Atomically Precise Molecules (APM)
DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA-PS-26-141 in this department, oldest first.
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 in the areas of new synthesis techniques for polymeric materials and nonlinear optical (NLO) materials. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in material synthesis with the ability to scale to quantities relevant for application integration, culminating in the development of a prototype demonstration of a revolutionary NLO material integrated into a functional government-provided electro-optic modulator. Specifically excluded is research that primaril… (show all)
y results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice, or research that pivots on exceptional claims that cannot be technically justified in the proposal. This includes: � Proposals aiming to employ solely inorganic materials without a polymeric component � Proposals aiming to modify/repurpose existing NLO materials resulting in incremental improvements to the state-of-the-art (SoA)
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.