Moving Target Recognition (MTR)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals to develop novel synthetic aperture radar collection techniques and processing algorithms to detect, geolocate, image, and automatically recognize moving ground targets as part of its Moving Target Recognition program. Proposals are due by September 17, 2020 and will be evaluated based on overall scientific and technical merit, contribution to DARPA's mission, proposer capabilities and experience, and cost and schedule realism. Requests for the classified BAA addendum are due by July 29, 2020. Multiple awards are anticipated for the initial 24-month base period with an optional 6-month extension.

There is no set-aside designation for this opportunity. Relevant NAICS codes include 541715 and PSC codes R425 and R408. Potential offerors should possess expertise in areas such as signal processing, sensor exploitation, computer vision, or machine learning. Awards are expected to range from $500,000 to $5,000,000 over the base and optional extension periods to support airborne data collection experiments involving classified information.