March 28, 2023

1:00 PM – 3:55 PM Eastern

Webcast Platform:
ZoomGov

Registration is required for attendance.
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Registration Deadline: March 24, 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern*

*NOTE to FOREIGN NATIONALS: Due to this tight announcement, there is a chance your Form 60 may not clear in time to attend. Please submit promptly!

Please click below to view the Special Notice on sam.gov.

Event Participation

Registration

There is no registration fee for the Information Session webcast. The registration deadline is March 24, 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern or when capacity is reached, whichever comes first. Advance registration is required for webcast attendance. NOTE: All persons wishing to attend the webcast must register (whether viewing alone or as part of a group).

Registrants in excess of the maximum capacity limitation (350 individuals) may be added to a waitlist. Individuals who are unable to register because the deadline has occurred may request to be added to the waitlist. If slots become available due to cancellations, the slots may be filled on a first come, first served basis from the waitlist.

Eligibility

DARPA is hosting this Information Session to (1) provide potential proposers with information on whether and how they might respond to the Government's research and development solicitations and (2) increase efficiency in proposal preparations and evaluation. Therefore, events such as these are only open to registered potential proposers, i.e., the events are closed to the general public and media. For this particular DO, Information Session registration is open to potential proposers who are U.S. Citizens, U.S. permanent residents, and foreign nationals.

All registrants who are not U.S. Citizens must complete and submit either a DARPA Form 60 (U.S. Permanent Resident and Foreign National Visit Request — e.g., industry or academia) or an Official Visit Request (foreign government personnel, only) through the Embassy based in Washington, DC, no later than 12:00 PM Eastern on March 24, 2023. Form 60 submission instructions will be provided in the registration confirmation email. Contact your Embassy staff for assistance in submitting the Official Visit Request.

Collaboration Opportunities

Potential proposers may choose to share their information with other registrants via all, some, or none of the following options to discover potential collaboration opportunities:

  1. Attendee List (publicly available): Participant contact information (name, organization, email address) will be included on a FS2 Information Session Attendee List published on the DSO Opportunities website. The registration website will ask registrants to indicate whether they approve publication of their contact information.
  2. Lightning Talks: Interested attendees are invited to submit one (1) MS Power Point or Adobe PDF slide that summarizes their interests and capabilities, using the template provided (see Attachment 2) with this notice and on the registration website. These will be presented during 3-minute “lightning talks” at the Somnus Information Session. Submitted presentations consisting of multiple slides or a single slide with multiple layers will not be granted a time slot. Interested attendees must identify their intention to submit the lightning talk during registration. Due to limited availability, DARPA does not guarantee that these requests will be fulfilled.  All presentations must be emailed to Somnus@darpa.mil no later than 12:00 PM ET on March 24, 2023.
  3. Proposer Profile (limited distribution):  Interested parties are also invited to submit a one to two-page ‘teaming profile’ describing technical competencies, unique facilities and other capabilities, as they relate to the program, and desired technical/other competencies sought from other potential team partners. The profile must conform to the template provided with this notice and on the registration website and should include, at a minimum:
    • Contact information, to include name, organization, email, telephone number, mailing address, and website;
    • Brief description of the proposer’s technical competencies and relevant facilities;
    • Desired technical competencies and facilities from other potential team members, if applicable.

All conforming teaming profiles must be emailed to Somnus@darpa.mil no later than March 31, 2023. Profiles that do not use the provided template (see Attachment 3) and/or exceed the two-page limit will not be accepted. Information contained in teaming profiles shall be publicly releasable – profile submitters consent to distribution amongst event registrants. After the webinar, teaming profiles will be sent via e-mail to all registrants on April 3, 2023. Specific content, communications, networking, and team formation are the sole responsibility of participants. Neither DARPA nor the DoD endorses any participating organization, nor does DARPA or DoD exercise any responsibility for improper dissemination of the teaming profiles.