ERIS Shopping Notice: Distributed Decentralized Control & Estimation

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Processing Techniques Office is conducting a Shopping Notice through July 31, 2027 to identify innovative, post-competitive, awardable solutions addressing modeling, simulation, and software-defined technical approaches for decentralized, distributed command and control across heterogeneous combat agents, including sensing grids, unmanned aircraft systems, satellite constellations, collaborative aircraft, and ground or surface capabilities.

DARPA seeks solutions demonstrating strength in defining the problem and current state of the art with scalability to thousands of nodes using lightweight algorithmic implementations; advancing the state of the art through collaborative control and estimation for heterogeneous agents with disparate technical implementations; team capability with experience in distributed tracking, measurement and track fusion at the edge, and delivering autonomy to low compute, constrained bandwidth environments; and impact through approaches extensible between warfighting domains. The scope includes both short-term efforts and participation in ambitious technology development for a space autonomy program deploying existing space-based hardware, focusing on trustworthy agent-to-agent collaboration in compute and bandwidth-limited environments and orchestration and autonomy at scale.

Existing ERIS Solution providers may flag current awardable solutions by emailing ERIS@darpa.mil with the solution title and video URL. New submissions must be submitted through the ERIS portal during the August 2026 through July 2027 collection period, with video titles formatted as "DARPA-SN-26-101: [Solution Title]." Solutions determined awardable through the standard ERIS assessment process will be included for IPTO consideration. Prospective providers should consult the ERIS Master Solicitation on SAM.gov and leverage DARPAConnect resources for submission guidance.