1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
This listing may be outdated. Verify details at the official source before applying.
Find similar grantsDeadline and full program details are in the BAA on SAM.gov; not visible on the DARPA program page.
Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) program is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The SciFy program aims to develop computational methods for measuring the feasibility of scientific claims, enabling accurate assessments of scientific content.
Get a weekly digest of new grants like this
A free weekly digest of new foundation and federal funding opportunities as they're added to Granted. Unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
Department of War organization. Rapid advancements in large pre-trained models capable of generating scientific content pose a growing challenge to information integrity and authenticity.
A fast, scalable, compelling generator for inaccurate scientific content could disrupt the U.S. technology base in times of crisis, such as pandemics, disaster relief, and military events, or upend the global race for technological dominance in critical areas.
Furthermore, false capability claims can also have significant implications for national security and international relations, as they can obscure the true nature of military actions and capabilities.
However, determining the feasibility of advanced technologies, such as quantum computing, often requires deep technical expertise, access to detailed information about the technology, and the ability to conduct testing or independent verification.
Overcoming these challenges requires developing new, robust methods to automatically review, reason, verify, and evaluate capability claims, especially in sensitive areas surrounding national security and defense. The Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) program aims to develop computational methods for measuring the feasibility of claims, thereby enabling accurate assessments of scientific content.
The program will focus on claims that express scientific and technological capabilities and demonstrate that the scientific feasibility of claims can be determined by using automated reasoning to decompose claims into constituent, verifiable parts – thereby paving the way for a new era of scientific assessment.
SciFy seeks to produce methods that perform well beyond current automated fact-checkers, recognizing that feasibility assessment is a complex process that requires breaking claims down into constituent components.
Automatically assessing each component may involve identifying and using existing technological advancements, foundational scientific principles, data, software, simulation results, and current industry standards or benchmarks.
This assessment necessitates the development of sophisticated automated techniques capable of managing the rapid expansion of evidence, ensuring that the synthesis and explanation of this evidence is both efficient and reliable.
It is also necessary to determine whether the claimed technological capability, while theoretically possible in parts, is practical and realistic when considered as a whole, which may require evaluating logical consistency, system integration, and compatibility considerations. SciFy is a 32-month, one-phase program consisting of three technical sprints in the material science, AI, and quantum computing domains.
These domains are intended to represent a progression in scientific complexity. A Broad Agency Announcement solicitation with all program details is available on SAM. gov .
Information Processing Techniques Office SciFy: Broad Agency Announcement
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Unrestricted per the BAA; subject to clarification in the full solicitation document on SAM.gov. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) program is funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
DPA26BZ06-DV023 is a Direct-to-Phase-II SBIR paying $700,000 over 18 months plus a $500,000 option. The physics demands 256x more transmit power than the systems that qualify you to compete, and DARPA will not accept modeling alone as proof. Here is the eligibility wall, the five engineering problems, and who can realistically win it before the October 21 close.
Read articleRelease 6's SBIR topics got the attention. Its three STTR topics — SHIELDER, fuel-flexible electric propulsion, and hypersonic wind tunnel noise diagnostics — are all Direct-to-Phase-II, all require a research institution to perform at least 30 percent of the work, and all close October 21, 2026. The feasibility gates are the real filter.
Read articleDPA26BZ06-DV026 offers $300,000 at Phase I or $1,800,000 as a single Direct-to-Phase-II tranche with no options. The deliverable is a simulated auction market that measures whether AI agents deceive, collude, or manipulate the humans they serve — measured entirely from the outside. Here is the 90% efficiency gate, the team composition most bidders will get wrong, and why this topic sits in DARPA's biology office.
Read article