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Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2027

DARPA - Defense Sciences Office

Open for responseCooperative AgreementOpenPublish with warning

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Overview

Funding agency: DARPA - Defense Sciences Office
Source: Grants.gov
Opportunity #: DARPARA2701
Funding instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Notice type: Cooperative Agreement
Actionability: Open for response
Lifecycle: Open

Funding

Funding: No disclosed value · Value Not Disclosed

Eligibility

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Timeline

Posted: Oct 20, 2026
Deadline: Jan 13, 2027, 12:00 AM UTC
Dataset refreshed: Oct 31, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

Warnings

2 warning(s) require review.

Eligibility is preliminary and should be confirmed against final official terms.
eligibility_unclear

OIP Score

56/100

Objective score, derived by OIP · How it works

Publication decision: Publish with warning

Explanation

Summary

Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2027 -- a Cooperative Agreement (Cooperative Agreement) issued by DARPA - Defense Sciences Office.

Why It Matters

Objective Government score 56 for grants-gov-364129, computed from source evidence and Government scoring configuration.

Uncertainty

potential_value (not_applicable): potential_value is structurally not applicable for this Government category. novelty (insufficient_evidence): novelty could not be scored: no current Government source provides a reliable per-record signal for whether an opportunity is genuinely novel versus long-standing.

24 evidence record(s) support this pipeline result.

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Score Components

Evidence Quality

86/100 · Ok

evidence_quality reflects a federal-source baseline plus completeness of deadline, funding value, eligibility, and official-source fields on this specific record.

Confidence

75/100 · Ok

confidence reflects OIP's confidence in its own interpretation of this record's lifecycle and funding-value status, not confidence that any applicant will qualify.

Potential Value

No numeric value · Not Applicable

potential_value is structurally not applicable for this Government category.

Urgency

62/100 · Ok

urgency reflects the number of days remaining until the disclosed application deadline.

Difficulty

70/100 · Ok

difficulty reflects this opportunity's cooperative-agreement funding instrument, which typically involves substantial federal involvement and negotiation.

Time Required

55/100 · Ok

time_required reflects the coordination and negotiation overhead typical of a cooperative-agreement funding instrument.

Capital Required

55/100 · Ok

capital_required reflects that cooperative agreements often require applicant cost-sharing as a matter of federal funding-mechanism convention; confirm the exact requirement in the official notice.

Risk

50/100 · Ok

risk reflects the number of material evidence gaps on this record (undisclosed value, missing deadline, unlisted eligibility, or a stale source date), not ordinary competitive uncertainty.

Evidence

Title

Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2027

$.detail.opportunityTitle · Field Mapping · 98/100 confidence

Official Identity

364129 / DARPARA2701

$.detail.id · Field Mapping · 99/100 confidence

Issuing Organization

DARPA - Defense Sciences Office

$.detail.synopsis.agencyName · Field Mapping · 97/100 confidence

Funding Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

$.detail.synopsis.fundingInstruments · Field Mapping · 96/100 confidence

Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of War (DoW) needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise for national security. The YFA program provides high-impact funding to researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative DoW capabilities. Ultimately, the YFA program developes the next generation of researchers focused on national security issues.

$.detail.synopsis.synopsisDesc · Field Mapping · 94/100 confidence

Posted At

2026-10-20T04:00:00.000Z

$.detail.synopsis.postingDate · Field Mapping · 96/100 confidence

Deadline

2027-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

$.searchHit.closeDate · Field Mapping · 92/100 confidence

Eligibility Summary

Applicant types: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

$.detail.synopsis.applicantTypes · Field Mapping · 94/100 confidence

Eligibility Details

All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA. See the Eligibility Information section of the BAA for more information.

$.detail.synopsis.applicantEligibilityDesc · Field Mapping · 94/100 confidence

Value Status

value_not_disclosed

$.detail.synopsis · Field Mapping · 84/100 confidence

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