25 September 2026

The Department of the Air Force is seeking research to develop an ultra-broadband terahertz radio that operates above 100 GHz for contested spectrum communications. The Air Force Research Laboratory also issued a Broad Agency Announcement for "Extreme Computing" to fund advanced computing technologies such as edge AI and nanocomputing. The Department of Energy released an RFI to gather input on basic research challenges needed to move from descriptive biology to predictive biosystems design for bio-advantaged fuels, chemicals, and materials. The Veterans Health Administration wants a commercial-off-the-shelf radiology AI platform with multiple FDA-cleared applications for its VISN 1 network. DARPA plans to solicit proposals for an in-silico tool that maps all protein-protein interactions to identify new diagnostic and therapeutic targets.