FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) - RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)
Funds a first-time faculty investigator paired with an experienced DoD-funded mentor on defense-relevant research.
DEPSCoR's other half is about mentorship rather than plain institutional funding, and it pairs two specific people rather than just funding an institution.
One side is the applicant: a full-time faculty member who has never been the principal investigator on a prior DoD directly-funded research award. The other is the collaborator: an investigator who has been a PI on a DoD award active sometime …
A paired research collaboration between a first-time DoD-funded principal investigator and an experienced DoD-funded mentor, in science and engineering research responsive to Department of Defense needs, restricted to tenured or tenure-track faculty at institutions of higher education in named under-represented U.S. states and territories.
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