20 August 2026

DARPA seeks proposals for the Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT) program to create revolutionary inertial navigation and positioning sensors for tactical and unmanned missions. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory wants Universal Robots UR30 collaborative robot arms to support its Energy Science and Technology Directorate. U.S. Special Operations Command solicits drones for the 112th Signal Battalion to enhance sensor-integration training in the Tactical Mission Network at Fort Bragg. The Navy issues a solicitation for AN/BYG-1 software applications to modernize the Submarine Combat Control System with microservices architecture. The Air Force Aerial Targets Program Office releases an RFI to gather information on commercial aerial target solutions ranging from hobby drones to advanced fighter jets.