Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide

DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO) is seeking innovative ideas and disruptivetechnologies that provide the U.S. military and national security leaders trusted, disruptivecapabilities to win in all physical domains (Air, Space, Sea, and Land) and across the spectrumof competition, from deterrence to high-end peer combat. STO seeks to carry out DARPA’smission of creating high-risk, high-reward “breakthrough” technologies with a focus onambitious, difficult, and revolutionary projects that achieve significant changes or fundamentalshifts in technical capabilities and give our warfighters new ways to fight. STO will develop anddeliver solutions at a speed and scale to be operationally relevant in a relatively short time, just afew years, from the initiation of the project to proof of concept.STO is a “systems office,” seeking to create new “proof-of-concept” mission systems. Its goalsare to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that expand what is technically