NGEST Special Notice

Background
The DARPA Strategic Technology Office (STO) will host a Proposers Day in support of DARPA-PS-24-18, Next Generation Electronic Surveillance Technology (NGEST) program on August 2, 2024 at the DARPA Conference Center, 675 N. Randolph St., Arlington, VA 22203 from 9:00AM to 5:00 PM (ET). The purpose of this conference is to provide information on the NGEST program; promote additional discussion on this topic; address questions from potential proposers; and provide a forum for potential proposers to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities.
Unclassified questions and answers will be posted to SAM.gov at the conclusion of the event. All questions and answers that are Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) will be made available to those who have received the CUI Addendum. The Proposers Day will be held at the CUI level.

Work Details
The objective of the NGEST program is to develop a new paradigm and technology for advanced radio frequency sensing, enabling intelligent control of advanced reconfigurable hardware technologies in dynamic environments for tactical operations. Performers will develop new orchestration techniques for array control and signal processing to reason over the large decision spaces created by reconfigurable hardware.
Execution of NGEST will likely require expertise in multiple subject areas including machine learning, signal processing, RF hardware properties, software, and control theory. NGEST is a 33-month program organized into a Phase 1 and Phase 2. NGEST Phase 1 will focus on modeling and simulation within a government-defined testbed. Phase 2 will focus on prototyping, testing, and measurements in laboratory and outdoor environments. Performer teams will implement and integrate real-time orchestration software onto prototype hardware developed by team.

Period of Performance
The NGEST program is a 33-month program organized into a Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Place of Performance
The Proposers Day will be held at the DARPA Conference Center, 675 N. Randolph St., Arlington, VA 22203.