DARPA Subterranean Challenge

Deadline: 2018-09-27
Award: $2,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Complex underground settings present significant challenges for military and civilian first responders. The hazards vary drastically across domains that can degrade or change over time and are often too high-risk for personnel to enter.

The DARPA Subterranean or “SubT” Challenge seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments during time-sensitive combat operations or disaster response scenarios.

Teams can compete in one or both of two complementary research tracks: the Systems track, and/or the Virtual track.

Teams in both tracks will compete in three circuit events that will explore the difficulties of operating in specific underground environments.

The winner of the Systems track will take home a $2 million prize, while the winner of the Virtual track will earn a $750,000 prize.