THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for information and market research and planning purposes. This RFI shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government. This is NOT a Request for Quotations or Proposals (RFQ or RFP). No solicitation document exists, and the Government may or may not issue formal solicitation as a result of any information received in response to this RFI. The Government will not pay for any response or demonstration expenses. All costs incurred responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party's expense. Failure to respond to this RFI will not preclude participation in any future solicitation. In accordance with Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul (RFO) FAR 15.101(c), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine that organization's capabilities. The Government's explicit intent through this RFI is to obtain general product/service information. The Government is not requesting and does not want to receive from respondents any proprietary data, trade secrets, business sensitive information, or information considered CONFIDENTIAL under 18 U.S.C. §1905. The Government's constraint does not in any way relieve contractors from their responsibility to properly mark proprietary data when it is provided, nor does it alleviate any requirement for the Government to protect marked data. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. All submissions become the property of the Federal Government and will not be returned. I. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Office of National Laboratories (ONL) Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL), with its staff of federal employees and contractors, including physicists, chemists, engineers, and mathematicians, is internationally recognized for its unique ability to advance detection technology from conception to deployment through applied research, test and evaluation, assessment, and certification testing. TSL is seeking information for a programming and numeric computing software platform that can analyze data, perform mathematical operations, develop algorithms, create models, and conduct simulations. In addition to these licenses, TSL needs corresponding software service and maintenance, periodic software updates (for instance, regarding features provided by toolboxes), and access to helpdesk support for this software. These software licenses a…