Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA

Background
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) aims to identify and create the next generation of scientific discovery to fuel innovation throughout the Agency and beyond. DSO serves as “DARPA’s DARPA” by developing an aggressive and forward-leaning portfolio that expands the art of the possible across a broad set of technical areas. DSO aims to create strategic surprise advantage for the DoD by pushing science towards its fundamental limits. The office looks to prevent technological surprise by understanding the path commercial research and development (R&D) is taking, anticipating that adversaries will exploit available technology to develop new capabilities in the coming decades.
In addition, the office looks for changes at the global scale and the impact such changes may have on our nation.

Work Details
The solicitation includes a detailed statement of work (SOW) covering various aspects such as equipment, travel, participant/trainee support costs, other direct costs, and templates required for proposal submission. It also outlines specific requirements for Other Transactions for Prototype and Other Transaction for Research (OT-R), including unique additional requirements for OTs for Prototypes and information collection requirements for OT-R.
Additionally, it provides guidance on proprietary information, controlled unclassified information (CUI), and security information.

Period of Performance
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Place of Performance
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