Application Communities (AC)

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Application Communities (AC): A. Overview Information I. Federal Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Processing Technology Office II. Funding Opportunity Title: Application Communities (AC) III. Announcement Type: Initial Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) IV. Funding Opportunity Number: BAA 05-51 V. CFDA Number: 12.910 VI. Key Dates a. Initial Closing: 12:00 Noon (ET), October 26, 2005 b. Final Closing: 12:00 Noon (ET), September 05, 2006 c. All administrative correspondence and questions on this solicitation, including requests for information on how to submit a proposal to this BAA, must be received at one of the administrative addresses below by 12:00 Noon (ET) August 15, 2006 B. Full text of announcement I. Funding Opportunity Description PROGRAM SCOPE DARPA. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches and techniques that lead to or enable revolutionary advances in the state-of-the-art. Proposals are not limited to the specific strategies listed above, and alternative visions will be considered. However, proposals should be for research that substantially contributes towards the goals stated. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in minor evolutionary improvement to the existing state of practice or focuses on special-purpose systems or narrow applications. II. Award Information The Government reserves the right to select all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this solicitation and to make awards without discussions with offerors; however, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Source Selection Authority later determines them to be necessary. Final funding determination will be based on the combination of proposed approaches which will reasonably support program success. Proposals identified for funding may result in a contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or other transaction depending upon the nature of the work proposed, the required degree of interaction between the parties, and other factors. If warranted, portions of resulting awards may be segregated into pre-priced options. III. Eligibility Information 1. Eligible Applicants All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Small Disadvantaged Businesses and Minority Institutions (MIs) are encouraged to submit proposals and join others in submitting proposals. However, no portion of this BAA will be set aside for Small Disadvantaged Business, HBCU and MI participation due to the impracticality of reserving discrete or severable areas of this research for exclusive competition among these entities. 2. Cost Sharing or Matching Cost sharing is not required for this particular program; however, cost sharing will be carefully considered where there is an applicable statutory condition relating to the selected funding instrument (e.g., for any Technology Investment Agreement under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2371). IV. Application and Submission Information 1. Address to Request Application Package This announcement and the PIP contain all information required to submit a proposal. No additional forms, kits, or other materials are needed. [Note: see other submission requirements under paragraph 6 for reference to the PIP.] 2. Content and Form of Application Submission This BAA requires completion of an online Cover Sheet for each Proposal prior to submission. To do so, the offeror must go to http://CSC-Ballston.dmeid.org/BAA/index.asp?BAAid=05-51 and follow the instructions there. Each offeror is responsible for printing the BAA Confirmation Sheet and attaching it to every copy. The Confirmation Sheet should be the first page of the Proposal. If an offeror intends to submit more than one Proposal, a unique UserId and password must be used in creating each Cover Sheet. Failure to comply with these submission procedures may result in the submission not being evaluated. Security classification guidance on a DD Form 254 (DoD Contract Security Classification Specification) will not be provided at this time since DARPA is soliciting ideas only. After reviewing incoming proposals, if a determination is made that contract award may result in access to classified information, a DD Form 254 will be issued upon contract award. If you choose to submit a classified proposal you must first receive the permission of the Original Classification Authority to use their information in replying to this BAA. PROPOSAL FORMAT Offerors must submit an original and 2 copies of the full proposal and 2 electronic copies (i.e., 2 separate disks) of the full proposal (in PDF or Microsoft Word 2000 for IBM-compatible format on a 3.5-inch floppy disk, or cd). Mac-formatted disks will not be accepted. Each disk must be clearly labeled with BAA 05-51, offeror organization, proposal title (short title recommended) and Copy number of 2. 3. Submission Dates and Times The full proposal (original and designated number of hard and electronic copies) must be submitted in time to reach DARPA by 12:00 NOON (ET) 26 October 2005, in order to be considered during the initial evaluation phase. However, BAA 05-51, Application Communities will remain open until 12:00 NOON (ET) 05 September 2006. Thus, proposals may be submitted at any time from issuance of this BAA through 05 September 2006. While the proposals submitted after the 26 October 2005 deadline will be evaluated by the Government, offerors should keep in mind that the likelihood of funding such proposals is less than for those proposals submitted in connection with the initial evaluation and award schedule. DARPA will acknowledge receipt of submissions and assign control numbers that should be used in all further correspondence regarding proposals. 4. Intergovernmental Review N/A 5. Funding Restrictions Authorization of precontract costs will be considered in situations of genuine urgency where programmatic benefits will accrue from their use. 6. Other Submission Requirements Offerors must obtain the BAA 05-51 Offeror Information Pamphlet (PIP), which provides further information on the areas of interest, submission, evaluation, funding processes, and proposal formats. This pamphlet will be posted directly to FedBizOpps.gov and may also be obtained at URL address http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/solicitations.htm. Proposals not meeting the format described in the pamphlet may not be reviewed. This notice, in conjunction with the BAA 05-51 PIP and all references, constitutes the total BAA. No additional information is available, nor will a formal RFP or other solicitation regarding this announcement be issued. Requests for same will be disregarded. V. Application Review Information 1. Criteria (listed in descending order of relative importance): (1) Overall Scientific and Technical Merit (2) Innovative Technical Solution to the Problem (3) Plans and Capability to Accomplish Technology, Integration and Transition (4) Offeror's Capabilities and Related Experience (5) Proposed length of project (6) Cost Realism 2. Review and Selection Process It is the policy of DARPA to ensure impartial, equitable, comprehensive evaluation of all proposals and to select the source (or sources) whose offer meets the Governments technical and policy goals. Evaluation of proposals will be accomplished through a scientific review of each proposal, using the above criteria which are detailed further in the PIP. Proposals will not be evaluated against each other, since they are not submitted in accordance with a common work statement. DARPA's intent is to review proposals as soon as possible after they arrive; however, proposals may be reviewed periodically for administrative reasons. Restrictive notices notwithstanding, proposals may be handled for administrative purposes by support contractors. These support contractors are prohibited from competition in DARPA technical research and are bound by appropriate non-disclosure requirements. Input on technical aspects of the proposals may be solicited by DARPA from non-Government consultants /experts who are also bound by appropriate non-disclosure requirements. However, non-Government technical consultants/experts will not have access to proposals that are labeled by their offerors as Government Only. Use of non-government personnel is covered in FAR 37.203(d). VI. Award Information Administration 1. Award Notices Principal Investigators will receive a letter informing them of the disposition of their proposal via U.S. mail. 2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements Offerors may visit DARPAs Contracts Management Office (CMO) website (http://www.darpa.mil/cmo/pages/modelgrantagreement.htm) for model grant and cooperative agreement terms and conditions. For Research Involving Human Subjects: Proposals selected for funding are required to comply with provisions of the Common Rule (32 CFR 219) on the protection of human subjects in research (http://www.dtic.mil/biosys/downloads/32cfr219.pdf) and the Department of Defense Directive 3216.2 (http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html2/d32162x.htm). All proposals that involve the use of human subjects are required to include documentation of their ability to follow Federal guidelines for the protection of human subjects. This includes, but is not limited to, protocol approval mechanisms, approved Institutional Review Boards, and Federal Wide Assurances. These requirements are based on expected human use issues sometime during the entire length of the proposed effort. For proposals involving greater than minimal risk to human subjects within the first year of the project, performers must provide evidence of protocol submission to a federally approved IRB at the time of final proposal submission to DARPA. For proposals that are forecasted to involve greater than minimal risk after the first year, a discussion on how and when the offeror will comply with submission to a federally approved IRB needs to be provided in the submission. More information on applicable federal regulations can be found at the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Human Research Protections website (http://www.dhhs.gov/ohrp/). DARPA has determined that work for this program is to be funded by budget category 6.2 (Applied Research). This means that research performed under this program on-campus at a university is considered contracted fundamental research; therefore, public releases of information about such research are not subject to prior Government review. The definition of CONTRACTED FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH is contained in DOD Instruction 5230.27 and can be found at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf2/i523027p.pdf. Public release of information about research performed under circumstances other than those described above is subject to prior government review, according to the procedures available at http://www.darpa.mil/tio 3. Reporting The Award Document for each proposal selected and funded will contain a mandatory requirement for submission of Quarterly Status Reports and an Annual Project Summary Report. These reports will be submitted electronically via the DARPA/IPTO Technical-Financial Information Management System (T-FIMS), utilizing the government-furnished Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on the World Wide Web (WWW). Further details may be found in the Offeror Information Pamphlet (PIP). The DARPA/CMO website referenced above also provides general information about reports required specifically for grants and cooperative agreements. VII. Agency Contacts Fax: (703) 741-7804 Addressed to: DARPA/IPTO, BAA 05-51 Electronic Mail: [email protected] Electronic File Retrieval: http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/solicitations.htm Mail to: DARPA/IPTO ATTN: BAA 05-51 3701 N. Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22203-1714Please note that in the second paragraph of the PIP PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION section, references to "51" have been changed to "xx" to correct a word processing error. The paragraph now reads correctly, as follows: The AC program seeks to develop a software execution infrastructure for existing COTS programs. This infrastructure will monitor and augment COTS application behavior so multiple active copies of application X running under the infrastructure behave as a self-aware Application-X-Community that: 1) collaboratively diagnoses problems (attacks/bugs/errors), 2) collaboratively responds to problems by generating appropriate configuration changes, patches, filters, etc., and 3) collaboratively generates a community-specific situation awareness gauge that predicts likelihood and timing of imminent problems. Potential formulations for success metrics are: 1) for collaborative diagnosis: xx% accurate problem identification, localization, and diagnosis in xx minutes; 2) for collaborative response: generate effective patches/filters in xx minutes and prevent xx% of harmful patch/filter side effects; and 3) for situational awareness: predict likelihood and timing of problems with xx% accuracy and provide both a local and community-wide measure of risk. In lieu of providing complete program success metrics up front, the AC program requests that AC researchers propose success metrics and the resources and time needed to achieve them. AC researchers are encouraged to provide several alternatives making rational tradeoffs between research ambition and project length. AC researchers should also identify where commercial investment in products and services is justified, in the event the proposed metrics are achieved. The AC program seeks a small number of teams where each team covers all the technical areas and must include an integrator that can bring the resulting technology to market if the research is successful. The program will test the hypothesis that a collaborative reliability and defense system for black-box COTS applications can be made mostly automatic and that application communities encompassing a greater diversity of users and environments are more resilient in the face of unanticipated errors and attacks.
Federal Grant Title: Application Communities (AC)
Federal Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Grant Categories: Science and Technology
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: BAA05-51
Type of Funding: Cooperative Agreement Grant Other Procurement Contract
CFDA Numbers: 12.910
CFDA Descriptions: Research and Technology Development
Current Application Deadline: No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline: Sep 05, 2006
Posted Date: Sep 14, 2005
Creation Date: Jun 28, 2006
Archive Date: Oct 05, 2006
Total Program Funding:
Maximum Federal Grant Award:
Minimum Federal Grant Award:
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Link to Full Grant Announcement
Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact
Coordinator, IPTO BAA, IPTO BAA Coordinator, Phone 000-000-0000, Fax 703-741-7804, Email [email protected] [email protected] Coordinator, IPTO BAA
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