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DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA-PS-26-127 in this department, oldest first.
- Jul 15, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Jul 21, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Jul 21, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Jul 21, 2026 · this noticeSolicitation
- Jul 21, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Jul 28, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Aug 20, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Aug 20, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Aug 21, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Aug 31, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Sep 1, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Sep 4, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Sep 10, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Sep 11, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Sep 14, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Sep 17, 2026SolicitationOpen
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
- Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.
What the notice says
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that enable compact cold-atom devices and environmentally-decoupled ultra-high Q microelectromechanical (MEMS) and photonics devices through microscale ultra-high-vacuum systems (�UHV).
Who won similar work
56 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 541715.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3 | $20.1M | Aug 11, 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 | 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 |
| HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. | 2 | $9.4M | Mar 21, 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.
- Oct 9, 2026Two Six Labs, LLC$1.5MHR001127CE008-Surveillance and Prediction from Research-Industrial Signatures: Part II (SurPRISE Part II) seedling
- 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)
- Feb 6, 2026BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC$3.9MSecuring Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)
- Nov 4, 2025SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$5.7MHR001121C0212 Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-wide
- Sep 2, 2025SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA$10.7MMicrosystem Induced CAtalysis (MICA)
- Sep 2, 2025CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION$6.6MMicrosystem Induced CAtalysis (MICA)
- Aug 27, 2025Perspecta Labs Inc.$2.4MHR001120C0012 Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception (GARD)
- Aug 11, 2025Two Six Labs, LLC$7.2MProvably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND�)
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.
- 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.