AI for Information Security call for proposals - Fall 2026
AI for Information Security call for proposals - Fall 2026 supports academic and nonprofit researchers developing AI for security operations, threat detection, and model protection to address security challenges.
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Funder: Amazon Research Awards
Due Dates: October 1, 2026 (Submission opens) | November 4, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific Time (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: One-time gifts: unrestricted funds no more than $80,000 USD on average; AWS Promotional Credits no more than $40,000 USD on average
Summary: Supports AI research addressing challenging information security problems, including security agents, threat detection, secure code, and model protection.
Key Information: Each principal investigator may submit only one proposal across the ARA Program per call period.
Description
Amazon Research Awards, run through Amazon Science, supports research advancing solutions to challenging information security problems. This call focuses on trustworthy and reliable agentic AI for security operations, methods for evaluating security agents, access governance, and threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection in agentic systems and cloud environments. It also seeks AI-powered incident response and red-teaming, agentic vulnerability detection and remediation, and foundation model development and optimization for security tasks.
The call covers protecting agentic AI toolchains and frameworks, addressing confused-deputy risks in delegated agent behaviors, and securing generative AI, foundation models, and training data. Other interests include anonymization, semantic differential privacy, preventing model data leakage, reinforcement learning, scalable graph modeling, learning with limited or noisy labels, malware analysis in cloud environments or devices, secure code generation, improving existing codebases, and cloud infrastructure compliance.
