Rads to Watts Program Solicitation

Agency: DEPT OF DEFENSE
State: Federal
Type of Government: Federal
FSC Category:
  • A - Research and development
NAICS Category:
  • 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Posted Date: Jun 20, 2025
Due Date: Aug 20, 2025
Solicitation No: DARPA-PS-25-27
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Rads to Watts Program Solicitation
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Notice ID
DARPA-PS-25-27
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Department/Ind. Agency
DEPT OF DEFENSE
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DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
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  • Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Updated)
  • Updated Published Date: Jun 20, 2025 03:11 pm EDT
  • Original Published Date: Jun 20, 2025 08:11 am EDT
  • Updated Date Offers Due: Aug 20, 2025 04:00 pm EDT
  • Original Date Offers Due: Aug 20, 2025 04:00 pm EDT
  • Inactive Policy: Manual
  • Updated Inactive Date: Sep 19, 2025
  • Original Inactive Date: Sep 19, 2025
  • Initiative:
    • None
Classification
  • Original Set Aside:
  • Product Service Code: AC12 - NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; APPLIED RESEARCH
  • NAICS Code:
    • 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
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Description
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals for directly converting radiation energy into electricity, focusing on radiation voltaics (also known as radiovoltaics). Typical radiovoltaic unit cell configured devices can produce power at the milliwatt-level. Rads to Watts seeks approaches that can scale unit cells to broad-area collection volumes to produce power at kilowatt-levels over relevant timescales. Proposed work should include innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in high fluence-resilient, radiation-hardened, charge-carrying materials and techniques that specifically apply to radiovoltaics. Specifically excluded from Rads to Watts is research that primarily results in incremental improvements to the existing state of practice and research that applies to direct conversion methods other than radiovoltaics.
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  • 675 NORTH RANDOLPH STREET
  • ARLINGTON , VA 222032114
  • USA
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