11 October 2026

The Department of Energy's request for information on basic research challenges to accelerate U.S. biotechnology leadership closes in four days, and it will guide the Basic Energy Sciences roadmap for predictive biosystems design. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Protein ENGineering solicitation follows in eight days, seeking a universal platform for programmable protein editing. Two Department of War opportunities—monolithic graphene-CMOS focal plane arrays and an expeditionary solar refinery for methanol synthesis—both close in ten days, targeting low-light detection and zero-resupply power for soldiers. The Air Force Research Laboratory's SETS broad agency announcement closes in eighteen days to fund studies of solar, solar wind, and ionospheric effects on space operations. Across the open requirements, the Department of Defense accounts for seven closing opportunities, the Department of War for two, and the Department of Energy for one.