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Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD)

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative proposals for the DISCORD program, which focuses on developing an AI-native system designed to rapidly generate a diverse portfolio of tactical options by integrating live sensor data with high-fidelity simulation. The program aims to enhance command decision-making by providing explainable, validated strategies that can dynamically adapt to changing operational environments. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as physics-based reduced order modeling, AI-driven edge computing, online model-predictive control, online dynamics learning, recurrence quantification analysis, and game theory, DISCORD will foster strategic flexibility and empower commanders to apply their tactical judgment in unpredictable situations, thereby countering adversaries’ attempts to undermine or predict their actions. The DISCORD program is structured as a 24-month effort divided into two 12-month phases, with DARPA expecting to select multiple performers to contribute. It is part of Ender’s Foundry, one of several Department of War Pace-Setting Projects aimed at accelerating AI-enabled simulation capabilities to maintain military advantage over adversaries utilizing similar technologies. This solicitation, identified as DARPA-PS-26-27 and posted in May 2026, is for controlled unclassified information (CUI) and falls under NAICS code 541715. The solicitation documents, including deadlines and contact information, are available through the official government workspace.

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DARPA seeks proposals for AI-native DISCORD program to enhance tactical decision-making with simulations.

Agency

Department Of Defense → Defense Advanced Research Projects Agcy

NAICS

541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) View NAICS

Place of Performance

VA

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DARPA DISCORD Proposers Day Final Presentation 2026-05-07

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DARPA-PS-26-27 DISCORD Program Solicitation

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DARPA-PS-26-27 DISCORD Program Solicitation Amendment 1

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AgencyDepartment Of Defense → Defense Advanced Research Projects Agcy
Contacts1 person available
OfficeARLINGTON, VA, 222032114, USA
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Department Of Defense → Defense Advanced Research Projects Agcy
Office AddressARLINGTON, VA, 222032114, USA
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that leverage: abstraction of physics based reduced order modeling, AI-driven simulation with edge compute, advances in online model-predictive control and online dynamics learning, recurrence quantification analysis, simulation with live sensor data, and game theory / theory of behavior.
The Disruption through Intelligent Strategies, Counter Options, and Resilient Defenses (DISCORD) program aims to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native approach for rapid generation of tactical options from both live sensor data and high-fidelity simulation. The goal is to provide commanders with a portfolio of diverse strategies that can pivot dynamically in response to evolving conditions. DISCORD is designed to produce explainable outcomes that human operators and commanders can validate, fostering trust in AI-driven decision support. DISCORD is intended to continuously adapt to changes in the operational environment, producing robust strategies that can pivot dynamically in response to evolving conditions. By discovering a wide range of superior and genuinely diverse strategies, rather than just a single optimized solution, the engine will help create true strategic flexibility. Importantly, this flexibility will afford commanders the power and freedom to exercise their own tactical judgment—born of hard-earned experience, training, and operational art—in ways that adversaries cannot poison, stymie, or accurately predict.

DISCORD is a 24-month program organized into two 12-month phases. DARPA anticipates selecting multiple performers.

The DARPA DISCORD effort implements Ender’s Foundry, one of several warfighting Pace-Setting Projects (PSPs) established by the Department of War. Ender’s Foundry’s intent is to accelerate AI-enabled simulation capabilities to ensure we stay ahead of AI-enabled adversaries.

The effort being solicited by this program solicitation (PS) is controlled unclassified information (CUI).

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