DARPA "Venture Horizons" Request for Information
DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA_09142026 in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 14, 2026Special NoticeOpen
- Sep 14, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- 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
The purpose of this RFI amendment is to add the �CommercialStrategy_DARPAVentureHorizons_09.14.2026[51]� presentation. This RFI seeks to identify commensurate talent from a select group of qualified investors to which DARPA may provide opportunities for continued investment in DARPA technologies through engagements with our subject matter experts. Please see RFI attachments for details.
Who won similar work
73 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (DARPA), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
Single-winner award sizes (73): middle half $2.8M to $8.8M, median $5.2M; range $300K to $499.8M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 4 | $30.4M | Sep 25, 2025 |
| SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC | 4 | $21.0M | Nov 4, 2025 |
| Two Six Labs, LLC | 3 | $27.4M | Oct 9, 2026 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL | 3 | $23.6M | Mar 5, 2025 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA | 3 | $16.0M | Sep 2, 2025 |
| KITWARE INC | 2 | $17.7M | May 22, 2025 |
| LEIDOS, INC. · $LDOS · $15.3B | 2 | $14.3M | Feb 18, 2025 |
| STEALTH SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 2 | $13.6M | Jul 25, 2025 |
| HRL LABORATORIES, LLC | 2 | $12.8M | May 1, 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | 2 | $11.7M | Jun 30, 2025 |
Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.
- $LDOS reported $15.3B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 73 past awards, $5.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
- Oct 19, 2026ECS FEDERAL, LLC$162.7MMulti X Office (MXO02) Program Support Services
- Oct 19, 2026THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$499.8MJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) Support Services
- Oct 9, 2026Two Six Labs, LLC$1.5MHR001127CE008-Surveillance and Prediction from Research-Industrial Signatures: Part II (SurPRISE Part II) seedling
- Oct 5, 2026REAGAN-UDALL FOUNDATION FOR THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, INC.$1.2MHR001126CE092 Biological Technologies
- Sep 3, 2026Guidehouse Inc.$61.3MMulti X Office (MXO01) Operations Support Services
- Jun 23, 2026NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$1.4MIndependent Commercialization Generative Optogenetics
- Jun 23, 2026ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM Emeryville CA 94608 USA$1.2MBiosecurity Working Group Generative Optogenetics
- May 11, 2026RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Fairfax VA 22033 USA$735KHR001126CE068 Code-to-model Analysis Ready for Verification Engines (CARVE)
- May 1, 2026HRL LABORATORIES, LLC$3.9MHR001121C0043 High Enthalpy Aperture Technology (HEAT)
- Feb 23, 2026LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$4.7MSecuring Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)
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
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
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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 1 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 2 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.
Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.