[UCI-CalIT2] DARPA BAA 05-13 Advanced Technologies

[Anna Lynn SPITZER]

 		http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#ato

 		BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) 05-13, ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGIES 
 INTRODUCTION: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) 
 Advanced Technology Office (ATO) is soliciting proposals under this 
 BAA for the performance of research, development, design and testing 
 that directly supports Advanced Technology Office (ATO). This includes 
 Robust Networking and Communications, Intelligence Preparation of the 
 Battlesphere (IPB), Information Operations (IO), Information Assurance 
 (IA), Computer Network Operations, Maritime, Special Operations and 
 technologies that provide unconventional advantages over adversaries 
 or potential adversaries.

 		TECHNICAL TOPIC AREAS: Research supporting any of MTO's
broad 
 mission objectives identified in the Introduction above may be 
 submitted under BAA05-13; however, although this list is not 
 all-inclusive, the following topic areas are of specific interest: 1) 
 novel approaches to the development, implementation and control of 
 networked weapons systems, 2) novel approaches for the development, 
 implementation and control of heterogeneous networks of human decision 
 makers and human-operated or autonomous sensors and weapons, 3) novel 
 microprocessor/computing architectures to support secure computing, 4) 
 trustworthy computing in mobile environments, 5) improved explosives 
 with a yield of 3-5 times of TNT, 6) low-cost military grade 
 encryption mechanisms / devices, 7) object based file systems, 8) 
 network storage and caching protocols for reducing long-haul 
 communications loads, 9) wide area network firewalls and proxies, 
 capable of dealing with asymmetric data flows and speeds in excess of 
 5 Gbps, 10) information and communication technologies to enable 
 "power to the edge" for air, land and maritime systems, 11) energy at 
 sea, 12) autonomous target recognition and classification algorithms 
 for asymmetric littoral threats, 13) persistence and ubiquitous 
 maritime sensor systems, 14) novel methods for tracking, localization, 
 and identification of maritime vessels, 15) mobile, distributed, 
 autonomous systems for undersea environments, 16) unmanned amphibious 
& underwater gliding surveillance vehicles, 17) miniature, low power 
 underwater (water column and bottom mounted)sensors and networks, 18) 
 biofabrication processes for improved nanostructured devices and 
 materials, 19)solid-state lighting devices and systems, 20) biomimetic 
 object-vision recognition, 21) advanced electronic vision and 
 situation-awareness devices, algorithms, and systems, 22) 
 non-cooperative LPD building interior imaging systems, 23) 
 squad/platoon level smart munitions and/or designators, 24) robust 
 wireless military communication network architecture and system 
 technology to enable graceful degradation under cross-layer fixes, 25) 
 wideband TeraHertz communications and networking system technology, 
 26) passive, all-weather landing capability for manned fixed wing VTOL 
 aircraft, 27) reconfigurable transceiver analog front end technology, 
 28) electrostatic underwater navigation system, 29) novel underwater 
 high maneuverability propulsion system, 30) approaches to 
 inter-connect wave-division multiplexed backbone communications 
 infrastructures with IP-based metropolitan networks (may include route 
 discovery/distribution and new addressing schemes), 31) approaches to 
 make tactical networks auto-configuring for both voice and data with 
 the goal of reducing the manpower requirements (may include the 
 complete replacement of IP as the underlying data protocol), 32) 
 high-speed (40 Gbps-100 Tbps) optical encryption systems, 33) new 
 approaches to self-forming, wireless, mesh networks of over 10,000 
 devices with high throughput (at least 50 Mbps) across the network 
 between two end-points. This may include work on multiple frequencies, 
 graph partitioning, and sub-net allocations, 34) novel approaches to 
 identifying, generating, and assessing alternative effects-based 
 courses of action for conducting campaigns by joint and coalition 
 forces, 35) novel approaches to understanding and visualizing the 
 battlespace and monitoring effects based operations, 36)novel 
 approaches to effect collaboration among human decision makers in 
 heterogeneous, coalition environments, 37) size-weight-power reduced 
 soldier electronics and communications devices, 38) microelectronic 
 systems comprising advanced system concepts coupling electronics, 
 sensors and actuators with micro scale packaging and battery 
 technologies, 39) computer forensic and software protection 
 technologies, and 40) programmable light emitting diodes (LED) that 
 blink at nanosecond intervals, that can withstand launch from a medium 
 velocity gun.