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Photonic Integrated Circuit Architectures for Scalable System Objectives (PICASSO)

Department of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) · Solicitation · DARPA-PS-26-13

posted 14 January 2026 · closed 17 March 2026 · NAICS 541715 · PSC AC12 · 6 postings

Summary

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals on very large‑scale photonic integrated circuit architectures (PICASSO). The agency seeks approaches that could enable revolutionary scientific, device, or system advances and explicitly excludes evolutionary improvements to current practice.

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