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Hyperdimensional Neurosymbolic Cyber Course-of-Action Planning and Replanning under Deception

Department of War · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · SBIR Topic · 27.BZ

posted 4 November 2026 · closes 6 January 2027

Summary

The DARPA SBIR topic seeks prototype cyber planning technologies that enable human planners and distributed reasoning elements to generate, compare, explain, and rapidly replan courses of action under deception and partial observability using hyperdimensional and neurosymbolic representations. The effort focuses on advanced symbolic reasoning methods to improve compactness, interpretability, and resilience of cyber decision-making in contested environments.

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