Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)
Amount
Track 2: £200,000 – £2 million per team; Track 3: £100,000 – £3 million per team
Deadline
Ongoing
Industry
Cybersecurity
Location
National
About this grant
Funds work to make autonomous software agents trustworthy and secure. Track 2 (Tooling) funds open-source agents and reusable components for secure requirement capture, negotiation, security reasoning and verifiable reporting (4 to 6 teams, £200,000 to £2 million each); Track 3 (Fundamental Research) funds work turning empirical security into provable guarantees and building cyber-physical trust primitives, through three Research Centres plus 4 to 12 smaller teams (£100,000 to £3 million each). The programme is backed by nearly £50 million. Applications are accepted while the call is open and reviewed in quarterly batches: the current cut-off is 2pm on 31 October 2026, with decisions by 30 November 2026, and later proposals roll into the next quarterly cycle.
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