ERIS Shopping Notice: Distributed Decentralized Control & Estimation

Department of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) · Special Notice · DARPA-SN-26-101

posted 10 August 2026 · closes 1 August 2027 · NAICS 541715 · PSC AC12

Summary

DARPA’s Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) is issuing a shopping notice for solutions that enable decentralized, distributed and horizontally integrated command and control across heterogeneous combat agents such as sensing grids, unmanned aircraft systems, satellite constellations, collaborative aircraft, and ground or surface platforms. The effort focuses on advanced modeling, simulation and software‑defined approaches to support these capabilities, indicating a strong emphasis on cutting‑edge autonomous and networked system technologies.

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