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2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award Program is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions and introduce them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs as well as DARPA's program development process.
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Department of War organization. Young Faculty Award (YFA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage researchers in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic and non-profit research institutions and expose them to national security needs and DARPA’s program development process.
The YFA program provides funding, mentoring and industry and national security contacts to awardees early in their careers so they may develop their research ideas in the context of national security needs. The long-term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a significant portion of their career on national security issues.
The annual research announcement seeking YFA applications is typically posted to the grants. gov , and sam. gov websites between August and September.
YFA 2026 Research Announcement Administrative (as of Jan. 12, 2026) Technical (as of Dec. 15, 2025) Young Faculty Award | Ep 74
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Tenure-track or tenured faculty within 3 years of receiving tenure, or equivalent researchers at non-profit institutions within 12 years of receiving their doctorate. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
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2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award Program is funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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DARPA's Defense Sciences Office launched the Mathematics of Boosting Agentic Communication (MATHBAC) program on April 7, 2026, under solicitation DARPA-PA-26-05. MATHBAC aims to develop the mathematical and scientific foundations needed to make networks of AI agents collaborate more effectively and ultimately accelerate the pace of scientific discovery for national defense. The program seeks innovative research proposals that advance foundational mathematics, systems theory, and information theory required to enable and understand science-discovery by autonomous agents and agent collectives. Researchers will develop tools to model individual AI agents as mathematical operators, analyze how different communication structures affect a team's ability to solve problems, and build software that lets researchers design optimized multi-agent communication protocols without large-scale trial and error. Key technical areas include multi-agent communication protocols, agentic AI coordination, formal models of collective intelligence, and mathematical frameworks for agent-to-agent collaboration. The program is structured as a 34-month, two-phase effort with Phase I running approximately 16 months and capping individual awards at $2 million. A Proposers Day was held on April 21, 2026. Abstracts were strongly encouraged by April 30, 2026 but are not mandatory. Full proposals are due June 16, 2026, with program performance expected to begin September 15, 2026.
Information Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide (HR001126S0011) is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA programs focus on fundamental research required to establish proof of concept in science and technology fields crucial for national security. While broad, DARPA often has interests in cybersecurity as part of its mission to prevent technological surprise.
DoD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) is sponsored by Department of Defense (DoD) - Office of Naval Research (ONR). The Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI), administered by the Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, supports basic research in science and engineering at U. S.
SBIR SF254-D1206: Knowledge-Guided Test and Evaluation Frameworks for proliferated Low Earth Orbit Constellations is sponsored by U.S. Air Force. DOD SBIR topic SF254-D1206: Knowledge-Guided Test and Evaluation Frameworks for proliferated Low Earth Orbit Constellations. Component: U.S. Air Force. Command: SDA. Solicitation: DoD SBIR 2025.4. Phase(s): D2PII, II, SPII. Status: Pre-Release. Open date: 3/4/2026.
DARPA's Art of Novel Signals (DPA26BZ04-DV015) offers $2 million to build a geopolitical forecasting engine that reads multilingual radio and community reporting from data-sparse regions — no Phase I, an 80% precision floor to even qualify, and an August 19 deadline. Here is what the topic actually demands, why it is Direct-to-Phase-II only, and which small businesses can realistically win it.
Read articleDARPA's FALCON topic (DPA26BZ03-DV016) asks small businesses to fuse efficient machine learning with large language models into a single system for interactive statistical analysis of huge datasets — for the enterprise and the battlefield. It opened July 22 and closes August 19, 2026. Here is what the topic is actually asking for, why the ML-plus-LLM framing is harder than it sounds, and how a qualified team should scope a proposal in the four-week window.
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