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AI Forge

Research Forum

Accelerating AI breakthroughs for national security.

DARPA and the U.S. National Science Foundation jointly developed AI Forge in close collaboration with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at NIST, to align government, academia, and industry around forward-looking AI research.

A national partnership for AI innovation

How AI Forge works

  1. Join the forum

    Universities apply through the vendor portal. Enrollment does not require an existing federal contract.

  2. Review the challenges

    Work against 15 Critical AI Challenges across interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness.

  3. Respond when a cycle opens

    Cycle 1 is closed. The next schedule will be published on the vendor portal.