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DARPA's Firefox programme wants a 100-channel non-invasive brain-computer interface
DARPA has opened its Firefox programme, run out of the Biological Technologies Office by program manager Dr Pedro Irazoqui, targeting a coherent-optical non-invasive brain-computer interface at 100 channels with 50-micron spatial and 100-microsecond temporal resolution. The stated goal is to replace surgically implanted electrodes. Proposers Day is 1 September 2026, registration closes 21 August. Firefox appears to follow directly from the coherent-optical track first funded under DARPA's N3 program at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in 2019.