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Challenges

Challenges are designed to accelerate the development of groundbreaking solutions for critical national defense and public safety needs, such as developing autonomous ground vehicles, self-driving cars, robots for dangerous environments, and automated cybersecurity systems.

Triage Challenge (DTC)

Transforming how medical responders triage in mass casualty incidents by advancing scalable, timely, and accurate tools.

Learn about triage data delivery

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Lift Challenge

Shattering the heavy lift bottleneck, seeking novel drone designs that can carry payloads more than four times their weight.

Learn about drones

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Bio-attribution Challenge

This virtual competition calls on innovators to develop a new generation of tools capable of analyzing petabyte-scale datasets in near real-time, far exceeding the capacity of current systems. How can we revolutionize how we identify and trace the source of biological sequences, ensuring a faster, more effective response to potential threats?

Find a "needle in a haystack"

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Completed challenges

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Computational Imaging Detection and Ranging (CIDAR) Challenge

Exploring the potential of computational imaging, machine learning, and artificial intelligence tools and techniques.

Learn about machine learning

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