SolicitationPosted Jul 22, 2026·Responses due Aug 1, 2027

Expedited Research Innovation System (ERIS)

DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY

Stage
Open solicitation
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
DARPA-PS-25-05
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AC15
Place
Not stated
Contact
ERIS Coordinator (ERIS@darpa.mil)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA-PS-25-05 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
None posted
Solicitation
  • May 1, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Jul 22, 2026 · this notice
    Solicitation
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (3 found; 10 needed).

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What the notice says

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in conjunction with its marketplace manager, The Applied Research Institute (ARI), is initiating a long-term, open call for new and novel technology solutions to support DARPA in advancing research, development, prototyping, experimentation, and adoption of disruptive, DARPA-relevant research and technology solutions. Specifically, DARPA seeks to obtain solutions or capabilities that deliver breakthrough technological advancements that are new as of the date of submission; or technologies, processes, research or methods that represent a new… (show all)

application as of the date of submission. This initiative, entitled the �Expedited Research Implementation Series� will solicit, collect, assess, and curate the most disruptive, revolutionary solutions, and make those solutions available through rapid acquisition pathways. ERIS is a digital environment of post-competition video pitches. The video solutions housed within the marketplace have been assessed through competitive procedures that exceed the competition requirements of 10 USC 4021, 10 USC 4022 and 10 USC 4023 and thus are readily available to be viewed, selected, negotiated, and awarded by DoD activities via the appropriate Other Transaction Authority. ERIS provides a venue for Government organizations to search, view, review, compare, contrast, contact, negotiate, and procure breakthrough technologies and capabilities through rapid acquisition pathways. For industry, academia, and individual developers, ERIS is a valuable tool to promote revolutionary technologies, capabilities, and research to DARPA in an environment with a rapid acquisition, Other Transaction based, pathway. - R10: Removed Topic Area "Detecting and tracking elusive targets across air, land, and space domains." Additional clarification provided in yellow highlights.

Who won similar work

57 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY), same NAICS 541715.

Single-winner award sizes (57): middle half $3.6M to $7.3M, median $5.2M; range $300K to $499.8M.

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. · $LDOS · $15.3B2$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

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.

Investor context
  • $LDOS reported $15.3B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 57 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.

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. 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
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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.