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The Young Faculty Award 2006 (YFA)

Program Manager: Dr. Henryk Temkin

The Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is designed to seek out ideas from non-tenured faculty in order to identify the next generation of researchers working in microsystem technology. The funded researchers will focus on concepts that are innovative, speculative, and high-risk. DARPA expects that the innovations researched under the YFA program will assist in identifying new areas of research that are sufficiently important and challenging to warrant additional DARPA programs. DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) sponsors the YFA program.

The 24 researchers to be funded were selected through a three-stage, competitive process. DARPA initially received brief abstracts from approximately 150 young faculty applicants from universities all over the country. Following a review of the abstracts, DARPA invited 55 abstract authors to attend a DARPA MTO Workshop, discuss their ideas with DARPA program managers, and learn more about the Agency. For the final selection stage, DARPA invited 50 researchers to submit proposals explaining their program idea in more detail and identifying the key technical challenges to be overcome. The 24 rising stars were selected based on DARPA’s review of these proposals.

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