Opportunities for 6.1
6.1 (Basic Research)
ARO Core Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCUs/MIs) Program
The DEVCOM ARL Army Research Office Core Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) program funds research performed by HBCU and MI institutions and principal investigators at those institutions that are often new to ARO or to specific research programs within the ARL foundational research competencies. The program offers co-funding to technical points of contact (TPOCs) to expand and diversify the research performer base, while broadening communities of interest and practice within the ARL competencies. Each year, new research proposals are considered for funding with TPOCs recommending top proposals through the associated competency.
Target Audience(s):
AcademiaDEVCOM 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 Army Futures Command (AFC) Collaborative Research Alliances (CRAs), Collaborative Technology Alliances (CTAs), and research centers.
Target Audience(s):
AcademiaDEVCOM 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 maintaining the leadership position of the United States in science by producing outstanding scientists and engineers and nurturing their continued development.
Target Audience(s):
Academia
External Sponsor:
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)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):
AcademiaDefense 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
External Sponsor:
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E))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, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign GovernmentDoD 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):
AcademiaNational 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, Large Business, Small Business, U.S. Government, Foreign Business, Foreign Government
External Sponsor:
National Security AgencySmall Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), in partnership with DEVCOM ARL, seeks research and development of innovative, energy-efficient, reliable computer architectures for the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community to implement large-scale data-analytic applications, as well as other classes of large problems.
Target Audience(s):
Small Business
External Sponsor:
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)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.