# Strategic Technology Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/hr001125s0001 - Solicitation number: HR001125S0001 - Notice type: Solicitation - Status: Awarded to Maxentric Technologies LLC - 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 - County: Bergen County (FIPS 34003). https://abierto.us/counties/bergen-county-nj-34003 - City: Fort Lee. https://abierto.us/cities/fort-lee-nj-3424420 - First posted: November 15, 2024 - Last posted: November 17, 2025 - SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0e030fb05fd043bda5d48849f342f066/view ## Description **Rev 3:** Updated closing date and the attached to 19 Dec 2025. (highlighted change) Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) anticipates funding a limited number of proposals under this solicitation. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. The Strategic Technology Office (STO) at DARPA regularly publishes BAAs requesting responses to specific program topics. This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not addressed by ongoing STO programs or other published BAA solicitations. To avoid proposals that duplicate existing activities or are responsive to other published STO solicitations, potential bidders are highly encouraged to review current STO programs and solicitations, respectively listed at http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/offices/sto and http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities. Contacting STO program managers to discuss their research interests is also encouraged. A current list of program managers is available at http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/people. A. STO MISSION AND THRUST AREAS DARPA's STO is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that provide the U.S. military and national security leaders with trusted, disruptive capabilities across all physical domains (Air, Space, Sea, and Land) and spectrum of competition. STO programs deliver solutions at speed and scale for today's warfighters while developing the resilient "breakthrough" systems and technologies needed for future battlespaces. STO does not focus on one area of responsibility or phenomenology. Rather, STO programs capture the strategic, logistical, and tactical complexity of today's national security environments. '"" STO is a "systems office" seeking to create new "proof-of-concept" mission systems. Its goals are to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that expand what is technically possible. B. TOPIC AREAS OF INTEREST Research areas of current interest to STO include, but are not limited to, the following topics: • Acoustic communication and sensing • Adaptability • Advanced computing • Additive manufacturing • Architecture and advanced systems engineering • Artificial intelligence • Autonomy and control algorithms • "Big data" analytics • Combat identification • Command and control (C2) • Communications and networking, virtual and adaptive • Complexity management • Critical infrastructure defense • Decision aids and C2 technology • DevOps and novel software development and integration • Directed energy (DE) • Distributed autonomy and teaming (machine-machine, human-machine) • Economic security • Effects chain functions (disaggregated find, fix, finish, target, engage, assess) • Electro-optic/infrared sensors • Electromagnetic warfare (EW) • High-frequency (HF) communications and sensing • High voltage electric power systems and architecture • Human behavior modeling • Human-machine symbiosis • Industrial engineering • Integration and reliability technologies • Interoperability • Logistics • Modeling and simulation • Microwave and millimeter wave communications and sensing • Novel kinetic effects • Non-kinetic effects (EW, DE, cyber) • Optical technologies • Photonics • Radio technologies (especially software-defined and novel waveforms and processing) • Radar and adaptive arrays • Resilient systems • Robotics • Seekers and other expendable sensors and processing • Sensors and analytics • Signal processing • Space sensors, communications, autonomy, and architectures (especially supporting proliferated low earth orbit constellations) • Strategy analysis technology • Supply chain analytics • System of systems • Undersea and seabed technology • Tactics development technology • Testing and data collection • Very low earth orbit (VLEO) technology • Very low frequency (VLF) technology ## Award on USAspending - Recipient: Maxentric Technologies LLC (UEI JL9DW4GMNJ53) - Contract: HR001125PE005, purchase order - Obligated: $149,934.25 - Competition: Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources, 29 offers received - Link: solicitation number HR001125S0001 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence) - Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125PE005_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/ - Recipient: Banc 3, Inc. (UEI M92XTB8U86E3) - Contract: HR001125PE007, purchase order - Obligated: $149,931.59 - Competition: Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources, 29 offers received - Link: solicitation number HR001125S0001 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence) - Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125PE007_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/ ## Publications - November 15, 2024: Solicitation, due November 14, 2025. Notice eec76e6f8ea747f2a4da47f6db5b07a0. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/eec76e6f8ea747f2a4da47f6db5b07a0/view - November 19, 2024: Solicitation, due November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Notice 4fec19a30ac44fcda1362c7c63be95a3. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/4fec19a30ac44fcda1362c7c63be95a3/view - October 21, 2025: Solicitation, due November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Notice caace5682a7d43ce952aa42a06cca80c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/caace5682a7d43ce952aa42a06cca80c/view - November 17, 2025: Solicitation, due December 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Notice 0e030fb05fd043bda5d48849f342f066. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0e030fb05fd043bda5d48849f342f066/view ## Points of contact - BAA Coordinator, HR001125S0001@darpa.mil --- Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk extract and USAspending.gov award data. Confirm deadlines on SAM.gov before responding. Cite https://abierto.us/opportunities/hr001125s0001.