The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is interested in receiving research and development proposals for the Director’s Innovation Initiative (DII) Program focusing on the areas of Increasing Spectral Diversity of NRO Systems, Eliminating Communications as a Constraint, Providing Agile Response to Changing Target Sets and Transforming Reconnaissance to Surveillance. This notice constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2) for private industry and educational institutions. This announcement declares the NRO’s intent to competitively fund research and development for innovative technologies that meet the focus areas set forth in the BAA. The BAA can be found on the DII Home Page accessible through the World Wide Web at http://dii.westfields.net on or around 2 June 2003. No other Request For Proposal, solicitation, or other announcement will be made. Readers must download from the web page all applicable information necessary to submit a proposal. Submission of proposals in response to this BAA is open to private industry and educational institutions, with no restrictions as to the size of the business. Awards shall take the form of contracts only. Before preparing a proposal, potential offerors should read the information provided in the BAA for details regarding the areas of interest, proposal format, proposal submission guidelines and proposal evaluation. It is expected that multiple awards will result from the proposals received, at a maximum funding level of approximately $350,000.00 with a nine (9) month period of performance. Proposals will not be returned after evaluation. Except as otherwise stated herein, no additional written information is available regarding this announcement. Requests for the same will be disregarded. The Government reserves the right to select all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to the BAA. M. Alexandra Clark, CONTRACTING OFFICER

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