IARPA Seedling BAA
Offers United States teams continuous-entry opportunities for early research ideas in AI, quantum, and cyber fields.
The IARPA-Wide Seedling Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is a continuously open solicitation maintained by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a U.S. government agency operating under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. IARPA's stated mission is to deliver high-risk, high-payoff research for future intelligence advantage. The Seedling BAA is the agency's s…
Early-stage exploratory research (9–12 months, typically under $1M) addressing highly innovative, high-risk ideas within IARPA's published topics of interest that have high-payoff potential.
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