The Defense Department last week issued a needs statement for obtaining solutions that can speed the global delivery of data to warfighters relevant to their operations and decision-making.
This April, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s Innovation & Modernization Office, in cooperation with the Joint Staff’s Intelligence Directorate and the Army’s Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Task Force will host an Innovation Outreach Solutions Meeting with technology developers to discover “leap-ahead technologies for ensuring the DoD realizes the full promise of its data and is positioned to inform operational decision-making at any place and any time,” DoD said last week.
DoD is interested in technology needs in three areas: moving data, processing data, and unleashing data.
Moving data refers to having visibility and access to critical data as needed. Solutions here could include long-distance transmissions, multi-domain communications, resilient networking, higher bandwidth, edge computing, and novel communications such as quantum and laser technologies.
Processing data is critical for interoperability and coordinating flow, DoD said in a Jan. 19 notice in the government’s procurement site, Sam.gov. Processing solutions include data orchestration, data tagging, data fusion, and data security.
“Unleashing data means rapidly transforming data into actionable information,” DoD said, and requires information visualization tools, automated alerts and recognition, and improving artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The innovation solutions meeting will be held April 15-16 in McLean, Va., and will provide selected technology developers an opportunity to give a technical briefing on their respective solutions.