Deadline: May 6, 2026
The Amazon Research Awards AI for Information Security Call for Proposals – Spring 2026 is ongoing. At Amazon, they aim to continue advancing possible solutions for some of the most challenging problems in information security.
They are seeking to fund AI research on the following topics in information security:
- Trustworthy and reliable agentic AI for security operations, including methodologies for evaluating AI agents in security use cases
AI agent access governance: policy verification, guardrails, and conditionally scoped authentication and authorization - Threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection in agentic AI systems and cloud environments
- AI-powered incident response and red-teaming
- Vulnerability detection and remediation using agentic AI
- Building and optimizing foundation models through pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, and other techniques to improve performance on security tasks
- Security of agentic AI systems, including securing toolchains, securing frameworks, solutions for confused deputy in delegated agent behaviors, and so forth
- Securing generative AI and foundation models, including securing training data content, anonymization, semantic differential privacy, preventing data leakage from trained models, and so forth
- Reinforcement learning for information security
- Scalable and efficient graph modeling and anomaly detection on graphs
- Learning with limited/noisy labels and weakly supervised learning
- AI for malware analysis and detection, with a focus on cloud environments or devices
- AI-assisted secure code generation and security enhancement of existing codebases
- Generative AI for cloud infrastructure compliance
Grant
Selected Principal Investigators (PIs) may receive the following:
- Unrestricted funds, no more than $80,000 USD on average
- AWS Promotional Credits, no more than $40,000 USD on average
- Training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers
Awards are structured as one-time unrestricted gifts. The budget should include a list of expected costs specified in USD, and should not include administrative overhead costs. The final award amount will be determined by the awards panel.
Eligibility
To be eligible for an ARA Program award, the Principal Investigator must be:
- Either a full-time faculty member at an accredited academic institution or a permanent researcher at a non-governmental organization with recognized legal status in its country (equivalent to 501(c)(3) status under the United States Internal Revenue Code) and
- At or above the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of application. Each Principal Investigator is permitted to submit only one proposal to the ARA Program per call for proposal period.
Application
Click here to submit your proposal
For more information, visit Amazon AI for Information Security Call for Proposals.
