DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) opportunity. YFAs is an accolade, but at its core is a 2-year grant for ~$500K to faculty who are 8 or less years into their job.
Please note topic #s 12 ("Ecological niche-preference Engineering) and 16 ("Novel Approaches to Reduce Agricultural Loss and Increase Crop Productivity"). This grant is a great opportunity to get kinda "out there" work funded. >From now until 1 November interested parties can submit short summaries that >will get a "thumbs up/down" to help them move forward or not with their idea. >After that proposals will open up and will be due on 18 January 2017. Follow this link<https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=3a993177b2e9509708914b197bb2a86c&tab=core&_cview=0> (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=3a993177b2e9509708914b197bb2a86c&tab=core&_cview=0 ) to a PDF of the announcement and the supplementary materials. For additional information, contact: Jamin Dreyer, PhD Strategic Analysis, Inc. Staff Scientist DARPA/BTO 703 797 2265 jdre...@sainc.com<mailto:jdre...@sainc.com>