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Rapid Reconstitution of Space Capabilities

SolicitationDARPA-SN-26-42Notice typeSpecial Notice

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Rapid Reconstitution of Space Capabilities

Special NoticeDARPA-SN-26-42Jun 12, 2026 · v1

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Opportunity Summary

Special Notice DARPA-SN-26-42 identifies a strategic requirement for the rapid reconstitution of space capabilities to address threats in an increasingly contested environment. The Departmental Offices and the U.S. Space Force seek to develop methods for responding to disrupted assets and deploying space-based capabilities in response to urgent tactical needs. This initiative addresses the proliferation of offensive counterspace tools, including direct-attack anti-satellite weapons, signal jamming, spoofing, and cyberattacks on ground and satellite infrastructure. These threats impact critical strategic functions such as communications, position navigation and timing, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

The Department of War is pursuing Tactically Responsive Space capabilities to ensure the ability to deploy and operate assets under unforeseen conditions. This effort follows previous milestones like the Victus Nox mission and the establishment of the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve, which uses commercial contracts to provide redundant space-based capacity during conflicts. The government aims to create a resilient web of satellites that maintains national security and economic prosperity despite adversarial interference.

This opportunity is classified under NAICS 541715 for Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) and PSC AC13 for NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT. Responses are due to the BAA Coordinator by July 8, 2026. One attachment, a PDF document titled DARPA-SN-26-42.pdf, was included with the notice published on June 12, 2026.

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Opportunity Details

Response deadline: Jul 8, 202625 days remaining
NAICS: 541715 (opens in new tab)
PSC: AC13 (opens in new tab)
Set aside: —
Published: Jun 12, 2026
Updated: Jun 12, 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 United States leverages space assets and the services they provide for economic prosperity, weather forecasting, scientific discovery, critical infrastructure, and national security. Conversely, other nations seek to position themselves as leading space powers while undermining the stability and tranquility that allows space to benefit all nations. Some U.S. competitors are implementing a sustained effort to develop a broad range of offensive counterspace capabilities through a variety of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, including direct attacks on satellites, jamming and spoofing of signals, and continued cyberattacks on satellite and ground infrastructure. Use of these weapons could have serious consequences for all nations that benefit from space-based systems. Space is an increasingly contested environment, presenting a multitude of threats to U.S. space assets. Adversarial attacks could impact strategic capabilities such as those that support communications, position navigation and timing (PNT), and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Therefore, there is a strategic need to be able to quickly respond to disrupted assets and reconstitute degraded space capabilities.

To address this dynamic threat environment, the U.S. Space Force and the Department of War (DoW) have sought the ability to rapidly deploy and operate space-based assets in response to immediate, urgent, and often unforeseen tactical needs. In a milestone toward achieving tactically responsive space (TacRS), the 2023 Victus Nox mission launched its space vehicle a mere 27 hours after the order came, beating the previous record for responsive space launch by more than two weeks. Likewise, Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) is augmenting space-based capacity during a crisis or conflict by establishing contracts with commercial space companies. CASR is one of multiple ways the DoW is ensuring that the web of satellites it can draw upon is so great, that attacking or disrupting them would be a wasted and escalatory effort.