[Corpora-List] ARDA Exploratory Program Call for Workshop Proposals

From: David S. Day (day@linus.mitre.org)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 23:45:32 MET

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           ARDA Exploratory Program Seeking Workshop Proposals
                       http://rrc.mitre.org/

                [Apologies for duplicate postings.]

    The ARDA Exploratory Program (EP) requests Challenge and Seedling
    Workshop Proposals to address Challenge Problems for the fiscal year
    2006. The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) is a US
    Government organization whose mission is to sponsor high-risk,
    high-payoff research designed to advance basic research, leverage
    leading edge technology, and enable supporting data to solve critical
    intelligence problems. The EP encourages novel approaches,
    non-traditional government contractors, and new cross-organizational
    teams to help solve Challenge Problems using collaborative workshops.

    For 2006 the Exploratory Program invites proposals in the following
    technical areas:

       Video Analysis
       Advanced Question and Answering
       Advanced Methods and Tools for Intelligence Analysis
       Computational Social Science/Social Informatics
       Advanced Information Assurance
       Next Generation Geospatial Analysis

    For more information about these technical areas, please review the
    full Call for Proposals, which is available at the Regional Research
    Center's web site: http://rrc.mitre.org/cfp06.shtml

    "Challenge Problems" have two objectives: (1) to initiate
    revolutionary R&D addressing critical Intelligence Community needs
    and/or (2) to accelerate critical R&D to real solutions, prototypes or
    first proofs-of-principle. Workshops that address Challenge Problems
    may be of two types: Challenge and Seedling (see below). Workshops
    may support existing ARDA programs or explore new areas of research
    and possibly result in creation of new ARDA programs. These workshops
    typically consist of eight to twenty or more domain experts,
    scientists and technologists, who assemble for multiple meetings to
    collaboratively address the identified challenge problem. Results of
    these workshops typically include annotated data, technical papers
    describing new approaches, novel algorithms, prototype software,
    prototype systems, and definitive roadmaps forward for future
    research.

    Note: Some problems are not well suited to the teaming Workshop
    format. It is imperative that proposals address technical challenges
    whose solutions require a collaborative workshop environment. It is
    also imperative that proposals are cognizant of, and build beyond,
    preceding core developments.

    Challenge Workshops

    Challenge Workshops address (1) revolutionary research critical to the
    IC and (2) accelerate development to produce real solutions,
    prototypes, first proofs-of-principle and demonstrations. Challenge
    Workshops are 12-18 month ($1M to 1.5M) efforts, and usually support
    existing EP efforts. The objective of these workshops is a tangible
    prototype, or first proof-of-principle. They typically bring together
    moderate sized teams to develop, evaluate and integrate new and
    complementary approaches toward an ultimate goal of a prototype or
    demonstration. Examples of Challenge workshops are diverse, and
    include knowledge management interoperability, analyst tools for text
    and video processing, quantum optics and physical devices, and
    systems.

    Seedling Workshops

    Seedling Workshops, by comparison, may explore new areas outside of
    the existing ARDA program areas and are funded at the $100K to $500K
    level for a 6 - 12 month period. Seedling Workshops are short term,
    novel investigations that might result in future Challenge Workshops
    or new ARDA programs. Like Challenge Workshops, Seedling Workshops
    may also result in development to produce real solutions, prototypes,
    first proofs-of-principle and demonstrations.

    Please visit the ARDA Exploratory Program web site at
    http://rrc.mitre.org/ to learn more about the technical areas in which
    Workshop proposals are being sought, as well as submission procedures
    and schedules, and other related information.

         Schedule for ARDA EP 2006 Call for Workshop Proposals

    February, 2005: Call for Challenge/Seedling Workshop proposals issued

       11 March 2005: Written proposals are due -- follow the web-based
                      submission instructions available at
                      http://conferences.mitre.org/rrc2006/

        1 April 2005: Written proposals selected for oral presentation

       14 April 2005: Oral proposals are due -- follow the web-based
                      submission instructions for oral presentations
                      available at http://conferences.mitre.org/rrc2006/

    20-21 April 2005: Oral proposals presented (MITRE, McLean, VA)

          1 May 2005: Notification of selected Workshops

            May 2005: Challenge and Seedling Workshop Proposal refinement
                      with Government and RRCs (final tasking, membership,
                      costing)

          1 Oct 2005: Main workshop activities commence

         31 Dec 2006: All workshop activities have completed

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    Dr. Rich Quadrel
    Director, Northwest Regional Research Center (NWRRC)
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
    P.O. Box 999, MS K7-10
    Richland, WA 99352
    Email: Rich.Quadrel@pnl.gov
    Tel: 509-375-5933

    Ms. April Lewis
    Deputy Director, Southeast Regional Research Center (SERRC)
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ONRL)
    1 Bethel Valley Road
    P.O. Box 2008
    Oak Ridge, TN 37831
    Email: lewisaa@ornl.gov
    Tel: (865) 576-2045

    Dr. Mark Maybury
    Executive Director, Northeast Regional Research Center (NRRC)
    The MITRE Corporation
    Bedford, MA 01730
    Email: maybury@mitre.org
    Tel: (781) 271-7230
    MITRE (www.mitre.org)

    Ms. Penny Chase
    Deputy Director, NRRC
    The MITRE Corporation
    Bedford, MA 01730
    Email: pc@mitre.org
    Tel: (781) 271-2113

    Dr. David Day
    Program Manager, NRRC
    The MITRE Corporation
    Bedford, MA 01730
    Email: day@mitre.org
    Tel: (781) 271-2854



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