SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- vehicleforge.mil - DARPA-BAA-11-21
- Notice Date
- 10/22/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-BAA-11-21
- Archive Date
- 4/23/2011
- Point of Contact
- Paul Eremenko, , Chris Glista,
- E-Mail Address
-
DARPA-BAA-11-21@darpa.mil, christopher.glista@darpa.mil
(DARPA-BAA-11-21@darpa.mil, christopher.glista@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-BAA-11-21 The development of complex software systems has benefitted significantly from the ability to leverage crowd-sourced innovation in the form of open source code development. Open source software hosting sites, a key enabler to the success of this development paradigm, facilitate collaborative development, source tree maintenance, and version control while allowing participation by a large number of independent programmers. Examples include SourceForge, Google Code, and GNU Savannah. The application of open source methods to the development of electromechanical systems has been more limited. And while one can identify several successful examples, they are largely confined to the development of relatively simple products (e.g., Quirky for consumer product design), or have required significant back-end engineering effort to turn product concepts into detailed designs (e.g., Local Motors for custom cars). DARPA has launched a portfolio of programs that aims, among other objectives, to democratize the design process for complex cyber-electro-mechanical systems such as defense and aerospace vehicles. The goal is to enable large numbers of unaffiliated developers to participate in the design of militarily-relevant systems such as ground vehicles, airplanes, rotorcraft, and space systems. To that end, DARPA is soliciting proposals for the development of vehicleforge.mil, an open source hosting site for the collaborative development of these systems. The principal technical challenge associated with this capability is a general representation language that is rich enough to describe a broad range of cyber-electro-mechanical systems, yet formal enough that the system can be compiled or verified in some manner when a design change is made to some element or aspect of it. For complete details of the BAA, refer to the attachment - DARPA-BAA-11-21.
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- Record
- SN02315856-W 20101024/101022234049-390f3c45a7056179e88987f2fbf9e872 (fbodaily.com)
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