Carbon Crunch
Dept of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
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- Response deadline
- Mar 1, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
- Posted
- Feb 4, 2026
- Solicitation
- DARPA-PS-26-15
- Set-aside
- None listed
- Place of performance
- —
- Contracting office
- DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY · ARLINGTON · VA
- Source
- SAM.gov · updated May 9, 2026
Description
Submission Date Updated to Align with Solicitation. Carbon Crunch aims to enable scalable, fast, and agile production of hypersonic aeroshells. The program will focus on accelerating carbon-carbon (C-C) hypersonic aeroshell production by developing and applying cutting-edge composite manufacturing methods that are inherently faster and more scalable. Performers will be asked to demonstrate an end-to-end manufacturing process (from raw materials to near-net-shape densification) that demonstrates high quality, rapid production, and quick design-cycle turnaround. Once the process demonstrates reasonable cost and orders-of-magnitude improvement in throughput, the technology can be transitioned to hypersonic programs of record.
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Typical award size
$2.45M
Middle of the pack for similar past awards
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- 1G2 OPS, INC.1 award$119.09M
- 2LINQUEST CORPORATION2 awards$112.86M
- 3SEHLKE CONSULTING LLC2 awards$50.13M
- 4MILE TWO LLC5 awards$45.31M
- 5NIMBIS SERVICES INC1 award$32.87M
- 6GALOIS, INC.1 award$28.02M
- 7EDAPTIVE COMPUTING INC3 awards$23.96M
- 8TENET 3, LLC2 awards$19.53M
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- APTIMA INCSep 25, 2025General Services Administration$5.85MSource
- SEHLKE CONSULTING LLCSep 25, 2025General Services Administration$38.57MSource
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Intelligence only — not legal advice or a guarantee of award. Always verify requirements on the official SAM.gov notice. Past award amounts are public history, not a suggested bid or prediction. Notice ID 0786a8b18a0d42c4bf197d51de3f9be7.