Nov 3, 2025

Questions and answers: What is DARPA's goal with its new solicitation? To advance AI technologies, secure computing systems, and information confidence to defend against adversary threats -- especially in the face of advanced AI technologies. What are the four thrust areas of the DARPA project? Developing trustworthy AI systems; enhancing system resilience and security; advancing cyber operations; and improving information confidence by countering information warfare attacks. When is the deadline for companies to submit proposals for DARPA's project? The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 Nov. 2025. ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are approaching industry for technological advances in artificial intelligence; secure computing systems cyber operations; and information confidence. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., issued a broad agency announcement (HR001125S0002) last Wednesday for the Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide project. This solicitation seeks new information and computer technologies in four thrust areas to surprise adversaries and maintain advantages for national security. Proficient artificial intelligence (AI) seeks to advance the AI state of the art, use new AI technologies for national security, and new ways to counter advanced AI technologies by adversaries. Artificial intelligence (AI) The goal is to define and create trustworthy AI systems for use the face of attacks by skilled high-resource adversaries for safe, secure, and trustworthy systems -- particularly to accelerate the pace of science and engineering for national security. Resilient, adaptable, and secure systems seeks dramatic advancements in security and resilience of new and legacy software, with a focus on practical and scalable approaches. This emphasizes formal methods while capitalizing on AI and machine learning. Advantage in cyber operations seeks to advance state-of-the-art AI and secure resilient systems to produce trustworthy cyber tools and capabilities that operate beyond the capacity or speed of humans, in the presence of enemy countermeasures at the same technological levels. Information confidence Confidence in the information domain focuses on detecting and countering enemy information warfare attacks, and measuring system health. This spans the cognitive level of beliefs and attitudes; the knowledge of scientific discourse, financial, and supply chains; tracking to record digital dust created when interacting with digital devices; and the transport of electronic messages. DARPA researchers particularly are interested in computational approaches with the potential to change established practices radically. Companies interested should submit abstracts and proposals no later than 28 Nov. 2025 to the DARPA BAA Tool online at https://baa.darpa.mil . Email questions or concerns to DARPA at [email protected] . More information is online at https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0f79cfd610814c4491085f2b0383cca8/view . About the Author