DSIP 2026 Opportunity Tracker

This RFP seeks a schema-driven AI system that transforms complex acquisition decisions into auditable, traceable decision packages for ground vehicle programs. The prototype will demonstrate how agentic AI processes digital engineering data while maintaining human control, transparency, and bias awareness throughout multi-phase trade studies.

This RFP seeks a schema-driven decision management system with governed AI capabilities to transform complex acquisition trade studies into auditable, human-controlled decision packages. The prototype will demonstrate how agentic AI can process digital engineering data while maintaining traceability, bias detection, and decision readiness assessment.

This DAF RFP seeks low-cost detection sensors for a perimeter network to identify low-altitude drones, including non-RF emitting "dark" drones, in cluttered environments for USAF and USSF base defense. The system must integrate multi-sensor data into unified tracks and support remote control via API integration with Air Force command systems.

This RFP seeks to adapt autonomous drone swarm technology with AI-driven control software to enhance self-protection and security for military aircraft and forward operating bases. Vendors should propose integrated systems demonstrating secure communications, high-altitude deployment, and autonomous ground-based perimeter defense capabilities.

TAPPAS seeks compact, lightweight sensing technology for satellites that enables real-time threat detection and space domain awareness. The payload combines onboard processing with local situational assessment to support self-protection and shared tactical awareness across contested space environments.

The USSF seeks an AI-enhanced defensive cyber warfare platform that integrates threat detection, supply chain vetting, and on-orbit monitoring across fragmented space systems. This unified approach shifts space cybersecurity from reactive to proactive, protecting satellites and ground infrastructure against advanced adversaries through autonomous, real-time threat interception.

The Space Force seeks mature autonomous on-orbit logistics technologies to enable satellite servicing, refueling, and repair as routine operations. Proposers can emphasize either system-wide integration or a specific logistics function, demonstrating how their solution enhances resilience and operational freedom in contested space environments.

This RFP seeks advanced AI/ML solutions for multi-sensor fusion across satellite constellations to enhance missile detection, tracking, and real-time reporting for U.S. Space Force operations. The capability must process large data volumes with minimal latency to accurately identify and track sophisticated threats like hypersonic missiles across multiple orbital platforms.

This RFP seeks development of an affordable multi-function Ku-band radar system for high-speed airborne platforms, addressing the current shortage of cost-effective options at scale. The system must integrate imaging radar, passive direction-finding, and fuze sensing within a compact 6-inch diameter configuration while meeting demanding thermal and performance specifications.

This RFP seeks compact, low-noise mode-locked semiconductor lasers operating at 6-12 GHz with picosecond pulses and 50+ mW power. The technology bridges optical and microwave domains for photonics applications, addressing the current lack of commercially available stabilized lasers in this performance range.

This RFP seeks development of quantum memory systems (quantum repeaters) to extend secure quantum key distribution over long distances, addressing signal loss limitations that currently prevent widespread implementation of quantum-secured communications for Air Force digital infrastructure.

This SBIR Phase I project seeks to develop a secure 5G Open RAN cellular network specifically designed for Edwards AFB flight line operations. The solution will modernize outdated communication infrastructure to enable real-time ground crew coordination, aircraft health monitoring, and predictive maintenance while reducing downtime.

This RFP seeks a proof-of-concept system integrating multi-source intelligence data and machine learning to detect threats and assess space operations in real-time. The solution must process non-traditional sensor data to monitor an increasingly congested orbital environment and provide commanders timely situational awareness for decision-making.

This RFP seeks advanced signal processing technology to protect GPS systems from jamming and spoofing threats. The solution combines machine learning and stochastic resonance principles to enhance weak GPS signals while filtering adversarial interference for military and commercial operations.

This RFP seeks development of a standardized AI Performance Evaluation Tool to address gaps in assessing AI system reliability and trustworthiness across Air Force test and evaluation missions. The tool will provide consistent, quantifiable metrics for validating AI models' performance in sensor systems while supporting DoD Trusted AI principles and operational readiness goals.

This RFP seeks automated combat assessment software that rapidly evaluates battle damage post-strike using edge processing and AI/ML models. The system addresses the need for real-time damage classification in contested environments, enabling faster tactical re-planning and restrike decisions compared to traditional after-action reporting methods.

This RFP seeks development of a minimally invasive remote blood collection device for free-ranging cetaceans to enable health monitoring and environmental surveillance. The prototype will use suction-cup deployment methods to collect capillary blood samples from Navy dolphins and wild populations, improving mission readiness and environmental compliance assessments.

This RFP seeks an advanced airborne subsurface radar system operable from high-altitude aircraft to map mineral deposits across larger areas faster. The system must solve extreme power-scaling challenges while remaining self-contained, modular, and electromagnetically compatible with host aircraft.

This RFP seeks an autonomous, networked detection system using machine learning and on-board sensors to identify New World Screwworm in real-time across remote border regions. The system addresses current manual trap limitations by enabling persistent surveillance and rapid threat detection without laboratory diagnostics.

This RFP seeks a noninvasive detection system combining advanced sensing and AI to help combat medics rapidly identify and monitor life-threatening internal bleeding in austere field environments. The solution must pinpoint hemorrhage location and bleeding rate to enable timely triage and evacuation decisions when surgical care is unavailable.

This RFP seeks a simulated market testbed to evaluate behavioral tendencies in AI systems used by warfighters. The economic framework will detect hidden biases, deceptive strategies, and cognitive impacts that may impair decision-making without requiring direct model access.

CORPS seeks software that predicts casualty streams and optimizes medical response decisions in austere, communications-limited environments. The solution must evaluate response options against tactical constraints using sparse data, while integrating with both DoD and civilian infrastructure.

DARPA seeks autonomous systems capable of detecting casualties and chemical toxidromes in contaminated mass casualty environments where human responders face hazardous conditions. The technology must locate injuries, recommend triage priorities, and deliver initial treatments to improve survival rates when rapid medical response is critical.

This SBIR seeks an autonomous "ICU-in-a-Box" platform integrating extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with multi-organ support capabilities to provide sustained resuscitative care for combat casualties in austere environments where evacuation delays extend beyond initial trauma phases. The system would automate critical functions including oxygenation, cardiovascular stabilization, and renal support to address preventable deaths from severe hemorrhage and subsequent organ failure.

This STTR seeks innovative hard-mask materials that enable precise, high-aspect-ratio semiconductor fabrication for defense microsystems like 3D circuits and RF filters. Solutions should deliver superior etch resistance and minimal line-edge roughness while addressing current masks' stress, degradation, and pattern-distortion limitations.

Sought: A fuel-flexible electric propulsion system for spacecraft that operates on multiple propellants—air, water, ammonia derivatives, and CO2 mixtures—using shared components. This addresses mission flexibility limitations and reduces costly development cycles by enabling a single system to serve diverse orbital environments and refueling architectures.

This STTR seeks novel diagnostic systems and computational models to characterize freestream noise sources in hypersonic wind tunnels, particularly in regions inaccessible to conventional optical techniques. Deliverables will enable better understanding of noise generation upstream and improve ground-test facility performance for high-speed vehicle evaluation.

This RFP seeks development of a compact, receive-only passive X-Band radar with SAR and GMTI capabilities for covert sensing in contested environments. The lightweight, low-cost system must operate on small unmanned platforms without transmitting RF emissions, eliminating adversary detection risks.

The Navy seeks monolithic graphene-CMOS focal plane arrays that detect targets across ultraviolet to long-wave infrared wavelengths in low-light conditions. This technology would replace multiple incumbent detector systems, reducing size, weight, cost, and complexity while improving naval imaging capabilities for multi-domain operations.

This RFP seeks open-source 5G/6G solutions for large venues facing connectivity challenges, dead zones, and vendor lock-in costs. Proposers should demonstrate how OCUDU and related open-source components improve network performance across real stadium deployments while benefiting the broader RAN development community.

This RFP seeks an open-source 5G platform stack tailored for small-to-mid-size manufacturers facing connectivity challenges in automated production environments. Solutions must demonstrate cost-effective private 5G deployment, validated interoperability across vendors, and reliable performance for mobile robots and machine vision in metal-heavy industrial settings.

This RFP seeks development of an agentic AI-based cognitive radar system that autonomously adapts its operating parameters to sense environmental conditions and optimize waveform transmission. The solution aims to enhance GEOINT mission resilience by enabling radar systems to function effectively in adversarial or interference-heavy environments without human intervention.

This RFP seeks a Vision Language Model combining multimodal AI to detect and classify targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery from sensor-independent complex data. The capability integrates large language models with vision encoders to enable automated SAR image analysis and interpretation.

The Navy seeks innovative manufacturing processes to produce IR-transparent composite ceramics with nanoscale microstructures and minimal porosity at production scale. This enables advanced infrared aperture components that maintain optical clarity and mechanical strength under extreme thermal conditions.

This RFP seeks development of specialized metrology tools to measure and locate charge traps in diamond transistors, addressing current collapse issues that limit high-frequency RF power performance. The system must characterize trap density, energy levels, and locations across multiple device layers using government-provided diamond test devices.

This RFP seeks cyber deception solutions to mitigate 5G digital signature tracking threats against military and government personnel using commercial mobile networks. The technology must protect against adversary surveillance by masking cellular metadata that reveals location, device identity, and operational patterns.

This RFP seeks development of a geometric amplifier for telecom applications that leverages Berry phase modulation through fiber-coupled resonators. The approach offers potential advantages over conventional gain mechanisms through reduced complexity, size, and power consumption using RF modulation.

This RFP seeks development of ultrafast nonvolatile memory using sliding ferroelectricity in layered van der Waals materials to achieve superior speed, endurance, and energy efficiency compared to current memory technologies. The work requires multidisciplinary expertise in device design, fabrication, and characterization of atomically thin moiré structures.

This RFP seeks development of room-temperature infrared and terahertz sensing devices using non-toxic, supply-chain-secure materials to replace cryogenically-cooled systems. The technology targets fast, low-power detection for hypersonic threats and drone detection without the toxicity and cooling requirements of current military sensor platforms.

This RFP seeks scalable, cost-effective methods to manufacture large-area 2D polymer films with precise structural control. Current production techniques yield low-quality or low-yield results, limiting commercial applications; this effort aims to enable roll-to-roll processing for materials with superior properties in catalysis, energy storage, and filtration.

This STTR seeks bio-inspired underwater vehicle teams that leverage schooling hydrodynamics to achieve superior efficiency, range, and stealth compared to conventional designs. Proposals should demonstrate untethered UUVs (1-5 meters) reaching 4+ meters/second while minimizing acoustic signatures and optimizing cost of transport.

This RFP seeks a portable solar-powered methanol synthesis system that converts sunlight, water, and atmospheric CO2 into fuel for remote military operations. The 90-lb, briefcase-sized device must generate ≥0.5L methanol hourly to power small tactical units operating independently from supply lines.

This RFP seeks architected energy-dissipating materials that combine rigid strength with flexible conformability for enhanced warfighter protection. Teams will design and test tunable structures using geometric arrangements to optimize performance across personal protection, vehicle safety, and electronics shielding applications.

RIPTIDE seeks an integrated photonic navigation system enabling autonomous swarms to maintain precise positioning across 200-300 nautical miles in GPS-denied environments. The optical mesh network must deliver sub-meter accuracy through distributed optical crosslinks, enabling coordinated operations when traditional navigation systems are unavailable or compromised.

This contract seeks a modern, reusable replacement for discontinued PF300 flash bulbs used in high-speed video systems. The new illumination system must match or exceed original performance while leveraging existing technology to reduce costs and obsolescence risks.

This SBIR Phase II effort seeks a secure, modernized Technical Data Package system with encrypted visualization, configuration management, and AI-driven analytics to protect Air and Space Force mission-critical asset data while ensuring Zero Trust compliance and seamless lifecycle management across complex platforms.

This SBIR seeks scaled production of AFRL-patented UHTC preceramic polymers to support defense composite manufacturing. The initiative addresses supply chain needs by making ultra-high temperature ceramic materials available at production scale and competitive pricing for defense acquisition programs.

The Air Force is seeking compact, lightweight 2-micron fiber amplifiers that match the size and weight of existing 1-micron systems while maintaining kilowatt-class power. This advancement enables eye-safer directed energy capabilities and advanced sensing for defense applications.

This RFP seeks an adaptive single-arm robotic workcell to automate wire harness routing and connector installation for unmanned aerial systems and munitions production. The solution addresses a critical manufacturing bottleneck by replacing manual assembly with sensor-driven automation capable of handling flexible materials with sub-millimeter precision and rapid retaskability between product designs.

This SBIR Phase II solicitation seeks an automated software platform that ingests Technical Data Packages (3D CAD, drawings, BOMs) to autonomously generate collision-free robotic inspection trajectories, eliminating manual programming. The solution targets aerospace quality control bottlenecks by compressing setup timelines from days to hours for agile manufacturing environments.

The Air Force seeks advanced reserve power source technologies for weapon systems that maintain performance over 20+ years of storage without maintenance while delivering high specific energy (40-100 Wh/kg) and power density (2.5-5+ kW/kg). Solutions must rapidly activate within 600 milliseconds, operate reliably for 5+ minutes, withstand extreme environments, and address safety limitations of current battery technologies.

This RFP seeks development of a computationally efficient engineering model to predict fluid jet formation from shaped-charge liners. The reduced-order model will enable faster warhead design iteration by accurately forecasting spurt characteristics while avoiding expensive hydrocode simulations.

The Air Force is seeking optimized, lightweight optical beam control systems for airborne high-energy lasers. Proposals should focus on compact internal packaging using advanced materials, ruggedized designs, and precision assembly techniques that prioritize alignment, maintainability, and contamination resistance.

This RFP seeks a networked telemetry signal synchronization system that simultaneously transmits correlated test signals to multiple ground stations. It solves the inability to pre-flight test integrated telemetry infrastructure end-to-end, enabling validation of receive sites, networks, and best-source selection systems before live missions.

The Air Force seeks a non-destructive launching system for high-precision long rod projectile delivery to improve Live Fire Test and Evaluation data fidelity. This capability enables reliable flight control and targeting accuracy, reducing acquisition risk and supporting vulnerability assessments for aircraft survivability development.

This RFP seeks development of a luminescence-based measurement technique to simultaneously capture pressure and temperature data in non-oxygen hypersonic wind tunnels. Current pressure-sensitive paint technology requires oxygen in the flow, limiting advanced facilities like nitrogen-based tunnels to discrete measurements.

AEDC seeks a high-speed hyperspectral imaging system to simultaneously measure surface temperature and emissivity on test articles during ground testing. The solution must achieve 4000 Hz capture rates across 0-1500°F with submillimeter spatial resolution and ±10°F accuracy.

This RFP seeks an AI-powered computer vision system that automatically analyzes aerial refueling video to provide objective pilot performance feedback, replacing subjective instructor assessments. The solution will generate real-time debrief products with performance metrics and visualizations to improve training effectiveness and flight safety across Air Force and Navy aviation communities.

This Direct to Phase II opportunity seeks proven cyber defense technology for fog and edge computing devices that can autonomously detect and respond to attacks. Proposals must demonstrate a working prototype and scalable architecture capable of preventing or mitigating cyber threats across distributed edge-node environments.

FOCISAUS seeks prototype solutions for sharing and fusing sensor data across multiple uncrewed aircraft to improve situational awareness and reduce blind spots. The technology must handle bandwidth constraints, process data in real-time, and deliver actionable perception outputs for autonomous systems or operators.

ONR seeks low-cost heads-up display solutions for drone pilots and forward observers, enabling real-time situational awareness in combat operations. Proposals should demonstrate existing hardware integrating displays with FPV equipment or native tracking capabilities using onboard sensors.

The Navy seeks an innovative cleaning solution for fouled Time Domain Reflectometer sensors that measure fuel levels on DDG 51 destroyers. The technology must restore sensor accuracy without requiring ships to cease operations or undergo costly tank maintenance, thereby improving mission readiness and fuel management reliability.

The Navy seeks improved fire-resistant joiner bulkheads for naval vessels that contain compartment fires while meeting strict weight, cost, and dimensional constraints. Solutions must leverage advanced materials like intumescent coatings or high-performance fibers while passing rigorous fire, shock, and toxicity certification standards.

The Navy seeks a redesigned Input-Output Unit (IOU) that consolidates signal processing for naval vessels using simplified, modular hardware instead of multiple proprietary circuit cards. This modernized approach reduces lifecycle costs while maintaining continuous operation across legacy and future shipboard systems.

This RFP seeks mature counter-UAS technologies to detect, identify, and defeat low-altitude unmanned aircraft threatening tactical forces and infrastructure. Solutions should operate independently in denied environments without requiring permanent infrastructure, cloud connectivity, or target RF emissions.

This RFP seeks mature counter-UAS technologies addressing detection, identification, and defeat of Group 1-2 unmanned aerial systems threatening tactical forces and infrastructure. Solutions must operate in denied environments without permanent infrastructure, prioritizing passive sensing, non-radiating approaches, and on-platform processing.

The Army seeks autonomous and minimally-manned ground and aerial systems for sustainment and recovery in contested environments where GPS and communications are degraded. Solutions must operate with minimal oversight across payload transport, power generation, refueling, and vehicle recovery to reduce soldier exposure and maintain mission continuity.

The Department of War seeks a ground-based, affordable mass (G-BAM) precision payload delivery system using commercial technologies to provide cost-effective, high-volume alternatives to expensive hypersonic systems. This initiative addresses the need for sustained "magazine depth" capability against peer adversaries while maintaining operational affordability.

The Army seeks spectrum warfare capabilities to enable U.S. and NATO forces to operate effectively in contested electromagnetic environments on the Eastern Flank. Vendors can demonstrate solutions across three tracks: electromagnetic surveillance, autonomous network management, or battlefield visualization tools designed for tactical-edge operations.

The Army is seeking innovative technologies in sensors, AI/ML, immersive wearables, and contested logistics to gain disruptive advantages in military operations. Small businesses can compete through xTech|Search 10 to potentially qualify for subsequent SBIR funding.

The Army is seeking innovative small businesses developing sensors, AI/ML, immersive technologies, or contested logistics solutions that provide disruptive advantages for military operations. Selected finalists from this competition will be eligible to submit SBIR or STTR proposals addressing critical Army priorities.