Please find the below (and attached) new DARPA opportunities for circulation with your national/defense S&T labs, academia, and industry.
Program Solicitation: Fuel Access Anywhere, Regardless of Means (FAARM)
Office: Defense Sciences Office (DSO)
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 April 2024 at 1600 (ET)
Description: DARPA DSO is issuing an Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) Opportunity, inviting submissions of Abstracts for innovative exploratory research concepts in the technical domain of Chemistry and Materials Science. ARC Opportunities are designed to allow an individual researcher the opportunity and time to focus on nascent, paradigm-shifting ideas for national security applications.
The FAARM ARC targets innovative techniques to form a wide range of synthetic fuels from varied readily available sources for DoD applications. The FAARM ARC Opportunity is soliciting ideas to explore the following question: Can energy-dense fuels be synthesized using an efficient, small-scale system?
Link: https://sam.gov/opp/0eb10a5b87fc4075964a1ea8f592ea0e/view
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Special Notice: Fuel Access Anywhere, Regardless of Means (FAARM) Webinar
Office: Defense Sciences Office (DSO)
Webinar Date: 18 January 2024 from 1200 – 1600 (ET)
Registration Deadline: 17 January 2024 by 1200 (ET)
Registration Link: https://events.sa-meetings.com/FAARMWebinar
Description: DARPA DSO is sponsoring a live webinar to provide information and promote technical exchange with
potential proposers on the objectives of the FAARM ARC opportunity. The webinar will include an overview of DSO, the ARC initiative, and a FAARM-specific presentation.
All registrants who are not U.S. citizens must complete and submit either a DARPA Form 60 (U.S. Permanent Resident and Foreign National Visit Request – e.g., industry or academia) or an Official Visit Request (foreign government personnel, only) through their country’s Embassy based in Washington, DC, no later than 5:00 p.m. ET on January 12, 2024.
Link: https://sam.gov/opp/0b7b9a0ea3854c52bfa9d9627657f8bb/view
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Broad Agency Announcement: Enhanced SBOM for Optimized Software Sustainment (EBOSS)
Office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
FAQ Submission Deadline: 18 January 2024
Proposal Submission Deadline: 30 January 2024 by 1200 (ET)
Description: The E-BOSS program aims to develop the capability to pre-empt or rapidly triage and remediate software vulnerabilities at infrastructure scale through revolutionary changes in software build chains and runtime systems that enhance and complement Software Bill of Material (SBOM) technologies. E-BOSS will enhance SBOM technologies with new types of metadata and cyber-reasoning algorithms to determine whether flawed or sensitive code is actually reachable and triggerable The E-BOSS program will develop Enhanced Software Bill of Material (eSBOM) metadata technology to enable rapid triage-and-remediation of vulnerabilities in software at scale.
Link: https://sam.gov/opp/d0af3e325a594a8191b94e3f80b6bdcd/view
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If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact the DARPA International Cooperation Office at InternationalCooperation@darpa.mil.
If you would like us to include Embassy offices managing education, research, and scientific cooperation (in addition to defense) and/or direct contacts with academia and industry on this distribution, please let us know.
Warm Regards,
DARPA International Cooperation
InternationalCooperation@darpa.mil