Funder: Amazon Research Awards
Due Dates: October 1, 2026 (Submissions open) | November 4, 2026, 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: One-time gifts: no more than $80,000 USD in unrestricted funds and $40,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credits, on average
Summary: Supports AI research addressing challenging information-security problems, including secure agents, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability remediation.
Key Information: Each principal investigator may submit only one proposal across ARA per call period.
Description
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) supports AI research advancing solutions to challenging information-security problems. This call emphasizes trustworthy and reliable agentic AI for security operations, evaluation of security agents, and agent access governance through policy verification, guardrails, and conditionally scoped authentication and authorization. It also supports threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection in agentic systems and cloud environments, AI-powered incident response and red-teaming, and agentic vulnerability detection and remediation.
The scope includes improving foundation models for security tasks and protecting agentic systems, toolchains, frameworks, training data, and models. Other topics include reinforcement learning, graph modeling, learning with limited or noisy labels, malware analysis, secure code generation, and cloud infrastructure compliance. Theory, practice, and novel techniques are welcome, with funding decisions guided by scientific quality and potential impact on the research community.
