The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $499,980 Young Faculty Award (YFA) grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The YFA program aims to engage promising early-career researchers, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to develop innovative research enabling transformative defense capabilities. Through this grant, UCSD will conduct fundamental research to investigate revolutionary approaches across DARPA's technical focus areas, including biological technologies, defense sciences, information innovation, microsystems, strategic technology, and tactical technology. The research seeks to enable significant scientific, device, or systems-level advances, rather than incremental improvements to existing technologies. This grant will help build the next generation of researchers focused on national security challenges over the 2-year performance period from September 2024 to August 2026.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $250.0k | 7/23/25 | ||
| Not listed | $250.0k | 8/1/24 |