SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Next Generation Non-Invasive Neural Interfaces - DARPA-SN-14-56
- Notice Date
- 8/13/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 675 North Randolph Street, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-2114, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22203-2114
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-SN-14-56
- Archive Date
- 9/20/2014
- Point of Contact
- Justin Sanchez,
- E-Mail Address
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DARPA-SN-14-56@darpa.mil
(DARPA-SN-14-56@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-SN-14-56 The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative ideas to support the next generation of neurotechnology capable of non-invasively sensing neural activity at the single neuron level in an awake, ambulatory human. To date, conventional non-invasive, neural sensing technologies such as the electroencephalogram (EEG), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are not capable of producing single neuron activity as can be obtained from invasive microelectrode recordings. In addition, many of the aforementioned technologies do not allow for use in ambulatory environments due to necessary equipment to enable that modality of recording (fMRI, MEG). DARPA is using this RFI to seek radically new ideas to move beyond the offerings of EEG, fNIRS, fMRI, and MEG. Topics of interest include new methodologies for capturing the physical phenomena of neuronal signaling ranging from the mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, acoustic, optical, and/or chemical domains. DARPA is also seeking yet to be discovered signatures of neuronal signaling that may not fall into any of the traditional domains. For the purposes of this RFI, submissions should focus on strategies that are completely non-invasive. However there is also interest in approaches that enable measurement of signaling in central neural pathways through ingestible or peripherally injectable routes. Major neurosurgery and non-reversible approaches are not responsive. Submissions should distinguish the extent to which single neuron activity can be measured from cortical (i.e. motor, primary sensory) and/or deep brain structures (i.e. hippocampus, striatum), and the strategy for consolidation of single neuron firing patterns in real-time (i.e. single trial response times of tens of milliseconds). DARPA is interested in submissions and engagement from communities that have particular capabilities of remote sensing and can leverage knowledge from applications outside of neuroscience. Submissions are encouraged from, but not limited to physicists, chemists, electrical and electronics engineers, biologists, biomedical engineers, neuroscientists and astronomers.
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