# Strategic Catalyst Announcement for AI-BTO

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpasca2401

- Solicitation number: DARPA-SCA-24-01
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was November 25, 2024
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Contracting office: Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy (HR0011)
- NAICS: 541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC11 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Basic Research
- First posted: September 11, 2024
- Last posted: October 8, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/98aec02119c8480bbc358dae35f2c4df/view

## Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicits innovative ideas to develop novel capabilities for national security. DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO) wishes to catalyze future efforts in the topics of Prediction and Health; Autonomous Science; Simulation; Biomanufacturing and Synthetic Biology; Challenges with Scale; and Frontier topics through the generation and/or processing of data sets.

AI BTO employs an acquisition strategy to encourage participation by new or non-traditional proposers that bring artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) innovations to BTO. The Government seeks limited rights to the technical data produced through the AI BTO opportunity. Performers will retain ownership for commercial use of the intellectual property and data sets created during performance under this solicitation.

## Publications

- September 11, 2024: Solicitation, due November 25, 2024. Notice ad2f1fffd55e4239880e97d3642fd3ec. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ad2f1fffd55e4239880e97d3642fd3ec/view
- September 30, 2024: Solicitation, due November 25, 2024. Notice a30cbf5b607b4c89bd75d38da8c322cc. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a30cbf5b607b4c89bd75d38da8c322cc/view
- October 4, 2024: Solicitation, due November 25, 2024. Notice ddaf8b2b96e84976959430cdac7a7f4e. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ddaf8b2b96e84976959430cdac7a7f4e/view
- October 8, 2024: Solicitation, due November 25, 2024. Notice 98aec02119c8480bbc358dae35f2c4df. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/98aec02119c8480bbc358dae35f2c4df/view

## Points of contact

- BAA Coordinator, DARPA-SCA-24-01@darpa.mil

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