DARPA Information Innovation Office (I2O)

DSO is issuing a Disruption Opportunity (DO), inviting submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of accelerated materials testing and prediction for concrete. | See Program

IPTO is sponsoring a Proposers Day on Oct. 1, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia, with unclassified and classified sessions for Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR), a possible future program. | See Event

The primary intent of this RFI is to inform industry of a potential new DARPA program and to encourage innovative contractor/subcontractor teaming arrangements prior to formal solicitation. | See Office

The IMR program aims to develop repair methods to protect essential economic sectors against devastating attacks that exploit the public interfaces of modern markets. | See Program

DSO is “shopping” the ERIS Marketplace for game-changing, foundational mechanisms capable of fundamentally disrupting legacy thermodynamic limits across diverse DoW application spaces. | See ERIS

This topic seeks to mature and commercialize revolutionary Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) subsystem designs capable of breaking the 4:1 payload-to-weight ratio. | See Topic

We are soliciting innovative proposals for the development of a multifunctional, target-agnostic platform for precise, programmable editing of endogenous proteins. | See Program

This topic seeks to develop and demo a robust framework and tool suite building on automated algorithm discovery tools that will enable the seamless integration of discovered algorithms with the scientific and engineering workflow. | See Topic

This topic seeks to develop and demo a modular, open-architecture AUVs for rapid payload swapping, collaborative fleet deployment, and resilient undersea navigation. | See Topic

This seeks to develop and demonstrate an automated, species-agnostic cell culture platform to rapidly establish viable cell lines (including iPSCs) from diverse non-model species, enabling the validation of genetic-biocontrol technologies. | See Topic

The I2O BAA covers four thrust areas with 'Fighting in the Information Domain' directly addressing cognitive warfare and information operations: cognitive and semantic operations, digital artifact tracking (deepfake and synthetic media forensics), adversarial influence, and transport mechanisms. The BAA explicitly seeks 'unconventional approaches capable of delivering decisive information and computational advantage.' Rolling abstract submissions required before invitation to full proposal. Temporarily paused May–August 2026 for strategic realignment; expected to reopen August 2026.