Department of Defense (DoD)

The Department of Defense support research grants through its multiple agencies. DoD’s main research and engineering websites: https://rt.cto.mil & https://ac.cto.mil have links to various agencies. Of particular interest to Social Scientists is the Minerva Initiative and to Psychology researchers is CDMRP, detailed below.

• Find any government agency grant, including DoD, via the grants.gov website.

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Know Your Agency
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Army Research Office (ARO)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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• The Minerva Initiative is a Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored, university-based social science research. The goal of the Minerva Initiative is to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S. The research program will:  Leverage and focus the resources of the Nation’s top universities;  Seek to define and develop foundational knowledge about sources of present and future conflict with an eye toward better understanding of the political trajectories of key regions of the world; Improve the ability of DoD to develop cutting-edge social science research, foreign area and interdisciplinary studies, that is developed and vetted by the best scholars in these fields.
• Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) The CDMRP fills research gaps by funding high impact, high risk and high gain projects that other agencies may not venture to fund. While individual programs are unique in their focus, all CDMRP programs share the common goal of advancing paradigm shifting research, solutions that will lead to cures or improvements in patient care, or breakthrough technologies and resources for clinical benefit. The CDMRP strives to find and fund the best research for the benefit of the American public, military personnel, and their families.  Funding opportunities focus varies yearly.  Current funding opportunities are found at http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/default.shtml
  • Due to the current Continuing Resolution, the Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) Defense Appropriations bill has not been passed. Although funds have not been appropriated for the peer reviewed programs managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), CDMRP is providing information to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY17 funding opportunities.  Subsequent notifications will be sent when the program announcements/funding opportunities are released.

Know Your Agency: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP)