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Re: [ontolog-forum] DARPA BAA: Urban Reasoning and Geospatial Exp loitat

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From: Rex Brooks <rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:58:10 -0800
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Thanks Terry,    (01)

I almost certainly will develop a proposal, since it falls right into 
an entire set of efforts I have underway with a collaboratory of 
small businesses and consultants.    (02)

Cheers,
Rex    (03)

>Rex, the meeting is tomorrow from 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM EST so I don't have
>enough time talk with Todd for this to happen tomorrow.
>
>When I see Todd I will discuss this and try to get an answer for future
>DARPA events of this type.  I am sure DARPA and stakeholders want as many
>good ideas/proposals as they can get.
>
>Of course you can still submit proposals when the BAA is released without
>attending the briefing tomorrow.
>
>Regards, TJ
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Terry Janssen, Ph.D.
>NGA/Innovision/IB Basic & Applied Research
>and Lockheed Martin Chief Technologist of ST
>Office 703-735-2637
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>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] DARPA BAA: Urban Reasoning and Geospatial
>Exploitation Technolog y (URGENT) Program
>
>Hi Terry,
>
>I would like to pass a suggestion along to Todd, if you get the chance to
>speak with him. It would be much appreciated by those of us who can't attend
>in person if the briefing itself had a teleconference line and better yet if
>it included web conference such as the Ontolog Forum provides through
>cost-free VNC.
>
>I understand that this is standard DARPA and FBO policy, so I am not holding
>my breath, but I think that when the fact that the cost is not a budget
>buster, it should get a fair hearing.
>
>Thanks,
>Rex
>
>At 4:47 PM -0500 1/25/07, Janssen, Terry L. [C] wrote:
>>DARPA ANNOUNCEMENT
>>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Information
>>Exploitation Office (IXO), announces a Briefing to Industry (BTI)
>>associated with the intended release of Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
>>07-13, the Urban Reasoning and Geospatial Exploitation Technology (URGENT)
>Program.
>>The purpose of the BTI is to outline the URGENT Program technical goals
>>and problems to potential Proposers.  All presented materials will be
>>made available via Internet when the BAA 07-13 is published, along with
>>a FAQ including all questions and answers.  The BTI is scheduled for
>>Thursday, 1 February 2007, and will be held in Arlington, VA, from 8:30 AM
>to 2:00 PM.
>>Detailed information about the BTI may be found at:
>>http://www.schafertmd.com/URGENT2007. A no-cost, pre-registration for
>>the BAA 07-13 BTI is required.  A list of attendees, including name,
>>organization, phone number, and (optionally) specific teaming interest
>>will be posted at that URL.  The deadline for the BTI pre-registration
>>is 25 January 2007.  The full BAA 07-13 solicitation is anticipated to be
>released
>>on or about 24 January 2007 through FedBizOpps.     Attendance is not
>>required to propose to the BAA 07-13. Similarly, attendance will have
>>no direct bearing on proposal evaluations.
>>
>>The URGENT program will develop techniques for the rapid exploitation
>>of EO and LIDAR sensor data at the city scale (100s square kilometers)
>>to recognize urban objects down to the soldier scale (<1 cubic meters). 
>>URGENT will apply image processing technology to geospatially
>>registered 2D/3D data collected from airborne and terrestrial sources,
>>yielding precise annotations for the objects in an urban area. 
>>Traditional pattern recognition systems, biologically inspired computer
>>vision technology, and machine learning algorithms are among the
>>approaches of interest to the URGENT program.  The URGENT goal is to
>>achieve a 100x increase in analyst productivity with equal or better
>>accuracy compared to the unassisted human image analyst.
>>
>>Todd Hughes, Ph.D.
>  >Program Manager
>>DARPA/IXO
>>571.218.4984
>>
>>DARPATech  |  August 7-9, 2007  |  Anaheim, California On-line
>>registration opens April 9, 2007 www.darpa.mil
>>
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>Starbourne Communications Design
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Berkeley, CA 94702
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