Knowledge Management at Scale and Speed (KMASS)

Background
The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of collecting, organizing, sharing, and applying organizational knowledge about key tasks and how to perform them. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.

Grant Details
The Knowledge Management at Scale and Speed (KMASS) program will research, develop, integrate, evaluate, and demonstrate underlying technology that will enable effective use of documented knowledge, acquisition of new knowledge as part of regular workflows, and application of useful knowledge when and where it is required and with necessary granularity. KMASS technology will scale to a broad set of tasks and contexts across an organization by collecting and modifying knowledge 'in-the-flow' as part of regular task execution and applying the knowledge documented for one purpose to other purposes as appropriate. KMASS will deliver user specific knowledge 'nuggets' that are useful for a current task—whether the knowledge is requested or not by the user—exactly when needed, while avoiding irrelevant or already known information.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include organizations capable of conducting innovative research in the area of collecting, organizing, sharing, and applying organizational knowledge about key tasks and how to perform them. The program anticipates multiple awards for TA B/C/D and one award for TA E.

Period of Performance
The program will be a 36-month program, comprised of three successive phases. Phases 1 will be 14 months, Phase 2 will be 12 months, and Phase 3 will be 10 months.

Grant Value
The total value of the grant is not specified.