The Department of Defense announced today the awarding of 28
grants totaling $14.1 million as part of the fiscal 2009 Defense
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR). The
grants will enhance research and engineering capabilities at 20 academic
institutions in 14 states in scientific disciplines critical to national
security and the DoD.
The list of projects selected for fiscal 2009 DEPSCoR
funding is available online at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug
2009/DEPSCOR.pdf
The awards are the result of a merit competition for DEPSCoR
conducted for the DoD research and engineering directorate. The Army
Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air
Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) solicited proposals using a
defense-wide broad agency announcement. The solicitation was published
on the Internet and available at Grants.gov. The fiscal 2009 program
solicitation received 131 proposals.
Academic researchers in Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, US Virgin Islands, Vermont, West
Virginia, and Wyoming were eligible to receive awards under this
competition.
The average award is approximately $504,372. All awards are
subject to the successful completion of negotiations between the DoD and
the academic institutions.
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
On the Web: http://www.defenselink.mil/Releases/