NGA - Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Science & Technology Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-ST BAA)

Open — responses due 14 Dec 2026 (31 days left) · Unrestricted (full and open) · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), DoD · NAICS 541715 · Solicitation HM047623BAA0001

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Solicitation details

Solicitation number	HM047623BAA0001
Notice ID	bbd8a7ecb4994c61a723091e0f0d5a3e
Agency	Department of Defense (DoD)
Sub-agency	National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Contracting office	ATTN: MS S84 - OCS
NAICS code	541715 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Product / service code (PSC)	AC13
Set-aside	Unrestricted (full and open)
Notice type	Solicitation
Posted	09 May 2025
Response deadline	14 December 2026
Competition	Competitive

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Description

The Boosting Innovative GEOINT-Science and Technology (BIG-ST) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) invites proposers to submit innovative concepts to address hard GEOINT problems that align to one or more of the following technical domains: (1) Foundational GEOINT, (2) Advanced Phenomenologies, and (3) Analytic Technologies. BAA Process and Topic Call Publication: The BIG-ST BAA is a general announcement of NGA’s research interest, including criteria for selecting proposals and soliciting the participation of all offerors capable of satisfying the Government’s needs. The requests for abstracts and/or proposals are transmitted via Topic Calls that are published separately under the BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation at various times during the open period of the General Solicitation. Topic Calls will be published via updates to the BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation site on Sam.gov, Grants.gov (Opportunity ID:351404), and/or the Acquisition Research Center (https://acq.westfields.net). Interested parties should periodically check these websites for updates. No submissions shall be accepted to the General Solicitation; abstracts and proposals will only be reviewed in response to Topic Calls. Please refer to the Topic Calls for Abstract and Proposal due dates. The BIG-ST BAA General Solicitation, HM047623BAA0001 Revision 3 (dated 04/25/2025), is posted and applies to Topic 5 and forward. See Attachments/Links. Closed Topics: Topic 1 - Geospatial-Intelligence Foundational Model (GFM) is closed Topic 2 - Magnifying University Science Expertise (MUSE) is closed. Topic 3 - VLBI+G Signal Chain Development (VLBI+G) is closed. Canceled Topics: Topic 4 - Production of Radio Frequency (RF) Surveys from Commercial On-orbit Passive RF (RF-COP) is canceled. Active Topics: Topic 5 - Better Ingested GEOINT - Identifying Artificial Intelligence and Manually Manipulated Media (BIGISLAND) is open. Updated Description (as of 05/09/2025): Interested parties must have an account to log into the Classified IC-ARC to see the notice, and all associated RFP documents. For additional support with account access, please contact the Classified ACE Help Desk at 855-4ACE. To access the notice and all associated RFP documents, follow the below instructions after logging in to Classified IC-ARC: Go to "NGA" --> Go to "Efforts" --> Under Acronyms search "BIG-ST" --> Go to section titled "Topic 5 BIGISLAND." The Topic 5 Q&A has been posted on the Classified IC-ARC, and the following documents have been updated/added in the "Topic 5 BIGISLAND" section, "T5 Documents" tab, "20250509-Topic5-BIGISLAND" folder: Updated: (S_NF) Topic 05_Attachment A_Performance Metrics_REV1_09May2025.docx Updated: BIGST_BAA_Topic 05_BIGISLAND_REV2_09May2025.docx New: (S_NF) QA_Topic5_20250509.xlsx

Version history

SAM.gov has posted 12 notices under solicitation HM047623BAA0001, oldest first.

Documents in the solicitation package

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BIGST_BAA_HM047623BAA00001_GeneralSolicitation_REV3_20250425.pdf
NGAI 8400.4.pdf
APPENDIX 2 Proposal Template.docx
APPENDIX 5 Grants Coops.docx
APPENDIX 1 Abstract Template.docx
BIGST_BAA_HM047623BAA0001_Provisions_Clauses_20250402.pdf
BIGST_BAA_GeneralSolicitation_REV1_20241220.docx
Research and Technology Protection_BIG-ST BAA_20241220.docx

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