ONR FY24 Young Investigator Program (YIP) 
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 29, 2023  
Sponsor Deadline: July 7, 2023  
Award Amount: Typical awards are $750,000 over a 36-month period of performance. Applicants may request up to $250,000 for each 12-month interval. 
Eligible Applicants: 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, 2016, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The principal investigator must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident (on the date proposals are due).  

The objectives of ONR's Young Investigator Program (YIP) 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. Proposals addressing research areas (as described in the ONR Science and Technology Department section of ONR's website) which are of interest to ONR program officers will be considered. 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.

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. A list of most Program Officers and their contact information can be found at: https://www.nre.navy.mil/our-research/onr-technology-and-research or at: https://www.nre.navy.mil/our-research/our-program-officers. 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 allow adequate time for such discussions with the ONR Program Officer. The brief informal pre-proposal should be emailed to the ONR Program Officer with ONRYIP@navy.mil on the cc: line.

Recent Recipients include Stephanie Gil (SEAS, 2021), Na Li (SEAS, 2019), Jarad Mason (CCB, 2019), and Adam Cohen (CCB, 2009).