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DARPA

Everything the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announces.

87 active DARPA procurements, updated nightly.

Latest Procurement Snapshot

DARPA's Protein ENGineering (PENG) requirement closes in seven days and seeks a universal, software-defined platform for precise editing of endogenous proteins, a capability that could reshape biomedical defense applications. The Influence Benchmarks for AI Systems solicitation follows nine days later, aiming to create a simulated market testbed that evaluates bias, deception and collaboration in large-language models. Within the next month, DARPA will also close requirements for high-throughput protein-protein interaction mapping (HUBBLE) in 24 days, a non-invasive optical brain-computer interface (Firefox) in 28 days, and quantum computing fault-tolerance research (QBIT Stage A) in 49 days. Department of Defense leads the open pool with nine active requirements, while Department of War contributes one. Overall, the week's deadline pressure centers on seven requirements closing within thirty days.

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