Strategic Technology Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that provide the U.S. military and national security leaders with trusted, disruptive capabilities across all physical domains and spectrum of competition. The Strategic Technology Office (STO) at DARPA is a "systems office" seeking to create new "proof-of-concept" mission systems, with goals to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that expand what is technically possible. Some of the research areas of current interest to STO include: • Acoustic communication and sensing • Adaptability • Advanced computing • Additive manufacturing • Architecture and advanced systems engineering • Artificial intelligence • Autonomy and control algorithms • "Big data" analytics • Combat identification • Command and control (C2) • Communications and networking, virtual and adaptive • Complexity management • Critical infrastructure defense • Decision aids and C2 technology • DevOps and novel software development and integration • Directed energy (DE) • Distributed autonomy and teaming (machine-machine, human-machine) • Economic security • Effects chain functions (disaggregated find, fix, finish, target, engage, assess) • Electro-optic/infrared sensors • Electromagnetic warfare (EW) • High-frequency (HF) communications and sensing • High voltage electric power systems and architecture • Human behavior modeling • Human-machine symbiosis • Industrial engineering • Integration and reliability technologies • Interoperability • Logistics • Modeling and simulation • Microwave and millimeter wave communications and sensing • Novel kinetic effects • Non-kinetic effects (EW, DE, cyber) • Optical technologies • Photonics • Radio technologies (especially software-defined and novel waveforms and processing) • Radar and adaptive arrays • Resilient systems • Robotics • Seekers and other expendable sensors and processing • Sensors and analytics • Signal processing • Space sensors, communications, autonomy, and architectures (especially supporting proliferated low earth orbit constellations) • Strategy analysis technology • Supply chain analytics • System of systems • Undersea and seabed technology • Tactics development technology • Testing and data collection • Very low earth orbit (VLEO) technology • Very low frequency (VLF) technology