Amazon Security call for proposals - Fall 2026
Amazon Security call for proposals - Fall 2026 supports academic and nonprofit researchers pursuing AI security research to address threats across hardware, software, cloud systems, and autonomous agents.
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Funder: Amazon Research Awards
Due Dates: October 1, 2026 (Submissions open) | November 4, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific Time (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: One-time gifts: cash no more than $80,000 USD on average and AWS credits no more than $40,000 USD on average
Summary: Supports AI research addressing security challenges across hardware, firmware, software, cloud environments, and autonomous agents.
Key Information: PIs must be full-time faculty at accredited academic institutions or permanent researchers at legally recognized nongovernmental nonprofits.
Description
This Amazon Research Awards (ARA) call supports AI research addressing pressing security challenges, with funding decisions made by Amazon Security. It seeks work on binary firmware analysis, hardware and virtualization security, trustworthy AI agents, open-source security, software supply chain trust, memory safety, and dependency security. Proposals related to theory, practice, and novel techniques are welcome.
The call also supports agentic vulnerability detection and remediation, secure code generation, formal verification, and more complete and robust security analysis across repositories and services. Further interests include security tools that adapt to evolving threats and detection errors, agents that recognize when human intervention is needed, physical security through low-cost computer vision, large-scale cloud anomaly detection, efficient telemetry processing, automated red-team and blue-team activity, and autonomous agent monitoring and containment.
