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SECRETARY of DEFENSE – STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES OFFICE
The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) seeks to identify, analyze, and prototype disruptive applications of new systems, unconventional uses of existing systems, and implement emerging technologies to create operational strategic effects. SCO is a rapid prototyping organization focused on delivering capabilities in 3-5 years to address high priority operational and strategic challenges.
SCO seeks research submissions in the areas of technical interest below. Offerors may submit a concept that falls under one of the primary technical categories but does not fall under any of the listed subcategories. Concepts that have application across multiple military services or defense/intelligence operations are strongly preferred.
Technical Areas:
-Autonomous Systems – SCO is interested in technologies that can help accelerate and expand the DoD’s use of autonomous systems as well as concepts for deterring or defeating an adversary’s attempts to do the same. SCO particularly encourages the research and investigation of concepts that leverage commercial investments in autonomy technologies
Improved Human/Autonomous System Interaction and Collaboration (HASIC) solutions for ground, sea and air vehicles
Manned/unmanned Army ground vehicle collaboration that reduces risk to mission or risk to force
Manned/unmanned tactical aircraft collaboration that improves targeting or weapon magazine depth for 5th generation aircraft
-Deep Learning – SCO is interested in innovative concepts that benefit the warfighter by leveraging deep learning approaches
Deep learning enabled by GPU computing
Approaches that use synthetic data to train neural networks
Semantic processing
-Cyber – SCO is interested in leveraging advanced cyber related technologies that will enable the US military to stay ahead of the evolving cyber threat.
Network protection tools that provide ways to identify network vulnerabilities and provide automated operational security capabilities
Novel cyber-defensive techniques that leverage commercial advances in anomaly-based detection, data analytics and/or encryption methods
Cross-Domain Kill Chains – SCO is interested in exploring alternative combinations of existing or near-term sensors, communications, and weapons.
Cross-domain fires/distributed lethality concepts
Providing existing weapons with new capabilities (e.g., giving defensive weapons offensive capabilities, and vice versa)
Low probability of intercept, low probability of detection (LPI/LPD) communication waveforms and architectures for air, land, or sea platforms
Machine-to-machine network tools that allow for seamless translation across multiple data formats and waveforms
-Non-Traditional Defense Technologies– This category is intended to allow for submission of technology concepts that, while not originally developed for defense/military purposes, might be repurposed to create or enhance military capabilities. Examples of concepts that would be appropriate under this category include, but are not limited to, research of the following:
Using high speed computing enabled by graphics processing units (GPUs) to increase the capabilities of DoD sensor systems
Leveraging advances in driverless vehicle technology to enable DoD unmanned ground vehicles
Applying big data analytics developed for business intelligence to DoD decision making tools
Repurposing cybersecurity tools built to protect the Internet of Things (IoT) to defend DoD networks