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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, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Jul 21, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Jul 28, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Aug 20, 2026SolicitationOpen
- Aug 20, 2026 · this noticeSolicitation
- 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
37 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY), same product/service code (PSC) AC12 and NAICS 541715.
Single-winner award sizes (37): middle half $3.8M to $7.3M, median $5.2M; range $350K to $18.6M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3 | $20.1M | Aug 11, 2025 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA | 3 | $16.0M | Sep 2, 2025 |
| Two Six Labs, LLC | 2 | $25.9M | Aug 11, 2025 |
| LEIDOS, INC. · $LDOS · $15.3B | 2 | $14.3M | Feb 18, 2025 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL | 2 | $11.6M | Mar 3, 2025 |
| SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC | 2 | $10.5M | Aug 11, 2025 |
| HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. · $HON · $33.0B | 2 | $9.4M | Mar 21, 2025 |
| INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION · $IBM · $61.9B | 1 | $9.1M | Apr 16, 2025 |
| HRL LABORATORIES, LLC | 1 | $8.9M | Jan 30, 2025 |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | 1 | $7.3M | Mar 8, 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 37 past awards, $5.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
- $HON reported $33.0B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 37 past awards, $5.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
- $IBM reported $61.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 37 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.
- 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)
- Sep 2, 2025CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION$6.6MMicrosystem Induced CAtalysis (MICA)
- Sep 2, 2025SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA$10.7MMicrosystem Induced CAtalysis (MICA)
- Aug 11, 2025Two Six Labs, LLC$7.2MProvably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND�)
- Aug 11, 2025SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$5.2MProvably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND�)
- Aug 11, 2025RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$9.4MProvably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND�)
- Jul 25, 2025STEALTH SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$3.8MProvably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND�)
- Jul 25, 2025SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA$3.6MProvably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND�)
- May 22, 2025KITWARE INC$3.7MArtificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ)
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.
- 1 of these past winners lobbied Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since 2024 (10 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) job
- $665K 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.
- 8 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.
- 3 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 5 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.