FUNDING-Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) – ARMY; June 29, 2018

 

Federal Awarding Agency Names

Office of Naval Research

One Liberty Center

875 N. Randolph Street

Arlington, VA 22203-1995

 

Army Research Office

800 Park Office Drive

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

 

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

875 North Randolph Street

Arlington, VA 22203

 

·         ONR Announcement  N00014-18-S-F006

·         ARO Announcement W911NF18S0003

·         AFOSR Announcement FOA-AFRL-AFOSR-2018-0001

 

Due: White papers due June 29, 2018; full proposals due October 16, 2018

                                               

Purpose: The Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program (MURI) addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program was initiated over 25 years ago and it has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies. Key to the program’s success is the close management of the MURI projects by Service program officers and their active role in providing research guidance. Detailed descriptions of the topics and the Topic Chief for each can be found in Section VIII of this FOA. The detailed descriptions are intended to provide the applicant a frame of reference and are not meant to be restrictive to the possible approaches to achieving the goals of the topic and the program. Innovative ideas addressing these research topics are highly encouraged.

 

The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. Proposals from a team of university investigators are warranted when the necessary expertise in addressing the multiple facets of the topics may reside in different universities, or in different departments in the same university. By supporting multidisciplinary teams, the program is complementary to other DoD basic research programs that support university research through single-investigator awards. Proposals shall name one Principal Investigator (PI) as the responsible technical point of contact. Similarly, one institution shall be the primary awardee for the purpose of award execution. The PI shall come from the primary institution. The relationship among participating institutions and their respective roles, as well as the apportionment of funds including sub-awards, if any, shall be described in both the proposal text and the budget. Typical annual funding per grant is in the $1.25M to $1.5M range.