Critical Orientation of Mathematics to Produce Advancements in Science and Security (COMPASS)
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General Information
- Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Original)
- Original Published Date: Jan 15, 2025 02:21 pm EST
- Original Date Offers Due: May 12, 2025 04:00 pm EDT
- Inactive Policy: Manual
- Original Inactive Date: Jun 11, 2025
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Description
For instance, the Wiener filter1 was developed during World War II to help the U.S. military discern threats in the air domain from noisy radar observations. However, the technology’s effectiveness was limited due to its strong assumption of signal stationarity, a condition rarely satisfied in operational settings. By leveraging a dynamical systems approach, in 1960 Rudolf Kalman reformulated the filtering problem in a more robust state-space framework that inherently addressed non-stationarity.2 Sixty years later, the Kalman filter remains a pillar of modern control theory, supporting military decisions in autonomous navigation, flight control systems, sensor fusion, wireless communications and much more. The combination of a robust mathematical framework with the right problem formulation enables transformative Defense capabilities. Achieving this, however, requires deep mathematical insight to properly formulate the problem within the context of the specific Defense challenge at hand.
To excel in increasingly complex, dynamic, and uncertain operational environments, military decision-makers need richer mathematical frameworks that fully capture the intricacies of these challenges. Emerging fields in mathematics offer the potential to provide these frameworks, but realizing their full potential requires innovative problem formulations.
This ARC opportunity is soliciting ideas to explore the question: How can new mathematical frameworks enable paradigm shifting problem formulations that better characterize complex systems, stochastic processes, and random geometric structures?
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- BAA Coordinator
- COMPASS@darpa.mil