Special NoticePosted Sep 14, 2026·Responses due Sep 23, 2026

BEAMERS Industry Day Announcement

DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
DARPA-SN-26-122
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AC13
Place
Not stated
Contact
BAA Coordinator (DARPA-SN-26-122@darpa.mil)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA-SN-26-122 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 14, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (2 found; 10 needed).

Next steps for this stage

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  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

INDUSTRY DAY: DARPA will host an Industry Day in support of Beam-Space Analog Processing for Multifunctional Enhanced RF Systems (BEAMERS) program on September 30, 2026, located at the Strategic Analysis, Inc. Executive Conference Center (ECC), 4075 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22203 from 8:00am to 5:00pm ET. This event will be conducted in two parts: a government presentation portion at the SECRET level, which will comprise most of the event, and an Industry Showcase Poster Session portion at the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) level. Both portions exclusively require advan… (show all)

ced registration. The purpose of this event is to provide information on the BEAMERS program; promote additional discussion on this topic; address questions; and provide a forum for interested organizations to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities. PROGRAM OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION: DARPA�s Strategic Technology Office invites interested organizations to attend an industry engagement for BEAMERS, an ambitious new program focused on wideband, staring electronic-support systems. Electronic support cuts across many operational needs, platforms, and environments. Warning, situational awareness, sensing, and related missions impose different requirements for coverage, sensitivity, latency, dynamic range, size, weight, power, and processing. Staring architectures make a large amount of information available continuously. A successful system cannot assume that every beam, frequency channel, and polarization output will be digitized, transported, and processed at full fidelity. BEAMERS emphasizes architectures that maintain persistent awareness, organize and reduce the available analog information, recognize signals of potential interest, and route selected observations to digitization. Required expertise includes analog beamspace processing using lenses, gradient-index structures, phased-array-fed lenses, and related spatial-transform technologies; integrated radio frequency (RF) and microwave photonics; wideband channelization; event detection and information reduction; switching; and data movement. Organizations interested in performing as Prime and nontraditional technology providers are encouraged to attend, identify complementary capabilities, and consider teaming arrangements.

Who won similar work

56 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 541715.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC4$21.0MNov 4, 2025
Two Six Labs, LLC3$27.4MOct 9, 2026
SRI INTERNATIONAL3$23.6MMar 5, 2025
RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.3$20.1MAug 11, 2025
SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA3$16.0MSep 2, 2025
KITWARE INC2$17.7MMay 22, 2025
LEIDOS, INC. · $LDOS2$14.3MFeb 18, 2025
STEALTH SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.2$13.6MJul 25, 2025
HRL LABORATORIES, LLC2$12.8MMay 1, 2026
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.2$9.4MMar 21, 2025

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Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) job
  • $319K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 2 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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