DARPA Polyplexus Pilot

Sponsor Deadline: 

Jul 20, 2018

Letter of Intent Deadline: 

Jun 1, 2018

Sponsor: 

DOD Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

UI Contact: 

DARPA Polyplexus Pilot
DARPA-RA-18-01
Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=301321

Polyplexus is an online platform being developed under the DARPA Gamifying the Search for Strategic Surprise (GS3) program. The goal of the new Polyplexus platform is to fundamentally reshape the R&D process by reducing the time between concept emergence and worthy proposal submission. The Polyplexus platform aims to achieve this goal via efficiency gains that arise from collaborative activities focused on rigorous evidence collection and hypothesis generation, both of which are facilitated by online conversation.

Polyplexus is not a social media platform. Ultimately the purpose of Polyplexus will be to build on a continuous expert conversation about the present and future states of science, to generate groundbreaking ideas that have been scrutinized by experts, develop a comprehensive proposal to capitalize on these ideas, and match proposals to research sponsors for possible funding. In the pilot program that is the subject of this Research Announcement, a pre-alpha version of the Polyplexus platform will be deployed to gain valuable experience with users and to test the conversation and proposal development process. Since this is the first trial of this online platform, participants should anticipate finding bugs.

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