I found an interesting DARPA solicitation, posted today.
https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/dc411d9fa4684aa481c0e726fe07d625/download?&token=The types of submissions they are requesting in terms of the specific categories of technologies being requested are not different from previous solicitations. The requests are in keeping with the ongoing "Broad Agency Announcements" solicitation.
What is interesting about this solicitation is that they are requesting video, rather than written presentations. There could be a variety of motives for this change. One which comes to mind is that the government may want documented evidence of who is making a submission rather than written abstracts which could be submitted under a pseudonym. They want to know to whom to send the gag orders when an idea is meritorious, although I don't believe this is the primary reason. Even more likely than this possibility is the possibility that the motive is
to discourage the submission of proposals designed to waste the time of their evaluators. The United States publishes a great deal of pseudoscientific information which is routed both through university media offices and through popular science websites. It is also not unusual for foreign intelligence services to directly furnish false scientific information to competitors. In the past, these efforts usually involved falsifying classification markings and the delivery of such documents to embassies. Now, it seems, China is creating false corporate personae, ostensibly American and allied defense contractors and using them to submit proposals to waste the time of evaluators.
This would seem to suggest that DARPA has been repeatedly inconvenienced by MSS scientific disinformation efforts, ranging from obvious spam to sophisticated proposals known to the PRC not to work. The "Government Evaluators" at DARPA lack the expertise to know when a suggested idea doesn't make scientific sense and another interesting thing mentioned in this solicitation is that
outside entities are being enlisted to evaluate the scientific plausibility of proposals. The MSS keeps getting smarter and they've discovered how easy it is to frustrate day to day operations in the bureaucratic agencies of our government. I don't own a business so I haven't once made a submission with the exception of a single submission to a program which was allegedly seeking proposals at Argonne National Laboratory. I didn't divulge anything sensitive in that submission and disclosed that I lacked a university degree and went to the Lifeworks Alternative School, a school for emotionally disturbed children in Pennsylvania. Argonne National Laboratory never requested further details concerning my idea.