DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) seeks high-risk, high-payoff research across science and engineering to support national security. Through this solicitation, DSO will issue individual Disruption Opportunity (DO) topics to rapidly investigate new concepts with focused investments. These opportunities target specific technical domains and aim to pursue innovative research leading to a prototype demonstration. DOs allow DARPA to initiate a new unclassified investment in less than 120 calendar days from idea inception. More information on DSO technical domains and research interests is available at https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/dso.

DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) seeks to leverage nascent scientific advances for national security through high-risk, high-payoff research. Under this solicitation, DSO will issue individual Disruption Opportunity (DO) topics to rapidly investigate new concepts with focused investments. These efforts aim to achieve unclassified prototype demonstrations within less than 120 calendar days from idea inception. The opportunities target specific technical domains aligned with DSO’s mission, with further details available on the DSO website. No budget amounts or performance locations are specified.

This is a DARPA Disruption Opportunity (DO) solicitation for high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives to advance national security applications. The program aims to initiate new, unclassified research investments in less than 120 days from idea inception. These opportunities target specific technical domains with the goal of achieving a prototype demonstration.