DARPA Program Solicitation (PS): Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering (A3ML)

NoticeID: DARPA-PS-25-10

The Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering (A3ML) program seeks to revolutionize the practice of anti-money laundering by developing rapid graph-search algorithms to extract illicit finance tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) from heterogeneous financial transaction data. The algorithms developed will sift through financial transaction graphs for suspicious patterns and learn new patterns to anticipate future activity and emerging TTPs. A3ML also seeks to represent the structure of these TTPs in a generic, sharable format that protects sensitive financial data to facilitate information sharing between and across industry and government.

This Program Solicitation (PS) may result in the award of Other Transaction (OT) for Prototype Projects, which can include not only commercially available technologies fueled by commercial or strategic investment, but also concept demonstrations, pilots, and agile development activities that can incrementally improve commercial technologies, existing Government-owned capabilities, and/or concepts for broad defense and/or public application(s).

Hybrid Program Approach

DARPA intends to segment the A3ML Program into two tracks, the Research Track and the Competition Track. This PS primarily covers the Research Track (A3ML performer). Participation in the intended Competition Track is briefly discussed in relation to abstract submissions; otherwise, any additional reference to the Competition Track, including future prize competitions, is shared for situational awareness only.

• Research Track: Proposers who respond to this solicitation, receive an encouragement for oral presentations, and are selected for potential award under Technical Area 1 (TA1) and TA-2 will become A3ML performers within the Research Track. Proposers may submit to either or both Tracks; however, A3ML performers contracted under the Research Track will become ineligible to compete in A3ML prize competitions within the Competition Track.

• Competition Track: The A3ML Program intends to hold a prize competition to further objectives of the A3ML Program. The objective of the Competition Track is to incentivize participation in A3ML TA-1 objectives by entities who are not eligible to participate in the TA-1 Research Track. Entities interested in participating in the Competition Track will be required to submit an abstract. Upon notification of encouragement, an entity will be eligible to become a participant in the Competition Track. Note, as stated above, any additional reference to the Competition Track, including future prize competitions, is shared for situational awareness only, and represents the intent of the A3ML program.

Additional information regarding the Research and Competition Tracks is discussed throughout this solicitation.

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