# SBIR / STTR #DPA27BZ02-DV002

DARPA R&D for autonomous multi-domain intelligence collection orchestration

**Buyer:** DARPA, Department of War (DoW)
**Posted:** November 04, 2026
**Respond By:** January 06, 2027
**Identifier:** DPA27BZ02-DV002
**NAICS:** 541715, 541512

DARPA’s DoW SBIR opportunity seeks a small-business research team to develop autonomous orchestration of multi-domain intelligence collection.
- **Government buyer:** Department of War (DoW), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), DARPA Small Business Programs Office.
- **Requested effort:** Direct-to-Phase-II research and development for topic DPA27BZ02-DV002. No commercial products, part numbers, or purchase quantities are specified.
- **Technical objectives:** Coordinate asynchronous intelligence collection across at least four modalities; use inspectable reasoning and produce auditable decision traces; adapt to denial, deception, and distribution shifts without offline retraining; and re-orchestrate in under three minutes.
- **Demonstration targets:** Compared with a mainstream baseline, achieve at least 35% faster time to a decisive cue and at least twice the information gain per unit of energy, keep operational-constraint violations below 5%, and earn at least 85% SME ratings for trace coherence. The prototype is expected to progress from TRL 4 to TRL 6.
- **Funding and performance:** The release lists $1.5 million for an 18-month base and a $500,000 option for six additional months; the topic attachment describes a 24-month Phase II effort.
- **Notable requirements:** CMMC Level 2 (Self) is required. DARPA instructions specify a white paper limit of 20 pages and a slide deck limit of 15 slides.
- **Other named organizations/topics in the attachments:** DoW’s SBIR program and topics DPA27BZ02-DV001 (cyber course-of-action planning) and DPA27BZ02-DV003 (hands-free warfighter interface) are mentioned in the broader announcement. No commercial OEMs or vendors are named.

### Description

This is a pre-release DoW SBIR topic under the 2027 BAA, Release 2, for DARPA. The topic accepts Direct to Phase II proposals and lists an award amount of $1,500,000, with an 18-month period of performance and a $500,000 option for an additional 6 months. Proposals are due January 7, 2027; the topic page states CMMC Level 2 (Self).

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