Funding Opportunities

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) has announced the Fall 2026 call for proposals (CFP) in 9 areas: Agentic AI, AI for Information Security, Amazon Security, Automated Reasoning, AWS Cryptography, Build on Trainium: Agentic, Recursive Improvement of Kernels and Frameworks, Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation, On-Device Multimodal Perception, and Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception. 

ARA provides grant recipients unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits. Funded projects are assigned an Amazon research contact, and recipients also receive training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers. 

Proposal Due Date: 11/4/2026

Proposal Due Date: 11/4/2026

Proposal Due Date: 11/6/2026

This notice of funding opportunity for the FY27 MURI program specifically supports U.S. university teams investigating complex, DoD-relevant problem sets at the intersection of multiple scientific disciplines. Some relevant topics of interest include:

AFOSR: Topic 3: Robustness to Novel Queries in AI for Scientific Discovery

ONR: Topic 12: Distinguishing between AI generated content and human created content 

White papers are due 11/20/26.

Full proposals are due 04/09/27.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is providing partial support for conferences and workshops as defined in the DoW Joint Travel Regulations in special areas of science that bring experts together to discuss recent research or educational findings, or to expose other researchers or advanced graduate students to new research and educational techniques in our areas of research interest. The research interests are described in the most recent version of the general Broad Agency Announcement titled, “Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research” posted on Grants.gov.

Closing Date: 8/31/2029