Tactical Technology Office

The mission of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) is to provide or prevent strategic and tactical surprise with very high-payoff, high-risk development and demonstration of revolutionary new platforms in Ground Systems, Maritime (Surface and Undersea) Systems, Air Systems, and Space Systems. This is accomplished through:

• A focus on global capabilities with precision and endurance applicable to all combat environments
• Development and demonstration of system level technologies and capabilities that outpace adversary capabilities and force structures
• Advanced autonomy for ground, maritime, air and space systems performing tasks in an integrated and collaborative fashion across various mission domains; this includes model-based approaches to autonomy, swarming, counter-swarm, multi-platform coordination, and multi-modal human-machine interaction optimized for human physiology
• Improved unmanned platform efficiencies and performance within the respective operating environments, enhanced endurance, reliability management, health monitoring, damage detection, adaptation, and reconfiguration as well as approaches that allow for system and/or task performance analysis, testing, and evaluation of advanced concepts.