Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 23, 2022
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: July 1, 2022
Award Amount: Typical awards are $510,000 over a 36-month period of performance. Applicants may request up to $170,000 for each 12-month interval. Additional funding may be requested (under the 36-month period) up to $250,000 to cover certain expenses. These funds must be included as an option and the applicant MUST discuss any request for additional funding with the Program Officer prior to submission. ONR anticipates making 15-35 awards.

ONR's Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after January 1, 2015, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The Principal Investigator of a proposal must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident (on the date proposals are due). The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of U.S. Institutions of Higher Education to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. The YIP is not a "research initiation" opportunity with standards that are less demanding than ONR's other research grant programs; instead, it is intended to confer honor upon awardees beyond the funding being provided.

Proposals addressing research areas (as described in the ONR S&T Department section of ONR's website) which are of interest to ONR Program Officers will be considered. Contact information for each division (a subgroup of an S&T Department) is also listed within the S&T section of the website. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate Program Officer who is the point of contact for a specific technical area to discuss their research ideas before submitting a proposal. Brief informal white papers may be submitted to facilitate these discussions but are not required. Such discussions can clarify the content and breadth of the priority research areas and enhance the match between a subsequent proposal and Department of the Navy research needs. Please note that application inquiries and questions must be submitted to ONR by June 24, 2022. Questions received after this date may not be answered.