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2026 MXO Spark Tank Special Notice
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-73
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host the Multi X Office (MXO) Spark Tank event for prospective proposers and future MXO collaborators on November 2-4, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. Advance registration is required. …
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8 days
Oct 19, 2026
Resilient
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-25-07-04
· 4 versions
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DARPA's Defense Sciences Office wants research teams to build a portable machine that ages concrete samples more than 1,000 times faster than nature, plus a computer model that…
· 10 red flags
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8 days
Oct 19, 2026
Protein ENGineering (PENG)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-129
· 2 versions
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DARPA's Defense Sciences Office wants teams to build a platform that can edit existing (endogenous) proteins inside living cells, without permanently changing DNA. It is a…
· 8 red flags
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8 days
Oct 19, 2026
Disruptioneering Program Announcement
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-25-07
· 4 versions
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DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) has posted a standing Program Announcement called Disruptioneering.
· 6 red flags
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20 days
Oct 31, 2026
High-throughput Unmasking of Biological Interactomes with Binding Landscape Emulators (HUBBLE)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-27-01
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DARPA's Biological Technologies Office wants research teams to build computer (in-silico) models that map protein-protein interactions across the human proteome, using traumatic…
· 6 red flags
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25 days
Nov 5, 2026
RFI for Next Generation Hypersonic Cruise Missiles
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-93
· 4 versions
Responses to this Request for Information (RFI) will be used to refine the Government's technical requirements, validate programmatic assumptions, and inform the acquisition strategy for a potential competitive Program Solicitation (PS). Th…
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27 days
Nov 6, 2026
Firefox
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-137
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DARPA's Biological Technologies Office wants small teams to build two pieces of a non-invasive, light-based brain-computer interface (the Firefox program): TA1, parts that steer…
· 8 red flags
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29 days
Nov 9, 2026
Resilient Ultra Short Pulsed Laser Sources - RFI
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-124
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Multi X Office (MXO) seeks information on compact, rugged millijoule class ultra-short pulsed lasers. The goals of this Request for Information (RFI) include, but are not limited to: • I…
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41 days
Nov 20, 2026
ERIS Shopping Notice: High Duty Cycle High Energy Lasers (HEL) for SWaP-Constrained Systems
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-82
Between the dates listed above, DARPA STO will be actively “shopping” the ERIS Marketplace for innovative, post-competitive, awardable solutions that address the need for moderate power (1-20 kW) high energy lasers that can be operated at h…
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50 days
Nov 30, 2026
Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Topic (QBIT) Stage A
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-26-02-02
· 4 versions
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DARPA is asking for new ideas on how to build a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer (one whose computing value is greater than its cost).
· 7 red flags
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50 days
Nov 30, 2026
Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-138
· 2 versions
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DARPA wants research teams to build prototype software that models digital markets (like stock exchanges or power markets), tests them with math-based "resilience" statements,…
· 9 red flags
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57 days
Dec 7, 2026
Atomically Precise Molecules (APM)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-141
· 3 versions
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DARPA is asking for research proposals on new ways to make polymeric and nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, ending with a prototype of a new NLO material working inside a…
· 2 red flags
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68 days
Dec 18, 2026
Strategic Technology Office-wide Innovation Solutions Opening Announcement
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-09
· 2 versions
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DARPA's Strategic Technology Office (STO) is running a long-open call for revolutionary research ideas that fit its warfare-technology interests but are not covered by other…
· 7 red flags
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69 days
Dec 19, 2026
QBI Topic Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-26-02-01
· 2 versions
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DARPA is looking for outside teams, labs and experts to independently verify and validate (IV&V) progress by companies trying to build useful, fault-tolerant quantum computers…
· 7 red flags
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81 days
Dec 30, 2026
Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) 2026 Announcement
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-26-02
· 2 versions
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DARPA (the Defense Department's advanced research agency) is looking for new, high-risk approaches to building a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, and for ways to…
· 6 red flags
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81 days
Dec 31, 2026
Non-Optical Methods for High Speed Protein Control
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-89
· 3 versions
UPDATE: The purpose of Amendment 1 to DARPA-SN-26-89, the Non-Optical Methods for High Speed Protein Control Special Notice (SN), is to clarify the notice deadline. DARPA BTO will be actively “shopping” the ERIS Marketplace for innovative, …
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82 days
Jan 1, 2027
Fox Tail
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-136
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DARPA's Defense Sciences Office wants research proposals on extreme-scale hydrodynamics: first-principles computer and theory models of violent seawater events such as…
· 8 red flags
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111 days
Jan 29, 2027
DARPA Research Solutions Opening
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-26-08
· 2 versions
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DARPA, the Defense Department's advanced research agency, is accepting research ideas (short abstracts) from U.S. colleges and universities across its technical offices, on a…
· 5 red flags
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234 days
Jun 2, 2027
MXO Office-wide Innovative Solutions Opening
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-115
· 4 versions
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DARPA's Multi X Office (MXO) is running a long-running open call for high-risk, high-reward research ideas in physical sciences and microsystems that are not covered by its other…
· 8 red flags
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236 days
Jun 4, 2027
TTO Office-Wide Solicitation 2026
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-123
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DARPA's Tactical Technology Office (TTO) is running an open, office-wide call for research and prototype ideas on new naval and aerospace platforms, propulsion, autonomy and…
· 8 red flags
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249 days
Jun 17, 2027
Information Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · HR001126S0011
· 5 versions
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DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) is running an office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that asks for research ideas in AI, secure and private systems,…
· 6 red flags
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254 days
Jun 22, 2027
Expedited Research Innovation System (ERIS)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-25-05
· 6 versions
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DARPA, working with its marketplace manager the Applied Research Institute (ARI), runs a long-term open call for breakthrough technology ideas.
· 6 red flags
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294 days
Aug 1, 2027
ERIS Shopping Notice: Distributed Decentralized Control & Estimation
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-101
Between the notice dates listed above, DARPA IPTO will be actively “shopping” the ERIS Marketplace for innovative, post-competitive, awardable solutions that address modeling, simulation, and software-defined technical approaches to support…
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294 days
Aug 1, 2027
Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Solicitation · HR001126S0015
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DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is running a long-running open call for revolutionary basic and applied research ideas for national security that are not covered by its…
· 7 red flags
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320 days
Aug 27, 2027
