National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Boosting Innovative GEOINT Research Broad Agency Announcement (NGA BIG-R BAA)

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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Boosting Innovative GEOINT Research Broad Agency Announcement (NGA BIG-R BAA): NGA welcomes all innovative ideas for path-breaking research that may advance the GEOINT mission. The mission of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Research Directorate is to deliver future Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) capabilities to users for operational impact. NGA Research supports the National Security Strategy by solving hard defense and intelligence problems for the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. GEOINT is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. GEOINT consists of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information. NGA offers a variety of critical GEOINT products in support of U.S. national security objectives and Federal disaster relief, including aeronautical, geodesy, hydrographic, imagery, geospatial and topographical information. The Boosting Innovative GEOINT-Research Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-R BAA) invites proposers to submit innovative basic and applied research and development concepts that address one or more of the following technical domains: (1) Foundational GEOINT, (2) Advanced Phenomenologies, and (3) Analytic Technologies. It is NGA's intent to solicit basic and applied research under this BAA. NGA seeks proposals from qualified proposers for path-breaking GEOINT research in areas of potential interest to NGA.Amendment 0002 - Revision 2 (03 SEP 2020) to the BIGR BAA solicitation is posted to revise several sections. Revisions are in red text.TOPIC 1 - Revision 3 (02 SEP 2020) to Topic 1 Modeling the Path to COVID-19 is posted to change proposal due date to 16 September 2020.TOPIC 2 - Revision 1 (03 SEP 2020) to Topic 2 Transforming Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Utilization with Automated Target Detection (TSARA) is posted with the Q&As.TOPIC 2 - Revision 2 (23 SEP 2020) to Topic 2 TSARA is posted.TOPIC 2, Revision 3, 13 OCT 2020, TSARA SAR Questions/Answers is posted.