Future Program Announcement: Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
DARPA is signaling a forthcoming program to fund research on precision inertial navigation and positioning technologies for defense applications, with details to be released later.
⚑ Special Notice only; this is a future program announcement, not a current solicitation. · Eligibility states federal contract applicant restrictions; details of who may apply and submission mechanics are not yet specified. · Award ceiling, instruments, and sponsor categories are not stated.
This is a DARPA applied-research call in inertial navigation/positioning, which is a technical defense engineering problem rather than the team’s usual social-science work on risk perception, warning communication, or public acceptance. The team might tangentially engage only at the margins of national-security decision-making, but this is not a plausible PI-level fit for anyone on this roster.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-07-07
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 90 strong | technical depth: central; funds applied research |
| IPPRA | 45 partial | portfolio topic: national_security_defense (primary); social/behavioral work is none; funds applied research; capped at 45 (limited social-science role) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 45 partial | funds applied research; prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
Description
The purpose of this Special Notice (SN) is to provide public notification of additional research areas of interest to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO), specifically for the contemplated forthcoming PINPOINT program.
Eligibility
Applicant restrictions (federal contract). Set-aside: . Notice type: Special Notice. Organization: DEPT OF DEFENSE / DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) / DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY.
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