The Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) is a capacity building program that is designed to strengthen the research infrastructure at institutions of higher education in underutilized states/territories. Eligible applicants are full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty members at institutions of higher education in the following US states/territories: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Applicants must never have served as the PI on a prior DoD-funded award.

Applicants must select a co-PI/collaborator who is a tenured or tenure-track faculty member at an institution of higher education in a DEPSCoR-eligible state/territory and has served as the PI on a DoD-funded research award active between 1 October 2013 and 30 September 2020.

Awarded grants may be for up to $200,000 per year for three years.

Topic areas:

Air Force Office of Scientific Research:

1. Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

2. Space Science

3. Agile Science of Test and Evaluation

4. Materials with Extreme Properties

Army Research Office:

5. Propulsion and Energetics

6. Computational Architectures and Visualization

7. Optoelectronics

8. Probability and Statistics

9. Molecular Structure and Dynamics

10. Social and Behavioral Science

11. Biotronics

Office of Naval Research:

12. Aerospace Structures and Materials

13. Ocean Acoustics

14. Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Intelligence

15. Power Electronics & Electromagnetism, Adaptive & Machinery Controls and Advanced Machinery Systems

For complete details, please see the funding opportunity announcement at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326765. White papers are due by 21 September 2020.

Hal S. Greenwald, Ph.D.
Program Officer, Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR/RTA)
875 N. Randolph St.
Arlington, VA 22203-1768
(703) 588-8441