DARPAtv | "Voices from DARPA" Podcast, Episode 74: Young Faculty Award @DARPAtv | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
Established in 2006, the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify
and engage rising academics in early-career research positions -
particularly those without prior DARPA funding - and expose them to
Department of Defense (DOD) needs and DARPA's mission to create and prevent technological surprise. The YFA program provides high-impact funding to researchers at U.S. institutions early in their careers to advance
innovative research enabling transformative DOD capabilities. The long-term
goal of the YFA program is to build a pipeline for the next generation of
academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a
significant portion of their career on DOD and national security issues.
In this episode you'll hear from Dr. Rohith Chandrasekar, who oversees
DARPA's YFA program, as well as from DARPA Program Managers Dr. Chris
Bettinger and Dr. Sunil Bhave, who reflect on their experience as YFA
awardees early in their academic careers and the opportunities it has
afforded them.
DARPA recently published the 2024 YFA Research Announcement that features almost two dozen new technical topics and an additional open topic covering six thrust areas specific to DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO). To view the full 2024 YFA Research Announcement visit SAM.gov:
sam.gov/opp/f2bf469a50e7433fa758f0125831754b/view or Grants.gov: grants.gov/search-results-detail/350899. Executive summaries, which are encouraged, are due by Dec. 13, 2023, 4:00 p.m. ET. Full proposals are due Feb. 22, 2024, 4 p.m. ET.
Established in 2006, the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify
and engage rising academics in early-career research positions -
particularly those without prior DARPA funding - and expose them to
Department of Defense (DOD) needs and DARPA's mission to create and prevent technological surprise. The YFA program provides high-impact funding to researchers at U.S. institutions early in their careers to advance
innovative research enabling transformative DOD capabilities. The long-term
goal of the YFA program is to build a pipeline for the next generation of
academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who will focus a
significant portion of their career on DOD and national security issues.
In this episode you'll hear from Dr. Rohith Chandrasekar, who oversees
DARPA's YFA program, as well as from DARPA Program Managers Dr. Chris
Bettinger and Dr. Sunil Bhave, who reflect on their experience as YFA
awardees early in their academic careers and the opportunities it has
afforded them.
DARPA recently published the 2024 YFA Research Announcement that features almost two dozen new technical topics and an additional open topic covering six thrust areas specific to DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO). To view the full 2024 YFA Research Announcement visit SAM.gov:
sam.gov/opp/f2bf469a50e7433fa758f0125831754b/view or Grants.gov: grants.gov/search-results-detail/350899. Executive summaries, which are encouraged, are due by Dec. 13, 2023, 4:00 p.m. ET. Full proposals are due Feb. 22, 2024, 4 p.m. ET.
