What the agency is buying
by RFPFinder from the notice and attachments; the solicitation governsDARPA is seeking proposals for its Firefox program to develop non-invasive brain-computer interfaces. The program aims to overcome technological hurdles in optical signal processing and data architectures for neural recording.
Scope
- Develop components for dynamic rastering/scanning of coherent optical signals.
- Develop new data processing architectures for high neural data rates.
Areas of interest (2)
- 1) development of components enabling dynamic rastering/scanning of the incoming coherent optical si
- 2) development of new data processing architectures beyond the digital domain to handle the high dat
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Details
- Place of performance
- ARLINGTON, Virginia
- Buyer type
- Federal
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation no.
- DARPA-PS-26-137
- NAICS
- NAICS 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)): 12 open RFPs
- Period of performance
- Per award from notice
- BAA open until
- Nov 9, 2026 from notice
- Contract type
- BAA (multiple awards) from notice
- Evaluation
- White-paper review, then invited proposals (FAR 35.016) from notice
- Local presence
- Not required
- Amendments
- None since Sep 16
- Contact
- Dr. Pedro Irazoqui, BTO/DARPA
- Office
- DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
- Firefox@darpa.mil
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Notice as published
Firefox
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a non-invasive coherent optical system capable of recording neural signals in humans. To expand this foundational technology and enable the development of revolutionary, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), DARPA's Firefox program is soliciting approaches to overcome key technological hurdles:
- development of components enabling dynamic rastering/scanning of the incoming coherent optical signal to target multiple regions of interest and
- development of new data processing architectures beyond the digital domain to handle the high data rates and computational burden inherent to scaling the amount of neural data recorded by the optical system.
The ultimate goal of the Firefox program is to use these innovations to develop a 100-channel, non-invasive BCI with 50-micron spatial and 100-microsecond temporal resolution.
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