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Non-Volatile Memory for Extreme Environments

Department of War · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · SBIR Topic · 26.BZ

posted 1 July 2026 · closed 19 August 2026

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Summary

The Department of War, via DARPA, seeks proposals to develop and demonstrate a co‑packaged temperature‑hard (-269 °C to +600 °C) and radiation‑tolerant NOR Flash non‑volatile memory system for extreme environment applications. The effort targets high‑performance computing in space, nuclear energy, and strategic defense where current memory technologies cannot meet the required temperature and radiation resilience.

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