Attachment_A_Abstract_Summary_Side_Template.pptx

This document outlines a federal contract opportunity from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values program aims to develop benchmarks to objectively and quantitatively measure the ethical difficulty of future autonomy use-cases and readiness of autonomous systems to perform in those use-cases within the context of military operational values. Performers will need to develop prototype generative modeling environments to rapidly explore scenario iterations, variability, and across a spectrum of increasing ethical difficulties. The goal is to create the ethical autonomy lingua franca to enable the Developmental Testing/Operational Testing community to meaningfully evaluate the ethical difficulty of specific military scenarios and the ability of autonomous systems to perform ethically within those scenarios. If successful, this program will build the foundation for defining the benchmark with which future autonomous systems will be gauged.