DARPA: Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) – MTO Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (HR001124S0028 BAA)

Abstracts will be accepted on a rolling until deadline

Adaptability | Algorithms | Artificial Intelligence | Cognitive Science | EW | Microsystems | Processing

The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at DARPA regularly publishes BAAs requesting responses to specific program topics.  This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing MTO programs or other published solicitations.  As MTO evolves to address future microsystems-related challenges in this unprecedented era of advancement, the office is establishing a beyond-the-headlights strategy that focuses on three nascent thrusts, each focused on addressing key challenges towards its mission to dominate the microsystems ecology militarily and economically:

Scientific Disruption;

o    Quantum circuits

o    Biological circuits

o    Photonic circuits

Microsystems manufacturing ecosystem; and

o    Data-starved fabrication and integration process predictions

o    Frameworks to accelerate electromagnetic microsystem discovery

o    High density cryogenic-to-room-temperature interconnects

o    Miniaturized 3D heterogeneously integrated cryogenic cooling

o    Real-time closed-loop manufacturing of new materials

o    Self-updating programmable assembly tools

Dual use by design.

o    Black-box model-based risk assessment frameworks

o    Commercially relevant tool development challenge problems

o    Customizable template application specific integrated circuits

o    Electromagnetic spectrum interaction strategic emulators

o    High-accuracy long range passive ranging

o    High-efficiency waste heat electricity generation at the microsystem

o    Low size, weight, and power passive navigation

o    Plasmonic sub-terahertz amplifiers

o    Tunable emissivity materials

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