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DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY

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Response status

Due tomorrow

Nov 9, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

Responses are due tomorrow.

Posted
Sep 16, 2026
Archive date
Dec 9, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY published this solicitation.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
182eab6ca77d465f931c6dc118b939ca
Solicitation
DARPA-PS-26-137
Base type
Solicitation
Version
1 of 1

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Solicitation
Solicitation number
DARPA-PS-26-137
NAICS
541714 — Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
PSC
AC12 — NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; APPLIED RESEARCH
Set-aside
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Set-aside code
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Posted
Sep 16, 2026
Responses due
Nov 9, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Dec 9, 2026
Archive type
autocustom
Base type
Solicitation
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
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Category confidence
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Category source
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Last seen
Oct 21, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
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Subagency
DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
Subagency code
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Office
DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
Organization path
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Organization path codes
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Office address
ARLINGTON, VA, 222032114, USA
Place of performance
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City code
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State
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State code
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Postal code
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Country
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Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

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.

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

Low end (p25)$1,249,879
Median$1,944,308
High end (p75)$3,230,474
Comparable awards
14
Median
$1,944,308
Computed
Nov 7, 2026
Rubric
comparables@2026.08.1
Comparable award values describe completed contracts. They do not state the government's budget and are not a bid recommendation.

Comparable awards

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

AwardContractorValueAwardedScoreWhy it matched
FUNDAMENTAL MODELING OF DEFECTS AND MATERIAL INTERFACES FOR DEVICE PHYSICS IN RADIATION ENRXFF CONSULTING LLC$249,999.88Apr 30, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
STTR II - RAPID ADDITIVE MIRROR PROCESSES (RAMP) PHASE II ST-22.1A_PHII_STTR_AF22A-T002MORPHOPTIC, INC.$1,249,879.00Apr 8, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RAPID RESILIENT REEFS FOR COASTAL DEFENSE (R3D)UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$22,335,922.00Apr 16, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
PHASE II SBIR ROBUST OPERATIONAL ULTRA-HIGH THROUGHPUT CELL LINEAGE TRACKING FOR RAPID BIOBIFROST BIOSYSTEMS INC$2,968,910.00Mar 16, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA TRIAGE CHALLENGEBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$2,999,993.00Mar 9, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA TRIAGE CHALLENGEMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY$1,747,579.00Mar 3, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
WASTE UPCYCLING FOR DEFENSE (WUD)PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.$1,944,308.00Apr 20, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
ASSURED MICROBIAL PRESERVATION IN HARSH OR REMOTE AREASBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$3,230,474.00Mar 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
HERMESNEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,567,298.00Apr 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
BIOLOGICAL UNDERSEA ENERGY (BLUE)UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK$8,120,541.00Apr 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
PI CHANGESOLVUS GLOBAL LLC$999,914.00Apr 14, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTINNEOS LLC$999,736.00Mar 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA RESEARCH PROGRAMTHE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.$7,213,748.00May 16, 202450Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (5)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTMAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP$1,295,721.00Jun 14, 202348Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (3)

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

Comparable awards are scored on benchmark category, product and service code, industry code, buyer, place, recency, and contract type. Rubric version comparables@2026.08.1.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Oct 21, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 14 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Nov 7, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.