Young Faculty Award (YFA)
Abstract
The goal of the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to encourage new faculty members of academic institutions with innovative ideas and concepts to participate in sponsored research programs that will impact capabilities to future defense systems. This program focuses on speculative technologies for greatly enhancing microsystems technologies, transformational convergence technologies, and defense sciences. The long term goal for this program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security issues. Current activities include revolutionary advances in thirteen topic areas: Quantum Science and Technology; Applied Biology, Biomedical Devices and Bioinformatics; Mathematics; Structural Materials; Functional Materials; Power and Energy; Advanced Electronics; Micro/Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS and NEMS); Photonics and Lasers; Manufacturing Science and Technology; Neuroscience; and Computational and Quantitative Social, Decision, and Behavioral Sciences. A key aspect of the YFA program is DARPA-sponsored military visits; all YFA Principal Investigators are expected to participate in one or more military site visit/exercise to help them better understand DoD problems/needs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 666467110c7181d9474b76a8e297ee08