(FOA)-Young
Faculty Award (YFA); September 18, 2019
Agency
Department
of Defense
Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Description
The
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA)
program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions in
academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions and
expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) and
National Security challenges and needs. In particular, this YFA will provide
high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop
innovative new research directions in the context of enabling transformative
DoD capabilities. The long-term goal of the program
is to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers in the research
community who will focus a significant portion of their future careers on DoD and National Security issues. DARPA is particularly
interested in identifying outstanding researchers who have previously not been
performers on DARPA programs, but the program is open to all qualified
applicants with innovative research ideas.
DARPA
is soliciting innovative research proposals in the areas of interest to DARPA’s
six technical offices: Biological Technologies Office (BTO), Defense Sciences
Office (DSO), Information Innovation Office (I2O), Microsystems Technology
Office (MTO), Strategic Technology Office (STO), and Tactical Technology Office
(TTO). The specific technical areas of interest are listed below. Proposed
research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary
advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research
that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of
practice.
Topic
Areas:
1. Unlocking the Secrets of Roman Concrete 2. In Vivo Biosensors 3. Decision
Making Algorithm for Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Development 4. Microbial
Community Modeling
5.
Biological Systems for Sensing, Reporting, and Mitigating Air Contamination 6.
Distributed Intelligence in Flexible Robots 7. Bioinspired Soft-Matter
Electrical Circuits 8. Room-temperature Chip-scale Quantum Opto-mechanical Sensors 9. AI System Engineering 10.
Advanced Corrosion Control 11. Economics-driven Secure Multiparty Computation
12. Cross-Cultural Extrapolation of Privacy-Oriented Human-Technology
Interactions 13. Scientific Model Aware Computing 14. Push Science 15.
Visualization Innovations for Cyber Terrain Operations Representation (VICTOR)
16. Reducing Errors in Quantum Systems 17. Dielectrics for High-Temperature CMOS
FETs 18. A Physics-Based Re-exploration of Spectrum Allocation 19. Detecting
Cognitive Dissonance & Belief Shift Over Time 20.
Chip-scale Blind Sampled Wideband Periodogram and
Time Transfer by Machine Learning 21. Practical Antineutrino Detectors 22. RF
Power Harvesting for Remote Sensing 23. Low Loop Latency Distributed Time
Transfer 24. High-Entropy Alloys Study 25. Ocean Object Identification via
Distributed Sensors 26. Flame Stability and Ignition in Partially-Premixed
High-Speed Flows 27. On-Orbit Servicing Architectures for Proliferated Low Earth
Orbit (LEO) Constellations
Eligibility: Participation in the
YFA program is limited to any current tenure-track Assistant or Associate
Professors and to tenured Assistant or Associate Professors within three (3)
years of their tenure appointment at a U.S. institution of higher education or
equivalent at a U.S. non-profit science and technology research institution.
Announcement
Number:
DARPA-RA-19-01
Closing
Date:
Executive
Summary Due Date: September 18, 2019
Full
Proposal Due Date: November 19, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
Contact
Information
BAA
Coordinator
YFA2020@darpa.mil