Negotiate research OTs, cost sharing and contingent repayments
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Research, innovation and experimentation · Other transactions
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense and each military-department Secretary; Secretary of Defense acts through DARPA, DIU or another designated element
- Executor · routing lead
- DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Basic, applied or advanced research purpose.
Avoid duplicating existing DoD research to maximum practicable extent; nonfederal funding should match federal funding to extent Secretary determines practicable.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Advance payments permitted notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. §3324.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Research OT is not unrestricted production, lending or equity authority.
- Recovery/reuse of payments only through statutory support-account mechanism; negotiated IP and applicable law still matter.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProcess sourced
Program process, audience and dated intake check (2026-10-04)
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.