Funder: Amazon Research Awards
Due Dates: November 4, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: One-time gifts averaging no more than $80,000 USD in cash and $40,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credits
Summary: Supports AI research addressing security challenges across hardware, software, cloud environments, and autonomous agents.
Key Information: Each principal investigator may submit only one proposal across the ARA Program per call period.
Description
Amazon Security, through Amazon Research Awards (ARA), funds AI research aimed at solving pressing security challenges. The call supports work on binary firmware analysis, hardware and virtualization security, open-source security, software supply chain trust, package and dependency security, and memory safety in legacy codebases. It also seeks advances in secure code generation, vulnerability detection and remediation, and formal verification of security properties across all system executions.
A central priority is trustworthy agentic AI for security analysis, including authentication, authorization, evaluation, monitoring, containment, and recognizing when human intervention is needed. Other interests include measuring security tool effectiveness, automated red team and blue team operations, public benchmarks, low-cost physical security techniques, and scalable detection of malicious activity in Linux cloud environments.
