DARPA Information Innovation Office

DARPA's Information Innovation Office sits inside the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as its main home for AI, cyber, and information science. It funds artificial intelligence and machine learning, cyber resilience, formal methods and verification, autonomous systems, decision-making at scale, and newer information technologies with direct defense relevance. Awards run from USD 1 million to USD 30 million, with a median actual award of USD 8 million and a US-only operating base for lead applicants. The office works on an annual cycle, uses the office-wide BAA HR001126S0001, and is currently between cycles after the December 2, 2025 close, with a successor BAA expected in mid-2026. I2O fits teams that can show credible dual-use technical depth in TRL 2 to 6 work and handle export-control or foreign-component review cleanly. Its history includes the Cyber Grand Challenge, Explainable AI, Air Combat Evolution, Lifelong Learning Machines, and large language model safety efforts, so the office remains most relevant to groups that can move from novel methods to defendable systems.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.