Basic Research Office

The Basic Research Office provides scientific leadership, oversight, and coordination for the Department’s basic research programs and stimulates the initiation or support of promising areas of research including those with the potential for transformational significance to future defense capabilities.

Explore the above web sites to review the basic research or research related educational areas that they support. After reviewing the areas an office supports, talk to the scientific or technical program managers responsible for any research or related educational areas with which you judge your interests overlap.

To review only funding announcements that are currently open, you need not visit each office’s web site individually. You will find all of the offices’ announcements posted at:

• Grants.gov for programs under which grants or cooperative agreements may be awarded
• Fedbizopps.gov for programs under which procurement contracts may be awarded

Strategic Overview

Army

• Army Research Office (ARO)
• Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
• Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
• Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC)

Navy

• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• Naval Research Laboratory

Air Force

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Other Agencies

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

OSD Programs

• Minerva Initiative: University-based social science research initiative
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI)