AFRL/AFOSR Center of Excellence — FOAs
Funds sustained university center partnerships with the United States defense research community.
The AFRL/AFOSR Center of Excellence (CoE) programme funds multi-year, multi-investigator collaborative basic research between outstanding U.S. universities and an Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate. Each CoE is a three-way partnership involving AFOSR, a specific AFRL Technology Directorate (TD), and a university or consortium of universities selected through a competitive Funding…
Topic-driven by AFRL Technology Directorates; annual selection posted as FOAs on Grants.gov.
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