6 October 2026

The Department of the Air Force issues a Broad Agency Announcement to fund research on cost-estimating modeling, data analytics and machine learning for modernizing its enterprise cost analysis. The Department of Defense, via USSOCOM and PEO-FW, seeks vendors to add autonomous behaviors to the FANTOM software stack using its Core Software Development Kit. The Army releases a Request for Whitepapers under an Other Transaction Authority to identify off-the-shelf reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition systems for a Brigade Uncrewed Aircraft System prototype. NIH's Clinical Center requests AI and Data Science specialist support to apply large language models to its Health and Extreme Weather study of emergency department crowding. DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office posts a Broad Agency Announcement inviting revolutionary research ideas not covered by existing IPTO programs. The Air Force Seventh Air Force seeks market research on theater-wide counter-UAS capabilities for Project Iron Sentry in the Korean Theater.