FLUID

DARPA is soliciting innovative approaches to address challenges in the following technical areas: Technologies to enable Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C5ISRT) systems (applications and network services) to function at scale without sacrificing application or network utility, under network capacities that range from 1Mbps to 1Kbps.

FLUID does not seek to replace or change much on an existing C5ISRT system. Rather, FLUID seeks to integrate dynamically and seamlessly into C5ISRT systems with the freedom to intercept, reason over, and manipulate both control plane and data plane messages, including any associated overhead, to reduce their load (consumed capacity) while not impacting the system utility.

The FLUID program consists of a single Technical Area, divided into Phase 1A and Phase 1B.