AMENDMENT #1 updates areas of interest AMENDMENT #2 Extends the Reponse Date to September 27, 2021 Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Needs Statement The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) will conduct a Solutions Meeting on behalf of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Transformational Capabilities Office (AFRL/TCO) in Late Fall 2021, which will be conducted virtually. The meeting will provide selected innovative companies with an opportunity to make short technical presentations to government representatives about their technologies and products. There is a potential for companies to be selected for pilot projects or experimentation if their technology appears to match the needs below. The National Defense Strategy describes an environment characterized by the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition of nation-states that seek to shape the world consistent with their ideologies. The reappearance of old and entrance of new rivals is largely driven by access to commercial technologies and advanced technological developments that weren’t previously available during the Cold War – giving our competitors a lower barrier of entry in many different domains. To mitigate these risks, the DoD is looking to build a more agile force that is strategically predictable, but operationally unpredictable. This includes investments to develop resilient and survivable information ecosystems and the ability to transition from large, monolithic infrastructures to redundant, dispersed and resilient capabilities managed by a legion of small, cooperating, high-powered and geographically distributed teams. While individual team members are diverse and highly skilled, they may not have sufficient training or expertise to initially pick up the reigns at the tactical edge and immediately fill-in for their operational counterparts. In addition, while local teammates clearly know their own potential, they may not know the location or operational proficiencies of remote collaborators – so, they need to discover and exploit those relationships despite intermittent and contested communications and potential loss of enterprise services. Consequently, AFRL/TCO is looking for technologies in the following areas that promote, utilize, or enable innovative solutions to enable agile execution of distributed decision makers that traditionally conduct operations at hierarchically fixed nodes linked by static communications pathways: Human-Human Teaming Work-team coordination Support technology for team activities including analysis, plans, tasks and presentations. Resilient communications in denied/degraded environments Work aids that enable reliance between individuals across heterogeneous teams AI-Enabled Planning Automated decision aids for planning execution and assessment of complex tasks Coordination of planning processes between physically distributed teams including in degraded communications environments Analysis of plan execution status. Workflow Models and Automated Systems Deployment Workflow modelling technologies Software management tools to facilitate deployment and management of services. Software applications for visualization of complex architectures Flexible Hybrid-cloud technologies Companies interested in participating in the Solutions Meeting should submit one (1) application to RRTO Innovation via email to
[email protected]. Only one application is permitted per company, NOT one application per topic area or company business unit. The following information is required in the application. All application information should only be contained in the body of the email. No attachments are allowed. Email subject line “Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Warfighter Application” Company name Website address POC, email, phone number and alternate POC if desired A succinct single paragraph description (100 words or less in length and no bullets) of the technology that the company plans to discuss if they are selected to present at the Solutions Meeting. This description must focus on the technology and the envisioned use of that technology, and not a description of the company. Select the one technology area of the three bolded technology areas above that your technology BEST fits. Do not list multiple technology areas. All applications must be received on or before 5:00 PM EDT, September 27, 2021. Submission of an application does not guarantee an invitation to the Solutions Meeting . Selected companies are responsible for their travel and all other expenses associated with participation in the Resilient Technologies for Distributed Decision-Making Teams (RDDT) Warfighter Solutions Meeting.