Strategic Social Interaction Modules (SSIM)

DARPA is soliciting proposals for innovative research into the identification of and training in social interactions skills warfighters can apply to effect successful outcomes in social encounters with strangers in unfamiliar and hostile environments and in enhancing the warfighters’ human dynamics proficiencies during such encounters. The proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in social science, training, or validation. Specifically excluded is research that results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.