The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (CFDA 12.910 Research and Technology Development) to Northwestern University to conduct innovative research with potential national security applications. This cooperative agreement, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, supports Northwestern's investigation of transformative approaches in scientific disciplines such as materials science, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. The university's research under this grant aims to enable revolutionary advances in devices or systems that can lead to new defense capabilities, rather than focusing on evolutionary improvements to existing practices. This funding is part of DARPA's broader efforts to identify and engage rising research talents in academia and equivalent positions to address Department of Defense needs and the agency's mission of creating and preventing technological surprise.
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