12Pre-ReleaseSBIR

Unbiased Behavioral Discovery Platforms

Department of DefenseDARPA

AI Overview

A mobile card-based interface that leverages machine learning to automatically detect and quantify subtle animal behavioral changes, enabling more sensitive and unbiased assessments of chemical and biological threat responses at lower effect thresholds. This platform aims to accelerate medical countermeasure development by providing high-throughput, nuanced behavioral profiling technologies for defense research.

This summary is AI-generated from the official solicitation.

Key Details

Agency
Department of Defense
Funding Amount
Release Date
November 18, 2025
Due Date
March 4, 2026
Phase I Award
$250,000
Phase II Award
$1,800,000

Official Description

It is impossible to ethically conduct human studies on emerging CBRN threats for the development of effective medical countermeasures (MCM); therefore, the DoD relies on pre-clinical animal models for these efforts [1]. However, animal model behavioral evaluations remain un-modernized, insensitive, and prone to significant variability between operators and protocols. Furthermore, the threat agent doses required to elicit an observable symptomatic response in animal models are much higher than do...

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