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The intent of this solicitation, DARPA-BAA-09-38, Comprehensive Interior Reconnaissance, is to investigate technological approaches that leverage building infrastructure to opportunistically collect information for interior awareness. DARPA believes that opportunistic sensing may be exploited to infer urban interior building awareness using exterior observations. Specifically, DARPA asserts that:

The geometry and stimulus response of building infrastructure contains tactically useful information on the interior structure. Infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, the structural, electrical, plumbing, and ventilation systems. . Such information may be acquired through access to the exterior of buildings that may include direct contact with an exterior umbilical, but does not require contact or deployments within the building.

• Approaches to acquiring such information may require active as well as passive sensing.
• Multiple sensing technologies and approaches may be required to provide complete building interior awareness.
• A mission is expected to depend upon an optimal mix of approaches determined by the specific environment.

DARPA is soliciting proposals to investigate and validate multiple Sensing Technology approaches that collectively meet all Program Metrics for below- and above-ground awareness. See attached for complete BAA. A Proposer's Day will be held on 30 April 2009 at 8:30 AM at Analytic Services Inc., Conference Center, 2900 S. Quincy St. Suite 800, Arlington, VA 22206, phone (703)416-3222, fax (703)416-8408. The proposer's day will be held at the SECRET level. Proposers requesting to attend should submit their name and organization via email to the BAA administrative POC by 4:00 PM local time in Arlington, VA, on 17 April 2009. In addition, Visitor Requests should be sent to ANSER by 17 April 2009. Visitor clearance information may be passed by Visit Notification through JPAS (the SMO code for Analytic Services Inc. is 4A4584) or may be faxed to 703-416-8408. To verify receipt of the visit clearance information, call 703-416-4459. Please indicate on the visitor request that the meeting to be attended is the CIR Proposers Day.

Contracting Office Address

3701 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22203-1714

Primary Point of Contact.

DARPA-BAA-09-38 Coordinator
DARPA-BAA-09-38@darpa.mil
Fax: 703-516-8762