SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- TCTO Office-Wide BAA - DARPA-BAA-10-61
- Notice Date
- 5/7/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-BAA-10-61
- Archive Date
- 6/5/2011
- Point of Contact
- Norm L. Whitaker, Phone: 571-218-4207
- E-Mail Address
-
norm.whitaker@darpa.mil
(norm.whitaker@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-BAA-10-61 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to the Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO). Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art. DARPA broad agency announcements (BAAs) are posted on the FedBizOpps website (https://www.fedbizopps.gov/) and Grants.gov website (http://www.grants.gov/). TCTO seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, undertaking directions that challenge assumptions and have the potential to radically change established practice. TCTO collaborates with other DARPA program offices, in some cases acting as the recipient of significant emerging technologies and, in other cases, serving as a catalyst by identifying relevant new external technology trends. Novel methods are sought to build technical communities and tap into sources of innovation both inside and outside traditional DoD performer communities. TCTO sponsors programs that involve interdisciplinary research leading to realistic demonstrations. Solicitations are sought in the following areas: • Analysis, modeling, and prediction in complex networks, including (but not limited to) social networks, encompassing concepts such as crowd-sourcing, strategic communications, and quantitative social and behavioral sciences • Engineered biosynthesis of novel materials and objects, including synthetic biology, biosynthesis of chemicals and materials, biosensors, bioengineering, and novel approaches to material manufacture • Non-human intelligence concepts as applied to robots, animals, and other collaborative systems including sensing, training, architectures, and novel automated systems • Resilient computing systems concepts including robust, evolvable, widely available, high-performance computing systems and networks, and new approaches to cyber defense and cyber-resilience • Mobilization of communities to address important national and international problems, including incentive schemes and potential educational applications • Challenges and open competitions to advance science and engineering in Defense-related areas Potential proposers unfamiliar with the BAA process are encouraged to consider the submission of an abstract describing the idea, as discussed in section IV B 1.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-BAA-10-61/listing.html)
- Record
- SN02143869-W 20100509/100507234844-57c47959e9b0fbbf593ebb27ed0c8f2f (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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