Opportunity timeline
In plain English
DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office is seeking innovative research ideas in specific technical areas that could lead to prototype demonstrations. Individual opportunities will be issued under this announcement to support high-risk, high-payoff unclassified research, with new investments intended to begin within 120 days of an idea’s inception.
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 Oct 30, 2026
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BS-A40385

