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Air Force Fiscal Year 2027 Young Investigator Program (YIP)

🇺🇸 United States·Air Force Office of Scientific Research(Government)
Funding
$150K ~ $450K
≈ ₩621M (FX as of 2026-07-01)
Deadline
2026.12.04
D-75
Official noticeApplyOverseas applicants not eligible Export
OverviewFundingEligibilityLocationEquity & TermsRisksIP ProtectionSimilarSource

Overview

What you need to judge this in 30 seconds

This is a special Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), which will hereafter generally be referred to as “we”, “us”, “our”, or “AFOSR.” The Fiscal Year 2027 Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) intends to support individual early career scientists and engineers who have received their Ph.D. or equivalent d

Category
R&D
Industry
Other
Technology
Needs verification
Target stage
Needs verification
Project duration
Needs verification
Estimated preparation
Needs verification

Funding

Award size and how it is paid

Award range
$150K ~ $450K
Currency
USD
Total programme budget
$4.5M
Support type
Cash
Co-funding
None (fully funded)
Matching fund
Needs verification
Disbursement
Needs verification
Note
-

Eligibility

Can we actually apply?

Check whether we can applyEnter where you are incorporated, how old you are and how big — we compare it against this announcement and tell you what would unlock it. No sign-in needed.

대상: Private institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

Company age
Needs verification
Employees
Needs verification
Revenue limits
Needs verification
Consortium
Needs verification

Location Requirements

Geography and legal-entity conditions

Primary country
🇺🇸 United States
Also eligible
None
Foreign companies
No
Local entity
Needs verification
Location condition
A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.

Required Documents

Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions

Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.

Application Process

How you apply

Application process not captured.

Evaluation

Review process and criteria

Evaluation process not captured.

Timeline

Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution

Process steps were not captured.

Equity & Financial Terms

Equity, loans and contract conditions

Equity required
Needs verification
Loan
Non-dilutive grant
Duplicate funding
Needs verification
IP ownership
Needs verification
Deliverable ownership
Needs verification
Exclusivity
Needs verification
Right of first refusal
Needs verification
Audit & settlement
Needs verification
  • Bayh-Dole government licence

    US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.

    Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.

Risk Intelligence

Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)

Overall: Not assessable (insufficient data)
Eligibility risk42

Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules

Financial risk20

Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure

Execution risk22

Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties

Contract risk32

Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits

IP & idea exposure riskNeeds verification

How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it

Key risk factors
  • 16
    Overseas applicants not eligible

    Only domestically registered companies may apply.

  • 10
    Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification

    The list of required documents was not collected.

  • 8
    Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.

  • 8
    Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification

    Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.

  • 7
    Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Duplicate-support rule not stated· evidence needs verification

    Whether parallel support is allowed has to be confirmed.

  • 5
    Bayh-Dole 정부 실시권

    미국 연방 R&D 자금 특성상 정부 실시권 조항이 적용될 수 있습니다.

    Basis: grants.gov 연방 지원사업 공통 조항 — 개별 공고 확인 필요

13 item(s) need verification
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).

Generated by local:rules-v1 · 2d ago

IP / Idea Protection

How much of your technology and idea you must disclose

Required documents unknown

The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is Air Force Office of Scientific Research. 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.

NDA
Needs verification
IP ownership
Needs verification
Deliverable ownership
Needs verification
Data rights
Needs verification
Disclosure depth
Needs verification
File patent first?
Not applicable
Reuse of submissions
Needs verification
Publicity obligation
Needs verification
Exposure score
Needs verification
Safe to disclose
  • · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
  • · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
  • · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
  • · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
  • · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
Keep to a minimum
  • · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
  • · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
  • · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
  • · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
  • · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
  • · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
Recommended actions
  • MEDIUMRequest an NDA

    Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.

5 evidence item(s) from the source
  • UNKNOWN

    No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    No NDA clause could be found.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    IP ownership terms could not be found.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.

    Source link
  • HIGH

    Bayh-Dole 정부 실시권: 미국 연방 R&D 자금 특성상 정부 실시권 조항이 적용될 수 있습니다.

    Quote: “grants.gov 연방 지원사업 공통 조항 — 개별 공고 확인 필요”

    Source link
Needs verification (8)
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).

This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 2d ago

AI Analysis

Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness

Preparation difficultyNeeds verification

From paperwork and review stages

Competition (estimate)53

Heuristic from award size and type

Attractiveness76

Amount, terms and IP combined

Overall riskNeeds verification

Weighted average of five dimensions

Pros
  • Needs verification
Cons
  • Needs verification
Cautions
  • Nothing flagged

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Source & Provenance

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Official URL
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363829
Application URL
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363829
Last fetched
2026.09.20
Human review
Not reviewed — check the official announcement
First seen
2026.09.09
Data status
Auto-collected, not reviewed
AI enrichment
Needs verification
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