Carbon Crunch
| Location: | Federal |
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| Posted: | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Due: | Mar 2, 2026 |
| Agency: | DEPT OF DEFENSE |
| Type of Government: | Federal |
| Category: |
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| Solicitation No: | DARPA-PS-26-15 |
| Publication URL: | To access bid details, please log in. |
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- Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Updated)
- Updated Published Date: Feb 05, 2026 10:07 am EST
- Original Published Date: Jan 30, 2026 01:07 pm EST
- Updated Date Offers Due: Mar 02, 2026 04:00 pm EST
- Original Date Offers Due: Mar 03, 2026 04:00 pm EST
- Inactive Policy: Manual
- Updated Inactive Date: Aug 02, 2026
- Original Inactive Date: Aug 02, 2026
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Initiative:
- None
- Original Set Aside:
- Product Service Code: AC12 - NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; APPLIED RESEARCH
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NAICS Code:
- 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
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Place of Performance:
Submission Date Updated to Align with Solicitation.
Carbon Crunch aims to enable scalable, fast, and agile production of hypersonic aeroshells. The program will focus on accelerating carbon-carbon (C-C) hypersonic aeroshell production by developing and applying cutting-edge composite manufacturing methods that are inherently faster and more scalable. Performers will be asked to demonstrate an end-to-end manufacturing process (from raw materials to near-net-shape densification) that demonstrates high quality, rapid production, and quick design-cycle turnaround. Once the process demonstrates reasonable cost and orders-of-magnitude improvement in throughput, the technology can be transitioned to hypersonic programs of record.
- 675 NORTH RANDOLPH STREET
- ARLINGTON , VA 222032114
- USA
- BAA Coordinator
- DARPA-PS-26-15@darpa.mil
- Feb 05, 2026 10:07 am ESTSolicitation (Updated)
- Jan 30, 2026 01:07 pm EST Solicitation (Original)
Related Document
| Feb 1, 2026 | [Solicitation (Original)] Carbon Crunch |
| Mar 5, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Carbon Crunch |
| Apr 1, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Carbon Crunch |
| Apr 2, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Carbon Crunch |
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