On April 28, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency’s (DARPA) issued a Proposers Day notice for the Decentralized Artificial Intelligence through Controlled Emergence (DICE) solicitation. Registration closes at 5:00 p.m. Eastern on May 19 for the May 29 event.
DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) is sponsoring an unclassified hybrid Proposers Day in support of an anticipated DICE solicitation. The purpose of this event is to provide information on DICE technical goals and challenges, address questions from potential proposers, and provide an opportunity for potential proposers to consider how their research may align with the DICE program objectives. Attendance is voluntary and it is not required to propose to the DICE solicitation.
The DICE Proposers Day will be held on May 29, 2026 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET in-person at the Executive Conference Center, located at 4075 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, Virginia, 22203 and virtually via Zoom. No more than three representatives per organization unit, and five people per overall organization, may attend this Proposers Day. Registrants are strongly encouraged to coordinate attendance internally within their organizations prior to registration. Registration for in-person attendance must be completed no later than 5:00 PM ET on May 19, 2026.
Future conflicts will unfold at machine speed in highly dynamic and contested environments. This will require autonomous, multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) systems to create an asymmetric battlespace advantage and reduce risk to warfighters. The DICE program seeks to develop the theory and algorithms for decentralized coordination and local inference control to enable a scalable, adaptive, and resilient collective of heterogeneous AI agents that can autonomously execute sustained long-time-horizon missions in contested environments while remaining under our control.
In contrast to small-scale, rigid, and fragile centralized orchestration or the high-risk unpredictable nature of ad hoc compositions of AI agents, DICE aims to harness the scalability and adaptability of self-organizing systems while minimizing risks and ensuring that the collective behavior remains predictable and aligned with intended outcomes. This approach mirrors the principles of decentralized self-organization that underpin the internet’s own scalability and resilience, where robust global behavior emerges from simple, local rules.
Review the DICE Proposers Day invitation.
Source: SAM
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