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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.

This funding opportunity announcement is in support of the ARL HBCU/MI Student Design Competition. This announcement allows for travel support, materials and prizes to be provided to HBCU/MI undergraduate student teams in order to participate in a research design competition in topic areas of Army interest. The grants awarded to the HBCU/MI institutions of higher education under 10 U.S.C. § 2362 will provide travel support and other material costs required for the design competition. All prizes will be provided separately under 10 U.S.C. § 2374a, the prize authority for the Secretary of Defense and will not be a part of the grant.