Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR)
Solicitation from Department of Defense.
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Notice details
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Sub-tier agency
- DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation number
- DARPA-PS-26-138
- Product/service code
- AC12
- Posted
- Oct 17, 2026
- Response deadline
- Dec 7, 2026
- Source
- SAM.gov
Description
The evolution of markets from physical trading floors to interconnected, electronic venues has introduced new speed, transparency, and efficiency, but has also created new attack surfaces and systemic risks. Modern markets, which host trading for everything from equities and bonds to energy and cloud computing resources, can be manipulated in ways unanticipated by their designers. The 2010 United States Equity market "flash crash" and the 2000-2001 California energy crisis demonstrated how weaknesses in a market's public interfaces could have dramatic consequences. Similar design issues in today's complex, interacting market systems could be used to cause economic damage, which the IMR program technology seeks to prevent. The IMR program aims to develop repair methods to protect essential economic sectors against devastating attacks that exploit the public interfaces of modern markets. Current legal and regulatory protections focus on deterring profit-seeking manipulation and ensuring compliance, but they do not sufficiently protect markets from adversaries aiming simply to cause disruption. The IMR program seeks to address this gap by developing the tools to automatically model market designs, identify hidden weaknesses, and recommend and analyze repairs on the market models to make markets fundamentally more resilient to attack. IMR aims to combine Large Language Model (LLM)-based automation with rigorous modeling and analysis to identify remediations for market
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Department of Defense obligated $14,777,575 under NAICS 541715 on awards whose period of performance started in the last 12 months.
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When is the response deadline?
The published deadline is Dec 7, 2026. That is 44 days after the data date.
What NAICS code applies?
NAICS 541715, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).
Which agency issued this notice?
Department of Defense.
Where is the official notice?
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