# COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU)

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/hr001121s0024-computational-cultural-understanding-ccu/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/333204

> DARPA - Information Innovation Office offered grants to the applicants described in the notice. Applications closed on July 2, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HR001121S0024 |
| Agency | DARPA - Information Innovation Office |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | July 2, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | not stated |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 12.910 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information.

## What the grant funds

The Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) Program will create cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve a DoD operator’s situational awareness and interactional effectiveness. CCU will build natural language processing technologies that recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. To support diverse and emergent use cases, CCU technologies will be engineered to require minimal-to-no training data in a local culture, while maximizing operator success during negotiations and other interactions in the field. Automated systems would be a welcome force-multiplier for DoD interpreters; however, unlike the human cultural interpreters who enable US forces today, such systems are currently incapable of accurately analyzing cross-cultural communication or providing useful assistance to negotiations beyond basic machine translation. To achieve relative parity with human interpreters, CCU research will provide foundational technical innovations to assist negotiators and analysts with language analysis and cross-cultural dialogue in the field. These advances in the area of cross-cultural understanding will also inform processes for training and planning.

## Questions people ask

### Is HR001121S0024 still open?

No. It closed on July 2, 2021. A newer notice is open: DARPARA2701, closes January 13, 2027 (67 days left).

### Who can apply for COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU)?

DARPA - Information Innovation Office accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU)?

Closed July 2, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### Who has won Research and Technology Development grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were University of Southern California, Clemson University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The program made 739 awards worth $1.5 billion in that time.