The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) program grant to the University of Massachusetts under the Research and Technology Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.910). The grant aims to engage rising academic researchers early in their careers, exposing them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA's mission to create and prevent technological surprise. The research funded through this award is expected to investigate...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) on September 1, 2024. The funding is provided under DARPA's Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), which supports innovative, high-risk, high-reward research with potential military or dual-use applications. Through this 2-year award, Stanford University will conduct fundamental research to develop...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) grant under the federal Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to the University of Wisconsin System. The grant aims to identify and engage rising academic researchers to develop innovative new research that can enable transformative Department of Defense (DoD) capabilities. Through this 2-year project, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will conduct fundamental research focused...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to Georgia TECH Research Corp, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs. The YFA program aims to engage rising academic researchers in innovative projects that can enable transformative defense capabilities. Over the 2-year performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, the grant will fund the...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to The Ohio State University for a 24-month project beginning September 1, 2024. The YFA program aims to identify and engage promising early-career researchers at academic and non-profit institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense needs and DARPA's mission to create and...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) grant under the CFDA 12.910 Research and Technology Development program to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). This 2-year grant aims to identify and engage rising academic researchers to expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA's mission of creating and preventing technological surprise. The grant supports UMD in conducting innovative fundamental and applied...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $359,544 Cooperative Agreement to Arizona State University (ASU) under the DARPA Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to fund research supporting the DARPA MCAI (Metacognitive Composable AI) program. The purpose of this agreement is for ASU to conduct research and deliver capabilities related to metacognitive composable AI systems, as detailed in their proposal dated May 13, 2024. The research effort is set to...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) grant to The Ohio State University under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The YFA program aims to identify and engage rising academic researchers to develop innovative technologies that enable transformative defense capabilities. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support fundamental research at The Ohio State University over a two-year period until August...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to Yale University. The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, aims to support innovative, high-risk, high-reward research that can enable transformative defense capabilities and prevent technological surprise. Yale University, as the prime awardee, will conduct fundamental, applied, and advanced research...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The two-year grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, aims to support the development of innovative new research by an early-career faculty member at the University of Michigan. The proposed research is expected to investigate transformative,...