Fuel Access Anywhere, Regardless of Means (FAARM)

Background
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is issuing an Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) Opportunity, inviting submissions of Abstracts for innovative exploratory research concepts in the technical domain of Chemistry and Materials Science. This ARC Opportunity, methods to Fuel Access Anywhere, Regardless of Means (FAARM), is issued under the master ARC Exploration Announcement (EA), DARPA-EA-24-01.

Work Details
The FAARM ARC targets innovative techniques to form a wide range of synthetic fuels from varied readily available sources for DoD applications. The FAARM ARC Opportunity is soliciting ideas to explore the following question: Can energy-dense fuels be synthesized using an efficient, small-scale system? Performers will develop novel approaches to efficiently produce energy-dense fuels at a small scale.
Proposers are invited to address one or both of the key technical challenges to be addressed by FAARM. Abstracts should describe a research plan, including detailed intermediate technical objectives with evaluation measures and a schedule segmented monthly or quarterly outlining corresponding deliverables.

Period of Performance
The maximum period of performance is 12 months.