DARPAs Strategic Technology Office (STO) is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that provide the U.S. military and national security leaders trusted, disruptive capabilities to win in all physical domains (Air, Space, Sea, and Land) and across the spectrum of competition, from deterrence to high-end peer combat. STO seeks to carry out DARPAs mission of creating high-risk, high-reward breakthrough technologies with a focus on ambitious, difficult, and revolutionary projects that achieve significant changes or fundamental shifts in technical capabilities and give our warfighters new ways to fight. STO will develop and deliver solutions at a speed and scale to be operationally relevant in a relatively short time, just a few years, from the initiation of the project to proof of concept. STO is a systems office, seeking to create new proof-of-concept mission systems. Its goals are to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that expand what is technically possible. The amount of resources made available under this BAA will
depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds.