Firefox
- Response deadline
- Nov 9, 2026 Due in 54 days
- Date posted
- Sep 16, 2026
- Source
- Open notice
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.
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Documents (8)
- DARPA-PS-26-137.pdf.pdf849 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attach_D_Cost_Proposal_Spreadsheet.xlsx.xlsx102 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_E_Milestone_and_Payment_Schedule.xlsx.xlsx33 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_G_Risk_Matrix.pptx.pptx286 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_A_Abstract_Summary_Template.pptx.pptx426 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attach_C_Model_OT_for_Prototype.docx.docx167 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_B_Abstract_Template.docx.docx52 KBNot yet available
- DARPA_PS_26_137_Firefox_Attch_F_OPP_Guidelines_and_Instructions.docx.docx44 KBNot yet available
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