DoD to Award $11.4 Million for Science and Engineering Research

DoD to Award $11.4 Million for Science and Engineering Research

The Department of Defense announced today plans to award $11.4 million to 20 academic institutions in 16 states to perform research in science and engineering fields important to national defense.

Twenty-seven projects were competitively selected under the fiscal 2005 Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR), which 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 $422,000. All awards are subject to the successful completion of negotiations between DoD and the academic institutions.

Academic researchers in Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming were eligible to receive awards under this competition.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research solicited proposals using a defense-wide broad agency announcement. The announcement was published on the Internet and accessed by the DEPSCoR state committees, which solicited and selected projects for each state’s proposal. In response, 22 state proposal packages consisting of 108 projects were submitted, requesting more than $56.4 million.

The list of projects selected for fiscal 2005 DEPSCoR funding can be found on the Web in PDF format at defenselink.mil/news/press

U.S. Department of DefenseOffice of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)News Release On the Web: defenselink.mil/releases Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: dod.mil/faq/comment or +1 (703) 428-0711 No. 327-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2005