Project Information

Bid Title

Rapid Reconstitution of Space Capabilities

Issuing Agency

DEPT OF DEFENSE

Location

N/A

Published Date

Jun 12, 2026

Closing Date

Jul 8, 2026

Government Level

Federal

Status

Closed

Ref. #

DARPA-SN-26-42

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Project Description

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Contract Opportunity

Notice ID

DARPA-SN-26-42

Related Notice

Department/Ind. Agency

DEPT OF DEFENSE

Sub-tier

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)

Office

DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY

General Information

• Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)
• Original Published Date: Jun 12, 2026 05:17 pm EDT
• Original Response Date: Jul 08, 2026 05:00 pm EDT
• Inactive Policy: Manual
• Original Inactive Date: Jul 09, 2026
• Initiative:
  • None

Classification

• Original Set Aside:
• Product Service Code: AC13 - NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
• NAICS Code:
  • 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
• Place of Performance:

Description

The United States leverages space assets and the services they provide for economic prosperity, weather forecasting, scientific discovery, critical infrastructure, and national security. Conversely, other nations seek to position themselves as leading space powers while undermining the stability and tranquility that allows space to benefit all nations. Some U.S. competitors are implementing a sustained effort to develop a broad range of offensive counterspace capabilities through a variety of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, including direct attacks on satellites, jamming and spoofing of signals, and continued cyberattacks on satellite and ground infrastructure. Use of these weapons could have serious consequences for all nations that benefit from space-based systems. Space is an increasingly contested environment, presenting a multitude of threats to U.S. space assets. Adversarial attacks could impact strategic capabilities such as those that support communications, position navigation and timing (PNT), and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Therefore, there is a strategic need to be able to quickly respond to disrupted assets and reconstitute degraded space capabilities.

To address this dynamic threat environment, the U.S. Space Force and the Department of War (DoW) have sought the ability to rapidly deploy and operate space-based assets in response to immediate, urgent, and often unforeseen tactical needs. In a milestone toward achieving tactically responsive space (TacRS), the 2023 Victus Nox mission launched its space vehicle a mere 27 hours after the order came, beating the previous record for responsive space launch by more than two weeks. Likewise, Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) is augmenting space-based capacity during a crisis or conflict by establishing contracts with commercial space companies. CASR is one of multiple ways the DoW is ensuring that the web of satellites it can draw upon is so great, that attacking or disrupting them would be a wasted and escalatory effort.

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Contact Information

Contracting Office Address

• 675 NORTH RANDOLPH STREET
• ARLINGTON , VA 222032114
• USA

Primary Point of Contact

• BAA Coordinator
• DARPA-SN-26-42@darpa.mil

Secondary Point of Contact

History

• Jun 12, 2026 05:17 pm EDTSpecial Notice (Original)

Commodity Codes

• FSC AResearch and development

• NAICS 541715Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

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