U.S. federal agencies – DARPA – Resilient supply-demand networks (RDSN)

By providing situational awareness and stress testing, RSDN will enable the Department of Defense and commercial partners to appropriately address systemic risk in procurement and acquisition and to identify and mitigate systemic fragilities before they cause disruptions. The RSDN program will achieve these capabilities by developing a data integration platform and analytical toolkit for supply and-demand networks. RSDN will use data on supplies of pharmaceuticals, military metals, and military food to implement these novel capabilities in realistic environments and to facilitate transition to operational partners. RSDN’s capstone will be a stress testing framework to check for strategic vulnerabilities and explore possible mitigations.

AMOUNTS are not specified

DEADLINE:  Abstract Due Date and Time is March 15, 2022, 12:00pm (ET)

ELIGIBILITY: Non U.S. applicants are eligible

HOW TO APPLY: Proposers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract in advance of a full proposal, comprising a maximum of 4 pages.  The abstract provides a synopsis of the proposed project, including brief answers to the following questions:

• Technical area addressed by the proposed project
• What is the proposed work attempting to accomplish or do?
• How is it done today, and what are the limitations?
• Who will care and what will the impact be if the work is successful?
• How much will it cost, and how long will it take?