Basic Research Office
Business Opportunities
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
OSD Thrust Areas
Emerging Scientific Research Areas (Overview)
- Synthetic Biology (PDF)
- Quantum Information Science (PDF)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (PDF)
- Understanding Human and Social Behavior (PDF)
- Novel Engineered Materials (PDF)
- Nanoscience (PDF)
Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
- Formerly known as the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship, the program change its name in 2016 to commemorates Dr. Vannevar Bush (1890-1974).
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- 2017 Vannevar Bush Faculty Award Winners
Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
- DoD Awards $169 million in University Research Funding (Download PDF / FY 2017)
- DoD Awards $149 Million in Research Funding (FY 2015/ (PDF))
- DoD To Award $167 Million in Research Funding (FY 2014/ PDF)
- MURI Partners List
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP))
Related Programs and Offices that Execute Programs
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
Air Force
Other Agencies
OSD Programs