DARPA 102: Working with Universities

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1 DARPA 102: Working with Universities Tyler McQuade, PhD DSO Deputy Director Discover DSO Day June 15, 2017

2 Syllabus The Agency The s The Approach DARPA Managers DARPA Performers DSO s Definers Intellectual Partners 2

3 Agencies DARPA mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. Greater than 95% of resources allocated to actively managed programs Investments receive less technical participation 3

4 DARPA Technical Offices 4

5 Science in Service to National Security Threat Landscape New physical, mathematical and social phenomena Asymmetric, commercially acquired, non-kinetic, and unconventional threats Existing structures are costly, complex and increasingly threatened Deficits in attention, imagination, agility limit our options Investment Strategy New Foundations Develop the basis for altering our approach Complexity Engineering Shift or harness complexity to enable new approaches Noosphere Improve our understanding of people, society and human behavior Fundamental Limits Advancing traditional scientific questions and inquiry Science of Design Cognitive amplification to advance our human creative and decision making capacity 5

6 Syllabus The Agency The s The Approach DARPA Managers DARPA Performers DSO s Definers Intellectual Partners 6

7 Managers Fariba Fahroo Mathematics Anne Fischer Chemical Systems James Gimlett Physics Jan Vandenbrande Math, Design, & Production Automation John Paschkewitz Systems, Design, & Materials Michael Fiddy Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics John Main Material System Innovation Adam Russell Behavioral/Social Sciences Ale Lukaszew Physics/Materials Predrag Milojkovic Vincent Tang Imaging & Optics Applied Physics 7

8 The Path to Creating a Pre-DARPA DARPA Literature, etc. Other Tech. Council Community Member Manager Manager w/ Idea Manager w/ Proposal Manager w/ Community Interactions DSO 8

9 How we think: The Heilmeier Catechism Important questions to consider when approaching DARPA with ideas: What are we trying to do? (no jargon!) How does this get done at present? What is new about your approach? If we succeed, what difference do we think it will make? How long do we think it will take? Can we transition (to the DoD or others)? How much will it cost? 9

10 Syllabus The Agency The s The Approach DARPA Managers DARPA Performers DSO s Definers Intellectual Partners 10

11 s Are Actively Managed Many DSO programs have phases Here is a notional three phase example 10 Performers Kick-Off Site visit(s) Performance Review(s) POP = Period of performance End First POP 6 Performers Phase II Site visit(s) Performance Review(s) End Second POP 2 Performers Phase III Site visit(s) Performance Review(s) End Of Weekly and bi-weekly phone calls are not uncommon! 11

12 DSO Managers Your Partner Kick-Off Site visit(s) Performance Review(s) End First POP 12

13 Focusing a Down Selections Phase I 10 Performers Phase II 6 Performers notional Phase I Phase II 13

14 What About My Academic Freedom? 14

15 Essential Elements Yielding DARPA s Magic 15

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