Professional & Consulting
Opportunity timeline
PostedSep 30, 2025
DeadlineSep 29, 2026
In plain English
DARPA's Defense Sciences Office wants to fund high-risk, high-payoff research in various science and engineering fields that could benefit national security. They will issue specific "Disruption Opportunity" topics under this program to quickly fund innovative research leading to a prototype. Keep an eye out for these individual opportunities, which will be announced separately. More details on their interests are on the DARPA DSO website.
About this opportunity
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…
Time remaining
Closes Sep 29, 2026
13Days
:14Hours
:42Min
:06Sec
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Ref No.
BS-29DC2F