DARPA Funding Opportunities

Helping defense innovators secure and manage federal funding from pursuit strategy and proposal support to negotiations and post-award execution.

What Does DARPA Fund?

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) offers funding opportunities aimed at fostering innovation in science and technology fields that are crucial for national security. These non-dilutive funding programs operate outside incremental R&D, seeking high-risk, radical technological surprise across quantum systems, tactical autonomy, biological resilience, and contested communications.

Through program-specific Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs), office-wide open solicitations, and targeted innovation sprints, DARPA provides non-dilutive funding to organizations advancing transformative technology

DARPA Programs We Support

EverGlade helps organizations pursue and manage DARPA opportunities such as:

Program-Specific Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs)

Targeted solicitations directed by DARPA Program Managers to solve explicit operational challenges. Examples include DICE, PINPOINT, PENG, Perrseus, QBI, and RAPIID

Office-Wide Open BAAs

These solicitations serve as open-ended, rolling mechanisms for industry and academic researchers to propose revolutionary ideas directly to specific technical offices. Active technical offices include, but not limited to:

Biological Technologies Office (BTO): Medical countermeasures, operational biotechnology, bio-manufacturing, and warfighter resilience.
Defense Sciences Office (DSO): Disruptive materials, quantum sensing, physics, chemistry, and novel mathematics.
Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO): Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous computing, and contested-environment software.
Multi X Office (MXO): Heterogeneous microelectronics, photonics, and next-generation physical hardware integration.

Research Initiatives & Fast-Track Challenges

These short-term, accelerated efforts focus on prototyping or evaluating niche capabilities. Recent initiatives include the Expedited Research Implementation for Security (ERIS) program, AI Forge, and targeted SBIR/STTR topics.

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Recent DARPA Funding Programs

DARPA Announces HUBBLE Proposers Day to Map the Human Interactome

DARPA Firefox Program to Explore High-Channel, Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interfaces

DARPA Releases Official Solicitation for Protein ENGineering (PENG)

DARPA Launches PINPOINT Program To Break The GPS Dependency

DARPA’s QBI Stage A: Stress‑Testing The Path To A Utility‑Scale Quantum Computer

DARPA’s Perrseus Program: Manufacturable µUHV for Quantum & Atomic Sensors

New DARPA RFI: Multiscale Reasoning Across Human Physiology

DARPA Seeks Input on Advancing Autonomous Science for Biological Applications RFI

DARPA Officially Releases DICE BAA for Decentralized AI Systems in Contested Environments

DARPA and NSF Launch AI Forge Initiative for University-Led National Security AI Research

DARPA Releases TA1/TA2 Solicitation for RAPIID Blood Analog Systems for Far-Forward Trauma Care

DARPA Seeks Input on Rapid Petroleum Stabilization and Repurposing Technologies

Ready to Pursue DARPA Funding?

Have a question or ready to discuss your project? Our team can help determine eligibility, align your proposal with agency priorities, and guide you through every step of the process.