Suppose that F/Q is a number field.
Using automorphic forms, Borel computed the (R-) stable cohomology of SL_
n(O_
F), and as a result, computed K_
i(O_
F) tensor Q. Nowadays, using work of Suslin, Voevodksy, Rost, etc, one has an almost "complete" understanding of the actual integral groups K_
i(Z), say, modulo Vandiver's conjecture. This does not directly give the stable cohomology of SL_
n, because one set of groups is computing homotopy and the other is computing cohomology, but let us not worry about that distinction for the moment.
Borel also computed the (R-) stable cohomology of Sp_
2n(O_
F).
My question, loosely speaking, is whether one can describe the stable integral cohomology of Sp_
2n(Z) in as detailed away as the algebraic K-groups of Z "describe" the integral cohomology of SL_
n(Z).
Let me summarize some of what I have found out (following up some of the answers below), mostly though emails from experts.
For affine objects, which certainly includes Z, K-theory is about the monoidal category
P(A) of projective finitely generated A-modules, and
Hermitian K-theory is about the monoidal category
P(A)_
h of objects in P(A) equipped with a non-degenerate
symmetric (or skew-symmetric) form. One of the issues with computing or working with such a theory over Z is that irritating issues arise in characteristic 2, as one might expect with quadratic forms present. It seems that one might be in good shape to understand the groups K^h_
i(Z[1/2]). For usual K-theory, there is an excision formula relating K_
i(Z) to K_
i(Z[1/2]) and K_
i(F_2). The latter group is "easy" (or at least was computed by Quillen).
Of interest to me in K_
i(Z) are the Soule classes. The next thing I will be thinking about is whether Soule classes can give rise to elements in the stable cohomology of Sp_
2n(Z).
Andy said some very interesting things, but I will probably be awarding the bounty to Oscar, since the paper he linked to was more directly relevant to what I was trying to find out. (Sorry Andy...but it looks like you have lots of reputation anyway!)