Research and Technology Development
This support may take the form of grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions.
Research Grants: 1.
Bioscensors Technology; 2.
Electomagnetic material Technology; 3.
Silicon nanofabrication and nanoelectronics device manufacturing; 4.
High bandgap materials and devices; 5.
Advanced Lithography; 6.
Simulation based design; 7.
Power systems for land vehicles; and 8.
Wireless communications devices.
The Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of the United States through five major areas: peacekeeping and war-fighting efforts, Homeland Security, evacuation and humanitarian causes.
Program Accomplishments
In fiscal year 2002, projected totals are 30 grant awards and 20 other transactions.
Uses and Use Restrictions
No block or formula grants.
Only project grants resulting from scientific proposals.
Basic research, applied research and technology development in areas of science and technology which may have military or dual-use application.
Projects are expected to advance the state of the art or result in fundamental change in technology.
Support for scientific symposia, conferences in relevant technology areas, and consortia which deals with relevant technologies.
Programs to encourage careers in science, technology and engineering, and to increase the number of graduates from underrepresented minority groups.
Programs assisting laboratory research instrumentation at universities.
Programs intended to produce fundamentally different approaches to relevant technologies or establish fundamentally new relationships among the parties engaged in technology development.
Potential recipients should note that by DARPA these funds are awarded on project-by-project basis and are not block grants.
The research focus areas are defined in the advertisement of potential research needs (See references to Broad Agency Announcements in Application and Award Process).