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Opportunity Summary:

The Advanced X Ray integrated Sources (AXiS) opportunity is a DARPA Microsystems Technology Office Broad Agency Announcement (DARPA BAA 11-11) seeking high-risk, high-payoff research to create a new class of compact x-ray sources. The core technical vision is to develop integrated x-ray source technology that is compact in form factor while also being energy tunable, spectrally narrow, and low divergence. DARPA is aiming for capabilities that go beyond today s typical laboratory x-ray tubes by enabling phase contrast imaging, especially for low atomic number (low Z) materials, which are often difficult to image clearly with conventional absorption based x-ray methods. The program is planned as a four year effort, with proposals expected to pursue genuinely novel approaches that could produce major leaps in performance, rather than incremental upgrades to existing systems.

A key feature of the solicitation is the emphasis on integrated source concepts and enabling components. DARPA is explicitly interested in revolutionary advances across science and engineering that could change what compact x-ray sources can do, including advances in x-ray source physics, architectures, component technologies, and full system integration. The notice also makes an important boundary clear: work that mainly delivers evolutionary improvements to the current state of practice is specifically excluded. In other words, simply refining established x-ray source designs or offering modest performance gains is not what this program is trying to fund; the intent is to push toward fundamentally different or dramatically better approaches suitable for next generation imaging applications.

Administratively, the posted announcement includes multiple amendments that mostly affect timing and submission guidance rather than changing the underlying technical goals. Amendment 01 added clarification language related to how proposal abstracts must be submitted. Amendment 02 made administrative edits, with changes marked in the revised BAA document. Amendment 03 extended the full proposal due date and also posted the program FAQ to Grants.gov because of problems accessing it through the DARPA website, again pointing offerors to a revised BAA where edits are highlighted. The schedule in the opportunity reflects those updates: the posting date is November 22, 2010, proposal abstracts were due December 21, 2010, and the full proposal deadline was extended from February 23, 2011 to March 2, 2011. The archive date is listed as August 30, 2011.

From a funding and eligibility standpoint, AXiS is listed as a discretionary research and development opportunity under CFDA 12.910 (Research and Technology Development). The announcement indicates that DARPA may use multiple award instruments depending on the effort, including cooperative agreements, grants, other transactions or procurement contracts, which is typical for DARPA BAAs where instrument choice can align with technical risk, deliverables, and the nature of collaboration. Cost sharing is not required. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning a wide range of entity types can apply, subject to any limitations stated in the full BAA text. The award ceiling and floor are shown as 0 in the Grants.gov metadata, which usually means DARPA did not specify fixed minimum or maximum award sizes in that particular summary and instead expects the details to be governed by the BAA and proposed scope.

For points of contact and access, the opportunity references the MTO solicitations page for additional information, and provides a contact for access issues: Dr. Tayo Akinwande (Program Manager) and the BAA Coordinator. Overall, the AXiS program is best read as DARPA looking for unconventional, integrated x-ray source solutions that can deliver tunability and beam quality in a compact package, with the explicit end goal of enabling phase contrast imaging of low Z materials, and with a strong preference for transformative rather than incremental R and D.

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