Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Attention current and past DARPA performers: Are you ready to take your breakthrough technology beyond the lab and into the market? DARPA’s Commercial Strategy Office is hosting an Embedded Entrepreneur Initiative (EEI) Proposers Day on February 25, 2025, in Arlington, VA. EEI pairs top technical talent with business leaders to accelerate commercialization, providing hands-on support, go-to-market expertise, and strategies to help your innovation succeed in both government and commercial sectors. This event is an opportunity to: · Learn how EEI supports commercialization success through real-world examples · Engage in one-on-one meetings with the Commercial Strategy team · Get your questions answered about funding and commercialization pathways Register by February 18, 2025, at 3 p.m. ET, to secure your spot! https://lnkd.in/eNk5rcZb Further information can be found on the DARPA website: https://lnkd.in/e6a8gqht As well as in the Special Notice on SAM.gov: https://lnkd.in/e7JS7N7N

Money laundering isn’t just a financial crime, it’s a national security threat. Illicit money moves in the shadows, harming American citizens and global stability. But here’s the challenge: today’s anti-money laundering efforts often rely on manual analysis, which can be slow, reactive, and expensive. DARPA’s Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering (A3ML) program intends to flip the script on bad actors by creating new technology, such as: ✅ Machine learning-powered detection – Algorithms that sift through massive financial #transactiongraphs ✅ Adaptive learning – Systems that evolve to detect emerging laundering techniques ✅ Human + Machine synergy – Insights that are machine-readable and human-understandable Resulting tech could lower compliance costs and risks for industry, increase the accuracy and precision of illicit finance data available to the U.S. government, and drastically reduce the sharing of Americans’ sensitive financial information. 📅 For those interested in proposing to A3ML, the deadline to register for the A3ML Proposers Day is February 10 at 5:00 p.m. ET. More info: https://lnkd.in/e2y8j6GX

🔎 We Want Your Input! 🔎 The future of resilient systems—from hardware to cyber-physical to software systems—requires formal methods, which can dramatically improve the security of our military's most critical systems. We're seeking feedback on the new "Formal Methods to Deliver Resilient Systems" Guide to ensure it provides our performers the right guidance for secure system development. Your insights will help drive the security of next-generation DoD systems so that our armed forces can continue to complete their missions successfully. 💡 Who can respond? Industry, academia, research institutions, and beyond. 📅 Deadline to provide input: February 25, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. Submit your feedback today! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ew4-EhFb To learn more, listen to our Voices From DARPA episode on formal methods, "Hackable code & the formal fix": https://lnkd.in/erxjrd7x #DARPA #CyberSecurity #FormalMethods #ResilientSystems

🕒 Precision timing technologies underpin essential Department of Defense (DoD) capabilities including positioning, navigation, and communications. The current system of time standards, synchronization, and dissemination of time is based on stabilization of atomic clocks to microwave transitions and microwave-domain time transfer techniques. While such microwave-domain techniques have enabled nanosecond-scale timing stability at high levels of technological maturity, it is unlikely that these techniques will sustain further performance enhancements. Furthermore, the vulnerabilities of such techniques to jamming, spoofing, and other forms of interference are well established. DARPA’s recently announced SUNSPOT (Sources for Ultraviolet Nuclear Spectroscopy of Thorium) program aims to develop a key enabling technology for the realization of a thorium-based nuclear clock — a coherent laser source in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals in the development of highly coherent sources of VUV radiation for clock-grade spectroscopy of the recently discovered thorium (229mTh) nuclear isomeric transition. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. To view full technical details for proposing to the SUNSPOT Broad Agency Announcement, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dbqDpfe9 #thorium #atomicclock #nuclearclock #ultraviolet

Calling all Defense Dept. employees and contractors! Do you know what makes Other Transactions (OTs) unique? Unlike traditional procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, OTs offer unmatched flexibility. Every aspect of an OT is negotiable— making them ideal for crafting agreements for cutting-edge research and prototype development. Join DARPA’s Contracts Management Office on Feb. 5-6, 2025, for a comprehensive virtual OT training to explore: How OTs empower creative program planning. Their unique ability to foster collaboration with emerging industry partners. Practical insights into planning, negotiating, and managing OT agreements. Register by Jan. 31 to secure a spot and learn more at https://lnkd.in/eKFKd_n #govcon #contractsmanagement 

#Nature provides inspiration for many advanced robotic technologies — think of quadruped or biped robots that are being applied in a variety of commercial and defense applications. Even as synthetic — or abiotic — robotic systems become increasingly sophisticated, their system-level performance cannot match the performance of their biological counterparts. Recent advancements in — coupled with the convergence of — engineering and biology have propelled the development of biohybrid robots, which combine biological and synthetic components. #Biohybrid systems could have distinct advantages over traditional synthetic robots in some operational contexts. While fully engineered abiotic systems prioritize controllability and precision for on-demand performance, biological systems inherently excel in their resiliency, sensitivity, adaptability, and efficiency. Biohybrid robots aim to combine the best features of both realms by leveraging the precise control of engineered parts while harnessing the unique, innate capabilities of biological elements. Successfully integrating biological components (e.g., cells, tissues, or organisms) could extend the functionality of robotic systems. DARPA recently announced an Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) topic called HyBRIDS—short for Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems. HyBRIDS aims to answer this question: How can synthetic and biological components be integrated to enable biohybrid platforms that outperform traditional robotic systems? A HyBRIDS information webinar for interested proposers will be held Feb. 4, 2025. Visit the following HyBRIDS page for webinar registration link & link to the full HyBRIDS solicitation: https://lnkd.in/dCZF33eJ #Biohybrid, #Bioengineering, #Biorobotics, and #LivingMachines About ARC: DARPA’s ARC program rapidly solicits and explores a high volume of promising new ideas for limited-scope investments. Projects focus on answering high-risk/high-reward questions and assessing the impact of further investment on problems of importance to the Department of Defense. Use of animal subjects in the proposed research is prohibited. To learn more about all open ARC topics, visit www.darpa.mil/ARC *edited for capitalization and hashtags.

✨Happy #NationalImaginationDay! 🚀  Imagination is our business. From self-driving cars and miniaturized GPS, to cutting edge robotics and way beyond, moonshot ideas are where we shine.  Imagination defines the future—and we’re ready to partner with bold thinkers to make it happen. Do you have the imagination that can help us make the impossible possible? We want to hear from you. Thanks Colie Wertz for imagining this original 3D image. #NationalImaginationDay #DARPA #BigIdeas 

Attention firmware developers and computer scientists! Registration for the Reclaiming Bus-based Systems During Compromise (Red-C) program is now open. The hybrid event takes place January 28. 📅Deadline to Register is January 23. 🚍Understanding the Bus: DARPA experts say self-healing computers can become a reality by addressing missing forensic data on the bus – a communication system that transfers data between components – and leveraging advancements in Zero Trust . Many critical systems are bus-based with implicitly trusted modular components. Simply detecting and alerting of a cyber-attack – as most antivirus software works today – does not sufficiently protect the computer system. Instead, Red-C will explore retrofitting firmware to add forensic sensing, which refers to the ability to collect and analyze data for investigative purposes, so the various components can monitor each other like a neighborhood watch. The sensing and monitoring for infection would enable on-system detection, repair, and inoculation. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eTbV5B9k #firmware #cyber #DARPA #innovation

🧠 Do you have the brains (pun intended!) for a new advanced research concept in neuroscience? INSPIRE wants to know - Are there new ways to explore and describe how functional neural systems store and process information that expand beyond the limits of digital representations? Abstracts are due January 31 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Please visit: https://lnkd.in/eH6j3rgd to learn more and for abstract submission

👇This... And we think formal methods hold the key to a world with significantly less vulnerabilities. Check out our Voices from DARPA podcast episode "Hackable Code and the Formal Fix," to learn about tools that could revolutionize software security. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eAbMi_yc