DARPA is seeking ideas and disruptive technologies that offer the potential for significant capability improvement across the Strategic Technology Office (STO) focus areas.
Topic areas of specific interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Acoustic communication and sensing
- Adaptability
- Advanced computing
- Additive manufacturing
- Architecture and advanced systems engineering
- Applied artificial intelligence
- Autonomy and control algorithms
- Combat identification
- Command and control (C2)
- Communications and networking, virtual and adaptive
- Complexity management
- Contested logistics
- Critical infrastructure defense
- Decision aids and C2 technology
- DevOps and novel software development and integration
- Distributed autonomy and teaming (mm, hm)
- Economic security
- Effects chain functions (disaggregated find, fix, track, target, engage, assess)
- Electro-optic/infrared sensors
- Electromagnetic warfare (EW)
- High-frequency (HF) communications and sensing
- High voltage electric power systems and architecture
- Human behavior modeling
- Human-machine symbiosis
- Industrial engineering
- Integration and reliability technologies
- Interoperability
- Modeling and simulation
- Microwave and millimeter wave communications and sensing
- Novel kinetic effects
- Non-kinetic effects (EW, DE, cyber)
- Optical technologies
- Photonics
- Radio technologies (especially software-defined and novel waveforms and processing)
- Radar and adaptive arrays
- Resilient systems
- Robotics
- Scaled directed energy (DE)
- Seekers and other expendable sensors and processing
- Sensors and analytics
- Signal processing
- Space sensors, communications, autonomy, and architectures (especially supporting proliferated low earth orbit constellations)
- Strategy analysis technology
- Supply chain analytics
- System of systems
- Undersea and seabed technology
- Tactics development technology
- Testing and data collection
- Very low earth orbit (VLEO) technology
- Very low frequency (VLF) technology
Funding: No fixed limit
Duration: No fixed limit
Excecutive Summary/ Abstract (encouraged) accepted on an on-rolling basis.
Research Authority due date: 10 days prior to submission
