[UCI-CalIT2] DARPA BAA 05-13 Advanced Technologies
Anna Lynn SPITZER
ASPITZER at uci.edu
Fri Jan 7 11:14:08 PST 2005
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.
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