used in the actual conduct of the proposed scientific research. Travel costs and time, and the relevance to stated objectives. This shall include a breakdown of the name and number of travelers, location and duration; and estimated costs for transportation, rental car and per-diem. This shall also include travel for the required attendance at the annual DCI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program colloquium in the spring of each year. The colloquium is held in the Washington D.C. area. Other direct costs such as materials and supplies; publication, documentation and dissemination; computer services; communication costs not included in overhead; or others (identify). These costs shall include at least one published article per year in the Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development (JICRD). This published article will need to be coordinated, vetted and submitted through the IC Advisor. Cetifications: By signing and submitting any proposal under this BAA, the offeror is certifying Certification at Appendix A to 32 CFR Part 25 regarding debarment, suspension, and other responsibility matters; Certification at Appendix C to 32 CFR Part 25 regarding drug-free workplace requirements; and Certification at Appendix A to 32 CFR Part 28 regarding lobbying. These certifications are located in Parts 25 and 28 of the DoD Grant and Agreement Regulation (DoDGARs), D0D 3210.6-R. This document is available electronically, under the heading "publications", at the following Internet site: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/. The person who is authorized to provide these certifications should sign the proposal. Proposals submitted without signatures shall require a separate execution of the certifications. Also, it will be necessary for either the Dean or Provost at the University to acknowledge that they are receiving CIA Funds. Awards will be made for one year with two one-year options. The Government expects to exercise the first year option assuming quality research is ongoing. Second year option will be the exception, rather than the rule. The awards will be incremental funded at funding levels no greater than $100,000 per year, per award/option period. Once a proposal is selected for award, one of two scenarios will be executed: If a postdoctoral candidate is already identified and prepared to begin the proposed research, 100% of the first year's award funding could be provided by the start date. If a qualified postdoctoral candidate must be sought, $10,000 of the award amount will be provided initially, with the remaining first year's funding provided when the qualified candidate is identified and selected by the university. SPECIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS FOR FY03 DCI POSTODCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The following 22 topics represent the Intelligence Community's research interests particularly suited this year for investment. An award in any topical area will be made only if a sufficiently meritorious proposal is received. The CS reserves the right to allocate available funds among topics based on the quality of the responses and priorities. Following are the titles of the proposed research topics with the agency having primary interest in each topic shown in parentheses after the title. A detailed description of each topic with Point of Contact (POC) data is available in the BAA. The following is a list of topics: (1) Micro- and Nano-scale High Performance Rechargeable Battery Technology (CIA) (2) Software Radio Research (CIA) (3) Lithium-Ion Battery Technology (CIA) (4) 3-D Face Modeling and Display (CIA) (5) Cold Atom Optics (NIMA) (6) Data analysis from Passive Hyperspectral and LIDAR sensors (NIMA) (7) Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks (NIMA) (8) Unconstrained, goal-based visual scene analysis (NIMA) (9) Modeling Spatial Spread of Infectious Diseases (DIA) (10) Comparison of Numerical Algorithms for Assessing the Usefulness of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows (DIA) (11) Sensemaking: Improving the Shared Creation of Knowledge (DIA) (12) Investigating Various Empirical and Linguistic Methods in Pursuit of Automated Analysis, Data Mining, Collaboration and Inference Processes (NSA) (13) Color Appearance Models and Improved Visual Analysis (NSA) (14) Separation, Functionalization, and Self-Assembly Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes (NSA) (15) Earthquake Pre-cursor Propagation Model and Signal Analysis Techniques (NRO) (16) Nano-Electromechanical systems (ITIC) (17) Bio-Nano Electronic Circuitry (ITIC) (18) Multi-User Detection: Algorithm Evaluation (ITIC) (19) Smart Materials for Components of Mobile Robots (ITIC) (20) Terahertz Imaging (ITIC) (21) Probabilistic Evidence Marshalling (NRO) (22) Improving the Security of Future Biometric Systems (ITIC) POINTS OF CONTACT: Grants and Contracting Ms. Jo Ann Moore at 703 735-3122. Technical Issues Mr. Stephen Malys at 301-227-7452.