DARPA (STO): Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV)

The Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program aims to develop benchmarks to objectively and quantitatively measure the ethical difficulty of future autonomy use-cases and readiness of autonomous systems to perform in those use-cases within the context of military operational values. 

ASIMOV has two stages: 

Phase I Base: AWS Benchmark Reference Feasibility and Decomposition

Phase II Option: RAI Benchmarking Technology – Operational Refinement

Funding: no fixed limit 

Duration: 2 years

Research Authority due date: 6.2.24

Abstract (encouraged) due date: 12.2.24

Full proposal due date: 28.3.24