Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) - Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)view on SAM.gov

Updated Attachment to add Army Research Risk Assessment Program (g) to Criteria for Selection under Review and Selection Process (2) on page 32. See attached BAA for full details. Updated Attachment to reflect the new submissions email address. The email is changed from ai2c_baa_submissions@army.mil to usarmy.pittsburgh-pa.futures-cmd.mbx.ai2c-baa-submissions@army.mil. Updated Attachment to reflect a change to page 40, removing the incorrect HRPO and to highlight the email address for submissions, ai2c_baa_submissions@army.mil throughout the attachment. Updated Attachment to reflect title change from W52P1J-23-B-AI2C to W519TC-24-S-AI2C. See attached BAA for full details. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), for the Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), is issued under the provisions of paragraph 6.102(d)(2) and 35.016 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which provides for the acquisition of basic, applied, and advanced research and that part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement. This will be done through the competitive selection of proposals, and 10 U.S.C. 4001, 10 U.S.C. 4021, and 10 U.S.C. 4022, which provide the authorities for issuing awards under this announcement for basic, applied, and advanced research. Proposals submitted in response to this BAA and selected for award are considered to be the result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provisions of Public Law 98-369, "The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984" and subsequent amendments. The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) is seeking artificial intelligence research and development whitepapers and proposals in support of new technologies and translational research-based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of basic, applied, and advanced research. This BAA may be used to award FAR based instruments (e.g., procurement agreements) or instruments not subject to the FAR (e.g., grants, Cooperative Agreements, Technology Investment Agreements, and Other Transactions). Those instruments not subject to the FAR may be referred to as Assistance Agreements in this BAA. AI2C will consider a wide range of funding constructs which might include, but are not limited to, Government funding, cost sharing, in-kind labor or facility sharing by all parties, or any other allowable mechanism. Applicants may propose cost sharing approaches, but they are not required. AI2C envisions opportunities to engage in other types of collaboration agreements where no funds are exchanged, such as Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) which are negotiated separately from this BAA. To be eligible for an award under this announcement, a prospective awardee must meet certain minimum standards pertaining to financial resources and responsibility, ability to comply with the performance schedule, past performance, integrity, experience, techn…