Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
Funding Agency:
- Department of Defense
The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to identify and create the next generation of scientific discovery to fuel
innovation throughout the Agency and beyond. DSO serves as “DARPA’s DARPA” by
developing and executing an aggressive and forward leaning portfolio that expands the art of the
possible across a broad set of technical areas. DSO aims to create strategic surprise advantage for
the DoD by pushing science towards its fundamental limits. We look to prevent technological
surprise by understanding the path commercial research and development (R&D) is taking,
anticipating that our adversaries will exploit available technology to develop new capabilities in
the coming decades. In addition, the office looks for changes at the global scale and the impact
such changes may have on our nation.
In support of this mission, the DSO Office-wide BAA invites proposers to submit innovative
basic or applied research concepts or studies and analysis proposals that address one or more of
the following technical thrust areas: (1) Novel Materials & Structures, (2) Sensing &
Measurement, (3) Computation & Processing, (4) Enabling Operations, (5) Collective
Intelligence, and (6) Emerging Threats. Each of these thrust areas is described below and
includes a list of example research topics that highlight several (but not all) potential areas of
interest. Proposals must investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances.
DSO is explicitly not interested in approaches or technologies that primarily result in
evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
Multiple awards are anticipated.
Executive Summary Due Date and Time: Executive Summaries may be submitted on a rolling basis until September 26, 2024, at 4:00 p.m.
o Proposal Abstract Due Date and Time: Abstracts may be submitted on a rolling basis until September 26, 2024, at 4:00 p.m.
Proposals may be submitted on a rolling basis until September 26, 2024, at 4:00 p.m.
Technical Point of Contact (POC): Bartlett A. H. Russell, Ph.D., Deputy Director,
DARPA/DSO
o BAA Email: HR001123S0053@darpa.mil