Information Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide
Funds ideas that do not fit any of DARPA's current information-processing programs or other open calls.
Not every good idea arrives on schedule with an open program built for it. This BAA is DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office keeping a door open for exactly that case.
It exists for revolutionary research ideas on topics not already being addressed by an ongoing IPTO program or another published solicitation. It is not a topic in its own right — it is the space left over once every nam…
Revolutionary research ideas within DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office that are not already addressed by an ongoing IPTO program or another published solicitation — defined by what falls outside IPTO's current programs rather than by a fixed technical subject.
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