Solicitation
Disruptioneering Program Announcement
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) · Sol. DARPA-PA-25-07
Due in 27 days
AI summary Beta
Some details are in the notice's attachments, which this summary didn't read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
DARPA's Defense Sciences Office is announcing a program under which it will issue individual Disruption Opportunity topics for high-risk research that leads to a prototype demonstration. This notice is the umbrella announcement; the specific topics and rules come later. Responses are due October 30, 2026.
Watch out for
- Research program, not a standard purchase. This is a broad R&D announcement with individual topics issued later, so requirements, pricing and evaluation are not in this text.
DSO will issue individual DOs under this solicitation.
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Innovative, high-risk, high-payoff research for national security
- Research leading to a prototype demonstration
- Unclassified efforts in specific technical domains of DSO's interest
- Offers due
- 2026-10-30T23:59:00
What to include when you submit
- Individual Disruption Opportunity topics will be issued under this solicitation; see them for specific instructions
Not in the notice text
- Evaluation criteria
- How to submit and in what format
- Funding amounts and contract or agreement type
- Eligibility rules
- The specific Disruption Opportunity topics and their deadlines
Is this a fit for your business?
Create a free accountFedReady checks notices like this against your business profile, tracks deadlines, and alerts you to new matches. Creating an account is free.
Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 31, 2026, 3:59 AM UTC
- Posted
- Sep 25, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- DARPA-PA-25-07
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
- Office
- Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy
- NAICS
- 541715
- Product/service code
- AC11
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Contracting contact
- BAA CoordinatorDARPA-PA-25-07@darpa.mil
- Versions
- 4 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The mission of the DARPA DSO is to identify, investigate, and leverage nascent scientific advances for national security applications by pursuing high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines. Disruption Opportunity (DO) topics are issued to rapidly investigate new concepts with focused investments. DOs enable DARPA to initiate a new investment for unclassified efforts in less than 120 calendar days from idea inception. To enable this approach, DSO will issue individual DOs under this solicitation. These opportunities will target specific technical domains important to DSO’s mission to pursue innovative research that leads to a prototype demonstration. More information about DSO’s technical domains and research topics of interest may be found at https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/dso.
Similar open opportunities
- Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Call 004The Air Force Research Laboratory (Space Warfare Directorate, Albuquerque, NM) is seeking research proposals under its Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad…
- SEEK EAGLE MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND TOOLS SUPPORT (SEMATS) 4The Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office at Eglin AFB, Florida is running a sources sought (market research) notice for a future 5-year services contract called SEMATS 4.
- Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) - Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Annual Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)The Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) is running an annual Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), an open call…
- Request for Proposal (RFP) - Resilient Missile Warning Tracking (RMWT) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Entry Points (GEPs)The Space Development Agency (Air Force/Space Force) is seeking proposals to build ground entry point sites for its missile warning and tracking satellite network, at multiple…
- NASA Research Announcement: V-Band