Resilient Command and Control Industry Day

DARPA-SN-10-53 DARPA/IPTO Resilient Command and Control (RC2) Industry Day – June 24, 2010 Chantilly, VA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will conduct a briefing in support of the anticipated RC2 program Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). This announcement is issued solely for information and program planning purposes. When released, the BAA will be found on the Federal Business Opportunities website, http://www.fedbizopps.gov. This Industry Day is classified SECRET and therefore attendance is limited to individuals with US DOD SECRET clearances or higher. Attendance at the Industry Day is voluntary and is not required to propose to subsequent Broad Agency Announcements (if any) or research solicitations (if any) on this topic. The Industry Day does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals or abstracts. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. DARPA will not provide reimbursement for costs incurred to participate in this Industry Day. Interested parties to this notice are cautioned that nothing herein obligates the Government to issue a solicitation. BACKGROUND Historically, superior C2 training and systems have enabled the United States military to maintain information dominance over potential adversaries. Over the past few decades, US military operations have become dependent on an increasingly complex network of C2 systems. These systems include an array of intelligence (including sensor), communication, and information processing systems that are used to collect, transmit, and process information to support situation awareness and decision making, and then promulgate the Commander’s intent and operational decisions. The more distributed and/or joint the operations, the more disparate these systems are and the more likely they are to include nonorganic assets (i.e., assets that are not under the control of the organizations that rely...