This Broad Agency Announcement supports scientific research and experimentation to advance state-of-the-art soldier technologies. Funded areas include combat feeding, soldier protection, modeling and simulation, human performance, expeditionary maneuver support, aerial delivery, and simulation and training technologies. The program seeks proposals that address technology barriers without focusing on specific hardware, enabling innovative exploratory development across multiple soldier system domains.
Eligible applicants include degree-granting colleges and universities, nonprofit research institutes, foreign organizations, and commercial firms of various sizes and ownership types. Government facilities and organizations are not eligible.