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In plain English
DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office is seeking high-risk, high-payoff research ideas in science and engineering that could support national security. Individual Disruption Opportunities will focus on specific technical areas and aim to move promising concepts toward prototype demonstrations. The announcement does not state a quantity, location, eligibility rules, or submission dates.
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
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Ref No.
BS-0042F5


