The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Fast Assessment of Solutions, Therapeutics, Pharmaceuticals, and SupplieS (FASTPASS) program aims to develop a near real-time, non-destructive, AI-enabled system for screening pharmaceutical products and inputs through their packaging at ports of entry and other supply-chain nodes.
Interested parties are invited to review the attached FASTPASS Innovative Solutions Opening, ARPA-H-SOL-26-160.
The FASTPASS program aims to develop and demonstrate a near real-time, non-destructive, through-packaging, AI/ML-enabled testing and quality monitoring system for pharmaceutical products and their inputs. The program is structured around two technical areas: TA1 for next-generation, fieldable sensing technologies and TA2 for computational models and integrated system software. The program will be executed over three 18-month phases, with performers evaluated through increasingly realistic demonstrations, moving from component-level performance to rugged, transportable prototypes capable of rapid screening with extremely low false-alarm rates. The system must be capable of screening pharmaceutical products through six major packaging types, with a scan time of 13 seconds or less by Phase 3, and must be field-operable at ports of entry and warehouses.
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