DARPA BAA HR001121S0007: SBIR and STTR Programs

Suspense Date: 31 December 2021 Description: To provide game-changing capabilities to our warfighters, DARPA must have the tools to operate at the pace of innovation. To capitalize on small business innovation, DARPA advertises SBIR and STTR funding opportunities on a “just-in-time” basis, outside of the three pre-determined announcements issued at the Department of Defense level.

Category

Opportunity

DoD Communities of Interest

R&D Research and Development

Subject

DARPA BAA HR001121S0007: SBIR and STTR Programs

Due Date

31 December 2021

Government Organization

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Description
To provide game-changing capabilities to our warfighters, DARPA must have the tools to operate at the pace of innovation. To capitalize on small business innovation, DARPA advertises SBIR and STTR funding opportunities on a “just-in-time” basis, outside of the three pre-determined announcements issued at the Department of Defense level. SBIR and STTR Opportunities (SBOs) will be announced under this BAA. Only proposals submitted in response to an active corresponding SBO will be evaluated for funding.

A concise description of the funding opportunity:
To provide game-changing capabilities to our warfighters, DARPA must have the tools to operate at the pace of innovation. DARPA advertises SBIR and STTR funding opportunities on a “just-in-time” basis outside of the three pre-determined announcements issued at the DoD level to capitalize on small business innovation. SBIR and STTR Opportunities (SBOs) will be announced under this BAA. Only proposals submitted in response to an active corresponding SBO will be evaluated for funding.

1. Funding Opportunity Description: The objectives of the DoD SBIR/STTR Program include stimulating technological innovation, strengthening the role of small business in meeting DoD research and development needs, fostering and encouraging participation by minority and disadvantaged persons in technological innovation, and increasing the commercial application of DoD-supported research or research and development results. Technology focus areas include USD(R&E)’s Technology

Modernization Priorities (https://www.cto.mil/modernization-priorities) and DoD’s Key Science and Technology Areas.

DoD’s Key Technology Areas
• Air Platforms -- Fixed-Wing Vehicles; Rotary-Wing Vehicles; Integrated High-Performance Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET)/Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines (VAATE); Aircraft Power; High-Speed Propulsion and Fuels.

• Chemical / Biological Defense -- CB Detection; CB Decontamination; CB Protection; CB Modeling and Simulation; Medical Chemical Defense; Medical Biological Defense.

• Information Systems Technology -- Decision-making; Information Assurance; Seamless Communication; Modeling & Simulation Technology; Computing and Software Technology.

• Ground and Sea Vehicles -- Platform and system technologies that support Ground Vehicles; Surface Ship Combatants, and Submarines.

• Materials / Processes -- Materials and Processes for Survivability, Life Extension, and Affordability; Manufacturing Technology; Civil Engineering; Environmental Quality.

• Biomedical -- Infectious Diseases of Military Importance; Combat Casualty Care; Military Operational Medicine; Medical Radiological Defense; Medical Biological Defense; Medical Chemical Defense.

• Sensors, Electronics and Electronic Warfare -- Radar Sensors; Electro-Optical Sensors; Acoustic Sensors; Automatic Target Recognition; Integrated Platform Electronics; Radio Frequency Components; Electro-Optical Technology; Microelectronics; Electronic Materials;
Electronics Integration Technology; EW Threat Warning; EW Self-Protection; EW Control.

• Space Platforms -- Space Vehicles; Launch Vehicles; Space Propulsion [Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology (IHPRPT)].

• Human Systems -- System Interfaces and Cognitive Processing; Protection, Sustainment, and Physical Performance; Personnel, Training and Leader Development.

• Weapons -- Two broad categories.
1) Conventional Weapons: Countermine/Mines; Guidance and Control; Guns; Missiles; Ordnance; Undersea Weapons; and Weapon Lethality/Vulnerability.
2) Directed-Energy Weapons: Lasers; and High-Power Microwave.

• Nuclear Technology -- Warfighter Support; Systems Effects and Survivability; Test and Simulation Technology; Environments and Effects; Threat Reduction.

• Battlespace Environments -- Terrestrial Environments; Ocean Battlespace Environments; Lower Atmosphere Environments; Space/Upper Atmosphere Environment.

Website

https://beta.sam.gov/opp/723ce3955bab42d8b7201e49581c3b69/view