Closed · HR001121S0024 · CFDA 12.910 · Discretionary

COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU)

Federal grant opportunity posted by DARPA - Information Innovation Office, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Closed
Status
July 2, 2021
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) is a closed discretionary listing from DARPA - Information Innovation Office that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 78 other opportunities from DARPA - Information Innovation Office.

Varies
award range
Closed
application status
12.910
CFDA program
78
other opportunities from DARPA - Information Innovation Office

Archived opportunity record

COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) is closed (last close July 2, 2021). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. DARPA - Information Innovation Office still indexes 78 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

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Closed July 2, 2021

Posted Apr 29 Closes Jul 2

Instrument

Procurement Contract

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.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · HR001121S0024

Grants.gov marks COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Procurement Contract. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the DARPA - Information Innovation Office book (37 peers, 47% of 79).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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Agency Contact

BAA Coordinator CCU@darpa.mil

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