Description
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting a Proposers Day to introduce the science and technology community to the Smash program vision and goals. The program aims to revolutionize material processing in the United States to achieve domestic resource independence. The core goal is to develop technologies that can universally process and separate diverse raw materials with near-zero waste and high energy efficiency. The program will pursue technologies that provide an asymmetric advantage in yield, purity, and energy utilization by leveraging parallel processing to achieve efficient separations of the entire periodic table.
Some key points about the program include:
• The program is a 48-month, 2-phase program comprising a single technical area.
• Phase 1 (24 months) emphasizes proof-of-concept experiments and modeling, while Phase 2 (24 months) drives prototype development.
• The end goal of the program is a system-level demonstration of efficient separations across the entire periodic table.
• The Proposers Day meeting will include overview presentations by DARPA, a poster session, and opportunities for team building among the participants.