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<p><b><u>Key Work Elements</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstration of Machine-Translation tools in Arabic</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstration of collaborative tools appropriate for civil-military support</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstration of remote communications capabilities appropriate for both civilian and military use within an austere environment</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate a proposed Information Zone capability.</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate Logistics support through collaborative tools defined for Iraq</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate iterative Humanitarian Assessment collection and analysis on world-standard indicators</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate simultaneous and collaborative GIS functionality across at least three nations.</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate open-source application effectiveness for micro-entrepreneurship.</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate resilient, robust, and sustainable techniques for remote habitation</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Demonstrate a responsive collaborative framework for disaster response.</b></li></ol>
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<p><b>Tasks demonstrating the Key Work Elements:</b></p>
<p><b><u>Translation:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Three topics will be chosen by 10am daily from
Arabic and Chinese current events and evaluated using TIDES-developed
technologies (eTAP-XL and MiTAP) by TIDES World Press Reports (TWPR),
then presented as a newsletter each evening by 6 PM. (Scored by DARPA
for cost / benefit analysis, and the critical value of the reports)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Daily evaluation of two relevant video clips in
translation from the eTAP-XL Video Monitoring System. The translated
clips will be reviewed for utility by a CPA translator, a native
speaker, and the NVTC, to be completed by 5pm. (Scored for response
time, and ability to meet specific the translation needs of site users)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Submission of two daily items in Arabic from the
al Jazeera live-feed on-site to a native speaker/cultural advisor
(NS-CA) and to the National Virtual Translation Center (NVTC) for
content and meaning. (NVTC scored on comparison to NS/CA as a gold
standard and for turnaround time)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Publication&nbsp;from the SA site of an
electronic DARPA Tides Iraq Reconstruction Report daily, and a
DARPA-TIDES Global Threat Update at least once, during the period 17-22
July.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate daily use of a multi-lingual,
pre-recorded, speech-cued,&nbsp;phrase-based and
hand-held&nbsp;interview system. The system will be used&nbsp;by
non-specialists for humanitarian assessment interviews in Portuguese,
Russian, Arabic, Pashto, Dari, and Tagalog (Scored for ease of use,
ability to start and complete tasks, and the task completion time)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Use of Arabic / English two-way, real-time,
secure, multi-lingual chat capability, with both text and video, used
on a daily basis. (Scored for an ability to discover and communicate
critical specific information, clarification of dialog, and ease-of-use)</li></ol>
<p><b><u><br>Collaboration:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Collect two HA forms into a Zope database daily
17-22 July using paper to HTML to Groove with smart pulling of the
appropriate Zope/Plone site, all through the SA site. Confirm automatic
distributed receipt in the mainland US, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:City></st1:place>, both civil society and military.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Collect two different HA forms into a Zope/Plone
database using paper to browser form, to Zope/Plone, with smart pulling
of the appropriate Groove workspace, all through the SA site. Confirm
automatic distributed receipt in the mainland US, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City>, both civil society and military.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Push and pull both photos and videos using an HP
iPaq PocketPC and Groove File Sharing. Confirm automatic distributed
receipt in the mainland US, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City>, both civil society and military.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Confirm conversation with two <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> military, two international military, two civil-society, and two unrelated civilians each day from the SA site.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From the SA site pose questions, and receive
answers, from three remote specialists each day 17-22 July. Questions
should be multi-modal with text, audio, and images incorporated as
appropriate.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From the SA site, speak daily with at least three remote participants using secure VOIP.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From the SA site, converse daily at least three remote participants using secure video.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From the SA site, daily annotate a map
collaboratively noting (a) the route taken most recently by the Pony
Express, (b) the unsecure wireless access clouds found along that
route, and (c) the number of red cars seen along the route and where.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From the SA site, distribute a calendar showing the annotated events of the day to site participants within three countries.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From a remote (non-SA) site build a Groove
workspace library of maps, documents, and files updated throughout the
participant community daily. Include information from the New York
Times, the Early Bird, the D-TIRR, the DT-GTU, a local paper, the
Congressional Quarterly, the Colorado Legislature, and the Australian
Parliament.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From a remote site build a Groove reference
library of policies, procedures, publications, maps, and images
relevant to humanitarian support. Ensure viewers are present for all
file types, and ensure all files types are present to be viewed.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From a remote site build a Professional Contacts
form and populate it with all participants within Strong Angel. Ensure
Boolean searches can be done on all fields. Ensure the Plone forms and
the Groove forms perform identically and are visible to each other
through Zope entries.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From a remote site, extract and plot the
positions of all participants whose "Current Work" coordinates are
present within the Professional Contacts rolodex.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From a remote site, prepare forms for travel
logistics and track the arrivals and departures of participants and
guests though an automatic calendar feed. Use a standard travel form
from a major travel service.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From a remote site prepare a collaborative
shipping form and track the passage of goods to and from the SA site.
Use one of the standardized international transport logistics forms
from the United Nations Joint Logistics Center in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:City>.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">From the SA site determine four Island sites and
four remote sites (plus the SA site) for participation in an Emergency
Intercom system using Groove secure VOIP as designed for the Al Rashid
hotel in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City>. Monitor those nine sites 24x7 within the SA site.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish comms every four hours with remote
sites across global time zones and devise a protocol for checking in
with keyword alerts.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish work-hour comms with all local <st1:place w:st="on">Island</st1:place> participants using keyword alerts.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish ongoing chat during working hours with <st1:City w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">CENTCOM-Tampa</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State> DC, and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Diego</st1:place></st1:City>.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish ongoing secure VOIP instant messaging
with at least four sites across the world, sending a daily annotated
jpg from the SA site in a simultaneous file transfer with the voice
description.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Receive daily from the Hawaii County Law Enforcement and <st1:place w:st="on">EMS</st1:place> a log of the previous 24 hours, describing events of import to the SA effort.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Plot an accumulating GIS overlay of the events from law enforcement and <st1:place w:st="on">EMS</st1:place>.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate free micro-entrepreneurial software
for retail inventory and supply management using small, optimized, and
scalable technologies</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate a Mediated Collaboration session using complementary collaboration systems. </li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Broadcast a secure video stream of several yurt areas to remote civilians unrelated to either civil society or the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> government. Have each of them use a screen-capture mode with event reporting to the Strong Angel Pacific Region Coordinator.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Publish a managed blog of thoughts, events, and impressions updated through the day, with global submissions.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">There will be a single machine where events at
the site can be watched and coordinated. This will be centralized
viewpoint for situational awareness. It will be capable of, but not
necessarily for, command or control.</li></ol>
<p><br><b><u>Communications:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Establish data comms between all systems within the SA site.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish RF comms between the six handheld radios.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a radio protocol, with physical management, call signs, and security procedures.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a bi-directional voice link from radio to laptop to a remote land-line phone.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a self-sustaining 802.11 cloud within and around a parked vehicle.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a self-sustaining mobile relay server for Groove within a vehicle, accessible through the 802.11 cloud.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Synchronize five separate Groove spaces using a
portable relay server for a remote and disconnected Groove workspace
member not otherwise accessible (e.g. from a member located within the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Waipio</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>).</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Show a Groove satellite internet update through a
two-leg, 20-mile Line-of-Sight relay for an 802.11b generated by a
remote vehicle.(update from the MedWeb satellite while parked at, for
example, the Wiamea airport.)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Receive an update on a location of a colleague in the field though a GPS radio signal displayed on another radio in the field.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Plot the location of deployed SA field staff, with confirmation through the GIS overlay in <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State> and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City>.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate the resilience of the Panasonic
Toughbook laptops under very adverse conditions (beach sand, salt,
wind, tropical sun, dropping from a vehicle onto pavement), Bury in
sand overnight. Play DVDs the following day.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span>&nbsp;</span>Engage the global ham radio
community in information sharing through data and voice, confirming the
passing of messages to at least three continents.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Drive the Pony Express vehicle to a remote area
with no connectivity. Establish an 802.11 cloud and a point-to-point
relay access to a participant within the SA site. Send and receive an
Instant Message 200 feet from the vehicle.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a Pony Express cloud in two separate
and disconnected locations. Synch a unique Groove workspace shared only
between those two sites. (e.g. Waipio and Laupahoehoe)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a Pony Express cloud and sync Groove
between unrelated civil and military sites sharing a unique workspace
(e.g. Waimea EMS and the US Army's Pohakuloa Training Area)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate at least one system that meets all
DoD Directive 8100.2 criteria for secure and reliable wireless
communications. We will use that system to focus on smart-pull all the
way to the farthest-forward users (including those usually
disconnected) on a secure and trusted global grid, using multiple
classes of systems (edge- and center-based) for the sharing of secure
GIS overlays to localize items of interest through a collaborative,
distributed information space.<br></li></ol>
<p><br><b><u>Assessment Analysis on Standardized Indicators:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Define one perspective for the optimal indicators needed to evaluate post-conflict reconstruction in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Determine which of those indicators are available for direct assessment (vs. calculated from aggregates elsewhere)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Develop forms for the collection of those available indicators.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Develop a Zope database for collection of completed indicator assessments.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Develop an open-source reporting method for displaying the current indicator <u>collection</u> status</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Develop an open-source reporting method for the actual <u>indicator</u> status.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Collect on those forms each day, filling the
database, testing the reporting tools, iterating as necessary. Make
accessible to OSD, with iteration driven by OSD requirements.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Record the presence and speech of people
presenting at the Strong Angel site with information for us in other
languages. Submit those recordings (both audio and video) for later
evaluation by translators, ensuring that information from those “at the
gate” who need to speak with us is captured and reviewed for value.</li></ol>
<p><b><u><br>GIS:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Plot all handheld Garmin Rino GPS radio signals in a Groove space visible in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State></st1:place> in real-time.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Plot all events reported from EMS and Hawaii
County law enforcement daily, and do so on a Groove system visible
within at least three locations.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Plot all humanitarian assessments with metadata links embedded within defined and standard humanitarian GIS symbology.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Provide collaborative satellite maps with six-layer overlays from open sources (layers to be determined by current events).</li></ol>
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<div align="left"><b><u>Open Source Applications and Low-Cost Peer-to-Peer Collaboration:</u></b><span></span><span><br><br>62.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp; </span></span>Develop
a single laptop with open-source tools for the application categories
listed below. The applications should be free and must be compatible
with world-standard (e.g. Microsoft) applications for reading and
writing of similar file types (e.g. text documents in RTF format). </div>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Email</div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Calendar </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Documents </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Spreadsheets </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Presentations </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Databases </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">GIS from database information </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Database reporting </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Open source medical information reporting </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Web-based collaboration </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Instant messaging </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">VOIP </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Web browsing </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">PDF creation </div></li>
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Application programming in any flavor of C</div></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate the presence of educational materials for training on each capability.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Provide for distribution a brief paper on the
value of an entrepreneurial engine in software having no license fees,
no royalties, no legal obligations to non-indigenous corporations, and
yet the ability to develop expertise locally for tackling development
and reconstruction goals.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Connect with five sites working (at that point)
with no one on Groove. Describe the download and task integration for
Groove from the web, then accomplish an instant message from the new
(remote) site to the SA site using VOIP and a file transfer.</li></ol>
<p><br><b><u>Habitation:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Develop a site from empty land to effective
habitation with global communication within four hours. Prove with
VOIP, video chat, file sharing, and the submission of a completed
humanitarian assessment form to three remote sites off-Island.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish habitation using techniques capable of leaving no trace after dismantling.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish lighting, communication, security, and
power using only renewable, non-polluting energy up to 1000 watts per
hour per day, 24x7 (may be supplemented).</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate the resilience of a distributed
energy architecture. Make explicit the political, psychosocial, and
economic sense found in stabilizing a restive population through
reliable energy decentralization and consequent resilience,
particularly in light of persistent and recurrent sabotage on more
brittle centralized energy distribution.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish storage and habitation using small,
simple, robust and flexible shelters specialized for population support
in disasters and each costing less than $500 and weighing less than 100
lbs. (Dymax Emergency Shelters from the Buckminster Fuller Institute)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish workspace and habitation using large,
culturally neutral, robust and flexible shelters specialized as
coordination centers in disaster response and each costing less than
$2000 and weighing less than 200 lbs. (Geodesic Yurts from
Shelter-Systems, near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Stanford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>).</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a site-produced badge capability with photos and color-coding for access.</li></ol>
<p><br><b><u>Responsive Collaboration Framework for Disaster Response:</u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Develop a single DVD with the final Groove, Zope,
Plone, and GIS architecture, including professional contacts, all
forms, the reference library, and all required educational materials,
within 7 days after the completion of SA-II. The DVD will be designed
for immediate utility in the event of a disaster response requiring
similar capabilities.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Develop an implementation architecture and process capable of absorbing this suite of capabilities within an organization. </li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Community:<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Receive an entirely new suggestion from a member
of the local community. Capture it on tape, distribute it to two
sectoral experts, and receive feedback from those experts within 24
hours. Contact the community member with the thoughts born of that
suggestion.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Contact family members from two SA staff daily, with exchange of text, audio, and images, both synchronous and asynchronous.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Accept, acknowledge, and inform participants about a gift from the community.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate site evaluations by uninvolved local
community members of SA projects and capabilities, with questionnaire
evidence from those community members that they understood a
substantial portion of the activities within the Strong Angel site.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Demonstrate non-harmful, pro-social conduct to local children.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Contact SA ethical guides daily to ensure mission focus and appropriate conduct.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Test Strong Angel educational material with local schoolteachers.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Establish a method for interacting with the press
effectively, including twice-daily briefings and frequent personal
interview time.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Each day one member of the SA staff will
disappear for 6 hours; staff member chosen at random by low-number
draw. No access, no accountability, and no fixed return time. (Location
will be known by two members of the SA staff and one member of local
law enforcement). </li></ol>
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