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Resilient Ultra Short Pulsed Laser Sources - RFI

Federal · Department of DefenseDue Friday, November 20, 2026
Client
Department of Defense
RFP Number
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Posted
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Category
US Federal
Budget
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NAICS
541715
Set-aside
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Contact
RFI Coordinator
Email
[email protected]

Description

AI Generated

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Multi X Office seeks information regarding compact, rugged millijoule-class ultra-short pulsed lasers. The requested scope includes identifying approaches for fieldable millijoule ultra-short pulsed lasers and methods to maintain mode-locking under environmental challenges. Unclassified responses must be emailed to [email protected] by November 20, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Responders must submit their submissions as unprotected PDF, Microsoft Word, or PowerPoint files formatted with 12-point font and 1-inch margins on standard 8.5-by-11-inch pages.

Official SAM.gov notice

Solicitation number
DARPA-SN-26-124
Agency
Department of Defense
Buying office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) › DEF Advanced Research Projects Agcy
Notice type
Special Notice
Responses due
Nov 20, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
Posted on SAM.gov
Sep 8, 2026
NAICS
541715 · Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Product/service code
AC12
Contracting contact
RFI Coordinator
[email protected]
Read the official notice description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Multi X Office (MXO) seeks information on compact, rugged millijoule class ultra-short pulsed lasers. The goals of this Request for Information (RFI) include, but are not limited to: • Identify approaches to fieldable millijoule ultra-short pulsed lasers • Identify approaches to maintain mode-locking under environmental challenges Responses to this RFI will be used to inform future DARPA program research thrusts, goals, and performance targets.

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.

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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.

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