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Resilient Ultra Short Pulsed Laser Sources - RFI

DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY

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Response status

Due in 12 days

Nov 20, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Sep 8, 2026
Archive date
Nov 21, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

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

Procurement identity

Notice ID
ff4a04859a05458a9f7437c9d33e6c68
Solicitation
DARPA-SN-26-124
Base type
Special Notice
Version
1 of 1

Solicitation facts

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

Notice type
Special Notice
Solicitation number
DARPA-SN-26-124
NAICS
541715 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
PSC
AC12 — NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; APPLIED RESEARCH
Set-aside
—
Set-aside code
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Posted
Sep 8, 2026
Responses due
Nov 20, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Nov 21, 2026
Archive type
autocustom
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
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Last seen
Oct 21, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

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

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Multi X Office (MXO) seeks information on compact, rugged millijoule class ultra-short pulsed lasers. The goals of this Request for Information (RFI) include, but are not limited to: � Identify approaches to fieldable millijoule ultra-short pulsed lasers � Identify approaches to maintain mode-locking under environmental challenges Responses to this RFI will be used to inform future DARPA program research thrusts, goals, and performance targets.

Comparable award range

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

Low end (p25)$924,094
Median$1,362,848
High end (p75)$4,318,272
Comparable awards
21
Median
$1,362,848
Computed
Nov 7, 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
ULTRA-WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS (UWBGS)NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$8,656,710.00Jul 9, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
CLOSEOUTEDAPTIVE COMPUTING INC$4,264,296.79May 26, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO INCORPORATE A REVISED SOW, INCREASE THE OY3 AND 4 CPACIFIC SCIENCE & ENGINEERING GROUP, INC.$4,845,056.79May 28, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
INTEGRATED SENSOR DATA TRANSMISSION ARC MODIFICATION TO EXTEND CONTRACT BY 2 WEEKS TO ALLARMAMENTS RESEARCH COMPANY INC.$956,350.00May 7, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
AEWS FOR RED FLAGRESCUE TASK ORDER FIRM FIZED PRICEARMAMENTS RESEARCH COMPANY INC.$280,019.40Jul 16, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
MODIFICATION TO DEOBLIGATE FUNDING FROM AWARD TO MATCH BILLED AMOUNT. AMOUNT DEOBLIGATED:DEEP ANALYTICS LLC$240,152.11May 18, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR RESPONSIVE STRIKE AIRCRAFT (CORSAIR)THE BOEING COMPANY$5,079,751.00May 7, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
APPLIED PROFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIESCAE USA INC.$8,093,180.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
ANTENNA-LESS VERY LOW FREQUENCYTHE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$827,326.00May 4, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE OBJECTIVE OF DONJON IS TO RESEARCH, SELECT, APPLY, AND DELIVER AI/ML-BASED ENHANCEMENTASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC.$38,899,110.00May 8, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE SPACE-BASED SENSING AND TARGETING (SBST) SYSTEM DELTA 810 (SYD 810) ADVANCED PROGRAMS LMI CONSULTING, LLC$4,480,196.08May 7, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
VIA A NOVEL COMBINATION OF OPTIMIZATION/LEARNING APPROACHES, SOLSTICE DYNAMICALLY PREDICTSTORSION TECH LLC$294,505.00May 4, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
873AUTHORITYEXTREME WAVES, INC.$1,749,991.97May 4, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
SBIR PHASE IIEXERGI PREDICTIVE LLC$599,923.00May 7, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTCAZA INNOVATIONS LLC$989,809.00May 4, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
MODELING FOR ARMY VEHICLES.IERUS TECHNOLOGIES INC$1,362,679.94Jun 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE STANDOFF DETECTION OF HIDDEN OBJECTS USING TENSOR GRADIOMETERS (SHOT) PROJECT AIMS TO FIELDLINE INDUSTRIES INC$1,376,632.83Jun 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIPLATFORM RADAR SUITE FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING CONCEALED ITEMS TMANTACUS INC$1,362,840.95Jun 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEXT GENERATION PFAS FREE OMNIPHOBIC COATING PLATFORM ENGINEERED FOR INTERPHASE MATERIALS, INC$1,362,898.57Jun 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
LEVERAGING ADVANCED COMPUTATION TO BETTER EMPLOY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING.INTERACTIVE APTITUDE LLC$1,362,855.98Jun 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)

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 Oct 21, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 21 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Nov 7, 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.