Federal Opportunities
Please contact Paul Montgomery (paul.montgomery@utk.edu) regarding your interest in federal opportunities.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host a Proposers’ Day Webcast to discuss its upcoming Young Faculty Award (YFA) solicitation on August 29, 2-5 pm. The purpose of the YFA program is to fund “elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research directions in the context of enabling transformative DoD capabilities.” YFA topics cover the following areas:
- biology
- computing
- engineering
- informatics
- manufacturing
- materials
- mathematics
- neuroscience
- physical sciences
- robotics
- social science
Eligibility: The YFA program is open to tenure track assistant and associate professors as well as to tenured faculty within 3 years of their tenure date.
To view the webcast, please register by 12pm, August 24, at this link. Note that there is a “capacity limitation”. Additional information about the webcast is at this link.
DARPA expects to publish the YFA solicitation in early September.