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DARPA is seeking research approaches for its Firefox program to advance a non-invasive optical brain-computer interface. Work would address dynamic scanning components and new data-processing architectures for handling larger amounts of neural data. The goal is a 100-channel system with 50-micron spatial resolution and 100-microsecond temporal resolution.
About this opportunity
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…
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Closes Nov 9, 2026
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BS-A33B2E

