DARPA’s Information Processing Techniques Office is seeking abstract proposals for research that will enable revolutionary advances in science, technology or systems in support of the IPTO Thrust Areas.
IPTO seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, challenge accepted assumptions and have the potential to change established practices radically.
Abstracts will be accepted and assessed on an ongoing basis until 22 June 2027.
Thrust Areas
- AI Innovation and Execution – IPTO envisions vastly more energy-efficient and assured artificial intelligence (AI) systems to advance asymmetric capabilities at the edge of the network and to provide trustworthy, understandable AI to warfighters where and when they need it. IPTO also seeks to mitigate risks of misalignment of machine actions and human interests.
- Inherent Security and Privacy – IPTO seeks to create a new generation of systems that are inherently secure and inherently private, together with security and privacy tools that are more effective and more adaptable
– both in the moving-target and reactive senses – than current solutions. IPTO aims to develop more trustworthy and resilient systems based on the fundamental principles of the cyber networking, computing, and storage environment, and to create an asymmetric advantage in cyberspace. - Resilient Megasystems – IPTO aims to develop machine-derived abstractions and models that expose the governing principles of highly complex and interconnected systems – like supply chains and power grids – to identify hidden systemic risks and emergent properties, and to enable the precise targeting of interventions and the proactive assurance of mission-critical functions.
IPTO may also consider submissions outside the Thrust Areas of the proposal involves the development of novel capabilities having a promise to provide decisive information or computational advantage for the US and its allies.
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BAA – Information Processing Techniques Office – HR001126S0011-Amendment-02
