DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is hosting Discover DSO Day (D3) in Chicago, April 23-24. The objective of the event is to connect DSO with the science and technology community in the Midwest to help generate world-leading technologies and capabilities for U.S. national security, which is critical to the Office’s mission of creating and preventing scientific surprise. D3 Chicago follows similar outreach events in 2024 to science and technology communities on the West and East Coast in San Francisco and Boston, respectively.

DARPA seeks to identify and pursue high-impact research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines to provide advanced capabilities for the Department of Defense.

DSO focuses on nascent and emergent technologies that could result in breakthrough capabilities for national security and seeks to demonstrate beyond-state-of-the-art technologies through targeted, high-risk/high-reward development efforts.