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Solicitation

Carbon Crunch

DARPA-PS-26-15

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).

127 open like this View on SAM.gov Markdown

Response deadline

April 24, 2026

Closed 191 days ago. Posted April 2, 2026, first published January 30, 2026. Scheduled to archive August 14, 2026.

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Description

As published on SAM.gov.

Please contact the Carbon Crunch email for CUI Amendment 0002. The unclass version of Amendment 0002 has now been posted. Please note, amendment 0002 is only relevant to companies that have been selected to submit a written proposal.

Carbon Crunch aims to enable scalable, fast, and agile production of hypersonic aeroshells. The program will focus on accelerating carbon-carbon (C-C) hypersonic aeroshell production by developing and applying cutting-edge composite manufacturing methods that are inherently faster and more scalable. Performers will be asked to demonstrate an end-to-end manufacturing process (from raw materials to near-net-shape densification) that demonstrates high quality, rapid production, and quick design-cycle turnaround. Once the process demonstrates reasonable cost and orders-of-magnitude improvement in throughput, the technology can be transitioned to hypersonic programs of record.

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Publications

Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.

  1. January 30, 2026

    Solicitation

    Due March 3, 2026. SAM.gov, notice 27ab4a71e4004f3d8fd63406c1a6b6d3

    6 revisions on SAM
    • April 2, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • March 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • February 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • January 30, 2026: publish, solicitation

  2. February 5, 2026

    Solicitation

    Due March 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM EST. SAM.gov, notice 0786a8b18a0d42c4bf197d51de3f9be7

    6 revisions on SAM
    • April 2, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • March 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • February 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • January 30, 2026: publish, solicitation

  3. March 5, 2026

    Solicitation

    Due March 3, 2026. SAM.gov, notice 82811d4143f040bfa5623df1121504ed

    6 revisions on SAM
    • April 2, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • March 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • February 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • January 30, 2026: publish, solicitation

  4. April 1, 2026

    Solicitation

    Due April 24, 2026. SAM.gov, notice 8a070ab286064fd3b6b517f555ebead9

    6 revisions on SAM
    • April 2, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • March 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • February 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • January 30, 2026: publish, solicitation

  5. April 1, 2026

    Solicitation

    Due April 24, 2026. SAM.gov, notice e05d84e51e5c46e5830bc347485d5a41

    6 revisions on SAM
    • April 2, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • March 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • February 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • January 30, 2026: publish, solicitation

  6. April 2, 2026

    Solicitation

    Due April 24, 2026. SAM.gov, notice c9556579002149278ec67f6d0931af43

    6 revisions on SAM
    • April 2, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • April 1, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • March 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • February 5, 2026: publish, solicitation
    • January 30, 2026: publish, solicitation

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