What the buyer needs
AI summaryDARPA IPTO seeks innovative, post-competitive, awardable software-defined technical approaches, modeling, and simulation to support decentralized, distributed, and horizontally integrated command and control for heterogeneous combat agents. The requested scope includes short-term efforts and participation in a space autonomy program developing technologies for trustworthy agent-to-agent collaboration and large-scale orchestration in compute and bandwidth-limited environments. Eligible existing ERIS solution providers and new prospective providers must respond between August 10, 2026, and July 31, 2027. Existing solution providers submit by emailing [email protected] with their awardable solution video title and URL. New offerors must submit a video solution titled with the prefix "DARPA-SN-26-101:" via the ERIS portal under Topic Area 2 during any monthly submission window from August 2026 through July 2027, followed by a notification email to [email protected]. Evaluators assess submissions against the standard criteria in the ERIS Master Program Solicitation, specifically seeking solutions demonstrating strong problem definition, technical innovation, team capability, and defense or commercial impact.
Scope of work
- Autonomy frameworks for decentralized control at the edge
- Open-loop, closed-loop, controls-based, and optimization-based technical approaches
- Tokenization, encoding, quantization, and compression at the edge
- Space autonomy program technology development deploying space-based hardware
- Trustworthy agent-to-agent collaboration in compute and bandwidth-limited environments
- Scalable orchestration and autonomy across 1,000s of nodes
- Collaborative control and estimation for heterogeneous agents
- Distributed tracking and track fusion at the edge
How proposals are evaluated
| Criterion | Weight / scoring |
|---|---|
| Standard criteria published in the ERIS Master Program Solicitation | Not specified |
Minimum qualifications
- Existing or prospective ERIS Solution Provider with an awardable solution
- Experience in distributed tracking and measurement/track fusion at the edge
- Experience delivering autonomy to low compute, constrained bandwidth environments
Documents to include with your response
- Video solution submitted via ERIS portal
- Notification email to [email protected]
How to submit
- Method
- Electronic via ERIS portal and email
- Instructions
- Flag existing awardable video solution or submit new video solution via ERIS portal using title format 'DARPA-SN-26-101: [Your Solution Title]' and email [email protected]
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
Awards in the same category (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)). This is not this requirement's award history.
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