From: SpectrumCollaborationChallenge [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 2:45 PM To: SpectrumCollaborationChallenge Subject: Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Announcement
[cid:[email protected]] We're excited to announce that DARPA has just released the details of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2): "The world's first collaborative machine-intelligence competition to overcome spectrum scarcity." This new DARPA Grand challenge, which champions a spectrum-sharing model for RF communications, comes at a time of fast-growing demand, which could soon overwhelm the current, nearly century-old practice of assigning users exclusive use of specific frequencies. Military operations increasingly rely on access to the wireless spectrum to assess the tactical environment and coordinate critical missions. And as society enters an era in which ever more products-from refrigerators to automobiles to unmanned aerial vehicles-need access to the spectrum, it will take far more efficient and nimble use of finite spectrum resources to meet the demand. The competition will unfold in three year-long phases beginning in 2017 and finishing, for those teams that survive the two Preliminary Events, in a high-profile Championship Event in late 2019. The team whose advanced, software-defined radios (an RF technology that provides the necessary agility in changing waveforms) collaborate most effectively with a diversity of simultaneously operating radios in a manner that optimizes spectrum usage for the entire communicating ensemble will walk away with a grand prize of $2 million. The teams that rank as the second and third best collaborators will take home $1 million and $750,000, respectively. All the details can be found on our website: SpectrumCollaborationChallenge.com Thank you for your continued interest, and we hope to see you in the challenge! - The DARPA SC2 Team
