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13 June 2007
[Federal Register: June 12, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 112)]
[Notices]
[Page 32300-32302]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[USCG-2007-27657]
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement: Command Center
Decision Support Tools and Concept of Operations
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of intent; request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces its intent to enter into a
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Raytheon
Corporation's Mission Innovation Group, to identify and investigate,
via currently available modeling and simulation techniques, the
potential of conceptual Next Generation, Command Center Decision
Support Tools and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for enhancing maritime
security. The Coast Guard invites public comment on the proposed CRADA
and also invites other non-Federal participants, who have the interest
and capability to bring similar in-kind contributions to this type of
research, to be considered for entry into similar CRADAs.
DATES: Comments and related material on the proposed CRADA, and
preliminary inquiries about participation in CRADAs, must reach the
Docket Management Facility on or before July 12, 2007. Proposals from
other potential, non-Federal CRADA participants must reach the Docket
Management Facility on or before December 10, 2007.
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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket
number USCG-2007-27657 to the Docket Management Facility at the U.S.
Department of Transportation. To avoid duplication, please use only one
of the following methods:
(1) Web Site: http://dms.dot.gov.
(2) Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor W12-140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
(3) Fax: 202-493-2251.
(4) Delivery: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor W12-140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone number is 202-
366-9329.
Potential, non-Federal CRADA participants may submit inquiries and
CRADA proposals to James W. Gynther, U.S. Coast Guard Research and
Development Center, 1082 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340-6048 (e-
mail: James.W.Gynther@uscg.mil).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
contact James W. Gynther, U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development
Center, 1082 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340-6048, telephone 860-
441-2858, e-mail: James.W.Gynther@uscg.mil. If you have questions on
viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright,
Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
All comments received will be posted, without change, to http://dms.dot.gov
and will include any personal information you have
provided. We have an agreement with the Department of Transportation
(DOT) to use the Docket Management Facility. Please see DOT's ``Privacy
Act'' paragraph below.
Submitting comments: If you submit a comment, please include your
name and address, identify the docket number for this notice (USCG-
2007-27657) and give the reason for each comment. You may submit your
comments by electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery to the Docket
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please submit
your comments by only one means. If you submit them by mail or
delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 8 by 11
inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing. If you submit them
by mail and would like to know that they reached the Docket Management
Facility, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard or
envelope. We will consider all comments received during the comment
period.
Viewing comments and documents: To view comments, go to http://dms.dot.gov
at any time, click on ``Simple Search,'' enter the last
five digits of the docket number for this notice, and click on
``Search.'' You may also visit the Docket Management Facility, West
Building Ground Floor W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington,
DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the
Department of Transportation's Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit
http://dms.dot.gov.
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, or CRADAs, are
authorized by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-
502, codified at 15 U.S.C. 3710a). A CRADA promotes the transfer of
technology to the private sector for commercial use as well as
specified research or development efforts that are consistent with the
mission of the Federal parties to the CRADA. The Federal party or
parties agree with one or more non-Federal parties to share research
resources (but the Federal party does not contribute funding). The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as an executive agency under 5
U.S.C. 105, is a Federal agency for purposes of 15 U.S.C. 3710a and may
enter into a CRADA. DHS delegated its authority to the Commandant of
the Coast Guard (see DHS Delegation No. 0160.1, para. 2.B(34)) and the
Commandant has delegated his authority to the Coast Guard Research and
Development Center.
CRADAs are not procurement contracts. Care is taken to ensure that
CRADAs are not used to circumvent the contracting process. This
typically includes advertisement in the Federal Register to give all
potential CRADA partners opportunity to participate, remove any
appearance of favoritism, and limit the risk of future litigation by
non-CRADA partners. CRADAs have a specific purpose and should not be
confused with other types of agreements such as procurement contracts,
grants, and cooperative agreements.
Goal of Proposed CRADA
Under the proposed agreement, the Coast Guard's Research and
Development Center (USCG R&DC) would collaborate with non-Federal
participants. Together, the R&DC and its CRADA participants would
identify and investigate, via currently available modeling and
simulation techniques, the potential of conceptual Next Generation,
Command Center Decision Support Tools and CONOPS to enhance maritime
security. This joint research would also provide additional
understanding of the processes and support tools within USCG and other
command centers, which have the responsibility to detect, assess, and
interdict maritime threats within the coastal waters of a sovereign
state.
The R&DC, with its CRADA participants, will create and employ a
structured and collaborative test environment to evaluate concepts and
technologies for Next Generation Command Center Decision Support Tools.
Party Contributions
We anticipate that the Coast Guard's contributions under the
proposed CRADA will include the following:
(1) Provide candidate Command Center Decision Support Tool
Concepts;
(2) Provide Command Center personnel to serve as (a) Subject Matter
Experts during simulation environment and conceptual support tool
development and (b) Test Subjects during the concept evaluation
exercises; and
(3) Review of the CRADA partner's Draft Results Report after each
concept evaluation exercise.
We anticipate that the non-Federal participants' contributions
under the proposed CRADA will include the following:
(1) The provision of appropriate modeling and simulation
environment(s) for evaluating conceptual Next Generation, Command
Center Decision Support Tools;
(2) Development and execution of a modeling and simulation test
plan(s);
(3) Analysis of modeling and simulation results;
(4) Development of a Draft CRADA Results Report after each concept
evaluation exercise; and
(5) The provision to the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development
Center of all Final CRADA Results
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Reports in electronic format suitable for distribution to other
interested, qualified parties upon request.
Selection Criteria
The Coast Guard reserves the right to select for CRADA participants
all, some, or none of the proposals in response to this notice. The
Coast Guard will provide no funding for reimbursement of proposal
development costs. Proposals (or any other material) submitted in
response to this notice will not be returned. Proposals submitted are
expected to be unclassified and have no more than four single-sided
pages (excluding cover page and resumes). The Coast Guard will select
proposals at its sole discretion on the basis of:
(1) How well they communicate an understanding of, and ability to
meet, the proposed CRADA's goal; and
(2) How well they address the following criteria:
(a) Technical capability to support the non-Federal party
contributions described; and
(b) Resources available for supporting the non-Federal party
contributions described.
This is a technology transfer/development effort. Presently, the
Coast Guard has no plan to procure the Next Generation, Command Center
Decision Support technology being investigated under this CRADA. Since
the goal of this CRADA is ``to identify and investigate the potential
of conceptual Next Generation, Command Center Decision Support Tools,''
and not to set future CG acquisition requirements for same, non-Federal
CRADA partners will not be excluded from any future CG procurements
based solely on their participation within this CRADA.
Special consideration will be given to small business firms/
consortia, and preference will be given to business units located in
the U.S.
Dated: May 29, 2007.
T.W. Jones,
CAPT, USCG, Commanding Officer, R&D Center.
[FR Doc. E7-11257 Filed 6-11-07; 8:45 am]
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