Lightweight Universal Codec (LUC)

Department of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) · Solicitation · HR001126S0014

posted 6 July 2026 · closed 28 August 2026 · NAICS 541715 · PSC AC12 · 2 postings

Summary

DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) is soliciting proposals to develop a Lightweight Universal Codec (LUC) that can encode and decode data using any current or future error correction code, leveraging the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) approach. The effort aims to create an adaptive codec that improves link budget, security, throughput, and interoperability across heterogeneous communication systems.

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