Please find below (and attached) new DARPA opportunities for circulation with your national/defense S&T labs, academia, and industry.
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Special Notice: Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) Workshop
Office: Microsystems Technology Workshop (MTO)
Event Date: 20 September 2023 at 0830 (ET)
Registration Deadline: 13 September 2023 by 1600 (ET)
Registration Link: : https://cvent.me/MdQaow
Description: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host a Workshop to explore technology advances to meet dynamic thermal management requirements for increasingly demanding operational and environmental conditions. The workshop will be held on September 20, 2023 at the DARPA Conference Center (DCC), 675 North Randolph Street, Arlington, VA 22203 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. The purpose of this meeting is to promote discussion on this topic, address new insights and challenges in this area, and provide an opportunity for different communities to share their capabilities and ideas for future teaming arrangements.
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/7f70a2c5acfb44c693cbe8783002d295/view
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Special Notice: Synthetic Quantum Nanostructures (SynQuaNon) Proposers Day
Office: Defense Sciences Office (DSO)
Event Date: 18 August 2023 at 1000 (ET)
Registration Deadline: 14 August 2023 by 1600 (ET)
Registration Link: https://events.sa-meetings.com/SynQuaNonProposersDay/
Description: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a Proposers Day to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Synthetic Quantum Nanostructures (SynQuaNon) program.
The goals of the SynQuaNon Proposers Day are to: (1) introduce the research community (industry, academia, and Government) to the SynQuaNon program vision and goals; (2) explain the mechanics of a DARPA program and the milestones of this particular effort; and (3) encourage and promote teaming arrangements among potential organizations that have the relevant expertise, facilities, and capabilities for executing a research and development program responsive to the SynQuaNon program goals
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/b4a3292c796a42849d7f372881243887/view
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Request for Information: Advanced Ice Sensing and Classification RFI
Office: Tactical Technology Office (TTO)
Response Due Date: 5 September 2023 by 1600 (ET)
Description: DARPA seeks a better understanding of concepts and technologies suitable for persistent real-time situational awareness of the Arctic sea ice surface. Specifically, DARPA is interested in ideas to help frame future ice sensors and sensing architectures. One potential idea may be the demonstration of real-time ice data collection to enable immediate landing locations for exploratory science aircraft and identification and prediction of ice fracturing events without embedding or emplacing physical sensors in or on the ice.
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/23031f23e0b442599a3f31172e4f9d02/view
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Broad Agency Announcement: Rapid Eye Movement Restoration and Enhancement for Sleep-deprived Trauma-Adaptation (REM REST)
Office: Defense Sciences Office (DSO)
Proposal Due Date: 15 September 2023 by 1600 (ET)
Description: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is issuing a Disruption Opportunity (DO), inviting submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of neuromodulation as a means of enhancing Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep mechanisms associated with stress adaption and traumatic memory consolidation. This DO is issued under the Program Announcement for Disruptioneering, DARPA-PA-23-03. All awards will be made in the form of an Other Transaction (OT) for prototype project.
REM REST aims to identify neural mechanisms and demonstrate the ability to modulate REM sleep that improves stress adaptation and traumatic memory consolidation. Although demonstrations will not be required to show clinical efficacy, performer objectives should demonstrate the ability to improve REM sleep metrics associated with improved health or performance outcomes. Target neural mechanisms by which REM sleep supports healthy outcomes must be described and justified in proposals. The proposed targeted mechanisms of REM sleep must be objectively measurable, and proposers should provide a plan to evaluate the mechanistic relationship with stress adaptation, traumatic memory consolidation, and/or other related emotional health and psychological resilience outcomes.
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/b0a1e64478f84486a63a04c7750c4205/view
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Special Notice: Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh or Remote Areas (AMPHORA) Proposers Day
Office: Biological Technologies Office (BTO)
Event Date: 11 August 2023 at 0745 (ET)
In-Person Registration Deadline: 4 August 2023 by 1200 (ET)
Webinar Registration Deadline: 8 August by 1200 (ET)
Registration Link: http://events.sa-meetings.com/AMPHORAProposersDay
Description: The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting a hybrid in-person and virtual Proposers Day for the potential proposer community in support of a planned Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh or Remote Areas (AMPHORA) Program. This event will take place at the DARPA Conference Center (DCC) in Arlington, VA, on August 11, 2023, from 7:45 AM to 2:05 PM. Optional sidebars to meet the Program Manager, Dr. Tiffany Prest, will be scheduled from 2:15 PM to 5:00 PM on that same day. If unable to attend in person, participation via webinar is an available alternative. Additional details on AMPHORA can be found in the attached special notice.
All U.S. Permanent Residents and Foreign Nationals must submit a DARPA Form 60, except foreign government personnel who must submit only an Official Visit Request completed by their respective Embassy based in Washington, DC.
All forms must be submitted no later than 12:00 PM on August 4, 2023. Form 60 submission instructions are provided on the registration website and in the registration confirmation email. Contact your Embassy staff for assistance in submitting the Official Visit Request.
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/2a9f5b6224544b3783fda8c18a504a95/view
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Request for Information: Establishing a Domestic Center for R&D and Manufacturing 3-D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) Microsystems RFI
Office: Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)
Response Due Date: 15 August 2023 by 1700 (ET)
Description: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is requesting information to guide the establishment of a domestic research and development (R&D) center for fabrication of three-dimensional heterogeneously integrated (3DHI) microsystems.
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/755f41416ad943a68de3045541e96206/view
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Special Notice: Research Opportunity: Waste Upcycling for Defense (WUD)
Office: Biological Technologies Office (BTO)
Abstract Due Date: 15 August 2023 by 1600 (ET)
Full Proposal Due Date: 14 September 2023 by 1600 (ET)
Description: This announcement describes a fundamental research thrust, entitled “Waste Upcycling for Defense (WUD),” that will evaluate the technical feasibility to develop new methodologies to upcycle cellulose waste (scrap wood, cardboard, paper) into high-strength, large-scale densified wood products. This effort also seeks to reduce the energy & chemical requirements necessary to make densified wood through green chemical or biological methods. This opportunity is released under the current DARPA BTO Office Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), HR001123S0045, entitled “Biological Technologies”.
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Link: https://sam.gov/opp/58b5a1daeb7e4358aeccae496a8f6d16/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