NOTES: DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in support of the development of new software-based biometric modalities. Combined Synopsis / Solicitation. The Active Authentication program seeks to change the current focus from user proxies (e.g., passwords and CACs) when validating identity on DoD IT systems to a focus on the individual.

NOTES: The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to pursue and exploit fundamental science and innovation for National Defense. Therefore, DSO is soliciting proposal abstracts and full proposals for advanced research and development in a variety of enabling technical areas.

Proposal abstracts and full proposals may be either basic or applied research. However, in all cases, proposers should demonstrate that their proposed effort is aimed at high-risk/high-payoff technologies that have the potential for making, in the 5-10 year timeframe, revolutionary rather than incremental improvements to national security, including emerging threats and operational challenges.

NOTES: As an agency with responsibilities for maintaining and improving the viability of
marine and coastal ecosystems, for delivering valuable weather, climate, and water
information and services, for understanding the science and consequences of climate
change, and for supporting the global commerce and transportation upon which we
all depend, NOAA must remain current and responsive in an ever-changing world.
We do this in concert with our partners and stakeholders in federal, state, and local
governments and private organizations, applying a systematic approach that links our
strategic goals through multi-year plans to the daily activities of our employees.

NOTES: The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for various research and development topic areas. The ERDC consists of the ... and the Information Technology Lab (ITL).

NOTES: *** Letter of Intent Required by Jan 24, 2012 ***

Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): January 24, 2012

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): March 21, 2012

*** To decrease the time between the internal deadline and the notification of nominees, we ask that you please "Register Interest/Share Your Ideas" on the OVPR website - even just by entering your name and department. Or, email collabor@umn.edu and let us know you plan on submitting a proposal! Please see the "Extramural Coordinated Funding" website for information and guidelines:

http://www.collaborate.umn.edu/explore/external_coordinated_funding.cfm

NOTES: Response Date:
White Papers: 3/23/2012
Full Proposals: 6/29/2012

The current evolution of naval warfighting from a platform-centric to a network-centric paradigm depends on successfully meeting the implied need for significantly enhanced communications and networking capabilities of C2, sensor and weapon systems. These systems are deployed on a variety of platforms and users, both manned and unmanned, operating under challenging battlefield conditions (lack of infrastructure, mobility, spectrum, interference, multipath, atmospherics, size/weight/power constraint, etc.) in different environments (space, terrestrial and undersea).

The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Code 312 is to support the FORCEnet vision by developing measurable advances in technology that can directly enable and enhance end-to-end connectivity and quality-of-service for mission-critical information exchange among such widely dispersed naval, joint, and coalition forces. The vision is to provide high throughput robust communications and networking to ensure all warfighters -- from the operational command to the tactical edge -- have access to information, knowledge, and decision-making necessary to perform their assigned tasks.

NOTES: Proposal Consideration – All responsible offerors may submit a quad chart/white paper in response to this solicitation which will be considered. In order to be considered for award, contractors must be registered in the Contractor Central Registration (CCR), complete Online Representations and Certifications via ORCA at the www.bpn.gov, must be considered responsible within the meaning of FAR 9.1, have a satisfactory performance record and otherwise be eligible for award based on federal law and regulation.

NOTES: This Research Announcement (RA) seeks to revolutionize cyber technologies by promoting non-traditional technical opportunities. The Cyber Fast Track (CFT) program will engage numerous cyber related efforts across the spectrum of computer and network operations (CNO) to demonstrate that cyber efforts can be accomplished rapidly and cost effectively. This effort intends to extend the existing performer base to include non-standard, cutting edge organizations and individuals throughout the cyber community, thereby strengthening the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cyber Security capabilities. One goal of this program is to demonstrate the ability for cyber projects to be performed at an asymmetric advantage in time, cost, and contribution of the efforts in comparison to more traditional applied research areas.

NOTES: You are advised to read the solicitation carefully, as many aspects have changed.

Among the significant changes, the following are worthy of special notice:

Greater emphasis is placed on developing the fundamentals of CPS, focusing on science, technology and engineering concepts that apply across more than one CPS application domain.
The goals and expectations of the program have been re-articulated with a view toward emphasizing the importance of building bridges across traditional discipline boundaries.
The previous CPS "themes" have been replaced by CPS Research Target Areas: Science of Cyber-Physical Systems, Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems, and Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems.
The two proposal types (Medium and Large) have been replaced by three new types (Breakthrough, Synergy, and Frontiers), with descriptions intended to emphasize differences in the characteristics of the expected research goals for each type rather than size of budget.
The ranges of funding levels for the Synergy and Frontier types of proposals overlap.
Multi-institutional Collaborative Research proposals are allowed for all proposal types.
Each type of proposal has significantly different requirements, for both technical content and proposal preparation instructions.
Breakthrough proposals have specific requirements for the Project Summary.
Frontiers proposals have additional requirements for Supplementary Documents.


Examples of the many CPS application areas include the smart electric grid, smart transportation, smart buildings, smart medical technologies, next-generation air traffic management, and advanced manufacturing. CPS will transform the way people interact with engineered systems, just as the Internet transformed the way people interact with information.

NOTES: This interdisciplinary scientific challenge calls for the development and application of next-generation Earth System Models that include coupled and interactive representations of such things as ocean and atmospheric currents, human activities, agricultural working lands and forests, urban environments, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, the water cycle and land ice. This solicitation seeks to attract scientists from the disciplines of geosciences, social sciences, agricultural and biological sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, and chemistry. Successful proposals will develop intellectual excitement in the participating disciplinary communities and engage diverse interdisciplinary teams with sufficient breadth to achieve the scientific objectives.

NOTES: *** REQUIRES INTEGRATION OF PREVIOUS R&D ***

The goal of DARPA’s Dialysis Like Therapeutics program is to develop a portable device that removes “dirty” blood from the body, separates harmful agents, and returns “clean” blood to the body in a manner similar to dialysis treatment of kidney failure. While the device could have an impact across multiple areas of medicine, the target application for this device is sepsis.

NOTES: Proposals should promote and foster DTC inter-disciplinary and inter-departmental excellence in research, and document how the seed funds will facilitate larger efforts toward securing external funding on the proposed DTC/DTI topics. Educating students and post-doctoral associates for high-technology careers continues to be a DTC mission.

NOTES: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces interest in receiving applications for research that supports the Genomics Science Program and addresses DOE?s missions in energy and the environment in the following research areas: a) Microbial systems design for biofuels, from computer modeling to experimental validation: To develop modeling algorithms and innovative biosystems design technologies to define, build, and apply functional biological modules for the generation of novel biological systems that advance toward the production of biofuels; and b) Plant systems design for bioenergy: To develop novel technologies to re-design bioenergy crops that can grow in marginal environments while producing high yield of biomass that can be easily converted to biofuels. Applications should also address potential societal implications of engineered organisms.

NOTES: I2O seeks to enable this understanding through the development of computational and analytic techniques that can process and assimilate the huge volumes of data generated by modern sensor, information, and communication systems, and by incorporating these techniques and new enabling sensor technologies in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and language processing systems that can classify behaviors, correlate events, identify trends, detect anomalies, and generate alerts.

Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art.

NOTES: o Abstract Due Date: February 23, 2012
o Proposal Due Date: April 16, 2012

The goal of the Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program is to provide the technologies and techniques to overcome the power efficiency barriers that currently constrain embedded computing systems capabilities and limit the potential of future embedded systems.

The goal is to provide more effective embedded computing per watt of electrical power.

Proposed R&D activity may involve, but is not limited to:
 Computing hardware and software architecture,
 Concurrency,
 Resilience,
 Locality, and
 Algorithms
 Simulation

Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, and/or systems. Specifically excluded is research that results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.

NOTES: This is the third year of TWC Research Program
Their are two submission dates in 2012.
April 1, 2012 and November 1, 2012.

Applicants should submit: A three page description of the proposed project. See website.

research topic areas: the end-user experience for broadband services; network reliability, security, and privacy; internet governance; the future of localism in communications policy; video convergence and internet video; and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.

NOTES: This is a Request for Information (RFI) on cyberspace science and technology (S&T) research, operational concepts, and mission support innovations to support Air Force projected missions in the near-term (FY2012-15), mid-term (FY2016-20) and far-term (FY2021-25).

No Funds Are Available At This Time.

NOTES: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) is soliciting innovative proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the performance of research, development, design, and testing that directly supports Strategic Technology Office (STO). This includes Finding Difficult Targets; Communications, Networks and Electronic Warfare; Shaping the Environment; and Foundational Technologies that support multiple STO focus areas.

NOTES: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0000600, is our annual, broad, open solicitation that covers all of the research areas in the Office of Science and is open throughout the Fiscal Year.

Interest in work in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) and other areas.