Please find the below (and attached) new DARPA opportunities for circulation with your national/defense S&T labs, academia, and industry.
Special Notice: Space-domain Wide Area Tracking and Characterization (Space-WATCH) Industry Day Technical Area 2 (TA2): Real-Time Automated Data Fusion & Exploitation
Office: Strategic Technology Office (STO)
Event Date: 18 January 2024
Event Location: Arlington, VA
Registration Deadline: 15 January 2024 by 1700 (ET)
Registration Link: https://events.sa-meetings.com/website/66259/
Description: The goal of the Space-WATCH program is to provide real-time persistent tracking of all objects in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) so that when an anomalous action occurs, operators can be notified in a timely fashion, allowing them to plan and execute appropriate actions. DARPA is hosting this Proposers Day to (1) provide potential proposers with information on whether and how they might respond to the Government's research and development solicitations and (2) increase efficiency in proposal preparations and evaluation.
All Foreign Nationals must submit a DARPA Form 60 “Foreign National Visit Request” (instructions will be provided in the registration confirmation email), except foreign government personnel who must submit only an Official Visit Request completed by their respective Embassy based in Washington, DC. Contact your Embassy staff for assistance in submitting the Official Visit Request. All forms must be submitted no later than 1200 (ET) on 11 January 2024.
Link: https://sam.gov/opp/d45f706a9ec24f938a76cb6ff2d83be6/view
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Program Solicitation: Exploratory Models of Human-AI Teams (EMHAT)
Office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
Proposal Submission Deadline: 2 February by 1600 (ET)
Description: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is issuing an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) Opportunity, inviting submissions of innovative research concepts in the technical domain of modeling and simulation of human-AI teaming. The goal of the Exploratory Models of Human-AI Teams (EMHAT) program is to develop technologies for generating and evaluating diverse and realistic digital twins representing human-AI teams in order to understand and characterize the emergent capabilities and limitations of such teams in proxy operational settings.
Proposals must address two independent and sequential project phases (a Phase 1 Feasibility Study (base) and a Phase 2 Proof of Concept (option)), and must be unclassified. EMHAT technology will utilize expert feedback, AI-assembled knowledge bases, and generative AI to produce a wide variety of computational agents representing a diverse set of human teammate simulacra, analogous to digital twins. Proposals should include metrics describing the fidelity of the diverse human teammate simulacra to true human characteristics and how this fidelity contributes to realistic simulation of human-AI teaming
SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS AND LINK BELOW.
Link: https://sam.gov/opp/0f7f4c00733b425982e7d88e34c2db83/view
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Program Solicitation: Levitated and Trapped Accurate microSystems (LeviTAS)
Office: Defense Sciences Office (DSO)
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 February by 1600 (ET)
Description: The DARPA DSO is issuing a Disruption Opportunity (DO), inviting submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of novel micro-mechanical oscillators for applications towards precision positioning and navigation systems. The LeviTAS DO aims to demonstrate an anchor-less microsystem that simultaneously achieves heavy mass and high sensing bandwidth in a compact form factor.
Proposals submitted in response to this DO must be unclassified and must address two independent and sequential project phases: a Phase 1 Feasibility Study (base) and a Phase 2 Proof of Concept (option). While the LeviTAS DO focuses on levitating a large mass, with large bandwidth confinement along the Z-axis, the goal is to support the development of a small-scale navigation sensor. Therefore, decisions regarding which performers will continue to Phase 2 will be based on the results of Phase 1 and the likelihood of scalability and versatility of the proposed architecture towards confinement along all 3 axes.
SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS AND LINK BELOW.
Link: https://sam.gov/opp/d0f66661f1fd4176b00a0ad4863a0f28/view
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DARPA International Cooperation
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