DARPA-SN-25-32.pdf

SPECIAL NOTICE DARPA-SN-25-32

Kallisti Proposers Day EVENT DATE: 7 February, 2025 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 31 January, 2025 5 p.m.

REGISTRATION WEBSITE: https://events.sa-meetings.com/darpakallistiPD TECHNICAL POC: Dr. Eric Davis, STO Program Manager E-MAIL: kallisti@darpa.mil

PROPOSERS DAY:

DARPA will host a Proposers Day in support of DARPA-PS-25-06, Kallisti program on February 7, 2025, at the Executive Conference Center, 4075 Wilson Blvd. Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22203, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. The purpose of this conference is to provide information on the Kallisti program; promote additional discussion on this topic; address questions from potential proposers; and provide a forum for potential proposers to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION: The objective of the Kallisti program is to develop an algorithmic model of adversarial platform situational awareness and predict future behavior. The program will seek to combine algorithms with human expertise to explore, in a modeling and simulation environment, potential courses of action in national security scenarios with far greater breadth and efficiency than is currently possible. Kallisti seeks to provide decision-makers with more options for incentive frameworks while preventing unwanted escalation. The program will seek not only to understand an actor’s current strategy but also to find a decomposed version of the strategy into relevant basis vectors to track strategy changes under non-stationary assumptions.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION: DARPA hosts Proposers Days to promote teaming arrangements between researchers; provide potential performers with information on whether and how they might respond to the government’s research and development solicitations; and to increase efficiency in proposal preparation and evaluation. Therefore, Proposers Days are open only to registered potential proposers.

Participants must register no later than January 31, 2025, at the following website:

https://events.sa-meetings.com/darpakallistiPD. Directions to the facility and other materials are also available on the website. There is no registration fee for attending this conference.

All registrants for the meeting who are not U.S. Citizens must complete and submit one of the following:

All U.S. Permanent Residents and Foreign Nationals must submit a DARPA Form 60, except foreign government personnel who must submit only an Official Visit Request completed by their respective Embassy based in Washington, DC.

All forms must be submitted no later than 5 p.m. EST on January 31, 2025. Form 60 submission instructions are provided on the registration website and in the registration confirmation email.

Contact your Embassy staff for assistance in submitting the Official Visit Request. Upon entry to https://events.sa-meetings.com/darpakallistiPD https://events.sa-meetings.com/darpakallistiPD a physical meeting, all attendees will be required to present valid, Government-issued photo identification.

Due to space limitations of the conference facility, attendance will be limited to the first 100 registrants, and no more than 2 representatives per organization. The Proposers Day will be conducted at the Controlled Unclassified Information level and is open only to U.S. persons. All attendees accessing CUI agree to protect CUI in accordance with DoD Instruction 5200.48 CONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION (CUI) and NIST Special Publication 800-171 Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations. All attendees will be required to present government issued photo identification upon entry to the event.

All attendees are required to submit DARPA form 104, which will verify their U.S. Persons status, in order to attend this Proposers Day. The completed DARPA Form 104 must be emailed to kallisti@darpa.mil no later than 5 p.m. EST, January 31, 2025. DARPA Form 104 is available for download at the registration website. Please contact kallisti@darpa.mil with any questions. In addition, there will be another announcement following this notice regarding a Program Solicitation.

The Proposers Day does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals or proposal abstracts.

Attendance is voluntary and is not required to propose to any potential related Broad Agency Announcements or potential research solicitations on this topic. DARPA will not provide reimbursement for any costs incurred to participate in this Proposers Day.

DARPA highly encourages teaming before proposal submission and will assist in facilitating teaming. A poster session will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST to facilitate interaction among attendees and to give an opportunity to showcase capabilities and build strong teams to solve the challenges presented in the Kallisti program. Due to limited space, DARPA will accept submissions on a first-come, first-served basis and does not guarantee that an attendee’s requests to present will be fulfilled. No template for the poster will be provided; however, posters should highlight proposer capabilities and teaming requirements and must include presenter’s contact information. Posters should not contain any DARPA-SN-25-32 Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or classified information and must be suitable for unlimited public release.

There is a limit of one poster per organization, and posters should be no larger than 24” x 36”.

Registrants must indicate their intent to participate in the poster session during registration.

Please contact kallisti@darpa.mil with any questions.

All material to be displayed at the conference must be approved in advance by both the organization that funded the research and the DARPA program manager. The DARPA program manager will screen the proposed material for sensitive but unclassified material and approve in advance any presentations. It is the presenter’s responsibility to ensure that all material they plan to present at the Proposers Day has been approved by the funding organization in advance. An electronic copy of all material to be presented must be provided to the DARPA Program Manager for review by 5 p.m. EST, January 31, 2025. There will be no exceptions to this requirement. Companies are free to present, but DARPA does not sponsor the information.

There will be an opportunity to meet individually with Dr. Eric Davis for a brief (~7 minutes) one-on-one session from 1:10 p.m.to 4 p.m. Please contact kallisti@darpa.mil to schedule an individual session.