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Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR)
FOA-AFRL-AFOSR-2020-0004
Grants.gov https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326765
Required white papers due 21 September 2020.
This funding opportunity aims to create basic research collaborations between a pair of researchers, namely 1) Applicant/Principal Investigator (PI), henceforth referred to as Applicant, a full-time faculty member who has never served as a PI on a prior DoD-funded award and 2) Collaborator/co-Principal Investigator (co-PI), henceforth referred to as Collaborator, an investigator who will provide mentorship to the Applicant and has served as a PI on a DoD-funded research award actively between 1 October 2013 and 30 September 2020. This structure is aimed at introducing potential applicants to the DoD’s unique research challenges and its supportive research ecosystem. The website https://discover.dtic.mil/products-services/ is a non-comprehensive repository of government-funded scientific, technical, and engineering information for the DoD. Researchers new to DoD and Applicants are encouraged to visit the site as a starting point for identifying past and present DoD-funded researchers. While each member of the collaboration should be in a tenure-track appointment or tenured at IHE in DEPSCoR-eligible States/Territories, you do not need to be in the same state. Likewise, the Applicant and Collaborator can have appointments at the same IHE. Though this is a collaboration between the Applicant and Collaborator, the Applicant’s IHE will submit the proposal.
The FY20 DEPSCoR competition seeks proposals addressing the following topic areas:
- Cognitive and Computational Neurosciences
- Space Science
- Agile Science of Test and Evaluation
- Materials with Extreme Properties
- Propulsion and Energetics
- Computational Architectures and Visualization
- Optoelectronics
- Probability and Statistics
- Molecular Structure and Dynamics
- Social and Behavioral Science
- Biotronics
- Aerospace Structures and Materials
- Ocean Acoustics
- Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Intelligence
- Power Electronics & Electromagnetism, Adaptive & Machinery Controls and Advanced Machinery Systems