ERIS Shopping Notice: Distributed Decentralized Control & Estimation
- Client
- Department of Defense
- RFP Number
- —
- Posted
- —
- Category
- US Federal
- Budget
- —
- NAICS
- 541715
- Set-aside
- —
- Contact
- ERIS Coordinator
- [email protected]
Description
AI GeneratedDARPA 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.
Official SAM.gov notice
- Solicitation number
- DARPA-SN-26-101
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Buying office
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) › DEF Advanced Research Projects Agcy
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Responses due
- Jul 31, 2027, 7:59 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Aug 10, 2026
- NAICS
- 541715 · Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product/service code
- AC12
- Contracting contact
- ERIS Coordinator
[email protected]
Read the official notice description
Between the notice dates listed above, DARPA IPTO will be actively “shopping” the ERIS Marketplace for innovative, post-competitive, awardable solutions that address modeling, simulation, and software-defined technical approaches to support decentralized, distributed, and horizontally integrated command and control for heterogeneous combat agents for sensing grids, unmanned aircraft systems, satellite constellations, collaborative aircraft, and ground or surface capabilities.
Source: SAM.gov contract opportunities data (U.S. federal public data).
Incumbent
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.
Top vendors in this category: Department of Defense, NAICS 541715, since Oct 1, 2023
28,732 contract awards in this NAICS over the period.
- 1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$7.1B
- 2. FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$5.8B
- 3. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP$5.7B
- 4. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$4.0B
- 5. THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION$3.3B
Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.
Source and verification
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