DARPARA2502_YFA_2026_Amendment_1_Summary_of_Changes.docx

This document is an Amendment 1 to the DARPARA2502 Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026 Research Announcement. The amendment primarily addresses a cost discrepancy, updating the not-to-exceed cost for the U.S. Person Graduate Student option period to $350,000, ensuring consistency between pages 2 and 4 of the original document. All changes are highlighted in yellow, with no other modifications made to the original research announcement.

The amendment is part of the DARPA Young Faculty Award program, which aims to identify and engage emerging researchers in academia and non-profit research institutions to develop innovative research with potential national security applications. The program provides high-impact funding to early-career researchers, focusing on the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), with the goal of creating transformative defense capabilities and preventing technological surprise. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, targeting researchers without prior DARPA funding who can propose revolutionary approaches in various scientific and technological domains.