The Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) today
announced its plans for the revised FY95 Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP)
competition.
The competition will start on May 12, 1995, with the publication of the formal
solicitation, and proposals will be due June 29,1995. Instead of the
previously planned 13 Technology Development focus areas, the new competition
will accept proposals in eight areas. In addition, the competition for two
categories of projects, Manufacturing Education and Training and Regional
Technology Alliances, has been canceled, and no proposals will be accepted for
these types of projects. A total of $160 million is available for the revised
competition; of this $10 million is available to small businesses under the
Small Business Innovation Research program. The names of those proposals
selected for funding will be announced in September.
The eight technology focus areas are:
- Affordable Advanced Controls - Affordable Polymer Matrix Composites
- Biological Sensors and Multiorgan - Digital Wireless
Communications - Operations Other Than War - Small Precision
Optics Manufacturing - Microelectromechanical System - Other
The FY 1995 competition was revised to reflect the reduced FY 1995 funding
availability following the passage of the Defense Emergency Supplemental
Appropriation Act.
ARPA's TRP Director Lee Buchanan note, "The basic principle in restructing the
FY 1995 competition was to concentrate on areas with the most potential to
produce direct, immediate benefits to the Department of Defense. I know that
the delay and reshaping of this competition has been frustrating and
disappointing to many people but I want to encourage everyone with strong
concepts in the remaining portions of the competition to propose. We are now
back on track to continue the important work we began two years ago."
