FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) CAPACITY BUILDING (CB)
Funds multi-year defense-relevant research at universities in states that get little competitive DoD research funding.
Most competitive Department of Defense research money concentrates in a small number of states. DEPSCoR exists to grow research capability in the ones left out, and Capacity Building is the plain institutional-grant half of that programme.
The goal, in the notice's own words, is growing the number of university researchers in eligible states and territories who can do defense-relevant science and…
Multi-year science and engineering research responsive to Department of Defense needs, open only to institutions of higher education physically located in named under-represented U.S. states and territories.
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