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Closed — responses were due 9 Nov 2026 · Unrestricted (full and open) · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), DoD · NAICS 541714 · Solicitation DARPA-PS-26-137

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Solicitation details

Solicitation numberDARPA-PS-26-137
Notice ID182eab6ca77d465f931c6dc118b939ca
AgencyDepartment of Defense (DoD)
Sub-agencyDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Contracting officeDEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
NAICS code541714 — Research and Development in Biotechnology (Except Nanobiotechnology)
Product / service code (PSC)AC12
Set-asideUnrestricted (full and open)
Notice typeSolicitation
Posted16 September 2026
Response deadline09 November 2026 (closed)
CompetitionCompetitive

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Description

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: 1) development of components enabling dynamic rastering/scanning of the incoming coherent optical signal to target multiple regions of interest and 2) 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.

Version history

SAM.gov has posted 2 notices under solicitation DARPA-PS-26-137, oldest first.

Documents in the solicitation package

8 files are attached to this notice.

  • DARPA-PS-26-137.pdf
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_F_OPP_Guidelines_and_Instructions.docx
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_G_Risk_Matrix.pptx
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_E_Milestone_and_Payment_Schedule.xlsx
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attach_D_Cost_Proposal_Spreadsheet.xlsx
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attach_C_Model_OT_for_Prototype.docx
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_B_Abstract_Template.docx
  • DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_A_Abstract_Summary_Template.pptx

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