Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) Special Notice

Background
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O) is sponsoring a Proposers Day to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of the anticipated Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) Special Notice Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The objective of the Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) program is to develop computational methods that measure the feasibility of claims to enable accurate assessments of scientific content. The program’s focus will be on claims that express scientific and technological capabilities.

Work Details
The program will produce methods that perform well beyond current automated fact-checkers, recognizing that feasibility assessment is a complex process that requires breaking claims down into constituent components that contribute to a whole, resulting functionality. Automatically assessing each component may involve identifying and using existing technological advancements, foundational scientific principles, data, software or simulation results, as well as current industry standards or benchmarks. This assessment necessitates the development of sophisticated automated techniques capable of managing the rapid expansion of evidence, ensuring that the synthesis and explanation of this evidence is both efficient and reliable.
It is also necessary to determine whether the claimed technological capability, while theoretically possible in parts, is practical and realistic when considered as a whole, which may require evaluating logical consistency, system integration, and compatibility considerations.

Place of Performance
The Proposers Day will be held at the DARPA Conference Center, located at 675 N. Randolph Street, Arlington, Virginia, 22203.