MXO Pitch Day 2026
DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation DARPA-PA-26-07 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
DARPA�s MXO will host a Pitch Day for engagement with prospective proposers and to catalyze future efforts in the thrust areas listed within the solicitation. MXO Pitch Day will be hosted on November 2, 2026, in-person, in Chicago, Illinois. This Program Announcement DARPA-PA-26-07 constitutes the MXO Pitch Day solicitation. The goals of the MXO Pitch Day 2026 are to: 1) fund scientific discovery solutions for short-term efforts with the intent to advance scientific understanding, generate new concepts or methods, reduce technical uncertainty, and potential to catalyze future research efforts,… (show all)
and 2) employ an acquisition strategy to encourage participation by non-traditional organizations and small businesses that have not previously received a DARPA-funded award as prime performers and university teams whose Principal Investigators (PI) and Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PI) have not previously served as a PI or Co-PI under a DARPA-funded award. MXO Pitch Day 2026 aims to broaden DARPA�s goals to break down barriers of entry for performers new to DARPA and the national security space.
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.