: Added: Nov 18, 2014 10:08 am
Request for Information (RFI): Maritime Tagging, Tracking, & Locating (TTL)Synopsis
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) often selects its research efforts through the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process. This request for information (RFI) is intended to provide information relevant to a possible future IARPA program, so that feedback from potential participants can be considered prior to the issuance of a BAA.Background & Scope
IARPA is soliciting ideas for technologies to remotely tag, track, and locate foreign ships at sea. A more detailed description of this challenge can be obtained in a classified RFI description available through IARPA security.Finding needle in a haystack: IARPA searches for ways to find and track foreign ships at sea
WASHINGTON, 20 Nov. 2014. U.S. intelligence experts are trying come to grips with thorny issues like international arms smuggling, nuclear materials exchanges, and inter-continental illegal drug trafficking with one of today's most difficult surveillance challenges: finding and tracking foreign ships at sea.
It's the age-old problem of finding a needle in a haystack, writ large over the world's oceans that cover roughly three-quarters of the planet's surface -- a mind-boggling expanse that comprises about 139 million square miles and stretches ship-tracking capabilities to the limit.
It's a big job, to say the least, and government experts are asking for help from industry and academia to take on this challenge.
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