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Agency: DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
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TTO Office-Wide Solicitation Proposers Day
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-105
· 2 versions
DARPA TTO is sponsoring a Proposers Day to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of the TTO Office-Wide (OW) Solicitation, DARPA-PS-26-123, published on SAM.gov. TTO seeks to redefine warfare to provide overwhelming a…
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None
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Not listed
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14 hr left
Oct 5, 2026
DARPA Modernization Project: Request for Qualifications for A&E Services
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Special Notice · HR001126RE008
· 2 versions
The purpose of this amendment is to extend the due date for responses from 10:00 AM ET on Monday, October 5, 2026 to 12:00 PM ET on Friday, October 9, 2026. All other Terms and Conditions of this Notice remain unchanged. The Defense Advance…
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Small business
Place
Arlington, VA
Due
4 days
Oct 9, 2026
Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE)
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-25-07-06
· 3 versions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is issuing a Disruption Opportunity (DO), inviting submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of targeted neuropla…
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4 days
Oct 9, 2026
DARPA "Venture Horizons" Request for Information
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Special Notice · DARPA_09142026
· 2 versions
The purpose of this RFI amendment is to add the “CommercialStrategy_DARPAVentureHorizons_09.14.2026[51]” presentation. This RFI seeks to identify commensurate talent from a select group of qualified investors to which DARPA may provide oppo…
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4 days
Oct 9, 2026
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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13 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
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is issuing a Disruption Opportunity (DO), inviting submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of accelerated mater…
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14 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 is asking for proposals to build a platform that can precisely edit proteins inside living cells (the Protein ENGineering, or PENG, program).
· 1 red flag
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14 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 is announcing a program under which it will issue individual Disruption Opportunity topics for high-risk research that leads to a prototype…
· 1 red flag
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None
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Not listed
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25 days
Oct 31, 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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None
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32 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 is looking for research approaches for its Firefox program, which aims to build non-invasive brain-computer interfaces using an optical system that records neural signals…
· 2 red flags
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35 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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None
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46 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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None
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56 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 seeking new approaches to building a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer under its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) Stage A topic.
· 2 red flags
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None
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56 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
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DARPA is seeking research proposals for the Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR) program, which aims to build tools that model electronic market designs, find hidden weaknesses and…
· 2 red flags
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None
Place
Not listed
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63 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
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DARPA is asking for research proposals on new ways to make polymer and nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, including methods that can scale up.
· 3 red flags
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None
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74 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) has an open Innovation Solutions Opening for revolutionary research ideas not covered by its existing programs.
· 3 red flags
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None
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74 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
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is issuing a Quantum Benchmarking Initiative topic (QBIT) inviting submissions of innovative infrastructure, equipment, and expertise available to provide independent verification and va…
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None
Place
Not listed
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86 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's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) 2026 announcement seeks revolutionary approaches to building a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer.
· 2 red flags
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None
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Not listed
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86 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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None
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Not listed
Due
87 days
Jan 1, 2027
Fox Tail
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-136
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the general area of extreme-scale hydrodynamics, including, but not limited to, high amplitude wave propagation, very high Reynolds number flows, an…
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None
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Not listed
Due
116 days
Jan 29, 2027
DARPA's Commercial Solutions Opening (DCSO) for Commercial Strategy
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Solicitation · HR001126RE007
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DARPA's Commercial Strategy office in the Director's Office has opened a Commercial Solutions Opening (DCSO) seeking proposals to transition and commercialize innovative…
· 2 red flags
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None
Place
Arlington, VA
Due
207 days
Apr 30, 2027
DARPA Research Solutions Opening
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Solicitation · DARPA-PA-26-08
· 2 versions
This Research Solutions Opening (RSO) aims to strengthen the DARPA Program Manager (PM) community by engaging academic researchers capable of addressing DARPA's hard problems. PMs that are passionate about tackling the most complex technica…
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None
Place
Not listed
Due
239 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
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) anticipates funding multiple proposals on a rolling basis under this solicitation. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing s…
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None
Place
Not listed
Due
242 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
TTO seeks to redefine warfare to provide overwhelming advantages to the United States by accelerating the development of new classes of platforms and weapons that dominate existing battlespaces and define new ones at a velocity that adversa…
Set-aside
None
Place
Not listed
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255 days
Jun 17, 2027
Information Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide
Engineering, architecture & research
Dept of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
Solicitation · HR001126S0011
· 3 versions
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing IPTO programs or other published solicitations. Potential proposers are highly encouraged to visit the IPTO technical office p…
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None
Place
Not listed
Due
260 days
Jun 22, 2027
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