This is a $14,640,211 definitive federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc., a non-profit research institute affiliated with Yale University. The contract is for research and development of an "Implantable Bioluminescence Interface System for an All-Optical Neuroprosthesis to the Visual Cortex" (IBIS). The John B. Pierce Laboratory is the prime contractor, with several universities serving as...
This is a $14,184,508.00 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Paradromics Inc., a for-profit organization, to conduct research in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW) for a "Neural I/O Bus (NIOB) Using Microwire Bundles: Speech Prosthesis" project. The contract was awarded on April 17, 2017 and is scheduled for completion on July 14, 2021. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. The contract is a cost-no-fee...
<p>This is a $787,500.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a defense agency, to Grai Matter Labs, Brainiac division, for the development of a "FULL TEMPORAL SENSING AND COMPUTING NEUROMORPHIC SCALABLE PLATFORM FOR VISUAL DATA PROCESSING." The contract was awarded on September 22, 2016 and has an ultimate completion date of September 21, 2017. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.</p>
This is a $12,822,636.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command to Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. The contract is for PHASE I of a program aimed at designing, building, demonstrating, and validating a non-surgical neural interface system to enable neural recording and stimulation with sub-millimeter spatial resolution. Key...
This is a federal research contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The $12,982,789.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded on August 4, 2016, is for a DARPA research project with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2021. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was open competition. Key subcontractors include Skywater Technology...
This is a definitive federal contract awarded by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear. The $2,996,198 cost-no-fee contract is for the development of a vision-assistive device for veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI)-associated visual dysfunctions. The contract has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2020. There was no set-aside designation for...
This is a $2,271,385.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to RTX BBN Technologies, Inc. (doing business as BBN Technologies), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies Corporation. The primary goal of this "Envision" effort is to dramatically reduce the size and weight of night vision goggles into an eyeglass form factor with improved sensitivity, noise reduction, and speed. This contract was awarded under DARPA's solicitation...
This is a $2,972,162.00 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for the Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form Factors (ENVISION) program. The contract supports research and development of new approaches to enable direct-view night vision capabilities in an eyeglass form factor. This effort aligns with DARPA's mission to pursue innovative science and technology for national security. The contract has no...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order, awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute, provides METROVISION, a for-profit manufacturer located in France, with a $84,900.00 contract to update their MonCvONE perimeter device with electrophysiology and dark adaptation software. This contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under the 8(a) small business program and is intended to support ongoing patient care and clinical...
The federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Brown University is for research on "Cortical Internet for Therapies of Sensory Deficits." The $18,899,999.00 definitive contract does not have a set-aside designation. Through this award, Brown University will design, build, and demonstrate a next-generation high-precision neural interface system capable of recording from over 1 million neurons, stimulating up to 100,000 neurons, and performing...