United States - NGA - Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Science & Technology Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-ST BAA)

Description

View Changes The Boosting Innovative GEOINT-Science and Technology (BIG-ST) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) invites proposers to submit innovative concepts to address hard GEOINT problems that align to one or more of the following technical domains:
(1) Foundational GEOINT,
(2) Advanced Phenomenologies, and
(3) Analytic Technologies.

BAA Process and Topic Call Publication:
The BIG-ST BAA is a general announcement of NGA’s research interest, including criteria for selecting proposals and soliciting the participation of all offerors capable of satisfying the Government’s needs.
The requests for abstracts and/or proposals are transmitted via Topic Calls that are published separately under the BIG-ST BAA general solicitation at various times during the open period of the general solicitation. Topic Calls will be published via updates of the BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation site on Sam.gov and Grants.gov (Opportunity ID:351404). Interested parties should periodically check these websites for updates.
No submissions shall be accepted to the general solicitation; abstracts and proposals will only be reviewed in response to Topic Calls.  Please refer to the Topic Calls for Abstract and Proposal due dates. 
The BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation, HM047623BAA0001, is posted and applies to Topic 1 and forward.  See Attachments/Links.

Active Topics:
Topic 1 - Geospatial-Intelligence Foundational Model (GFM) is active.

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Topic 01:   'Geospatial-Intelligence Foundational Model' (GFM) initially published on 12/15/2023. Revision 1 published on 01/24/2024. See Attachments/Links.
Important update:
Topic 01 Revision 1 was published on 01/24/2024; the revision includes the Q&A;

Corrected number formatting of Sections 3 & 4
Budget: section was updated
Dates: schedule was updated
Section 2 was updated
Section 3.5 - Outside the Scope of this Topic was updated
Section 4 - Performance Metrics was updated
Section 8.2 - Uncleared Personnel Security Requirements was updated
Appendix 2 – Questions & Answers (Q&A) was added

Abstract and Proposal due dates are extended:
Abstracts Due on 02/02/2024 @ 5:00pm ET
Proposals Due on 03/22/2024 @ 5:00pm ET (Note: Proposers who do not submit an abstract are ineligible to submit a proposal.)
Contact Email for Topic 01: Unclassified: BIGSTBAA@nga.mil (Email Subject: ‘TOPIC 01 – GFM’)
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General Solicitation, Appendix 1 & 2 were updated. See Attachments/Links: 
Appendix 1 was updated to 
-change the header, 
-add instructions that list of acronyms is allowed outside of the page count, and 
-change the margins to 1 inch to match the instructions in the document.
-01/24/2024: Appendix 1 headline was updated (because the old template included an incorrect reference to the BIG-R BAA)
Appendix 2 was updated to 
-add instructions that list of acronyms is allowed outside of the page count
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Opportunity closing date

14 December 2026

Value of contract

to be confirmed