Prototype technology, processes and business arrangements with flexible OTs
- Objective
- Develop a technology; Bring a prototype into use
- Family / instrument
- Research, innovation and experimentation · Other transactions
- Statute
- Authority holder
- DARPA Director, DIU Director, military-department Secretary, or official designated by Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
At least one eligibility path: significant nontraditional contractor/nonprofit participation; all significant nonfederal participants small/nontraditional; one-third nonfederal cost share; or senior-procurement-executive exceptional-circumstances finding.
Competition to maximum extent practicable.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Existing lawfully available project funds; prototype instrument does not supply an appropriation.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Above $100m through $500m: nondelegable written determination by specified contracting/agency head; above $500m: senior approval plus 30-day congressional advance notice.
- Procurement-integrity law applies; agreement must address applicable audit access.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
- DARPA Contracts Management Office — award and administration roles
- DIU Work With Us — mission customer, liaison, funding and prototype execution
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.