The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced plans to award $16.2 million in grants divided among 27 academic institutions in 17 states and Puerto Rico to perform national defense-related research in science and engineering.
Fifty-five projects were competitively selected under the fiscal year (FY) 1997 Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR).
The DEPSCoR is designed to expand research opportunities in states that have traditionally received the least funding in federal support for university research.
The average award will be approximately $295,000.
University professors in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico were eligible to submit proposals under this competition.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization, and the Office of Naval Research solicited proposals
utilizing a Defense-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA).
The DEPSCoR BAA was
published on the Internet and accessed by the Experimental Program to Stimulate
Competitive Research State Committees, who solicited and selected projects for their
state's proposal.
In response, 19 proposals consisting of 260 projects were
submitted.
In addition to the projects selected for funding with the FY97 DEPSCoR funds,
DoD intends to select projects from this competition that will be funded with any
available FY98 DEPSCoR appropriations.
The selected FY98 projects will be announced
at a later date pending release of the funds.
The list of research projects selected for FY 1997 funding is attached.
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