Closed · HR001123S0048 · CFDA 12.910 · Discretionary

Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Remote Areas (AMPHORA)

Federal grant opportunity posted by DARPA - Biological Technologies Office, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Closed
Status
October 4, 2023
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Remote Areas (AMPHORA) is a closed discretionary listing from DARPA - Biological Technologies Office that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 73 other opportunities from DARPA - Biological Technologies Office.

Varies
award range
Closed
application status
12.910
CFDA program
73
other opportunities from DARPA - Biological Technologies Office

Archived opportunity record

Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Re… is closed (last close October 4, 2023). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. DARPA - Biological Technologies Office still indexes 73 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed October 4, 2023

Posted Aug 8 Closes Oct 4

Instrument

Procurement Contract

Description

Emerging infectious disease hotspots are expected to increase globally within the next 50 years. While technology has advanced agnostic lab-based testing, agnostic sample preservation still relies on antiquated cold chain transport that is difficult to acquire and often unreliable in remote, austere, and contested environments. Thus, samples critical to force health protection are significantly degraded upon lab receipt. The Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Remote Areas (AMPHORA) program will decouple sample preservation from cold chains enabling cold chain free storage and viability maintenance in austere and remote environments. AMPHORA systems will stabilize a broad range of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, preserving multiple samples in parallel, and ensuring samples are compatible with downstream analyses. Preservation systems will be rigorously tested using contrived and real-world samples to demonstrate real-world capability and generalizability.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · HR001123S0048

Grants.gov marks Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Re… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Procurement Contract. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the DARPA - Biological Technologies Office book (44 peers, 59% of 74).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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Agency Contact

BAA Coordinator AMPHORA@darpa.mil

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