Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR) Proposers Day

Department of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) · Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-116

posted 17 August 2026 · closed 1 September 2026 · NAICS 541715 · PSC AC11

Summary

DARPA’s Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR) program seeks to develop tools that automatically model market designs, identify hidden weaknesses, and generate repairs to make economic markets more resilient to adversarial attacks. The effort combines large‑language‑model automation with formal modeling to protect critical civilian and military resources that depend on modern electronic trading systems.

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