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DEVCOM ARL HBCU/MI Research Partnerships

DEVCOM ARL established the DEVCOM ARL Historically Black College and University/Minority-Serving Institutions Research Partnerships to advance innovative basic research in areas of strategic importance to the Army. The program will provide funding for HBCU/MIs to support basic research focused on partnerships with major DEVCOM ARL research programs, bringing competitively selected HBCU/MI research teams into existing …

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Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

DEVCOM ARL HBCU/MI Early Career Program

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory seeks unclassified research proposals from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) under the DEVCOM ARL BAA to establish an Army HBCU/MI Early Career Program. Proposals must address an Army Research Office topic in the ARL BAA. The program embodies the high priority placed by the government on …

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Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

Foundations of Superconducting Digital Logic (FSDL)

DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS), is soliciting proposals for foundational research in superconducting electronics (SCE).

Target Audience(s):

Academia, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

Advanced Graphic Intelligence Logical Computing Environment (AGILE)

IARPA, in partnership with DEVCOM ARL’s Army Research Office, seeks research and development of innovative, energy-efficient, reliable computer architectures for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC) to implement large-scale data-analytic applications.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

External Sponsor:

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

ARL Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

The Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is a competitive solicitation procedure used to obtain proposals for basic and applied research.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)
6.2 (Applied Research)

Army Center for Synthetic Biology

The Army Center for Synthetic Biology is a basic research program initiated by the Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory. It focuses on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security. It seeks to increase the Army’s intellectual capital in synthetic biology and improve its ability to address future challenges.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

Broad Agency Announcements (BAA)

Collection of DEVCOM ARL’s announcements used to obtain proposals for basic and applied research and the part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)
6.2 (Applied Research)

Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA)

Collaborative Research Alliances (CRAs) are academia-led partnerships which leverage the cutting-edge innovation found in the academic environment. They are partnerships between Army laboratories and centers, industry, and academia that facilitate university- and industry-based research.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, Large Business, Small Business

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Collaborative Partnerships

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)

A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) establishes a cooperative relationship between a federal laboratory and its collaborator(s) for the purpose of advancing research and development and generating new intellectual property (IP).

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, Foreign Business

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Collaborative Partnerships
Technology Transfer

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)
6.2 (Applied Research)

Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR)

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.

Target Audience(s):

Academia

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)

DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation.

Target Audience(s):

Academia

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

External Sponsor:

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E))

Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

The Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative is a tri-service Department of Defense Program, part of the University Research Initiative.

Target Audience(s):

Academia

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

DEVCOM ARL Implementation of Army Futures Command (AFC) Army Research Risk Assessment Protection Program (ARRP)

The DEVCOM ARL implementation of the AFC Army Research Risk Assessment Protection Program (ARRP) is an effort to help identify and mitigate existing or potential risk of Conflicts of Commitment/Conflicts of Interest (CoC/CoI) in Army research grants and cooperative agreements.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Collaborative Partnerships
Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)
6.2 (Applied Research)

DoD Research and Education Program (REP) for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCUs/MIs)

DEVCOM ARL administers the Research and Education Program (REP) for HBCUs/MIs on behalf of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). Under this program, qualifying covered institutions submit proposals to compete for basic research and instrumentation grants.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA)

An Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) establishes an official basis for mutual understanding and cooperation between DEVCOM ARL and the EPA partner to encourage and enhance education and research opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs and disciplines relevant to ARL science and technology programs.

Target Audience(s):

Academia

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Collaborative Partnerships

Entangled Logical Qubits (ELQ)

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), in partnership with DEVCOM ARL, aims to advance the state of the science in universal fault-tolerant quantum computing by demonstrating high-fidelity entanglement between error-corrected logical qubits using a modular architecture.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

External Sponsor:

IARPA

National Security Agency’s Laboratory for Physical Sciences Qubit Collaboratory

The National Security Agency’s Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) in partnership with DEVCOM ARL launched the LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC). The LQC pursues disruptive qubit research, innovative workforce development programs, and deep, collaborative partnerships to tackle some of the hardest open problems in quantum information science and technology.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

External Sponsor:

National Security Agency

Rapid Explanation, Analysis and Sourcing Online (REASON)

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), in partnership with DEVCOM ARL, aims to develop novel technologies that will enable intelligence analysts to substantially improve the evidence and reasoning in draft analytic reports. Intelligence analysts sort through huge amounts of often uncertain and conflicting information as they strive to answer intelligence questions.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)

External Sponsor:

IARPA

Test Services Agreement (TSA)

Department of Defense laboratories may make available to any person or entity (including universities), on a reimbursable basis, laboratory services for the testing of materials, equipment, models, computer software, and other items.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Technology Transfer

University Affiliated Research Center (UARC)

A University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) is a strategic United States Department of Defense (DoD) research program that is associated with a university. UARCs were established to ensure that essential engineering and technology capabilities of particular importance to the DoD are maintained.

Target Audience(s):

Academia

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Collaborative Partnerships

Research Type(s):

6.1 (Basic Research)
6.2 (Applied Research)

xTech

The xTech program, led by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)), manages the Army’s prize competitions to award and accelerate transformative technology solutions that can help solve Army challenges.

Target Audience(s):

Academia, HBCU/MI, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government

Avenue(s) for Collaboration:

Funded Research

External Sponsor:

Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT))