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Opportunity Summary:

The Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) opportunity (DARPA BAA 10-65) is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office solicitation focused on pushing the state of the art in ground robotics. The central aim is to fund research and development that significantly improves how ground robots move through complex environments and how they physically interact with the world through manipulation. In practical terms, the program is looking for advances that make robots more capable in real-world terrain and more competent at handling objects, tools, obstacles, and tasks that require dexterous or forceful interaction. The solicitation emphasizes both scientific progress (new methods, models, algorithms, control approaches, perception and planning advances) and engineering progress (demonstrated systems, integration, and performance improvements), with an expectation that teams will show tangible capability gains rather than purely theoretical results.

From a funding and contracting perspective, this is a discretionary research and development opportunity under a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). DARPA indicates multiple potential award instruments may be used, including cooperative agreements, grants, other transactions, and procurement contracts, depending on the nature of the proposed effort and the government’s anticipated level of involvement. The associated activity category is science and technology and other research and development, and the listing is associated with CFDA number 12.910 (Research and Technology Development). The opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching, which means proposers are not obligated to contribute non-federal funds as a condition of eligibility, although they may still choose to do so if it strengthens the overall plan.

Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning the competition is broadly open to any applicant type, subject to any additional constraints or clarifications that may be included in the full text of the announcement. In typical DARPA BAAs, that can include participation by universities, nonprofit research organizations, for-profit companies (including small businesses), Federally Funded Research and Development Centers when allowed, and other qualified entities, often with the option to propose as a single organization or as a team/consortium. The key point is that the solicitation is not limited to a narrow applicant class; it is structured to attract strong technical ideas from across the research and engineering community.

The timeline provided in the source information shows the opportunity was posted on May 24, 2010, with an original closing date of July 19, 2010, later extended to a current closing date of August 2, 2010. The archive date is October 4, 2010. These dates indicate this is an older, time-bound solicitation rather than an open, continuously accepting program call, and proposals would have needed to be submitted by the stated deadline during that period to be considered under this announcement.

For proposers looking for the complete details, DARPA references an attached announcement document, "DARPA BAA 10-65," which would contain the specific technical areas of interest, desired deliverables, evaluation criteria, submission instructions, and any compliance requirements. The notice also provides a point of contact for access issues: the BAA Coordinator, to be used if an applicant has difficulty obtaining the full announcement electronically. In short, M3 is a DARPA effort aimed at demonstrating major leaps in ground robot mobility and manipulation through competitive R&D proposals, open eligibility, no cost-share requirement, and awards structured under standard DARPA BAA contracting mechanisms.

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