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HR001126S0001 is the Information Innovation Office's office-wide Broad Agency Announcement, the standing front door for unsolicited ideas that do not fit an existing named I2O program.
It is organised around four thrust areas, of which Transformative AI is the most directly relevant: DARPA seeks trustworthy, disruptive AI technologies and methodologies relevant to national security, specifically systems that operate competently, interact appropriately with humans, and behave ethically and morally.
The remaining thrusts cover resilient software systems, cyber security, and information domain operations, and proposals that combine AI with any of these - AI for cyber defense, AI-enabled software assurance, countering AI-generated influence operations - sit naturally within the BAA's scope.
One critical caveat applies as of writing and should be verified before investing proposal effort: effective 21 May 2026, DARPA posted that this call is temporarily paused while strategic priorities are re-aligned. The published deadlines remain an abstract deadline of 1 November 2026 and a deadline of 30 November 2026 for full proposals submitted at DARPA's invitation, and the pause notice does not state a resumption date.
Office-wide BAAs operate as a two-step process in practice - abstracts first, with full proposals encouraged only where DARPA sees a fit - and submitting an abstract before a full proposal saves substantial effort given typical DARPA hit rates. DARPA does not publish a fixed ceiling here; awards are scoped to the work and issued as procurement contracts, other transaction agreements, or cooperative agreements.
Prospective applicants should monitor the SAM. gov listing for the pause status before submitting.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: DARPA office-wide Broad Agency Announcements are generally open to a broad range of U.S.-based applicants including universities, for-profit companies of any size including small businesses and non-traditional defense contractors, nonprofit research organizations, national laboratories, and teams combining these. Specific eligibility, foreign participation restrictions, and security requirements are set out in the full BAA document, HR001126S0001, available via SAM.gov. Note that effective 21 May 2026 DARPA posted that this call is temporarily paused while strategic priorities are re-aligned; verify current status before investing proposal effort. Published deadlines are 1 November 2026 for abstracts and 30 November 2026 for full proposals submitted at DARPA's invitation. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows DARPA does not publish a fixed award ceiling in this office-wide BAA; awards are scoped to the proposed work and made through procurement contracts, other transaction agreements, and cooperative agreements. Individual awards under DARPA office-wide BAAs of this type have typically ranged from roughly $500,000 for seedling efforts to $5,000,000 or more for multi-year technical programs. Applicants should confirm budget expectations against the full BAA document on SAM.gov before proposing. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for DARPA Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement HR001126S0001 for Transformative AI and National Security are due November 1, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
DARPA Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement HR001126S0001 for Transformative AI and National Security is funded by U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Information Innovation Office (I2O). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) program (NSF 25-543) supports foundational computing research and education with a strong emphasis on AI and machine learning. The program funds research that advances the foundations of computing including AI/ML theory, algorithms, systems, and applications. Future CoRe supports small to medium-sized research projects that can have significant impact on computing foundations. The program has target dates of February 5, 2026 and September 10, 2026 for proposal submissions (note: these are target dates, not deadlines, meaning proposals may be submitted at any time but will be reviewed in batches around these dates). Investigators may not serve as PI, co-PI, or Senior/Key Personnel on more than two proposals submitted within any consecutive 12-month period across all Future CoRe programs. This is one of NSF's primary mechanisms for funding fundamental AI and machine learning research at U.S. academic institutions, covering areas such as machine learning theory, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics foundations, and human-AI interaction.
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DE-FOA-0003600 is the DOE Office of Science's FY 2026 open, rolling solicitation for financial assistance, providing roughly $500 million across seven program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Isotope R&D and Production. AI and machine learning research is supported directly through Advanced Scientific Computing Research, while Biological and Environmental Research funds atmospheric process research, environmental systems process research, and earth-energy systems modeling — making this a major channel for AI-enhanced climate and earth system modeling work. DOE anticipates 200 to 350 new awards ranging from $5,000 to $5 million each, with project periods from six months to five years. The FOA opened September 30, 2025 and accepts applications on a rolling basis through the end of FY 2026.
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