ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge — Stage 2
Supports transportation infrastructure challengers advancing knowledge, construction, optimization, and enabling technologies through ARPA-I competition.
The ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge Stage 2 is a prize competition run by the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Infrastructure within the U.S. Department of Transportation. It is closed to new entrants: only the 15 teams that won Stage 1 prizes in December 2025 (each receiving $20,000) are eligible to submit. The challenge targets transportation infrastructure innovation across four strategi…
Transportation infrastructure innovation across four thrust areas: Knowledge, Construction, Optimization, and Enabling Technologies.
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