DARPA Solicitation: Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA

Notice ID: HR001124S0039

Anticipated individual awards – Multiple awards are anticipated.

Funding Opportunity Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is soliciting proposals that investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems for national security applications.  Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. The DARPA Defense Sciences Office regularly publishes Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs) requesting responses to specific program topics. This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing DSO programs or other published solicitations. To avoid proposals that duplicate existing activities or are responsive to other published DSO solicitations, potential proposers are highly encouraged to review current DSO programs and solicitations, respectively listed at http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/offices/dso and http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities. Contacting DSO program managers to discuss their research interests is strongly encouraged. A current list of program managers is available at http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/people.

Technical Thrust Area Descriptions To support its mission, DSO is interested in engaging with the R&D community to tackle complex challenges and develop impactful capabilities. DSO frames its office according to the thrust areas described further below, but encourages any fundamental research concept, idea, or effort that addresses DARPA’s mission to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.

1. Novel Materials & Structures:  This thrust includes, but is not limited to, science and technology in quantum devices, atomic scale systems, and functional and structural materials.
2. Sensing & Measurement:  This thrust includes, but is not limited to, science and technology in quantum sensing and metrology, seeing (sensing) the unseen, and novel light sources.
3. Computation & Processing:  This thrust includes, but is not limited to, science and technology of quantum computing, cryptography, and modeling of complex systems.
4. Enabling Operations:  This thrust includes, but is not limited to, technologies to support space-based operations, tactically remote environments, and resource assurance.
5. Collective Intelligence:  This thrust includes, but is not limited to, exploration of complex sociotechnical systems, adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI), and AI accelerated learning.
6. Emerging Threats:  This thrust includes, but is not limited to, methods to understand or address national security concerns related to global issues associated with raw material availability, environmental catastrophes, and digital societies.

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