# Unison Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpaps2706 - Solicitation number: DARPA-PS-27-06 - Notice type: Solicitation - Status: Open. Offers due December 4, 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: AC13 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Experimental Development - Who can bid, by location: Anywhere in the US. Location does not limit who can bid: a product shipped to the buyer, research at the performer's facility, or work at the contractor's site. A state shown is the delivery point. - First posted: November 2, 2026 - Last posted: November 2, 2026 - SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/779747fc37084ac9b5dc3ff7ad5df923/view ## Description The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals for Unison, a program to develop and evaluate collaborative-autonomy approaches that jointly adapt team decision-making and communications during mission execution. Unison will investigate approaches that enable autonomous teams to modify tactics, behaviors, coordination relationships, and information exchange as mission complexity and operational variability increase and communications become constrained and/or degraded (see Section 7, Glossary, for program-specific definitions of terms in italics). The core hypothesis of Unison is that a unified execution-time reasoning approach to action planning and communications planning can improve the effectiveness, scalability, and resilience of collaborative autonomy in dynamic, uncertain, and resource-constrained environments. Unison seeks to preserve mission performance while reducing communication dependence and bounding the reasoning burden imposed on individual agents. Unison frames collaborative autonomy as a multi-agent decision problem in which agents use local observations, mission context, relevance, and mission objectives to select a policy that jointly defines physical actions and communications actions. At each decision point, the team must determine what actions to take, which coordination relationships must be maintained, and what information must be exchanged to preserve the coordination required for mission success. Unison will investigate approaches across teams of tens to hundreds of agents operating in representative collaborative, multi-domain mission scenarios. ## Attachments - [DARPA-PS-27-06.pdf](https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/daee401577cd4a0e945c750f3249e96b/download) ## Open now in the same industry 129 open in NAICS 541715. - SBIR FY26 Phase I Broad Agency Announcement (68HERW26R0102), due November 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST. https://abierto.us/opportunities/68herw26r0102 - Area of Interest: OSW Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) Modeling and Simulation (HQ003427AOI5), due November 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM EST. https://abierto.us/opportunities/hq003427aoi5 - System of systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems (STITCHES) Sources Sought (STITCHES_001), due November 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM EST. https://abierto.us/opportunities/stitches001 ## Publications - November 2, 2026: Solicitation, due December 4, 2026. Notice 779747fc37084ac9b5dc3ff7ad5df923. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/779747fc37084ac9b5dc3ff7ad5df923/view ## Points of contact - BAA Coordinator, Unison@darpa.mil --- Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk extract. Confirm deadlines on SAM.gov before responding. Cite https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpaps2706.