Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT)

The summary for the Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT): Amendment 02: The purpose of this amendment is to extend the proposal due date due to TFIMS system connectivity issues being experienced today (6/17/13). Amendment 01: The purpose of this amendment is to incorporate technical revisions to DARPA-BAA-13-26 and to make an administrative change to Attachment 1. Please see the revisions highlighted in yellow in the attached conformed DARPA-BAA-13-26 documents (to include Attachment 1). Original Synopsis below. ACT aims to dramatically shorten the timescales associated with electromagnetic array development, deployment and upgrade. Specifically, this program will depart from traditional highly-specialized and time-consuming array design methodologies and focus on three enabling thrust areas: 1) realization of a common hardware module that can be broadly applied to many disparate array functions, 2) development of a reconfigurable electromagnetic interface capable of supporting a wide variety of parameters such as different polarizations, frequencies, bandwidths, etc. and 3) demonstration of a scalable infrastructure in which arrays on physically disconnected platforms can be coherently combined into a larger effective aperture through the use of precise timing and localization data. See the full DARPA-BAA-13-26 document attached.