Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) RFPs

DARPA's Commercial Solutions Opening (DCSO) for Commercial Strategy

DARPA issued Solicitation HR001126RE007 under its Commercial Solutions Opening to solicit proposals for transitioning and commercializing DARPA-funded technologies through activities like the Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Resilient

DARPA is soliciting innovative basic or applied research concepts for accelerated materials testing and prediction of concrete structural lifetimes.

ERIS Shopping Notice - Thermal Management RFP

DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is actively shopping the ERIS Marketplace for game-changing, foundational thermal-management mechanisms rather than modular, integrated cooling packages.

Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) 2026 Announcement

Seeks innovative approaches to address challenges related to quantum computing.

Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office is soliciting innovative research proposals that could enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems for national security applications.

Universal Cell Culture Platform for Rapid Establishment of Species-Agnostic Cell Lines and Autonomous Culture Operations

Published August 5, 2026, this Phase II SBIR topic seeks a generalizable universal, species-agnostic cell-culture platform combining biological methods for establishing cells from arbitrary vertebrate and invertebrate species with autonomous closed-loop optimization and reproducible protocols.

ERIS Shopping Notice: Distributed Decentralized Control & Estimation

DARPA IPTO will actively “shop” the ERIS Marketplace for innovative, post-competitive, awardable solutions.

Strategic Technology Office-wide Innovation Solutions Opening Announcement

QBI Topic Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

Provide independent verification and validation (IV&V) support for darpa's quantum benchmarking initiative (QBI).

Scalable Hard-mask materials with Improved Etch resistance and Low Degradation for Extreme-aspect-Ratio fabrication (SHIELDER)

This STTR Direct to Phase II topic seeks novel nanofabrication hard-mask materials with substantially improved plasma-etch resistance for extreme high-aspect-ratio structures, while preserving pattern-transfer fidelity, low sidewall roughness, and precise dimensional control.

ICU-in-a-Box: Autonomous Extracorporeal Multiple-Organ Support Therapies

This is a pre-release DARPA DoW 2026 SBIR Broad Agency Announcement topic, not a grant program, and proposals must be submitted electronically through the DoW SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal.

Influence Benchmarks for AI Systems

DARPA seeks proposals for a testbed using economic frameworks to benchmark AI biases and latent behavioral preferences in dynamic simulated markets, including adaptation, collaboration, and deception.

Fuel-Flexible Spacecraft Electric Propulsion System

This is a DARPA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Direct-to-Phase-II topic under the DoW 2026 STTR Broad Agency Announcement, focused on space technology.

Noninvasive Detection and Localization of Occult Hemorrhage

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks SBIR proposals for a noninvasive or minimally invasive capability to detect, localize, and characterize life-threatening occult or non-compressible torso hemorrhage outside a hospital.

New World Screwworm Networked Detection, Identification, and Surveillance System

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking Direct-to-Phase-II SBIR proposals—not a grant notice—for a real-time, networked New World Screwworm detection, identification, and surveillance technology.

Resilient Ultra Short Pulsed Laser Sources - RFI

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Multi X Office seeks information on compact, rugged millijoule-class ultra-short pulsed lasers.

Atomically Precise Molecules (APM) Proposers Day

DARPA will host a hybrid Proposers Day on September 30, 2026, to support the Atomically Precise Molecules program solicitation.

TTO Office-Wide Solicitation 2026

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office issued this solicitation to redefine warfare and provide overwhelming advantages to the United States.

Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE) RFP

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office is issuing a Disruption Opportunity for innovative basic or applied research concepts in targeted neuroplasticity under the Program Announcement for Disruptioneering, DARPA-PA-25-07 Amendment 1.

BEAMERS Industry Day Announcement RFP

DARPA is hosting an Industry Day for the Beam-Space Analog Processing for Multifunctional Enhanced RF Systems (BEAMERS) program on September 30, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia.