DARPA Modernization Project Sources Sought and Industry Day Notice

Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation HR001126E008 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.

Who won similar work

73 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (DARPA), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

Single-winner award sizes (73): middle half $2.8M to $8.8M, median $5.2M; range $300K to $499.8M.

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.

• Oct 19, 2026ECS FEDERAL, LLC$162.7MMulti X Office (MXO02) Program Support ServicesMateriality: 4.1% of $ASGN revenue (Medium)Calculated as Award Amount divided by the company's trailing twelve-month revenue (SEC 10-Q). Here: $162.7M award ÷ $4.0B revenue, 12 months to Jun 30, 2026 (SEC 10-Q). SEC
• Oct 19, 2026THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$499.8MJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) Support ServicesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• Oct 9, 2026Two Six Labs, LLC$1.5MHR001127CE008-Surveillance and Prediction from Research-Industrial Signatures: Part II (SurPRISE Part II) seedlingNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• Oct 5, 2026REAGAN-UDALL FOUNDATION FOR THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, INC.$1.2MHR001126CE092 Biological TechnologiesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• Sep 3, 2026Guidehouse Inc.$61.3MMulti X Office (MXO01) Operations Support ServicesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• Jun 23, 2026NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$1.4MIndependent Commercialization Generative OptogeneticsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• Jun 23, 2026ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM Emeryville CA 94608 USA$1.2MBiosecurity Working Group Generative OptogeneticsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• May 11, 2026RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Fairfax VA 22033 USA$735KHR001126CE068 Code-to-model Analysis Ready for Verification Engines (CARVE)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• May 1, 2026HRL LABORATORIES, LLC$3.9MHR001121C0043 High Enthalpy Aperture Technology (HEAT)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
• Feb 23, 2026LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$4.7MSecuring Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)Materiality: <0.01% of $LMT revenue (Low)Calculated as Award Amount divided by the company's trailing twelve-month revenue (SEC 10-Q). Here: $4.7M award ÷ $77.0B revenue, 12 months to Jun 28, 2026 (SEC 10-Q). SEC

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

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.

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.

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.