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This document contains a federal contract opportunity announcement for the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative research proposals to develop automated tools to assign Confidence Scores (CSs) to different types of Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) research results and claims. These tools would provide quantitative and explainable CSs to measure the reproducibility and replicability of SBS research with reliability equal to or better than human experts. The tools would allow users to quickly understand the level of confidence in the Reproducibility and Replicability of a given SBS result or claim. Proposals should explore revolutionary rather than evolutionary approaches. Research that primarily results in improvements to existing practices is specifically excluded. Proposals are sought by June 12, 2018 for this DARPA program aimed at advancing confidence in open research and evidence.