5 September 2026

NASA Johnson Space Center will issue a draft request for proposals to acquire a commercial low-Earth orbit destination system for cargo and crew missions. DARPA's Biological Technologies Office announced a future research effort called the Firefox program, providing only a title and intent. DARPA also solicited proposals for compact cold-atom devices and ultra-high-Q MEMS and photonic components that use microscale ultra-high-vacuum systems. NOAA posted a notice seeking operational or support services for uncrewed aircraft systems. The U.S. Coast Guard Office of Rapid Response and Prototyping announced an industry day to gather input on technologies for the Coastal Sentinel surveillance, command-and-control, and communications capability. The Air Force Research Laboratory issued a broad agency announcement for research on adaptive fusion and reasoning of multi-source data.