United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) will host the FY06 Focused Forum #1 on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 (8:30 - 11:30 AM). Focused Forums provide the command an opportunity to disseminate joint capability focus areas information to industry, academia, and government agencies to discover innovative solutions for a specific operational issue. This forum will address the capability focus area of Visualization Technologies. Primary objectives for the upcoming forum include:• Terrain visualization capabilities, including time-tagged data visualization, geo-referenced and geo-tagged data visualization, and comprehensive map and data overlays. • Enhanced battle space visualization in mission rehearsal tools. • Enhanced capability to interface with and display information on virtual and constructive forces to live forces and command elements participating in joint training events and programs. The USJFCOM Focused Forums enables the command to disseminate information on joint capability developments, and following the forum, permits industry and other interested communities to provide relevant contributions. The forum meeting will be held at the Chesapeake Conference Center, 900 Greenbrier Circle, Chesapeake, Virginia, (http://www.chesapeakeconference.com/). This event is free to the public and seating is limited on a first come basis. Please indicate your interest in attending by contacting USJFCOM through the website at: http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink and look for the article on the upcoming forum. You will be directed to a registration site for this event. Approximately six weeks later on Wednesday, 25 January 2006, USJFCOM will provide forum attendees the opportunity to demonstrate potential solutions to capability needs presented at the Focused Forum. This trial pilot demonstration program will provide both USJFCOM, industrial and academic developers an immediate window of opportunity to rapidly demonstrate potential solutions. Any forum attendee interested in performing a demonstration must submit a 1-3 page abstract discussing the capability they wish to demonstrate. From these submissions, USJFCOM will select the demonstrations desired for review. Deadline for submission is 13 Jan 06. Companies will be notified for participation by 18 Jan 06. Each demonstration will be conducted before a panel of USJFCOM subject matter experts and will last 30-min followed by a 15 min question and answer period. In the event the number of parties requesting demonstrations exceed the number of slots available: 1) USJFCOM will select demonstrations based on a review of the abstract submitted. 2) Additional demonstration may be scheduled at a later date. The demonstration pilot program will be held at USJFCOM (Suffolk Complex), 116 Lakeview Parkway, Suffolk, VA 23435. This event is free. Please indicate your interest following a Focused Forum by submitting your abstract to USJFCOM through the Tech Transfer e-mail account at:
[email protected] Disclaimer: An invitation to demonstrate is neither a Request for Proposal or an Invitation for Bid. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the government to form a bidding contract. There cannot be any claims reared against the government as a result of any information submitted or demonstrated by respondents. Focus Forum #2 will be held 16 February, 2006, Topic: Database Integration. POC: CAPT Ray Rodriguez, SC, USN USJFCOM Business Management Officer, Code J02BM; Phone: 757-836-5561