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Firefox

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a non-invasive coherent optical system capable of recording neural signals in humans.

Notice type	Solicitation: Open for bids now. Download the solicitation documents from the official posting.
Who's buying	Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (darpa)
Where	Work location not listed. The buying office is in Arlington, Virginia.
Deadline	Mon, Nov 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM (local time) (17 days left)
Who can bid	Open to any business (no set-aside listed)
Industry	NAICS 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology))
Solicitation #	DARPA-PS-26-137
Posted	Wed, Sep 16, 2026
Contact	Dr. Pedro Irazoqui, BTO/DARPA, [email protected]

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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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