Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026
Description
What it is: DARPA’s Young Faculty Award (YFA) provides early-career researchers with funding to pursue bold, innovative work that could enable transformative capabilities for the Department of Defense (DoD).
Who it’s for: Junior faculty in academia and equivalent researchers at non-profit research institutions, especially those who have not received DARPA funding before.
Purpose: To introduce rising researchers to DoD needs and DARPA’s mission of creating and preventing technol…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them t…
Source
Grant ID
DARPARA2502
Eligibility
The following categories of applicants are invited to apply:
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Documents
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