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ERIS Shopping Notice: Distributed Decentralized Control & Estimation

Special Notice from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (darpa). Due Jul 31, 2027, 286 days left.

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Solicitation numberDARPA-SN-26-101
AgencyDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (darpa)
OfficeDef Advanced Research Projects Agcy
Notice typeSpecial Notice
Set-asideNone
Trade (NAICS)Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (541715)
Product or service codeAC12
PostedAug 10, 2026
Response deadlineJul 31, 2027 (286 days left)

Official notice and attachments

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.

About the buyer

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded $1.2 billion in contracts in the last 12 months; its biggest suppliers were Lockheed Martin Corporation, Securigence LLC and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC. See what DARPA is buying now.

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