DARPA’s Information Processing Techniques will hold a Proposers Day for the upcoming Intrinsic Market Resilience (IMR) program 1 October 2026.
The IMR program aims to develop repair methods to protect essential economic sectors against devastating attacks that exploit the public interfaces of modern markets. It aims to combine Large Language Model-based automation with rigorous modeling and analysis to identify remediations for market weaknesses. The program will develop formal notations to precisely describe how markets operate and coordinate, creating machine-analyzable models from informal descriptions like regulatory filings and technical specifications. Against these models, IMR will formulate and assess “resilience conjectures” – mathematical statements about desirable market properties, such as the inability for actors to manipulate prices without risking loss.
The Proposers Day will include a both a non-classified and classified briefing. The classified briefing will only be held in person. Classified briefing attendees must have attended the non-classified briefing and be a US citizen holding active TOP SECRET security clearance.
Registration for in-person attendance closes 1 September 2026 or when capacity is reached.
Registration for webcast attendance closes 1 September 2026 or when capacity is reached.
For non-US citizens, registration (in person or webcast) must be completed before submitting their DARPA Form 60.
Non-US citizens (academia and industry) must submit a DARPA Form 60 or an Official Visit Request (government personnel) by 1 September 2026.
DARPA Form 60s are valid for 6 months from the date of issue. Holders of a valid form do not need to re-submit.
