# Smash Program Announcement

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpapa2604

- Solicitation number: DARPA-PA-26-04
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was April 29, 2026
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Contracting office: Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy (HR0011)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC12 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Applied Research
- First posted: February 18, 2026
- Last posted: April 28, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f69464f686f4437bae960c5484983f17/view

## Description

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.

**Note:** The referenced Attachment J: Smash Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Guide is under final review will be posted subsequently.

## Publications

- February 18, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026. Notice 6ba704938fc54401b94f8340995dbd6a. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6ba704938fc54401b94f8340995dbd6a/view
- February 19, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026. Notice f393532a740f41f2881752082b6c2eba. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f393532a740f41f2881752082b6c2eba/view
- March 3, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT. Notice 5dc748a9c2d749af9cb120f32d5308bd. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/5dc748a9c2d749af9cb120f32d5308bd/view
- March 3, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT. Notice a4a6981aa49445d3b4de460a406e1d95. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a4a6981aa49445d3b4de460a406e1d95/view
- March 31, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026. Notice 364940c3a2af493dbd49335133b416a6. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/364940c3a2af493dbd49335133b416a6/view
- April 16, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026. Notice 143fea1234ec4d0fb3f1c98e76e536df. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/143fea1234ec4d0fb3f1c98e76e536df/view
- April 28, 2026: Solicitation, due April 29, 2026. Notice f69464f686f4437bae960c5484983f17. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f69464f686f4437bae960c5484983f17/view

## Points of contact

- Smash PA Coordinator, Smash@darpa.mil

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