Office-wide BAA: Strategic Technology Office (DARPA-PS-26-09)

Office-wide BAA: Strategic Technology Office (DARPA-PS-26-09) is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO). This broad agency announcement (BAA) from DARPA's Strategic Technology Office solicits revolutionary research ideas for topics not addressed by ongoing STO programs or other published DARPA solicitations.

[](https://www. darpa. mil/about/offices/sto) ## About the Strategic Technology Office The Strategic Technology Office (STO) develops technology to give national security leaders trusted, disruptive capabilities to win in all physical domains — air, space, sea, and land.

Our work spans the spectrum of competition, from deterrence to high-end combat. STO leverages advancements in microelectronics, computing capacity, applied machine learning/artificial intelligence, and other technologies to create advantages for U.S. forces and blunt adversarial strengths. We empower the nation to assert dominance in realms of diplomacy, information, military, economy, finance, intelligence, environment, and technology.

**Advanced Active and Passive Sensing** STO develops novel technology and methods to find, detect, track, and follow difficult and elusive objects of interest. Our programs leverage sensing technologies, including radio frequency, acoustic, and electro-optic/infrared, across all domains to create broad networks that leave adversaries with “nowhere left to hide.

” STO advances systems to achieve and counter kinetic and non-kinetic effects. Areas of interest are acoustics, directed energy, electronic and cyber warfare, photonics, and strategy analysis using modeling and simulation, among others.

**Command, Control, and Communications** STO creates technologies and concepts to empower human decision making and execute command and control with minimal communications in a highly dynamic threat environment. Our programs spur innovations to enhance operational and strategic efforts across the spectrum of conflict, ensuring adaptability, resilience, and reliability.

We are interested in complexity management, decision aids, distributed autonomy and teaming, human behavior modeling, communication networks, and more. **New Paradigm of Systems Warfare** We continually work to shape the balance of power and to enable protracted engagements in contested environments.

We are working on autonomous systems, technologies, and concepts that advance capabilities and address common issues, such as limited communications, power, weight, adaptability, and cost.

**Critical Capabilities to Promote National Resilience** STO develops capabilities to provide our nation with an advantage in expanding areas, such as commercial lunar infrastructure and the protection of critical infrastructure at home and among allies.

We leverage advanced technologies to examine areas of commercial, financial, and industrial infrastructure to ensure the resilience of national systems, including energy, transportation, and communication services. STO Technical Office leadership is responsible for guiding and overseeing the research and development activities within specific technical areas. * John S.

Paschkewitz, Ph. D. , served as a program manager in the Defense Sciences and Strategic Technology offices from 2015 - 2021, with a diverse portfolio spanning operations research, materials science and manufacturing, human-machine teaming, and complex systems.

Deputy Director, Strategic Technology Office (STO) Adam Bryant, Ph. D. , has research interests in radar remote sensing, space-based sensing capabilities, and satellite constellation architectures and capabilities.

Assistant Director Program Management, Strategic Technology Office (STO) Prior to joining the DARPA staff, Jessica Marsh provided scientific, engineering and technical assistance (SETA) support for 10 years across various DARPA offices. * Yardley Gates serves as program analyst for the Strategic Technology Office.

Opportunities to engage include R&D programs and efforts, challenge competitions, and technology transition efforts for the Strategic Technology Office. | See all DARPA Opportunities | RSS feed for Opportunities _Use these filters to narrow your results by research topic or date. Search by keyword to find your specific STO opportunity.

_ DARPA and the Applied Research Institute (ARI) are initiating a long-term, open call for new and novel technology solutions to support the**Expedited Research Implementation Series**initiative. Deadline date: Dec.

31, 2031 Strategic Technology Office #### Office-wide BAA: Strategic Technology Office This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not addressed by ongoing STO programs or other published DARPA solicitations. | See STO Deadline date: Jan.

17, 2027 Strategic Technology Office ## Pushing Technology's Limits Our STO research programs are finite in duration, but the revolutionary advancements they drive create lasting change. Learn more about recent and ongoing efforts across our key thrust areas. | See all DARPA programs _Use these filters to narrow your results by research topic or status.

Search by keyword to find your specific STO program. _ This program seeks to develop effective autonomous aircraft soaring capabilities as evaluated via real-world flight testing.

The focus is on developing and integrating planning tools, additional aircraft sensors, and unique control solutions applied to existing or otherwise quickly assembled small uncrewed aircraft to autonomously plan for, identify and respond to soaring conditions.

Strategic Technology Office The Defense Applications of Innovative Remote Sensing (DAIRS) Disruption Opportunity will explore novel sensing and signal processing methods for potential application to maritime vehicle tracking and environmental characterization.

Strategic Technology Office The Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD) program aims to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native tactics engine that can incorporate live sensor data and high-fidelity simulation to rapidly generate tactics that continuously adapt to changes in the operational environment.

Strategic Technology Office The goal of the this program is to enable Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C5ISRT) systems to operate under Degraded, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) network conditions. Strategic Technology Office This program aims to develop new radar technologies that can operate reliably in the harsh Arctic environment.

Strategic Technology Office ## Brightest Minds in Science and Engineering Our STO program managers are visionary leaders whose experience spans industry, government, and academia. They conceive, plan, and oversee the high-risk R&D efforts for which we are best known. | See all DARPA program managers #### Search our Program Managers _Use these filters to narrow your results by research topic or date.

Search by keyword to find a specific STO program manager or their research interests. _ Adam Bryant, Ph. D.

, has research interests in radar remote sensing, space-based sensing capabilities, and satellite constellation architectures and capabilities. Dave Burke, Ph. D.

, has research interests in advanced space systems and adaptive airpower, with a focus on manufacturability, flexibility and autonomy to enable employment at scale. Dakota Roberson, Ph. D.

is interested in developing and scaling technologies to defend the homeland from irregular warfare attacks and provide warfighters with energy support at the operational and tactical edge. Harun Dogo, Ph. D.

, has research interests that include economics, industrial transformation, energy, and space. Iskren Abdomerovic, Ph. D.

, has research interests that include electronic circuits, signal processing, radar, electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), communications, and electronic warfare. John Bruzzese, Ph. D.

, has research interests that include lasers, optical sensors, photonics, and countermeasures in the air and space domains. Peter Willett, Ph. D.

, has research interests include signal processing, detection and classification, estimation, communications, target tracking, and data fusion. Stefano Galli, Ph. D.

, has research interests that include advanced wideband hybrid optical-wireless architectures for achieving unprecedented spectrum agility and jamming mitigation capability, and deep space communications. Tamer Refaei, Ph. D.

, has research interests which include resilience in tactical networks using principles of software-defined networking, programmable data planes, traffic engineering, and generative AI. Eric Davis, Ph. D.

, has research interests that include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-machine teaming, and data science. Wade Schwartzkopf, Ph. D.

, has research interests include synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radio frequency (RF) sensors and systems, and signal processing. His areas of interest include intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), satellites, and space. Hunter Martin, Ph.

D. , has research interests that include applications of material science and manufacturing technology to improve warfighter effect across a variety of battle spaces. Steven Chambers’ primary research interests include spacecraft mobility; maneuvering of systems and forces; and developing more resilient and integrated robotic teammates.

His areas of interest include uncrewed, satellites, and resilience. Jonathan Doyle's interests focus on building a deeper understanding of how economics and financial market dynamics could impact national security. Timothy (T.

J.) Klausutis, Ph. D.

, has research interests that include network collaborative autonomous systems and weapons, advanced sensors and seekers, signal processing and automatic target recognition and acquisition. Frank Robey, Ph. D.

, has research interests in the advancement of sensor systems and capabilities using signal processing techniques based on a firm theoretical foundation. #### Catalyzing an integrated lunar economy The 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study aims to catalyze the setup of a future commercial lunar infrastructure framework for peaceful U.S. and international use.

#### Seeking to prove technology capability for global critical materials The Open Price Exploration for National security (OPEN) program aims to develop forecasting technology to enable the market to better understand component-based pricing information and supply and demand.

#### New paradigm for flexible, point of need design and manufacturing DARPA’s new Rubble to Rockets (R2) program aims to overcome current limitations to manufacturing in supply chain-denied environments by developing production and design approaches. Embark on a journey of innovation and impact! Tell us about your interest in DARPA.

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