Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide

The purpose of this amendment is to make the following revision, which is highlighted in yellow on page 5:1) Update the BAA closing date to November 15, 2024.

DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO) is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive

technologies that provide the U.S. military and national security leaders trusted, disruptive

capabilities to win in all physical domains (Air, Space, Sea, and Land) and across the spectrum

of competition, from deterrence to high-end peer combat. STO seeks to carry out DARPA’s

mission of creating high-risk, high-reward “breakthrough” technologies with a focus on

ambitious, difficult, and revolutionary projects that achieve significant changes or fundamental

shifts in technical capabilities and give our warfighters new ways to fight. STO will develop and

deliver solutions at a speed and scale to be operationally relevant in a relatively short time, just a

few years, from the initiation of the project to proof of concept.

STO is a “systems office,” seeking to create new “proof-of-concept” mission systems. Its goals

are to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that expand what is technically possible.