Co-Written By Ms Dorothy Slovak
On October 25, 2000, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that the Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and the Combating
Terrorism Technology Support Office Technical Support Working Group are jointly
sponsoring a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking assistance in fighting
terrorism. The Pentagon is looking for concepts that can be developed into
full-scale contracts. There are four general requirements in the BAA: 1)
Combating Terrorism; 2) Location and Defeat of Hard or Difficult Targets; 3)
Protracted Operations in Remote Locations; and 4) Countermeasures to Weapons of
Mass Destruction. Each requirement further defines specific areas of expertise
being sought, including, among others, computer and information operations;
image and voice recognition; physical security; advanced distributed learning;
early warning capability; and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
countermeasures.
