The Department of Defense is offering the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Grant to develop technologies that enhance cross-cultural language understanding for improved operator effectiveness. The program aims to create natural language processing technologies that adapt to emotional, social, and cultural differences, providing valuable recommendations during field interactions. With a focus on minimizing the need for extensive training data, CCU will empower DoD personnel with tools to navigate diverse cultural norms effectively. Ultimately, this grant seeks to bridge the gap between automated systems and human interpreters, advancing language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue capabilities to support negotiations and operational success.
Opportunity ID: 333204
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HR001121S0024 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Other Procurement Contract |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 12.910 — Research and Technology Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 4 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 29, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 25, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 02, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Archive Date: | Jul 16, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government’s needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | DARPA – Information Innovation Office |
| Description: | The Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Program will create cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve a DoD operator’s situational awareness and interactional effectiveness. CCU will build natural language processing technologies that recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. To support diverse and emergent use cases, CCU technologies will be engineered to require minimal-to-no training data in a local culture, while maximizing operator success during negotiations and other interactions in the field. Automated systems would be a welcome force-multiplier for DoD interpreters; however, unlike the human cultural interpreters who enable US forces today, such systems are currently incapable of accurately analyzing cross-cultural communication or providing useful assistance to negotiations beyond basic machine translation. To achieve relative parity with human interpreters, CCU research will provide foundational technical innovations to assist negotiators and analysts with language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue in the field. These advances in the area of cross-cultural understanding will also inform processes for training and planning. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Beta.SAM Contract Opportunities |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
BAA Coordinator
CCU@darpa.mil Email:CCU@darpa.mil |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| The purpose of Amendment 3 is to extend the Proposal Due Date and Time to July 2, 2021, 12:00 noon (ET). Please note that if you have already submitted a proposal, a resubmission will not be necessary. | Jun 25, 2021 | |
| Update to Program Structure and Content and Form Application Submission | Apr 29, 2021 | |
| The purpose of this amendment is to provide updates to 1) Section I, “Funding Opportunity Description,” (B) to add details pertinent to Technical Areas 2 and 3, 2) Deliverables (D) – Deliverable and Schedule updates and 3) to Section I (E) to provide additional information concerning Intellectual Property. | Apr 29, 2021 | |
| Apr 29, 2021 |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 4
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HR001121S0024 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Other Procurement Contract |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 12.910 — Research and Technology Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 4 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 29, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 25, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 02, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Archive Date: | Jul 16, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government’s needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | DARPA – Information Innovation Office |
| Description: | The Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Program will create cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve a DoD operator’s situational awareness and interactional effectiveness. CCU will build natural language processing technologies that recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. To support diverse and emergent use cases, CCU technologies will be engineered to require minimal-to-no training data in a local culture, while maximizing operator success during negotiations and other interactions in the field. Automated systems would be a welcome force-multiplier for DoD interpreters; however, unlike the human cultural interpreters who enable US forces today, such systems are currently incapable of accurately analyzing cross-cultural communication or providing useful assistance to negotiations beyond basic machine translation. To achieve relative parity with human interpreters, CCU research will provide foundational technical innovations to assist negotiators and analysts with language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue in the field. These advances in the area of cross-cultural understanding will also inform processes for training and planning. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Beta.SAM Contract Opportunities |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
BAA Coordinator
CCU@darpa.mil Email:CCU@darpa.mil |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 3
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HR001121S0024 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Other Procurement Contract |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 12.910 — Research and Technology Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 3 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 29, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 03, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Archive Date: | Jul 16, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government’s needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | DARPA – Information Innovation Office |
| Description: | The Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Program will create cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve a DoD operator’s situational awareness and interactional effectiveness. CCU will build natural language processing technologies that recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. To support diverse and emergent use cases, CCU technologies will be engineered to require minimal-to-no training data in a local culture, while maximizing operator success during negotiations and other interactions in the field. Automated systems would be a welcome force-multiplier for DoD interpreters; however, unlike the human cultural interpreters who enable US forces today, such systems are currently incapable of accurately analyzing cross-cultural communication or providing useful assistance to negotiations beyond basic machine translation. To achieve relative parity with human interpreters, CCU research will provide foundational technical innovations to assist negotiators and analysts with language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue in the field. These advances in the area of cross-cultural understanding will also inform processes for training and planning. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Beta.SAM Contract Opportunities |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
BAA Coordinator
CCU@darpa.mil Email:CCU@darpa.mil |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 2
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HR001121S0024 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Other Procurement Contract |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 12.910 — Research and Technology Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 2 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 29, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | May 19, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Archive Date: | Jul 16, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government’s needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | DARPA – Information Innovation Office |
| Description: | The Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Program will create cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve a DoD operator’s situational awareness and interactional effectiveness. CCU will build natural language processing technologies that recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. To support diverse and emergent use cases, CCU technologies will be engineered to require minimal-to-no training data in a local culture, while maximizing operator success during negotiations and other interactions in the field. Automated systems would be a welcome force-multiplier for DoD interpreters; however, unlike the human cultural interpreters who enable US forces today, such systems are currently incapable of accurately analyzing cross-cultural communication or providing useful assistance to negotiations beyond basic machine translation. To achieve relative parity with human interpreters, CCU research will provide foundational technical innovations to assist negotiators and analysts with language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue in the field. These advances in the area of cross-cultural understanding will also inform processes for training and planning. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Beta.SAM Contract Opportunities |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
BAA Coordinator
CCU@darpa.mil Email:CCU@darpa.mil |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 1
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HR001121S0024 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Other Procurement Contract |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 12.910 — Research and Technology Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 29, 2021 |
| Last Updated Date: | Apr 29, 2021 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2021 See Full Announcement for details. |
| Archive Date: | Jul 16, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government’s needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | DARPA – Information Innovation Office |
| Description: | The Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Program will create cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve a DoD operator’s situational awareness and interactional effectiveness. CCU will build natural language processing technologies that recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. To support diverse and emergent use cases, CCU technologies will be engineered to require minimal-to-no training data in a local culture, while maximizing operator success during negotiations and other interactions in the field. Automated systems would be a welcome force-multiplier for DoD interpreters; however, unlike the human cultural interpreters who enable US forces today, such systems are currently incapable of accurately analyzing cross-cultural communication or providing useful assistance to negotiations beyond basic machine translation. To achieve relative parity with human interpreters, CCU research will provide foundational technical innovations to assist negotiators and analysts with language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue in the field. These advances in the area of cross-cultural understanding will also inform processes for training and planning. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Beta.SAM Contract Opportunities |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
BAA Coordinator
CCU@darpa.mil Email:CCU@darpa.mil |
Related Documents
Folder 333204 Full Announcement-HR001121S0024 -> HR001121S0024.pdf
Folder 333204 Revised Full Announcement-HR001121S0024-Amendment-01 -> HR001121S0024-Amendment-01.pdf
Folder 333204 Revised Full Announcement-HR001121S0024-Amendment-02 -> HR001121S0024-Amendment-02.pdf
Folder 333204 Revised Full Announcement-HR001121S0024-Amendment-03 -> HR001121S0024-Amendment-03.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | BAA Coordinator CCU@darpa.mil Email: CCU@darpa.mil |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.910 | PKG00266808 | Jun 25, 2021 | Jul 02, 2021 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
333204 RR_SF424_3_0-3.0.pdf
333204 AttachmentForm_1_2-1.2.pdf
333204 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_3_0-3.0.pdf
333204 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
Optional forms
333204 SFLLL_2_0-2.0.pdf
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