MODIFICATION
A -- Defense Sciences Research and Technology
- Notice Date
- 3/13/2003
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- BAA03-02
- Response Due
- 11/7/2003
- Point of Contact
- Steven Wax, Deputy Director, Defense Sciences Office, Phone 703-696-2281, Fax 571-218-4553,
- E-Mail Address
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none
- Description
- PREDICTING REAL OPTIMIZED MATERIALS, SOL BAA 03-02, Addendum 4, DUE 9/30/2003, POC: DR. CAREY SCHWARTZ, DARPA/DSO, Fax: 571-218-4553, E-mail: baa03-02@darpa.mil, URL: www.darpa.mil/baa/#dso. The Defense Sciences Office is interested in new white papers for PREDICTING REAL OPTIMIZED MATERIALS. This new program represents a thrust area for DSO that will comprise a multi-disciplinary, multi-pronged approach with far-reaching impact. Predicting Real Optimized Materials (PROM): Existing methods for materials development rely on synthetic methods of either perturbing known material systems or substituting atomic constituents in order to achieve desired properties. This is costly in terms of labor and time and leaves large portions of the parameter space unexplored. As a result of computational complexity, theoretical methods are seldom used to suggest new structures or to suggest the substitution of atoms in a structure to achieve the desired physical properties. Instead, such models are generally only used to calculate various properties of known structures. The desired approach to ab initio materials design is based upon inverse methods where the desired properties are input, and the atoms and their relative placement are computed. Recent efforts suggest that advances in mathematical techniques that reduce the complexity of ab initio methods, coupled to recent advances in the ab initio methods themselves, supported by ubiquitous compute power, would enable material designers to approach materials as an inverse problem. Moreover, such an approach would suggest synthesis routes for the materials of interest, while exploring portions of the parameter space heretofore unexplored. PROM intends to develop tools to solve the inverse problem, thereby minimizing the number of experiments that are performed, including synthesis. We would like to invite white papers that are innovative, far-reaching in their implications, and ambitious in their goals and implementation. The proposed work should be in one or more of the following areas: (a) Development and application of ab initio methods for the ground state of the many body Schrodinger Equation such as: Density Functional Theory, Quantum Monte Carlo, ab initio Molecular Dynamics, and related methods of O (N) or better in computational complexity that can account for the presence of external fields, finite temperatures, and other perturbations. Development and application of ab initio methods for the excited states of the many body Schrodinger Equation such as: Density Functional Theory, Quantum Monte Carlo, ab initio Molecular Dynamics, and related methods of O(N) or better in computational complexity that can account for the presence of external fields, finite temperatures, and other perturbations; (b) Development and application of methods, systems, and interfaces that automatically extract parameters of interest from microscopic systems and produce parameters of relevance for macroscopic systems; (c) Development and application of algorithmic methods that enable molecular dynamics calculations to be performed across multiple spatial and temporal scales sufficient to model clusters of 100’s of atoms interacting with similar clusters or surface for several microseconds; NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (13-MAR-2003). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 30-JAN-2004. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Record
- SN00513569-F 20040201/040130215214 (fbodaily.com)
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