Carbon Crunch
Dept of Defense · DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
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- Response deadline
- Apr 23, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
- Posted
- Mar 31, 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
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.
What similar awards have paid
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Typical award size
$2.45M
Middle of the pack for similar past awards
Most similar awards fall between $832,508 and $14.31M
Who has won work like this
Public awardees in this lane — useful for competitor scan or teaming ideas, not a ranked list of “best” firms.
- 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
Recent examples
A few of the newest similar awards in our index.
- MILE TWO LLCSep 29, 2025General Services Administration$68.39MSource
- KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLCSep 29, 2025General Services Administration$14.58MSource
- UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY SPONSORED PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH, INCSep 26, 2025Department of Homeland Security$249,811Source
- APTIMA INCSep 25, 2025General Services Administration$5.85MSource
- SEHLKE CONSULTING LLCSep 25, 2025General Services Administration$38.57MSource
- INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLSep 25, 2025Department of Homeland Security$36,500Source
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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 e05d84e51e5c46e5830bc347485d5a41.