Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is soliciting proposals for innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems for national security applications. The DSO is interested in engaging with the R&D community to tackle complex challenges and develop impactful capabilities. Proposals must investigate innovative research approaches that enable revolutionary advances, and must not primarily result in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. • The DSO has identified four technical thrust areas: Materials, Manufacturing, and Structures; Sensing, Measuring, and Affecting; Math, Computation, and Processing; and Complex, Dynamic, and Intelligent Systems. • Proposals may be submitted for a variety of award instrument types, including Procurement Contracts, Cooperative Agreements, Other Transaction for Research, and Other Transaction for Prototype. • The DSO will review proposals based on their scientific and technical merit, potential contribution and relevance to the DARPA mission, and cost and schedule realism.