Defense Sciences Office

DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines and transforms them into important, new game-changing technologies for U.S. national security. Current DSO themes include [novel materials and structures, sensing and measurement, computation and processing, enabling operations, collective intelligence, and emerging threats](https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/dso-thrust-areas). DSO relies on the greater scientific research community to help identify and explore ideas that could potentially revolutionize the state-of-the-art.