DARPA Young Faculty Award 2022 Proposers Day Webcast
Webcast Date: August 30, 2021, 1-2PM EST
Registration Deadline: August 23, 2021, 4PM, or when capacity is reached, whichever comes first. DARPA will maintain a waitlist if needed.
Eligible Applicants: Current tenure-track assistant/associate professors; current tenured faculty within 3 years of their tenure date; or an equivalent at a non-profit research institution within 12 years of the receipt of their Ph.D. DARPA anticipates soliciting innovative research proposals in the following areas: physical sciences, engineering, materials, mathematics, biology, computing, informatics, social science, robotics, neuroscience, and manufacturing.

DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office is sponsoring a proposers day webcast to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated research announcement for the Young Faculty Award 2022 (YFA 2022) program (anticipated release date is late August 2021). The objective of the DARPA YFA 2022 program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise. YFA will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative DoD capabilities. Register here for the webcast.

Questions about this announcement may be directed to Erin Hale (erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu) or Susan Gomes (sgomes@fas.harvard.edu).