SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- 2021 C4ISR & Cyberspace SCFs Independent Research & Development Technology Interchange Meetings
- Notice Date
- 10/20/2020 8:10:54 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Response Due
- 11/23/2020 12:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 12/08/2020
- Point of Contact
- Susan Smith, Charles Botello
- E-Mail Address
-
susan.smith.1@us.af.mil, charles.botello.1@us.af.mil
(susan.smith.1@us.af.mil, charles.botello.1@us.af.mil)
- Description
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS in March 2021!! During the week of 22-26 March 2021, the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Command & Control, Communications and Computers (C4). Globally Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) and Cyberspace (Cyber) Service Core Function (SCF) community of experts is proud to announce the 2021 C4ISR & Cyber Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Technology Interchange Meetings (TIMs).� The venue, likely to be either facilities at Joint Base Langley VA or Rome Research Site, Rome NY, is still being reviewed.� When finalized, the venue selected will be posted in this event�s Webpage on the Defense Innovation Marketplace.� This invitation is open to all industry IR&D, including large corporations, medium-sized and small businesses, as well as academia, National Labs and FFRDCs. This 2021 C4ISR & Cyber IR&D TIMs engagement has broad goals to increase awareness, stimulate collaboration, and seek alignment between industry�s IR&D innovation investments and DAF�s high?priority science and technology needs and corresponding acquisition sustainment roadmaps. Senior?level, top-notch C4ISR and Cyber Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the AF are expected to participate, representing the AF Warfighting Integration Concepts (AFWIC) team at Air Staff, the Air Combat Command, the AF Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), the AF Research Lab (AFRL) and several other agencies. The DAF teams engaged in our 2021 C4ISR & Cyber IR&D TIMs are highly interested in S&T discussions with industry�s finest and viewing the landscape of IR&D� investments that� conceivably have significant relevance to prevailing S&T needs to meet our nation�s warfighter technology gaps in these domains. Event Scope Shown here are some high-level depictions of respective C4ISR and Cyber taxonomies.� These details are provided in the related 2021 C4ISR & Cyber Webpage we will maintain in the �Technology Interchange Meetings� section of the highly informative Defense Innovation Marketplace site -- https://defenseinnovationmarketplace.dtic.mil/technology-interchange-meetings/. ***Please see attached document for additional information regarding event scope*** Participation Interest Please send your expression of interest to -- �dtic.belvoir.ecm.list.C4isr@mail.mil.� Once your expression of interest is received by our IR&D planning team, you will be sent additional instructions on how to nominate your IR&D projects and corporate investments.� In these instructions, we will request you review the technical content of the IR&D projects and corporate investments you intend to nominate.� We will ask you to specify the specific line items of the taxonomy, to aid us in assuring we have the right SMEs to meet with you.� Our hope is that the topics nominated are clear text on technologies being addressed.� As a heads-up, if we show an interest in your nominated topic, but do not see sufficient data relevant to selection consideration, we will contact your company identified point of contact.� Please note -- If you do not hear back from the planning team within one week, please resend the original email. Planning Schedule For your situational awareness, we have developed high level schedule milestones to affect good deliberate planning for a potentially fruitful engagement at event week. ***Please see attached document for key dates of activities*** Please note dates listed are subject to change. For updates and additional information, stay tuned to the Defense Innovation Marketplace webpage: https://defenseinnovationmarketplace.dtic.mil/technology-interchange-meetings/ Thank you for viewing this announcement.� We look forward to your favorable consideration to engage in this exciting government-industry technology dialogue! ~~~ Disclaimers COVID-19 � We are all currently aware of the very real dangers of the COVID pandemic and the import of exercising safety protocols.� There are still very real uncertainties that face us in the near future.� We are planning this event as a face-to-face (F2F) engagement (with masks and physical spacing, as needed).� We will be looking at other options for this event, such as having a hybrid form of F2F and virtual, or one that is entirely virtual.� We all hope we can resume some normalcy in how we engage in technology interchange meetings pre-pandemic. The government is not obligated to enter into a contract with any entity as a result of IR&D collaborations from our dialogue. Data exchanges, as a result of these dialogue activities, follow the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR), including export controls and restrictions in accordance with Department of Defense Instruction 5230.24, Department of Defense Directive 5230.25, the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Sec 2751, et seq.), and/or the Export Administration Act of 1979 (Title 50, U.S.C., App. 2401 et seq.), as amended. Note:� Government technical support contractors may be a part of the team of SMEs at the event, and company-to-company Non-Disclosure Agreements may be necessary. Some information we intend to share may be classified or unclassified and can only be released as Distribution C, D, or F material. Please be informed using the following URL: https://discover.dtic.mil/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/distribution_statements_and_reasonsSept2018.pdf. Dates and locations listed for this event are subject to change. Refer requests for additional documents and data to dtic.belvoir.ecm.list.C4isr@mail.mil.
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