This federal contract award, with ID IND16PC00041, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Inc., a nonprofit research institute affiliated with Yale University. The $696,927.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of BIOLUMINESCENT NEURONAL ACTIVITY INDICATORS under DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Exploratory Zone (EZ) program. The contract has an ultimate completion date of July 14, 2017 and does not...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract is for the development of a neural interface system capable of recording from over 1 million neurons, stimulating over 100,000 neurons, and performing continuous, full-duplex interaction with at least 1,000 neurons in the human sensory cortex. The contract has a potential value of...
This is a $15,406,156 federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for bioelectronic research on interfacing sensors with the sensory cortex. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, involves developing flexible, wireless CMOS sensor arrays for recording and stimulating neural activity. Major subcontractors include Baylor College of Medicine, California Institute of Technology,...
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...
This is a $6,293,877 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Fondation Voir Et Entendre, a non-profit organization and foundation in France. The contract is for the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program's "Corticalsight: System for Visual Restoration by Optogenetic Therapy" project, which aims to develop a system for visual restoration using optogenetic therapy. The contract has a period of performance ending on June 30,...
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 $17,052,080.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL), a university-affiliated research center, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract is for Phase I of DARPA's Broad Agency Announcement HR001118S0029, which seeks to develop a non-surgical neural interface system to enable neural recording and stimulation for able-bodied warfighters. No set-aside was used. The contract includes...
This is a $3,557,994.00 cost-reimbursement contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University. The contract is for research in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW) titled "Deciphering the Cortex: Circuit Inference from Large-Scale Brain Activity Data" for the base period. This is a definitive contract with no set-aside designation. The contract supports DARPA's...
This federal contract award, valued at $13,296,015.00, was issued by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command to Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit research and development organization, to conduct "RESEARCH IAW THE SOW - 'BRAIN SYSTEM TO TRANSMIT OR RECEIVE MAGNETOELECTRIC SIGNALS (BRAINSTORMS)". The award does not have a set-aside designation. The prime contractor, Battelle Memorial Institute, is collaborating with several subcontractors on this effort, including...
This is a $12,617,260.00 federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to William Marsh Rice University's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The contract is for research related to a "Magnetic, Optical, and Acoustic Neural Access device, for High-bandwidth, non-surgical brain computer interfaces" project known as MOANA. The contract is not set aside for small businesses or other designated groups. Several universities and research institutes have...