DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement BAA
HR001118S0060
DOD Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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Abstract Due Date: Abstracts may be submitted on a rolling basis until 1:00 PM on May 26, 2020.
Proposal Due Date: Proposals may be submitted on a rolling basis until 1:00 PM on June 26, 2020.
Closing Date: June 26, 2020
Estimated period of performance start: Approximately 120 calendar days after proposal submission
Concise description: This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing MTO programs or other published solicitations.

As MTO evolves to address future microsystems-related challenges, the office has identified three target thrust areas:
(1) Electronics: Managing Moore’s Inflection,
(2) Spectrum: Enhancing Our Advantage with Agility and Autonomy, and
(3) Sensors: Decentralized Sensors for the DoD.

B. Topic Areas of Interest Research areas of current interest to MTO include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Advanced imaging architectures and systems
•  Atomic physics
•  Chip scale sensors
•  Computational architectures and algorithms for next generation artificial intelligence (AI)
•  Electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) technologies
•  Electronics for harsh environments
•  Emerging MEMS technologies
•  Enabling component technology for cold-atom microsystems
•  Energy-efficient computing
•  Hardware assurance, reliability & validation
•  Hardware for advanced signal processing
•  Heterogeneous integration
•  Low power electronics
•  Low volume microsystems manufacturing
•  Materials for advanced microelectronics
•  Microelectromechanical device technology
•  Microsystem design & CAD
•  Microsystems for directed energy
•  Microsystems for position, navigation & timing
•  Microsystems for RF/optical transceivers
•  Non-silicon electronics
•  Novel photonic devices
•  Photonic & electronic interconnects
•  Processing techniques for imaging and spectral recognition
•  Quantum devices
• Signal processing to reduce hardware requirements
•  Thermal management
• Other microsystems technology topic areas