Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Office-wide

This Broad Agency Announcement from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Microsystems Technology Office seeks revolutionary research ideas not addressed by ongoing programs or other published solicitations. Potential topics of interest include advanced electronics, photonics, materials, sensors, manufacturing, and more applying to areas such as embedded intelligence, electromagnetic spectrum technologies, microsystem integration, and disruptive defense applications. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis, with abstracts due by January 3, 2022 and full proposals due by March 13, 2022. Evaluation will consider the degree of technical innovation and potential military utility.

There is no set-aside designation specified. Research areas include advanced RF and EO/IR filters, imaging architectures, photonic and electronic interconnects, atomic physics, chip-scale sensors, cold-atom microsystem technologies, cognitive EW technologies, compound semiconductor electronics, computational architectures for AI, directed energy components, EO/IR technologies, electronics for harsh environments, energy-efficient computing, hardware assurance, heterogeneous integration technologies, high energy lasers, high power microwave technologies, low power electronics, low temperature electronics, low volume manufacturing, materials for next-generation microelectronics, MEMS, microsystem design and CAD, positioning/navigation/timing microsystems, RF/optical transceivers, mixed-signal electronics, signal processing techniques, and thermal management. Multiple awards of up to 5 years in duration are anticipated.