About this opportunity
AI summaryThe government authority in Arlington, VA, requires a vendor to provide intrinsic market resilience services performed offsite. The selected vendor must develop methodology and software tools that model domestic online equity market designs, identify hidden vulnerabilities, and recommend repairs to prevent exploitation by non-economic actors. Additionally, the program requires creating a prototype capability that combines large language model-based automation with formal notations to analyze regulatory filings and technical specifications. Only onshore USA organizations are eligible to bid on this procurement opportunity. Bidders must submit their proposals digitally through email or online, and the buyer is currently looking for proposal budgets.
Scope of work
- Develop methodology and software tools to identify design flaws in domestic online equity markets
- Develop formal notations to precisely describe market operations and coordination
- Create machine-analyzable models from informal descriptions like regulatory filings and technical specifications
- Combine large language model (LLM)-based automation with modeling and analysis to identify market remediations
- Create a prototype capability for automatically modeling, analyzing, and repairing markets
- Recommend and test repairs that make economic sectors containing markets more resilient to attack
Minimum qualifications
- Onshore (USA Organization Only)
Documents to include with your response
- Cover Sheet
- Abstract Coversheet
- Table of Contents
- 1-slide Abstract Slide Summary
- Goals and Impact
- Technical Approach
- Capabilities/Management Plan
- Rough Order of Magnitude
- Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Utilization
- Bibliography
How to submit
- Method
- UNCLASSIFIED abstracts via DARPA Broad Agency Announcement Tool (BAAT); CLASSIFIED abstracts per classified addendum; or digitally via Email or Online
- Instructions
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word formats, typed in English on 8.5 by 11 inch pages, 12-point font, with 1 inch margins, not exceeding 5 pages. Recommended file naming convention is Organization Name_IMR Abstract.
Contract details
- Term
- 30 months
- Place of performance
- Arlington, VA / Offsite
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- DARPA-PS-26-138
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Buying office
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) › DEF Advanced Research Projects Agcy
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Responses due
- Dec 7, 2026, 9:00 AM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Sep 25, 2026
- NAICS
- 541715 · Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product/service code
- AC12
- Contracting contact
- Solicitation Coordinator
IMR@darpa.mil
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
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.
Top vendors in this category: Department of Defense, NAICS 541715, since Oct 1, 2024
23,034 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.