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The ARM Institute's 27-01 Core-Funded Technology Project Call is the current cycle of the institute's recurring robotics funding programme, and this round is framed explicitly around Robotics and Physical AI Defense Manufacturing Solutions. ARM is a Manufacturing USA institute funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense with a consortium of more than 450 industry, academic and government members, and its project calls exist to push robotics, autonomy and AI into U.S. manufacturing rather than to fund basic research. The 27-01 call targets defense manufacturing needs including high-mix castings and forgings, naval vessels, unmanned systems, munitions, and rapid production expansion, with a strong preference for dual-use technology that also benefits the broader U.S. manufacturing base. The preceding 26-01 call, a useful guide to scale and topic style, made roughly USD 2,000,000 available with a USD 500,000 per-project cap and named topic areas of Multi-Modal Inputs for AI Robotics in Manufacturing, Rapid Re-Tasking and Robot Agility, Multi-Robot and Multi-Human Collaboration and Supervised Autonomy, Adaptive Real-Time Path Planning and Control, and Mobile Robotics. The single most important eligibility constraint is membership: only ARM Institute members may submit, so non-members intending to apply need to start the membership process well ahead of the deadlines. The process is two-stage - concept papers are due 16 September 2026 and final submissions by 2 December 2026 at 5:00 PM ET, with a target project start on or before 1 February 2027 and project end by 31 January 2028, which implies a tightly scoped twelve-month execution plan rather than a multi-year research programme.
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NFCDC) Administrative Expenses is sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This program provides funding for the administrative expenses of the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NFCDC) to support its mission of forging partnerships to address health and safety threats.
The RFI closed June 22. Now the forum is standing up. AI Forge is a jointly governed, university-led venture funding interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness in one-year Project Ventures — here's how the 15 challenges, the CAISI tie, and the nonprofit administrator reshape who gets funded.
Read articleNSF X-Labs is unlike any NSF program in the agency's history: it runs on Other Transaction Authority, not a grant; it funds teams up to $1.5M in Phase 0 and as much as $50 million per year in Phase 1; and it demands an 8-page written proposal followed by an invitation-only oral defense in which NSF refuses to look at what you wrote. The Quantum Systems topic closes July 24, 2026. Here is what X-Labs actually is, why the structure signals a new NSF, and who is positioned to win a DARPA-style award from an agency that has never operated this way before.
Read articleOn June 1, 2026, DARPA and the National Science Foundation jointly released the AI Forge initiative — a university-only forum, administered by a nonprofit launching summer 2026, that will fund Project Ventures of roughly $750,000 to $3 million over one-year terms in three thrust areas: AI interpretability, AI control, and adversarial robustness. The RFI on SAM.gov closes June 22 at 5pm ET and is restricted to U.S. universities and military service academies, one authorized submission per institution. Intellectual property is expected to be shared across forum participants, preferably through open-source licensing. This is the most significant joint DARPA-NSF research vehicle in a decade, and it is structured to bypass the frontier-lab model entirely.
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