# Request for Information: Microelectronics Black Start

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpasn2591

- Solicitation number: DARPA-SN-25-91
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was August 29, 2025
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Contracting office: Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy (HR0011)
- NAICS: 541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC12 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Applied Research
- First posted: July 25, 2025
- Last posted: July 25, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/15fcadabbacd4746bf5cfd5937ba1fef/view

## Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) seeks information on technologies that enable and/or technical challenges that hinder: • A black-start capability where an entirely new microelectronics manufacturing capability can be rapidly established at a location of choice, preferably remote • A brown-start capability where existing microelectronics supplies can be repurposed while manufacturing capabilities are established and/or re-established to reach needed capacities • A clean-slate capability where traditional microelectronics are replaced with unconventional technologies, thereby creating an entirely new and alternative technology ecosystem Responses to this Request for Information (RFI) will be used to inform and support future DARPA MTO solicitations on topic(s) related to microelectronics.

## Publications

- July 25, 2025: Special notice, due August 29, 2025. Notice 15fcadabbacd4746bf5cfd5937ba1fef. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/15fcadabbacd4746bf5cfd5937ba1fef/view

## Points of contact

- MTO BAA Coordinator, DARPA-SN-25-91@darpa.mil

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