# DARPA seeks research on autonomous teams that adapt as communications degrade The Unison program seeks to preserve mission performance with less communication dependence. It will investigate approaches across teams of tens to hundreds of agents. Published 2026-11-04 by TGOs. Canonical: https://tgos.io/news/2026/11/04/darpa-seeks-research-on-autonomous-teams-that-adapt-as/ The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) posted a solicitation Nov. 2 for Unison, seeking research on autonomous teams that adapt their decision-making and communications together during missions.[1] For autonomy developers, Unison puts joint action and communications planning at the center of the research opportunity.[1] The program seeks to preserve mission performance while reducing communication dependence and bounding the reasoning burden on individual agents.[1] It will investigate approaches across teams of tens to hundreds of agents in representative collaborative, multi-domain mission scenarios.[1] The research targets teams that can modify tactics, behaviors, coordination relationships and information exchange as mission complexity and operational variability increase and communications become constrained or degraded.[1] Responses are due Friday, Dec. 4, 2026.[1] The deadline for solicitation DARPA-PS-27-06 is 5 p.m. Eastern.[1] ## Why it matters DARPA's hypothesis is that reasoning about action planning and communications planning together during execution can improve collaborative autonomy's effectiveness, scalability and resilience in dynamic, uncertain and resource-constrained environments.[1] ## Sources 1. SAM.gov record data