SBIR DPA26BZ02-DV010 (DARPA): Low Resource Computing
U.S. Department of Defense — DARPA
Who can apply
Small Business. Startup
About this opportunity
DARPA SBIR topic — under DoW SBIR 2026 BAA (Solicitation 26.BZ, Release 2) — Accepting submissions 2026-05-27 to 2026-06-24. Objective: This effort will develop commercially viable re-use of existing DoW assets in lieu of new hardware investments. It will demonstrate achieving mission-capable performance, security, and stability into legacy “low-resource” assets (low-resource: end-of-lifed and/or < 25% of proposed new-system resources – in one-of RAM, CPU, disk). The end product will establish approaches about material reuse regarding the oft-quoted “[y]ou go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time” (Donald Rumsfeld). Description: The warfighter and their sustainment enterprise face the challenge of widely-fielded, well-understood, and bat...