# POWER: Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay, Subscale Aerial Demonstration (Phase 2)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpaps2517

- Solicitation number: DARPA-PS-25-17
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was July 31, 2025
- 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: June 4, 2025
- Last posted: June 25, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f00ec7a8b51e49cb8bf7cfb8fd42a74a/view

## Description

The Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program seeks to build, demonstrate, and validate an airborne wireless energy relay capability that can provide for the redirection of ground-sourced high-energy laser beams over long distances for power delivery.

The 6-month Phase 2 effort described in this solicitation seeks to reduce risk in the realization of this capability through the development of a single, integrated subscale relay hosted at an altitude of at least 1.5 km for demonstration of beam redirection, correction, and harvesting relay functions. The culminating demonstration is planned to be held at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) at White Sands Missile Range and will employ an existing HELSTF laser as the source. The subscale relay shall redirect the beam to a receiver site on the ground.

## Publications

- June 4, 2025: Solicitation, due June 30, 2025. Notice 51e5c766863d4eb19b8012a539648d2b. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/51e5c766863d4eb19b8012a539648d2b/view
- June 24, 2025: Solicitation, due June 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 506d6a08ce3f4c3598c40878379e60d2. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/506d6a08ce3f4c3598c40878379e60d2/view
- June 25, 2025: Solicitation, due July 31, 2025. Notice f00ec7a8b51e49cb8bf7cfb8fd42a74a. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f00ec7a8b51e49cb8bf7cfb8fd42a74a/view

## Points of contact

- BAA Coordinator, DARPA-PS-25-17@darpa.mil

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