The Demand Signal: DARPA

DARPA is hosting a secret Industry Day to brief potential proposers on the upcoming Fox Tail program solicitation.

DARPA seeks to create automated tools that model, analyze, and repair modern market designs using large language models to enhance economic sector resilience against disruptive attacks.

DARPA is shopping the ERIS Marketplace for awardable solutions that provide decentralized, distributed command and control for heterogeneous combat agents such as unmanned aircraft, satellite constellations, and ground systems.

DARPA seeks proposals to develop a universal, software-defined platform for precise, programmable editing of endogenous proteins.

The Department of Defense, via DARPA, seeks information to shape requirements for a next‑generation hypersonic cruise missile program.

DARPA seeks proposals to develop revolutionary inertial navigation sensors for tactical and unmanned missions by exploring novel sensor architectures and adaptive control.

DARPA's Defense Sciences Office is holding an information webcast on the upcoming Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE) Disruption Opportunity, which seeks proposals to develop neuroplasticity‑engineering technologies.

DARPA seeks a low‑power, real‑time semantic communication system for tactical ISR platforms that dramatically reduces transmitted data while preserving mission context.

DARPA seeks SBIR proposals to commercialize ultra‑high payload‑to‑weight UAS subsystems that achieve a 4:1 ratio, advancing both aerodynamic and powertrain designs for military and industrial use.

DARPA seeks proposals to develop a modular open‑architecture autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) platform that can be rapidly reconfigured with payloads, support fleet deployment, and perform collaborative sensing and autonomous navigation.

DARPA seeks a universal, species‑agnostic cell culture platform that uses autonomous closed‑loop automation to rapidly create reproducible cell lines for non‑model organisms and support gene‑drive research.

DARPA seeks SBIR proposals to develop and demonstrate critical subsystems for an integrated underwater 3D concrete printing system that uses local sediments and seawater.

DARPA seeks a software framework that lets scientists and engineers discover and deploy AI‑generated algorithms within their existing workflows.

DARPA is requesting information on algorithms designed for execution on photonic integrated circuits to enable future Department of War capabilities.

DARPA is shopping for breakthrough thermal‑management mechanisms that can overcome existing thermodynamic limits for Department of Defense applications.

DARPA seeks to develop microbial biosensors that detect chemical and pharmaceutical hazards for defense personnel in austere environments.

DARPA is hosting a Proposers Day to brief the research community on the upcoming Protein ENGineering (PENG) program and its objectives.

DARPA is gathering information on infrared (IR) focal plane arrays to assess capabilities for future advanced sensing systems.

DARPA is seeking proposals to develop compact cold‑atom devices and ultra‑high Q MEMS/photonic devices using microscale ultra‑high‑vacuum (µUHV) systems.

DARPA's Biological Technologies Office is requesting information on emerging AI systems, datasets, and computational frameworks to enable multiscale reasoning across human physiology.

DARPA seeks to develop a universal encoder‑decoder codec that can adaptively use any error correction code, leveraging its GRAND decoding research to improve communication efficiency and security.

DARPA is holding a Proposers Day to brief potential offerors on the upcoming PINPOINT program for precision inertial navigation and positioning using an integrated tesseract.

DARPA solicits proposals for Task Area 3 of the RAPIID program to develop a deployable, regulatory‑approved blood analog system for field use.

DARPA seeks proposals to develop a predictive forecasting system that uses temporal knowledge graph forecasting with in‑context learning on novel multilingual, multimodal radio and community audio data to improve geopolitical event warning precision.

DARPA is soliciting SBIR proposals to create a combined machine‑learning and large language model architecture for efficient, interactive statistical analysis of large‑scale structured and unstructured data.

DARPA's Defense Sciences Office is holding an information webcast on the upcoming Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE) Disruption Opportunity, which seeks proposals to develop neuroplasticity‑engineering technologies.

DARPA is gathering information on infrared (IR) focal plane arrays to assess capabilities for future advanced sensing systems.

DARPA seeks proposals to develop a predictive forecasting system that uses temporal knowledge graph forecasting with in‑context learning on novel multilingual, multimodal radio and community audio data to improve geopolitical event warning precision.

DARPA is soliciting SBIR proposals to create a combined machine‑learning and large language model architecture for efficient, interactive statistical analysis of large‑scale structured and unstructured data.

DARPA seeks SBIR proposals to develop a temperature‑hard, radiation‑tolerant non‑volatile memory system for extreme environment applications such as space and nuclear domains.

DARPA is soliciting innovative high‑energy‑density, high‑power‑density rechargeable batteries and fuel cells for rapid transition to end users.

DARPA is requesting information on algorithms designed for execution on photonic integrated circuits to enable future Department of War capabilities.

DARPA's Tactical Technology Office is issuing a Broad Agency Announcement to fund innovative proposals that enable rapid design, build, purchase, surge, sustain, and disruptive capabilities for future force structures.

DARPA seeks proposals to develop RF system architectures that use photonic timing and routing for rugged, low‑phase‑noise performance on mobile land, air, and space platforms.

DARPA is hosting a secret Industry Day to brief potential proposers on the upcoming Fox Tail program solicitation.