Tactical Wireless Power Beaming Technologies for Energy Web Dominance Request for Information

This Request for Information (RFI) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) seeks technologies and innovative solutions for efficient, kilometer-range radio frequency (RF) kilowatt-class power beaming, distributed apertures for dynamic coherent beamforming, the conversion of RF to electrical energy, and RF energy relays in a lightweight, size-limited payload.Responses to this RFI will be used to inform and explore future programs within the Tactical Technology Office that advance the ability of multiple ground assets to dynamically move energy across a network of small aircraft equipped with energy receiving and relay technologies. This RF power beaming and relay concept is expected to serve as a component of a more expansive energy web of power generation, transfer relays and receiving solutions, enabling the DoD to dynamically distribute energy resources to more flexibly deliver military effects.Intellectual or other privileged or proprietary information contained in responses to this RFI will not be distributed outside of the Department of Defense (DoD) or U.S. Government employees from other Government agencies who are working with DARPA on this RFI. In the event that a new DARPA program is developed in response to this RFI and a solicitation is issued, no intellectual or other proprietary information received in response to this RFI will be divulged to  entities outside the U.S.