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Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD)

SolicitationDARPA-PS-26-27Notice typeSolicitation

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DARPA-PS-26-27 DISCORD Amendment 1.pdf	PDF	Jun 5, 2026	Download
2026_05_07_DISCORD_ProposersDay_final__-__Read-Only.pdf	PDF	May 15, 2026	Download
DARPA-PS-26-27.pdf	PDF	May 15, 2026	Download

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Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD)

SolicitationDARPA-PS-26-27Jun 5, 2026 · v2

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Opportunity Summary

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals for the Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD) program. This initiative seeks to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native approach for the rapid generation of tactical options by leveraging live sensor data and high-fidelity simulations. The program's primary objective is to provide commanders with a portfolio of diverse, explainable strategies that can pivot dynamically in response to evolving operational conditions, ensuring strategic flexibility and the freedom to exercise tactical judgment in ways that adversaries cannot easily predict or disrupt. DISCORD is structured as a 24-month effort divided into two 12-month phases and implements Ender’s Foundry, a Pace-Setting Project established by the Department of War to accelerate AI-enabled simulation capabilities. The program is organized into three distinct Technical Areas: TA 1 (Asymmetric Advantage Engine), TA 2 (Human-Machine Teaming), and TA 3 (Live Adaptation Experimentation). DARPA intends to award multiple Other Transaction Authority (OTA) for Prototypes agreements to performers who can demonstrate technical proficiency in areas such as physics-based reduced order modeling, online dynamics learning, and recurrence quantification analysis. The solicitation process includes a mandatory abstract phase followed by full written proposals. While the initial program solicitation established the legal and procedural framework, Amendment 1 significantly revised the submission timeline. Technical requirements and evaluation criteria are further detailed in a Proposers Day briefing and a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) addendum, the latter of which must be requeste…

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Opportunity Details

Response deadline: Jul 9, 202627 days remaining
NAICS: 541715 (opens in new tab)
PSC: AC13 (opens in new tab)
Set aside: —
Published: May 15, 2026
Updated: Jun 5, 2026
Agency: DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES (opens in new tab)
Office: INVALID
Department: —
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Contact and place of performance

Point of contact: BAA Coordinator

Place of performance: Not specified

Original Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that leverage: abstraction of physics based reduced order modeling, AI-driven simulation with edge compute, advances in online model-predictive control and online dynamics learning, recurrence quantification analysis, simulation with live sensor data, and game theory / theory of behavior.
The Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD) program aims to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native approach for rapid generation of tactical options from both live sensor data and high-fidelity simulation. The goal is to provide commanders with a portfolio of diverse strategies that can pivot dynamically in response to evolving conditions. DISCORD is designed to produce explainable outcomes that human operators and commanders can validate, fostering trust in AI-driven decision support. DISCORD is intended to continuously adapt to changes in the operational environment, producing robust strategies that can pivot dynamically in response to evolving conditions. By discovering a wide range of superior and genuinely diverse strategies, rather than just a single optimized solution, the engine will help create true strategic flexibility. Importantly, this flexibility will afford commanders the power and freedom to exercise their own tactical judgment—born of hard-earned experience, training, and operational art—in ways that adversaries cannot poison, stymie, or accurately predict. DISCORD is a 24-month program organized into two 12-month phases. DARPA anticipates selecting multiple performers. The DARPA DISCORD effort implements Ender’s Foundry, one of several warfighting Pace-Setting Projects (PSPs) established by the Department of War. Ender’s Foundry’s intent is to accelerate AI-enabled simulation capabilities to ensure we stay ahead of AI-enabled adversaries. The effort being solicited by this program solicitation (PS) is controlled unclassified information (CUI).