Smash Program Announcement
| Location: | Federal |
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| Posted: | Mar 3, 2026 |
| Due: | Apr 24, 2026 |
| Agency: | DEPT OF DEFENSE |
| Type of Government: | Federal |
| Category: |
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| Solicitation No: | DARPA-PA-26-04 |
| Publication URL: | To access bid details, please log in. |
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- Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Updated)
- Updated Published Date: Mar 03, 2026 09:07 am EST
- Original Published Date: Feb 18, 2026 05:17 pm EST
- Updated Date Offers Due: Apr 24, 2026 01:00 pm EDT
- Original Date Offers Due: Apr 24, 2026 01:00 pm EDT
- Inactive Policy: Manual
- Updated Inactive Date: Oct 25, 2026
- Original Inactive Date: Oct 25, 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:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals around materials processing to enable efficient, scalable element separation across the periodic table. This capability would establish a new technological basis for domestic resource independence.
Specifically, the Smash program aims to create technologies that leverage parallel processing to: (1) drive process yield across multiple elements; (2) maximize energy utilization in the intrinsic separation processes; and (3) ensure solutions are scalable across industrial processing operations.
Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
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- Smash PA Coordinator
- Smash@darpa.mil
- Mar 03, 2026 09:07 am ESTSolicitation (Updated)
- Mar 03, 2026 09:06 am EST Solicitation (Updated)
- Feb 19, 2026 02:57 pm EST Solicitation (Updated)
- Feb 18, 2026 05:17 pm EST Solicitation (Original)
Related Document
| Feb 18, 2026 | [Solicitation (Original)] Smash Program Announcement |
| Feb 19, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Smash Program Announcement |
| Mar 31, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Smash Program Announcement |
| Apr 16, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Smash Program Announcement |
| Apr 28, 2026 | [Solicitation (Updated)] Smash Program Announcement |
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