Get DARPA Funding for Defense Supply Chain Innovation

Posted: December 1, 2025

Summary

Defense contractors and industrial base innovators can secure funding from DARPA to develop groundbreaking, energy-efficient technologies for decentralized nitric acid manufacturing. This initiative aims to revolutionize defense energetics and protect critical supply chains in challenging environments.

Eligibility

Defense Manufacturing Innovation Supply Chain

Full Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the foundational technologies to enable high-rate, energy efficient, decentralized nitric acid manufacturing to protect critical supply chains in the defense industrial base and redefine energetics manufacturing in contested logistics environments. 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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