Firefox Proposers Day
DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
Capture briefs (a one-page, shareable copy of this page) are part of Pro. The CSV here holds the notice, its timeline and past awards.
Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA-SN-26-112 in this department, oldest first.
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
UPDATE: The purpose of Amendment 2 to DARPA-SN-26-112, the Firefox Special Notice (SN), is to add a Contracting Q&A session UPDATE: The purpose of Amendment 1 to DARPA-SN-26-112, the Firefox Special Notice (SN), is to update the event date/deadline/location. The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host an in-person-only Proposers Day for the potential proposer community in support of a planned Program Solicitation (PS) for the Firefox Program. The Proposers Day will take place at the SPA Arlington Research Collaboration Center (SPA… (show all)
RCC) in Arlington, VA, on Monday September 21, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT). Advance registration is required. Please limit in-person attendance to three (3) individuals per organization. Note: all times listed on this announcement, the agenda, and the registration website are in Eastern Daylight Time.
Who won similar work
5 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 541714.
Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $999K to $1.4M, median $1.2M; range $693K to $11.2M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC. | 2 | $2.4M | Jun 23, 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | 1 | $11.2M | Nov 26, 2024 |
| ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM Emeryville CA 94608 USA | 1 | $1.2M | Jun 23, 2026 |
| The Council on Strategic Risks Washington DC 20036 USA | 1 | $693K | Oct 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.
- Jun 23, 2026ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM Emeryville CA 94608 USA$1.2MBiosecurity Working Group Generative Optogenetics
- Jun 23, 2026NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$1.4MIndependent Commercialization Generative Optogenetics
- Oct 21, 2025The Council on Strategic Risks Washington DC 20036 USA$693KPolicy Working Group for Switch Biomanufacturing
- Feb 3, 2025NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$999KHR001125C0049 Biological Technologies
- Nov 26, 2024UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK$11.2MHR001125C0004 BioLogical Undersea Energy (BLUE)
Competitive landscape
For the 4 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
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 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.
- 0 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 0 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.