This archive offers valuable insight into the history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. By exploring past topics, you can understand the technological challenges and innovations that have been a focus for DARPA in recent years.
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SBIR | Solicitation: 2025.4
- Non-destructive Viral ID
Objective: Develop field-portable, low size, weight, and power (SWaP) technology for non-destructive viral identification.
Tech office: Biological Technologies
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-01
Closed: Jan. 8, 2025
- Language Models for Veteran Suicide Prevention (LM4VSP)
Objective: Develop a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) clinical co-pilot, based on Language Models, to augment the ability of mental health care professionals to care for and interact with patients at risk of suicide.
Tech office: Information Innovation
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-02
Closed: Jan. 8, 2025
- Multi-factor Continuous Authentication for Wearable Defense Equipment (MCAWDE)
Objective: Develop and demonstrate novel, continuous, multi-factor authentication solutions for small weight and power devices.
Tech office: Information Innovation
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-03
Closed: Jan. 8, 2025
- Turbo Facility Clearance (TurboFCL)
Description: Develop a prototype software application, based on language models, to learn the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) facility and personnel clearance process.
Tech office: Strategic Technology Office
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-04
Closed: Feb. 5, 2025
- On-Chip Wavelength Generation for DWDM Photonic Transceivers
Objective: Develop and demonstrate prototype integrated photonic Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transceivers with on-chip wavelength generation.
Tech office: Microsystems Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-05
Closed: June 25, 2025
- Cooperative Heuristics for Additive Manufacturing Processing (CHAMP)
Objective: Develop field-portable, low size, weight, and power (SWaP) technology for non-destructive viral identification.
Tech office: Strategic Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-06
Closed: June 25, 2025
- Improving Battle Planning through AI
Objective: Develop innovative technologies for federated course of action (COA) planning and accelerated COA adjudication using customized reduced order models (ROMs).
Tech office: Strategic Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-07
Closed: June 25, 2025
- Inertially Scaled Aircraft (ISaAc)
Objective: Develop and flight test a small (55 to 300 lbs.) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that is inertially scaled to a tactically relevant target aircraft.
Tech office: Tactical Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-08
Closed: June 25, 2025
- Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction via Surface Actuators
Objective: Develop and flight test turbulent boundary layer drag reduction using surface actuators.
Tech office: Tactical Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-09
Closed: June 25, 2025
- Predictive Psychological Architectures for Decision-Making (PPADM)
Objective: This effort aims to understand the association between decision-maker characteristics and behavior to improve human and algorithmic decision-making, delegation, and trust.
Tech office: Information Innovation
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-10
Closed: Sept. 24, 2025
- High Power Fiber Amplifier (HPFA) Power Scaling
Objective: Develop and demonstrate novel concepts for scaling individual high power fiber amplifiers (HPFAs) to power levels >10 kW with good beam quality.
Tech office: Strategic Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-11
Closed: Sept. 24, 2025
- Assessing Security of Encrypted Messaging Applications (ASEMA)
Objective: Seeking novel approaches to defend SMAs by modeling their security risks and recommending defensive measures to protect these critical platforms.
Tech office: Information Innovation
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-12
Closed: May 13, 2026
- Pulsed High-power Laser Accelerators to Study radiation Hardening (PHLASH)
Objective: Demonstrate a prototype scalable laser driver for electron beam generation and design a 100-GeV system to fit within a 250 m3 footprint.
Tech office: Microsystems Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-13
Closed: May 13, 2026
- Unbiased Behavioral Discovery Platforms
Objective: Develop unguided behavioral discovery technologies to accelerate detection and medical countermeasure development against current and future threats.
Tech office: Biological Technologies
Topic #: HR0011SB20254-15
Closed: May 13, 2026
- ALIAS Missionized Autonomy for Emergency Services - SBIR XL
Objective: Focuses on development and demonstration of missionized autonomy for emergency services, initially focusing on autonomous wildfire response using autonomous Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) and integrated sensing technologies.
Tech office: Tactical Technology
Topic #: HR0011SB20254XL-01
Closed: May 13, 2026