About this opportunity
AI summaryThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Multi X Office seeks information to guide potential future research on flexoelectric materials. This effort supports Department of War requirements for sensing and transduction technologies capable of functioning under stringent size, weight, power, communications, and environmental constraints. The requested scope encompasses foundational materials, interfaces, metrology, design rules, and device elements. These focus areas must support encoding or discriminating local mechanical states via strain-gradient-driven electromechanical responses.
Scope of work
- Surveying state of the art in flexoelectric and strain-gradient-driven electromechanical materials and devices
- Identifying intrinsic, interfacial, ionic, defect-mediated, phase-boundary, electrode, and geometry-driven flexoelectric mechanisms
- Identifying material, microstructure, interface, and device architectures for compliant, stable strain-gradient transduction
- Identifying figures of merit, benchmarking methods, and preliminary quantitative estimates for credible technology comparison
- Identifying device elements that encode or distinguish mechanically relevant conditions including bend, impact, and vibration
- Identifying material and device requirements for distributed sensing, adaptive transduction, and physical-compute elements
- Identifying scientific, manufacturing, scaling, integration, environmental, and transition barriers for strain-gradient transduction
Documents to include with your response
- One-page Cover page with title, organization(s), and technical and administrative points of contact
- Technical Area(s) section addressing capabilities, challenges, mechanisms, strategy, current data, and risk assessment
- Two-page References section citing previously published work and applicable Government sponsors
- Summary slide(s) summarizing main ideas and development strategy per Technical Area
Key dates
- Posting Date
- November 4, 2026
- Responses Due
- December 4, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Submit unclassified responses to the designated email address. Unprotected Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or PDF file, 11-point font, 1-inch margins, 8.5-by-11-inch pages. Up to 10 technical pages total.
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- DARPA-SN-27-10
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Buying office
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) › DEF Advanced Research Projects Agcy
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Responses due
- Dec 4, 2026, 9:00 AM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 4, 2026
- NAICS
- 541715 · Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product/service code
- AC12
- Contracting contact
- SN Coordinator
DARPA-SN-27-10@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
23,057 contract awards in this NAICS over the period.
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