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DoD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) is sponsored by Department of Defense (DoD) - Office of Naval Research (ONR). The Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI), administered by the Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, supports basic research in science and engineering at U. S.
SBIR SF254-D1206: Knowledge-Guided Test and Evaluation Frameworks for proliferated Low Earth Orbit Constellations is sponsored by U.S. Air Force. DOD SBIR topic SF254-D1206: Knowledge-Guided Test and Evaluation Frameworks for proliferated Low Earth Orbit Constellations. Component: U.S. Air Force. Command: SDA. Solicitation: DoD SBIR 2025.4. Phase(s): D2PII, II, SPII. Status: Pre-Release. Open date: 3/4/2026.
DARPA opened three of its most strategically revealing SBIR topics of the year on July 22, 2026, with a tight four-week window closing August 19: Art of Novel Signals (temporal knowledge-graph forecasting), FALCON (fusing LLMs with symbolic reasoning), and Non-Volatile Memory for Extreme Environments. Here is what each funds, why the topics reveal DARPA's priorities, and how a small team should approach a four-week deadline.
Read articleBuried in DARPA's 2026 Release 4 BAA is 'Non-Volatile Memory for Extreme Environments' (DPA26BZ04-DV017), which asks small businesses to build a co-packaged, temperature-hard and radiation-tolerant NOR Flash memory system for -250°C to +600°C. It opened July 22 and closes August 19, 2026. Here is what the topic wants, why extreme-environment memory is a genuine defense and space gap, and how to compete in a four-week window.
Read articleDARPA's Defense Sciences Office pre-released two FY26 SBIR topics on July 1, 2026: FALCON (fusing efficient ML with large language models for interactive analysis of massive data) and Art of Novel Signals (temporal knowledge-graph forecasting from multilingual, multimodal data). Both opened July 22 and close August 19. Here is what each topic wants, how DARPA SBIR economics work, and the strategy to compete in a four-week window.
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