On October 7, Biohub, The National Institutes of Health (NIH), and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a major expansion of an international effort to generate open, AI-ready data for predictive models of biology. The partners describe a $1.8 billion combination of funding, data, computation, and new measurement technology. The long-term goal is a virtual
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health’s (ARPA-H) Proactive Health Office has released Innovative Solutions Opening (ISO) ARPA-H SOL 26 164 for the Simulation-augmented, Real-time Platform Adaptive Seamless Trials (SURPASS) program. SURPASS seeks to establish persistent, multi-arm clinical trial platforms that integrate simulation, accumulating human data, prespecified adaptations, shared operational infrastructure, and reusable regulatory assets.
Download the Solicitation The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office (BTO) has released the Firefox Program Solicitation, DARPA-PS-26-137, to advance a scalable, noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI). The program seeks to build on DARPA’s existing coherent optical sensing system by addressing two scale up barriers: steering coherent light across multiple neural sensing regions
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has released the Systems for Phenotypic Evaluation, Clinical Trajectories, Response, and Agency (SPECTRA) solicitation, a new Proactive Health Office program focused on improving how autism is understood, assessed, and supported across the lifespan. SPECTRA seeks multidisciplinary research and development efforts that can identify individual developmental and health
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has released Innovative Solutions Opening (ISO), UNifying Imaging with QUantum Entanglement* (UNIQUE). The program seeks to determine whether quantum derived observables from 511 keV photon pairs including quantum correlations, correlation loss or decoherence, and positronium sensitive interactions that can provide biologically meaningful imaging contrast beyond the anatomical,
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The Multi X Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is preparing to launch the Atomically Precise Molecules (APM) program, an upcoming effort to develop new material-synthesis capabilities using programmable precision polymers, or PPPs. The program will initially demonstrate this capability through next-generation non-linear optical materials for electro-optic modulators, with potential relevance to
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), through its Biological Technologies Office (BTO), is hosting a Firefox Proposers Day in support of a planned Firefox Program Solicitation. Firefox seeks to advance coherent optical technologies that could enable a scalable, noninvasive brain-computer interface, or BCI, with single-neuron spatiotemporal resolution. The Special Notice is not yet a
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The U.S. National Science Foundation has released 12 new Notices of Funding Opportunity totaling more than $1.5 billion for foundational research. The announcements span biological sciences, computing, engineering, geosciences, mathematics, materials, physics, chemistry, and astronomy. This is not a single funding program, and it should not be read as one. It is a coordinated signal
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has launched the Systems for Tracking and Resilience in Efficient Agricultural-input Management (STREAM) program, a new effort focused on reducing herbicide exposure across the food system without making farming less productive or food less affordable. STREAM starts with a practical problem: herbicides remain essential tools for many
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The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), through the Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Preparedness Consortium (BioMaP-Consortium), has released Request for Project Proposals (RPP) 26-12-VMI, “Ensuring American Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience through Vendor Managed Inventory Capabilities for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Used in Medical Countermeasure Finished Dose Form Drug Products.” Issued by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under the Defense Sciences Office (DSO), has released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT) program, HR001126S0016. PINPOINT aims to deliver a new class of micro‑scale inertial measurement units (IMUs) that can provide GPS‑quality positioning and navigation over
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)‘s Multi X Office has expanded the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) with a new Topic call, QBIT Stage A, aimed at one deceptively simple question: can any quantum architecture credibly reach a utility‑scale, fault‑tolerant machine by about 2033. QBI defines “utility‑scale” as a quantum computer whose computational value exceeds its cost,
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