IARPA: Office of Smart Collection: BAA-12-02

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity - IARPA - invests in high-risk, high-payoff research. Promotes research to dramatically improve the value of collected data from all sources. Must demonstrate that their proposed effort has the potential to make revolutionary, rather than incremental, improvements to intelligence capabilities. Research areas of particular interest include:
- Innovative methods or tools for identifying and/or creating novel sources of new information.
- New ways of identifying and assessing collection systems for dramatically improved performance.
- Sensor technologies that dramatically improve the reach, sensitivity, size, weight, and power for collection of broad signal or signature types.
- Secure communication to and from collection points.
- Tagging, Tracking, and Location (TTL) techniques.
- Electrically small antennas and other advanced RF concepts.
- Agile architectures that intelligently distill useful information at the collector.
- Innovative means and methods to ensure the veracity of data collected from a variety of sources.
No stated funding period or funding amounts.
http://www.iarpa.gov/solicitations_smart.html