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Disruptioneering Program Announcement

DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY

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Response status

Due in 25 days

Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Aug 19, 2026
Archive date
Oct 29, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY published this solicitation.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
af580f92ade44eb997a3c47ba74888f5
Solicitation
DARPA-PA-25-07
Base type
Solicitation
Version
2 of 2

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Solicitation
Solicitation number
DARPA-PA-25-07
NAICS
541715 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
PSC
AC11 — NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; BASIC RESEARCH
Set-aside
—
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 19, 2026
Responses due
Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC
Archive date
Oct 29, 2026
Archive type
autocustom
Base type
Solicitation
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Sep 5, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
—
Subagency
DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
Subagency code
—
Office
DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
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Office address
ARLINGTON, VA, 222032114, USA
Place of performance
—
City code
—
State
—
State code
—
Postal code
—
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The mission of the DARPA DSO is to identify, investigate, and leverage nascent scientific advances for national security applications by pursuing high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines. Disruption Opportunity (DO) topics are issued to rapidly investigate new concepts with focused investments. DOs enable DARPA to initiate a new investment for unclassified efforts in less than 120 calendar days from idea inception. To enable this approach, DSO will issue individual DOs under this solicitation. These opportunities will target specific technical domains important to DSO�s mission to pursue innovative research that leads to a prototype demonstration. More information about DSO�s technical domains and research topics of interest may be found at https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/dso.

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

Low end (p25)$246,453
Median$1,492,737
High end (p75)$3,669,623
Comparable awards
12
Median
$1,492,737
Computed
Aug 22, 2026
Rubric
comparables@2026.08.1
Comparable award values describe completed contracts. They do not state the government's budget and are not a bid recommendation.

Comparable awards

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

AwardContractorValueAwardedScoreWhy it matched
PHASE I SBIR - 10-KW-CLASS SINGLE-MODE FIBER AMPLIFIERN.P. PHOTONICS, INC.$250,000.00Jul 29, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
TO5 DIU CIAASNOOKS LLC$23,135,000.00Jul 31, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
EO 14398 & UPDATE TO SECTION B.2.2CHIPLYTICS, INC$1,983,395.70May 19, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
BOOSTING EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH TESTING AND EVALUATION OF RELIABILITY FOR PIPELINED REASONIRED BALLOON SECURITY, INC$6,514,914.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES UNDER JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$1,702,000.00Apr 28, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES UNDER JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$9,160,446.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION FOR DEFENSE OF GROUND BASES USING ELECTROMAGNETIC WARFARE SUPPORT SERTHE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$5,355,850.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
(SABER) EFFORT UNDER THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (JHU)/ APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY (APL) UTHE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$1,492,737.00Apr 28, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTTRITON SYSTEMS, INC.$246,413.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTUSMAT INC$246,493.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
EXERCISE OPTIONPHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.$239,970.08Apr 27, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
TASK ORDER TO SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE ADVANCED JOINT EFFECTIVENESS MODEL (AJEM) SIMULAAPPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$94,935.66May 6, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)

Amendment history

A version is preserved whenever the normalized notice contents change.

VersionNotice typeObservedResponses dueContent hash
1SolicitationAug 21, 2026Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC3eb55af7dc95092e
2SolicitationAug 28, 2026Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 PM UTCe434399a176e1f59

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

Comparable awards are scored on benchmark category, product and service code, industry code, buyer, place, recency, and contract type. Rubric version comparables@2026.08.1.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Sep 5, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 12 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Aug 22, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.

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