DARPA’s STO is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that provide trusted, disruptive capabilities across all physical domains of air, space, sea and land; and across the spectrum of competition.
Proposals can be of any scope and duration, but proposals for short-duration, exploratory projects (such as analytical studies or proof of concept experiments) to inform new program ideas in the topic areas of interest will be given priority.
Abstracts are strongly encouraged but not mandatory.
Submissions will be accepted under this BAA until 31 October 2025.
Topic Areas of Interest
- Acoustic communication and sensing
- Adaptability
- Advanced computing
- Additive manufacturing
- Architecture and advanced systems engineering
- Artificial intelligence
- Autonomy and control algorithms
- “Big data” analytics
- Combat identification
- Command and control (C2)
- Communications and networking, virtual and adaptive
- Complexity management
- Critical infrastructure defense
- Decision aids and C2 technology
- DevOps and novel software development and integration
- Directed energy (DE)
- Distributed autonomy and teaming (machine-machine, human-machine)
- Economic security
- Effects chain functions (disaggregated find, fix, finish, target, engage, assess)
- Electro-optic/infrared sensors
- Electromagnetic warfare (EW)
- High-frequency (HF) communications and sensing
- High voltage electric power systems and architecture
- Human behavior modeling
- Human-machine symbiosis
- Industrial engineering
- Integration and reliability technologies
- Interoperability
- Logistics
- Modeling and simulation
- Microwave and millimeter wave communications and sensing
- Novel kinetic effects
- Non-kinetic effects (EW, DE, cyber)
- Optical technologies
- Photonics
- Radio technologies (especially software-defined and novel waveforms and processing)
- Radar and adaptive arrays
- Resilient systems
- Robotics
- Seekers and other expendable sensors and processing
- Sensors and analytics
- Signal processing
- Space sensors, communications, autonomy, and architectures (especially supporting
proliferated low earth orbit constellations) - Strategy analysis technology
- Supply chain analytics
- System of systems
- Undersea and seabed technology
- Tactics development technology
- Testing and data collection
- Very low earth orbit (VLEO) technology
- Very low frequency (VLF) technology
Document
Announcement – STO BAA: HR001125S0001
