Notice ID: DARPA-SN-24-50
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) develops technology to give national security leaders trusted, disruptive capabilities to win in all physical domains (air, space, sea, and land) and across the spectrum of competition, from deterrence to high-end peer combat. Leveraging advancements in technologies such as advanced microelectronics, increased computing capacity, and applied machine learning/artificial intelligence, STO will pursue solutions in the areas of advanced active and passive sensing; battlefield effects; command, control, and communications; system of autonomous systems; and empowered human decision making. STO will develop and deliver solutions at a speed and scale to be operationally relevant in just a few years from the initiation of the project to proof of concept.
Research Area 4. New Paradigm of Systems Warfare
STO is interested in the development of autonomous systems technologies and concepts leading to system-level demonstrations for highly distributed crewed, uncrewed, and human-machine teams in all domains and across the entire spectrum of conflict. The intent is to leverage commercial advancements and emerging research in advanced microelectronics, computing devices and architectures, higher-density memory, and applied machine learning/artificial intelligence. Features include adaptability, resilience, and reliability. Example areas of STO interest include novel architectures and advanced systems engineering, autonomy and control algorithms, data analytics, complexity management, critical infrastructure defense, DevOps and novel software development and integration, digital twins, distributed autonomy and teaming (machine-machine, human-machine), integration and reliability technologies, interoperability, modeling and simulation, robotics, strategy analysis technology, system of systems technology and concepts, tactics development technology, testing, and data collection. STO seeks to reduce the tyranny of range by developing new systems concepts with applied technology to enable mobility and endurance. Additionally, STO seeks novel ways to provide sustained capability, enabling protracted engagements in contested environments.
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