Surveillance, Collection, and Operations Support (SCOS)

5.8 Surveillance, Collection, and Operations Support (SCOS)

Develop new or improved capabilities focused on Human Language Technologies and Media Exploitation. Capabilities should respond to the emerging needs for advanced Human Language Technologies solutions in the operational environment including data exploitation/analysis of information in languages other than English at the strategic and tactical levels. New approaches to content tracking, understanding and exploitation of multisource (speech, video, images, and text), multi-genre (formal and informal content), and multilingual data (one or more foreign and internet speak content) in order to increase actionable intelligence at all levels of operational mission will also be considered.

Develop a remote light flash capability that will momentarily activate photoreceptors in the eye, thus making vision impossible for at least five (5) seconds.

Develop a ruggedized biometric system that captures cardiological signature to identify individuals positively at a distance of at least 200 meters. The system shall acquire a unique cardiological signature from a subject’s upper torso area. The system shall capture a subject’s data surreptitiously at a distance in less than 60 seconds, save and analyze the data on site to enroll and subsequently perform biometric identification.

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  Create software and algorithms that rapidly store, analyze, and compare cardiological signals obtained by the system at a distance of at least 200 meters and within five seconds;
  
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  Produce a ruggedized, lightweight, man-portable system;
  
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  Derive a unique cardiological signature from the cardiological type data that can identify and exclude individuals;
  
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  Acquire data from one of seven different sites (left carotid, right carotid, left front shoulder, front center chest, right front shoulder, left rear shoulder, and right rear shoulder) on the target over at least three layers of clothing;
  
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  Operate on battery power for at least eight hours;
  
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  Operate in harsh tactical environments encountered by United States military forces and law enforcement personnel. System shall maintain functionality between temperatures of -40 °C to 50 °C.
  

Develop new or improved technologies pertaining to non-standard, secure communications. Specific area of interest include:

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  Initial capability of 90 MHz to 520 MHz AM/FM Voice with cipher text/commercial encryption Threshold Cipher text capable with Type-1 encryption is Objective.
  
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  Ground-to-Ground
  

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  Urbanized Environment (Minimal building obstructions): Threshold = 0.5 miles; Objective = 0.75 miles.
  
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  Rural Environment (Minimal vegetation obstructions): Threshold = 2 miles; Objective = 3 miles.
  
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  Unobstructed Line-of-Sight (No building or vegetation obstructions): Threshold = 5 miles; Objective = 7 miles.
  

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  Ground-to-Air
  

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  Unobstructed Line-of-Sight: Threshold = 15 miles; Objective = 20 miles.
  

Develop new or improved technologies pertaining to non-standard, secure communications. Specific area of interest:

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  Processing of classified data over a smart phone;
  
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  Transfer of classified data over commercial cell/Wi-Fi networks;
  
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  Encrypted data at rest in a commercial form factor;
  
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  Physical appearance that is innocuous and shall stand-up to a cursory search;
  
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  Packet traffic not attributable to USG but may still look encrypted; and
  
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  Base station component to provide Common Operator Picture (COP)/Command and Control (C2) from higher HQ and may be used to facilitate transfer to/from Secret Government networks.
  

Conduct a study to better understand the use of Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) systems within biometric software and/or hardware applications. All biometric modalities are of interest, but emphasis should be placed on fingerprint, iris, and face modalities. The study shall report current technologies, what technologies will exist in two (2) to five (5) years, and what technologies are anticipated in the next six (6) to ten (10) years. The study shall include, at the minimum, the following information:

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  List of all relevant biometric companies and academia that develop software- and/or hardware-based anti-spoofing mechanisms as they pertain to private and public applications;
  
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  List of the countries where anti-spoofing mechanisms are being used and/or scheduled to deploy;
  
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  Address the gaps (if any) between what relevant biometric companies are declaring the technology can perform and actual capabilities;
  
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  Types of materials and/or methods that are used to train and/or defeat anti-spoofing technologies;
  
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  Advantages and disadvantages of various anti-spoofing technologies;
  
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  Motives behind developing or implementing Liveness Detection for Fingerprint (LivDet-FP) mechanisms (i.e., for access control, for identification, for security) within biometric devices.
  

Cyber platforms and training for integrated solutions that fuse/exploit a variety of data sources, tools, and models (including socio-cultural dynamic models) into advanced counterinsurgency and domestic combating terrorism systems usable by interagency and coalition operational communities at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. This can include near real-time integrated analytical and knowledge management systems that utilize a variety of sensors, devices, and architectures that address a variety of threats and scenarios.

Any cutting-edge technologies or capabilities within the Surveillance, Collections, and Operations Support Focus Areas which a vendor believes would interest CTTSO. Focus areas include: Technical Surveillance and Special Communications; Cyber Operational Preparation of the Environment; Biometrics, Recognition, Identity Intelligence, Tracking, and Exploitation (BRITE); Canine Advanced Technologies (CAT); Counter-Surveillance Support; Human Language Technologies. Classified submissions are invited per BAA instructions.