FA8650-19-S-6001-IndDay.pdf

This federal contract opportunity notice seeks innovative technologies for molecular assessment and sensing. The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting proposals under solicitation number FA8650-19-S-6001 for a Molecular Assessment and Sensing Technologies program focused on ten key areas: biomarker discovery, air quality monitoring, molecular tools for biosignature tracking, engineered microorganisms, real-time molecular sensors, sensor development and testing, data science and model development, next generation sequencing, exploiting host-microbe interactions, and synthetic biology. The effort aims to develop existing and novel technologies that can be integrated into current and future Air Force and Department of Defense platforms to provide improved human performance and protection capabilities in real-time operational environments through system biology approaches examining genome, metabolome, proteome, transcriptome, epigenome, microbiome, cell and tissue architecture and their changes in response to environmental perturbations.