Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)

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DARPA wants research proposals for revolutionary inertial measurement unit (IMU) designs for tactical and unmanned missions. The work should explore nonlinear sensor physics and real-time adaptive control, including concepts such as levitated proof masses, nonlinear resonators, and tethered microsystems. DARPA excludes projects focused mainly on incremental improvements to existing MEMS IMUs.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the following technical area: physics and nonlinear control of inertial measurement units (IMUs) appropriate for tactical and unmanned missions. The Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT) program will challenge the research community to overcome the decade-long performance plateau of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) IMUs by exploring revolutionary sensor architectures that operate in highly nonlinear regimes. DARPA is soliciting proposals for the research and development of novel inertial sensors based on physics such as, but not limited to,…

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Closes Sep 25, 2026

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Opportunity details

Solicitation #: HR001126S0016
Agency: DEPT OF DEFENSE
Notice type: Solicitation
NAICS: 541715 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Classification (PSC): AC12

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