The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) has issued an RFI to identify qualified vendors and gather input on potential solutions to support the ability of Allied Command Operations (ACO) to orchestrate ISR data procured or accessed on the unclassified network.

The Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) program represents NATO’s commitment to establish a persistent, federated space-based ISR capability through the Aquila virtual constellation, integrating national satellites, commercial providers, and publicly available data sources. As APSS transitions from Initial Operational Capability (IOC) toward Full Operational Capability (FOC), ACO requires a unified service to orchestrate collection tasking, manage data ingest, and ensure timely exploitation of ISR data on unclassified networks. NCIA seeks to provide collection managers within ACO with a capability to search, order, manage, process, view and task nationally, commercially, and publicly available Information on the unclassified network. The RFI seeks to elicit the view of industry partners on the scope of the envisioned services and facilitate NCIA’s insight into best-in-class industry solutions, including current market capabilities, and pricing models of services offered.

This RFI is issued for planning purposes only and is not a request for bids. It is part of NCIA’s effort to ensure it has a clear understanding of the marketplace, available capabilities, and potential acquisition strategies to deliver ACO capabilities as APSS moves towards FOC, supported through the Intel and ISR Functional Services Data Management Project.

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This combined experience from across the national security, technology and defense industries will further support Kraken’s accelerated growth and development. This includes a move to large-scale localized manufacturing in several key strategic regions including the U.S., broadening of key technological partnerships, accelerated development and roll-out of operationally hardened capabilities and expansion of bespoke programs for a growing U.S. customer base.

This move follows the successful completion of a series of national demonstrations directly to operator groups in the U.S. Kraken is currently on contract with a number of U.S. customers including U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Navy. Kraken will continue to develop and expand its position as an established market leader in the provision of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) to the U.S. Department of War and its NATO Allies, the company said.

“Kraken is focused on delivering high-quality transformational capabilities to NATO Allies and international partners. The credibility and expertise of our international advisors is unparalleled, and their involvement confirms and supports a rapidly growing adoption of Kraken capabilities on both sides of the Atlantic,” Mal Crease, CEO and founder of Kraken Technology Group, said. “Kraken has firmly established its presence across NATO Europe and is now focused on embedding and expanding these proven capabilities in support of the U.S. and its Allies. We are humbled to have such captains of industry on our team.”

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The contractor must build an updated and effective solution to receive existing commercial and specific internal feeds, perform the analysis and processing, and integrate to other existing cyber security systems to allow timely, accurate, and effective use of the intelligence.

Potential U.S. prime contractors must 1) maintain a professionally active facility (office, factory, laboratory, etc.) within the United States, 2) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB), 3) be issued a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE) by the Department of Commerce (DOC), and 4) register with NCIA’s eProcurement tool, Neo.

In addition, contractor personnel will be required to work unescorted in Class II Security areas. Therefore, access can only be permitted to cleared individuals. Only companies maintaining the appropriate personnel clearances will be able to perform the resulting contract. Implementation of the technical solution is also required on high side (NS).

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In this collaboration, Planet will provide NATO with a specialized platform solution that leverages its PlanetScope Broad Area Monitoring technology combined with advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) analytics to deliver NATO a unique solution for persistent space-based surveillance, enhanced early indicators and warnings, and Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) functions.

“The current geopolitical landscape underscores the critical need for rapid, comprehensive, and broad area intelligence expertise. As European nations enhance their defense capabilities, they’re seeking reliable, trusted partners who can deliver these specialties quickly and consistently – and Planet is uniquely equipped to meet this rapidly growing, global market demand,” said Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet. “Our growth with NATO showcases Planet’s unparalleled ability to provide the necessary scale and frequency of data collection that’s critical for daily, global intelligence. For over a decade Planet has centered global daily monitoring as our flagship product, and we now have the opportunity to solidify our market-leading role in empowering the Alliance to have the comprehensive situational awareness in its region that is critical during these pivotal times.”

This new AI-powered offering, combining Planet’s technology with partner capabilities, is a transformative leap in information-gathering – moving from reactive, target-centric surveillance to proactive, broad-area anomaly detection. This shift augments NATO’s Indications & Warning (I&W) capabilities, increases efficiency, and empowers strategic foresight across NATO’s areas of interest.

“Our partnership with Planet, harnessing their Broad Area Monitoring technology combined with AI and ML analytics, is a significant stride for NATO,” said Admiral Pierre Vandier, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. “It grants us persistent space-based surveillance, bolstering our enhanced early Indicators and Warnings and strengthening our Maritime Domain Awareness. This swift integration of Planet’s satellite data and insights, especially through the Smart Indications and Warning, Broad Area Detection (SINBAD) project, is vital for strengthening our global awareness and rapidly addressing complex security challenges at speed. This initiative reinforces NATO’s commitment to maintaining our technological edge, ensuring strategic advantage and cost-effectiveness, and directly enhancing deterrence, strengthening collective defense, and empowering our warfighters with real-time situational awareness.”

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Viasat’s advanced data-at-rest solution expands on legacy DAR encryption solutions, providing enhanced protection for classified data across multiple systems and platforms with hardware-based encryption and continued assurance for high-risk operations using a more flexible M.2 form factor. By using the industry standard Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) interface and common form factor M.2 2280, the DARC-ssd 600 will allow customers to integrate next-generation encryption with the latest commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and tactical military devices – laptops, tablets, desktops, and network-attached storage.

“As a trusted provider of cyber defense and information assurance solutions, we’ve seen the evolution of encryption technology and understand the growing challenge to protect sensitive and classified data across the many devices and platforms capturing data now used for government missions,” said Todd McDonell, president of Viasat International Government. “DARC-ssd 600 is designed with the flexibility to address this challenge and deliver significantly improved performance compared to past data-at-rest solutions, continuing Viasat’s legacy of innovating to provide hardware encryption solutions at the highest levels to protect classified and sensitive information.”

Expanding on Viasat’s family of Eclypt DAR encryption products, DARC-ssd 600 integrates military level 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) hardware with full disk hardware encryption. Data is decrypted upon bootup of the device with mandatory two-factor authentication and then encrypted immediately when the device is powered off. Viasat’s solution combines this dual authentication and full disk hardware encryption within a tamper-evident internal NVMe M.2 SSD to safeguard sensitive and classified data.

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Planet’s tasking capabilities will empower NATO decision makers by providing imagery for use with detailed tracking and analysis of foreign military capabilities and activities, monitoring of military infrastructure, detecting movements, assessing threats effectively, filling missing intelligence gaps and helping provide an unclassified common operating picture between allies.

“In a time of heightened global conflict, this ability to supply NATO is more critical than ever to reinforce multinational alliances and advance peace around the world through transparency and accountability from space,” said Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet. “We look forward to working with the APSS team as it continues to adopt new space technology to advance global security.”

Founded in February 2023, APSS is a multi-year, multinational initiative that aims to use space to collect data on any location at any given time, increase space-based intelligence sharing, improve NATO’s overall intelligence through space-based assets, and increase the speed, usability and management efficiency at which space-based data is collected, aggregated and delivered. APSS also enhances how NATO engages with future technologies including cloud solutions and AI analytical tools that will be key to better manage the growing amounts of space data available.

“Space is critical for NATO, from supporting the navigation and tracking of forces, detecting missile launches, maintaining situational awareness, to ensuring effective command and control,” said Laryssa Patten, head of space technology adoption and resilience at NCIA. “Planet’s sub-daily tasking brings new capabilities which enable monitoring of large areas of NATO interest, bolstering our technological advantage, and fulfilling our mission of preserving peace and security for nearly one billion people.”

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Headquarters Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT) has issued an RFI to engage with industry in support of a Threat Intelligence Analytics Platform (TIAP). The intention is to aggregate, correlate, de-conflict, and consolidate cybersecurity intelligence received via multiple sources: Commercial Threat Information (CTI), Open Source Intelligence (OSI), NATO-owned network sensors, Allies, and Partners.

The purpose of this RFI is to involve industry in in an examination of future capabilities related to the implementation of a TIAP, which is aimed as a single authoritative source of unclassified intelligence that will contribute to the generation of multiple types of cybersecurity pictures in support of all available situation awareness capabilities.

HQ SACT has not made a commitment to procure any of the items described herein, and the release of this RFI shall not be construed as such a commitment, nor as authorization to incur cost for which reimbursement will be required or sought. Further, respondents are advised that HQ SACT will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in responding to this RFI. The costs for responding to this RFI shall be borne solely by the responding party.

Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any subsequent RFP if issued in the future. All information shared with ACT might be shared with contracted third parties so as to support the capability development process as needed. Provision of data, or lack of, will not prejudice any respondent in the event of a later competitive bidding process.

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This RFP requires program management, visualization, and facilities management staff support services in support of USEUCOM’s NIFC and JAC office. Due to the sensitive nature of the requirement, the SOW will not be publicly disseminated, posted or released via email. The RFP and amendments will be posted via the Government-Point-of-Entry site, SAM.gov. Offerors seeking access to the Statement of Work and security pages (usually attached to the DD254) shall request, by email, that the contracting office send a copy of the Statement of Work and security pages via the secure website, DoD SAFE.

The NAICS is 541611 and the business size standard for this NAICS is $24.5 million. The RFP is a 100% total set-aside to 8(a) concerns that are either in the developmental stage or the developmental and transitional stages. The resulting contract is anticipated to be a 12-month base period with four (4) option periods of twelve (12) months each, with the option of a 6-month extension.

The Virginia Contracting Activity intends to award a standalone, single award Time and Materials contract. The Government intends to award one contract to the responsibile offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be the most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered.

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The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is requesting the assistance of industry to assess the availability of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Cyber Threat Intelligence products.

The NCI Agency reference for this request is MS-422211-CTI, and all correspondence and submissions concerning this matter should include this reference.

The Agency will consider and analyze all information received from this survey and may use these findings to develop a future solicitation for Cyber Threat Intelligence products. Any future solicitation would be advertised on the Agency’s bulletin board for all eligible companies to respond. Participating in this survey will not benefit, or prejudice, involvement in any future solicitation.

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The NATO International Staff Procurement Service has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the acquisition of an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Alerting Platform that will meet the needs of the NATO Situational Centre (SITCEN).

An electronic version of the RFP has been posted here: https://nato.procureware.com/Bids

To access the RFP, you must first register here: https://nato.procureware.com/Register?s=Setup

Interested firms need to complete the site registration process and wait until their applications have been validated by NATO. The registration approval process may take between 1 or 2 working days. If you want to participate in a procurement action, be sure to allow time for the registration approval process.

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