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 &
