DARPARA2502_YFA_2026_Amendment_1_Summary_of_Changes.docx

This document is an Amendment 1 to the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026 Research Announcement (RA), specifically updating the not-to-exceed cost for the U.S. Person Graduate Student option period to $350,000. The amendment resolves a previous cost discrepancy between different sections of the original document.

The underlying federal grant opportunity is the DARPA Young Faculty Award program, which aims to identify and engage early-career researchers in academia and non-profit research institutions. The program provides high-impact funding to support innovative research that develops transformative Department of Defense capabilities, with a focus on national security. It is part of the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), targeting rising researchers without prior DARPA funding and seeking to create technological advances across diverse scientific domains.