ERIS Special Topic Area – Ag x BTO

ERIS Special Topic Area: Ag X BTO

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for innovative ideas to develop novel capabilities for national security. DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO) wishes to catalyze future efforts to defend agriculture against threats both naturally occurring and manmade. Areas of interest include:

(1) advances to early warning systems for chemical and biological threat surveillance and detection;

(2) rapid-response agricultural countermeasures to defend against threats;

(3) massively accelerated and expanded crop engineering for long-term threat defeat;

(4) integrated and comprehensive threat prediction and modeling for our agricultural systems; and

(5) novel methods to assess the occurrence of human intervention and to attribute provenance.

Ag x BTO employs an acquisition strategy to encourage participation by new or non-traditional submitters that bring innovations to BTO.

This Special Topic Opportunity Page provides the content requirements and instructions for your submission. The actual submission, must be made through the ERIS Marketplace located here: https://www.darpaconnect.us/eris. After navigating to the ERIS Marketplace Page, click on the “Request ERIS Account” button to register for an ERIS account. Once registered, click on the “Access ERIS” button to begin the correct submission workflow.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) long-term, open call for new and novel technology solutions entitled the “Expedited Research Implementation Series” seeking solutions or capabilities that deliver breakthrough technological advancements. This Special Topic Area (STA) is a supplementary, limited period announcement to solicit, collect, and assess disruptive solutions, and make those solutions available through rapid acquisition pathways. This STA will be open for submissions from 1 June 2025 through 31 August 2025.

The ERIS long-term, open call Solicitation can be found here: https://sam.gov/opp/ceb71172068a4ac1b74b3e423b1a4cf1/view