The Tactical Technology Office (TTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting abstracts (white papers) and proposals for advanced research and development of Innovative Systems for Military Missions. Innovative Systems are integrated systems or critical systems components, which often incorporate emerging advanced technologies, and which enable revolutionary improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the military.



TTO seeks responses relating to five (5) Mission Thrust Areas (“Mission Thrusts”):



- Space Operations

- Land, Air, Sea and Space Platforms

- Unmanned Systems

- Directed Energy

- Precision Strike



Responses to the thrust areas may be submitted at any time during the open period of this solicitation.



TTO's solicitation focuses on the high risk/high payoff development, integration, demonstration and evaluation of innovative systems or critical systems components enabled by, and incorporating, new or emerging technologies. Proposed efforts must also show significant promise to provide the U.S. military with revolutionary new mission capabilities, and/or enable significant increases in mission effectiveness.



Innovative system concepts of interest to TTO typically address emerging technical opportunities, advanced systems concepts, emergent threats, and/or new technology-enabled concepts of operation. TTO strongly encourages respondents to adopt a complete systems engineering approach to the problems.



This BAA solicits both abstracts (white papers) and proposals for proposed efforts. Offerors are strongly encouraged to initially submit a six page abstract (white paper) describing the offerors proposed concept. Submission of an abstract (white paper) is not required prior to submitting a full proposal.



In their submitted abstracts (white papers) or proposals, offerors should specifically and clearly address both the innovation of their proposed system or subsystem component development, and its impact on military mission efficiency and/or effectiveness.



Offerors are encouraged to review and monitor TTO’s public web site at http://www.darpa.mil/TTO in order to better understand past and recent TTO mission systems development efforts.



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Due to technical problems, the notice for BAA08-31 has been mistakenly archived. This modification is to reset the archive date for the BAA and re-attach a copy of the same BAA for reference. This modification does not change the contents of the original BAA. P105 Passive RPG Protection "Long Range Tactical Ocean Fighter" Study The proposal due date for DARPA BAA 08-31 is extended from 4 PM EDT on 13 April 2009 to 4 PM EST on 31 July 2009. The proposal abstract (white paper) due date for DARPA BAA 08-31 is extended from 4 PM EDT on 13 February 2009 to 4 PM EDT on 29 May 2009.



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