MODIFICATION
A -- Biological Technologies EZ
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541711
— Research and Development in Biotechnology
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 675 North Randolph Street, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-2114, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22203-2114
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-BAA-14-54
- Archive Date
- 8/7/2015
- Point of Contact
- DARPA-BTO BAA Coordinator,
- E-Mail Address
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DARPA-BAA-14-54@darpa.mil
(DARPA-BAA-14-54@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Amendment #3 - Adds back in original description accidently removed in Amendment #2. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to the Biological Technologies Office ( B TO). Of p a rticular interest are those proposals from entities (both small a nd large business) that have never received Government fundi n g, or who do not normally prop o se to Government solicitations. Proposed research s hould investigate leading edge approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, technologies, or s ystems at the intersecti o n of biology with engineering and the p hysical and computer sciences. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art. BTO seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, challenge assumptions, and have the potential to radically change establi s hed practice, l e ad to e xtraordinary outcomes, and c r eate entirely new fields. The mission of BTO is to foster, demonstrate, and transition breakthrough fundamental research, discoveries, and a ppli c ations that integrate biology, engineering, computer science, mathematics, and the physic a l sciences to e xpand the national security toolkit. BTO's investment portfolio goes far beyond life s c iences applications in medicine to include areas of resear c h such as huma n -machine interfaces, microbes as production platforms, and d eep exploration of the impact of evolving ecologies and environments on U. S. readiness and capabiliti e s. BTO's p r ograms operate across a wide r a nge of scal e s, from individual cells to the w a rfighter to global e cosystems. BTO responds to the urgent and long-term needs of the Depart m ent of Defense (DoD) and add r esses national security p r iorities. The overarching goal is to develop, demonstra t e, and transition biological-ba s ed technologies as part of the toolkit available to DARPA stakeholders. BTO is seeking novel approaches that will build technic a l communities that tap into sources of innovation both inside and outside traditional DoD performer communitie s. BTO encourages efforts t hat are creative and agile b oth in terms of the technologies proposed and in the str u cture of the approach. BTO is interested in submissions related to t h e following areas: • Developing radical new techniques and technologies to op t imally restore and maintain the health and abilities of mili t ary se r vice members. • Discovering and leveraging novel insights from neu r oscience, psychology, cognitive science and related d i sciplines to advance treatment and resilience in neurological health and optimize human aptitude and p erformance. • Understanding and improving interfaces between hu m ans and the physical and biological world to enable o ptimal performance in complex environments. • Developing and leveraging a fundamen t al understanding of the underlying de s i gn rules that govern biological s ystem behavior. • Developing new tools and techniques for forward engine e ring of biological systems (cells, tissues, organs, and o r ganisms) to both develop new products and functional systems as well as to gain new insights into underlying mechanisms. • Leveraging new computational techniques from computer science, big data, and biology to enable in v estigation a nd generation of knowledge from biological data at scale. • Developing and validating new theories and computational mo d els that iden t ify factors and explain principles u nderlying collective and i n teractive behaviors of biologic a l organisms at all scales from individual cells to the warfighter to global ecosystems. • Understanding where there are infle c ti o n points in population and ecosystem behavior in order to preserve e quilibrium, provide strategic opportunity, or avoid catastrophe. • Developing and leveraging new insights into non-hu m an biology across and between populations of microbes, p l ants, marine life, and other non-human biologic entities. • Understanding how social, environmenta l, and biological factors converge to generate violence and conflict or lead to deterrence and influence. • Radical new approaches towards countermeasure develop m ent for biological, che m ical and/or radiological threats. • Other biological t e chnology topic areas which fit the scope of BTO's mission. Additional information on BTO can be fo und at http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/BTO/.
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