Defense Sciences Office Solicitations

DARPA-BAA-11-65: Defense Sciences Research and Technology, Response Date 8/09/2012 

The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to pursue and exploit fundamental science and innovation for National Defense. Therefore, DSO is soliciting proposal abstracts and full proposals for advanced research and development in a variety of enabling technical areas. 

DARPA-BAA-12-20: Extended Solids, Response Date 5/22/2012   

DARPA is soliciting innovative multidisciplinary research proposals to develop and demonstrate synthesis methods of materials with superior properties (>1.5X over SOA) that currently can only be made using ultrahigh pressure techniques, such that processing under conditions amenable to production scales (<2000 K and 0.5 GPa) and stability under ambient conditions is achieved. Extended solids are polymorphs/phases of simple molecules that are currently formed under ultrahigh pressure conditions where strong intermolecular bonding and tight crystal packing can be induced, leading to dramatic changes in physical, mechanical, and functional properties. 

DARPA-BAA-12-31: Butyrylcholinesterase Expression in Plants, Response Date 4/26/2012  

DARPA is seeking innovative research proposals that will demonstrate the ability to produce a recombinant butyrylcholinesterase (rBuChE) using the Nicotiana benthamiana plant-based expression platform that has the same pharmacokinetic profile as a plasma-derived human butyrylcholinesterase (hBuChE) butyrylcholinesterase. The funding is intended to establish the technical precedence for the use of the plant platform to generate a rapid and scalable form of pre-exposure therapeutic bioscavenger against organophosphate nerve agents.
FAQ V1 

Information Innovation Office Solicitations 

DARPA-BAA-11-34: I2O Office-Wide BAA, Response Date 5/30/2012 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to the Information Innovation Office (I2O). Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.

DARPA-RA-11-52: Cyber Fast Track, Response Date 8/03/2012 

This Research Announcement (RA) seeks to revolutionize cyber technologies by promoting non-traditional technical opportunities. The Cyber Fast Track (CFT) program will engage numerous cyber related efforts across the spectrum of computer and network operations (CNO) to demonstrate that cyber efforts can be accomplished rapidly and cost effectively. This effort intends to extend the existing performer base to include non-standard, cutting edge organizations and individuals throughout the cyber community, thereby strengthening the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cyber Security capabilities. One goal of this program is to demonstrate the ability for cyber projects to be performed at an asymmetric advantage in time, cost, and contribution of the efforts in comparison to more traditional applied research areas. This will apply to both performance of individual efforts and to the contracting required to engage performers in said efforts.

DARPA-BAA-12-17: Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV), Response Date 3/20/2012 

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of crowd sourced formal verification of software. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.
Program Page 

DARPA-BAA-12-06: Active Authentication, Response Date 3/06/2012 

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in support of the development of new software-based biometric modalities. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.
Program Page 

Microsystems Technology Office Solicitations

DARPA-BAA-10-35: Microsystems Technology Office-wide, Response Date 9/1/2012 

The Microsystems Technology Office’s (MTO) mission is to exploit breakthroughs in materials, devices, circuits, and mathematics to develop beyond leading edge Microsystems components with revolutionary performance and functionality to enable new platform capability for the Department of Defense. To execute this mission, MTO supports revolutionary research in electronics, photonics, MEMS, algorithms, and combined Microsystems technology to deliver new capabilities to sense, communicate, energize, actuate, and process data and information for the war fighter. 

DARPA-BAA-12-24: Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies, Response Date 4/16/2012 

The goal of the Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program is to provide the technologies and techniques to overcome the power efficiency barriers that currently constrain embedded computing systems capabilities and limit the potential of future embedded systems.
PERFECT FAQ 

DARPA-SN-12-05: Dialysis Like Therapeutics (DLT) Technology Exchange, Response Date 3/09/2012 

The goal of DARPA’s Dialysis Like Therapeutics program is to develop a portable device that removes “dirty” blood from the body, separates harmful agents, and returns “clean” blood to the body in a manner similar to dialysis treatment of kidney failure. While the device could have an impact across multiple areas of medicine, the target application for this device is sepsis.

Strategic Technology Office Solicitations

DARPA-BAA-12-09: Strategic Technology Office (STO) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Response Date 1/12/2013 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) is soliciting innovative proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the performance of research, development, design, and testing that directly supports Strategic Technology Office (STO). This includes Finding Difficult Targets; Communications, Networks and Electronic Warfare; Shaping the Environment; and Foundational Technologies that support multiple STO focus areas.

DARPA-BAA-12-27: Fixed Wireless At A Distance, Response Date 4/13/2012 

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of Long Range Communication Infrastructure for Military Communications. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.
Proposers’ Day Slides 

DARPA-BAA-12-22: Military Imaging and Surveillance Technology-Long Range (MIST-LR) Program, Response Date 4/12/2012 

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of high-resolution, long-range geometric and 3-D imaging technology.  Proposed research should investigate new, innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.

DARPA-BAA-12-23: Mobile Hotspots, Response Date 3/26/2012 

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals for developing high capacity point-to-point links at millimeter-wave frequencies for use as a mobility backbone capable of delivering tactical communications capacity to the warfighter at the company and below level. Proposed program, Mobile Hotspots, should investigate innovative approaches to produce steerable millimeter-wave links with data rates at or beyond 1 Gb/s between aerial, mobile and fixed nodes.
Mobile Hotspots Industry Day Briefing Case 

Tactical Technology Office Solicitations

DARPA-BAA-11-13: TTO Office-wide, Response Date 2/17/2012 

The Tactical Technology Office (TTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting executive summaries, white papers and proposals for advanced research and development of Innovative Systems for Military Missions.  Innovative Systems are integrated systems or critical systems components, which often incorporate emerging advanced technologies, and which enable revolutionary improvements to the capability, efficiency and effectiveness of the military.
TTO seeks responses relating to three (3) mission thrust areas ("mission thrusts"):
• Advanced Weapons Systems
• Advanced Platforms
• Advanced Space Systems

DARPA-BAA-12-19: ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) Phases 2 through 4, Response Date 2/28/2012 

The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program seeks to develop and demonstrate an independently deploying unmanned surface vessel optimized to provide continuous overt trail of threat submarines.