The Demand Signal: AI

Procurement intelligence from OODA · Reading what government intends to buy.

Art of Novel Signals: Predicting and Forecasting with High Confidence

Department of War · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · SBIR Topic · 26.BZ

posted 1 July 2026 · closed 19 August 2026

This solicitation's response window has closed.

Summary

DARPA seeks proposals to develop a predictive model that uses temporal knowledge graph forecasting with in‑context learning on novel multilingual and multimodal data, such as low‑resource radio broadcasts, to extend event forecasting from days to weeks with at least 90% precision. The effort focuses on building a pipeline that ingests noisy audio, applies automatic speech recognition (e.g., Whisper Large‑v3), and integrates the transcriptions into a temporal knowledge graph for early warning in data‑sparse regions.

View the official notice ↗

Want to know why the government is buying what they buy? Subscribe to the OODA Daily Pulse

The OODA Daily Pulse Report provides a detailed summary of the top technology, cybersecurity and global risks of the day. Our analysts curate stories, articles and insights from hundreds of vetted sources to inform your decisions and our research team provides long form context on topics destined to be of importance. Delivered free to your inbox five days a week at 10:00am.

Subscribe to the OODA Daily Pulse