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DARPA-SN-19-65 STO Industry Day August 7 – 8, 2019
1 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) is hosting a “STO Industry Day” event on August 7 – 8, 2019.
The purpose of the event is to (1) familiarize attendees with STO’s vision, problem spaces, Program Managers (PMs), and technology interests; and (2) facilitate technical discussion between STO PMs and attendees that explore innovative and impactful solution ideas for strategic national security challenges.
The event is scheduled for August 7 – 8, 2019 at the DARPA Conference Center (DCC) located at 675 N. Randolph St. Arlington, VA 22203. Participants may attend either the August 7 UNCLASSIFIED event day focused on Mosaic Technologies, or the August 8 SECRET collateral event day focused on Mission Systems (requires a SECRET personnel security clearance).
The August 7 event day will also be webcast for those who would like to participate remotely. Participants may only attend one of the two event days in person. Attendees to the August 8 event day should not also register for the August 7 webcast. Registration details are below. See the registration website for participation eligibility requirements.
STO VisionDARPA/STO is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that provide the U.S. military increased lethality in an era of eroding dominance.
DARPA/STO aims to provide the U.S. military lethality using a strategy called Mosaic Warfare: fast, scalable, adaptive joint multi-domain lethality. It is the disaggregation of effects chain functions (e.g., Find, Fix, Target, Track, Engage, and Assess or F2T2EA) across a heterogeneous mix of manned and unmanned platforms from all domains.
Furthermore, it is the ability to compose and recompose effects chains at high speed without a priori knowledge of which systems will provide which function(s) of a given effects chain. The result presents an adversary with an overwhelming, diverse set of kinetic and non-kinetic effect decision dilemmas without common counters or failure modes.
Mosaic Technologies: For the past several years, DARPA/STO has been developing technology to fight as a distributed network of heterogeneous capabilities – a system of systems. Recently, DARPA/STO expanded the concept to make system of systems adaptable at mission speed – a mosaic.
Instead of manually integrating elements into a rigid, monolithic system of systems architecture, we strive to develop all of the infrastructure technologies needed to compose specific, fleeting system of systems implementations with a confederated collection of capabilities. In the ultimate vision, the warfighter can arrive at the battlespace and immediately compose a desired effect from whatever capabilities are available.
Mission Systems: DARPA/STO has a legacy of developing advanced mission systems technologies: sensors, seekers, and electronic warfare. Generally, these systems are thought of as providing a component capability of an effects chain. In recent years, DARPA/STO has been developing these systems to be enabled by a system of systems. In the context of Mosaic Warfare, these capabilities are “tiles” within the mosaic. For example, DARPA/STO is currently developing payloads and processing that provide new distributed sensing and electronic warfare.
DARPA-SN-19-65 STO Industry Day August 7 – 8, 2019 2 DARPA/STO is seeking technologies that expand upon this set of tools, placing an increased emphasis on novel sensors and effectors that are consistent with the Mosaic Warfare strategy. DARPA/STO wishes to expand the sensing emphasis to the “find and fix” portions of the kill chain, and emphasize offensive non-kinetic effects to be employed against peer adversaries. STO PMs continuously strive to refresh the Office idea base. PMs often inform and refine their ideas, and broaden potential solution spaces through interactions with innovative performers. Thus, the “STO Industry Day” event is a communication forum to facilitate PM and attendee interactions with the goal of identifying new solution spaces and enhancing PM relationships with innovative thought leaders. STO encourages attendance from those interested in holding solution-focused conversations with STO PMs, including members of industry and academia....
