DoD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) Deadline

DoD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (encouraged): June 1, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 4, 2020
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: September 14, 2020
Award Amount: Typical annual funding per grant is in the $1.25M to $1.5M range. The amount of the award and the number of supported researchers should generally not exceed the limit specified for the individual topics in the solicitation. Each individual award will be for a three-year base period with one two-year option period to bring the total maximum term of the award to five years.

The Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) is sponsored by the DoD research offices, including the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The MURI program supports basic research in science and engineering at U.S. institutions of higher education that is of potential interest to DoD. 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. DOD's MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program 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.

The FY 2021 MURI competition is for the topics listed below:

White papers and proposals addressing the following topics should be submitted to the Office of Naval Research (ONR):

• Topic 1: Molecular Qubits for Synthetic Electronics
• Topic 2: A Brain-based Compositional Framework for Robust Computer Vision
• Topic 3: Littoral Ocean Dynamics off Rocky Coasts and Shorelines
• Topic 4: Fog and Turbulence
• Topic 5: Dynamic Tuning of Thermal Transport
• Topic 6: Chemically and Thermally Insensitive Super/Ultra-Hard Materials
• Topic 7: Narrative, Moral and Social Foundations of Social Cyber-Attack in Social Media
• Topic 8: A Dynamics and Control Theory of Safe, Cognitive and Learning Systems
• Topic 9: Understanding Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions in Non-Equilibrium, High-Speed Flows
• Topic 10: Predicting Organic Molecular Decomposition

White papers and proposals addressing the following topics should be submitted to the Army Research Office (ARO):

• Topic 11: Anomalous Dipole Textures in Engineered Ferroelectric Materials
• Topic 12: Cyber Autonomy through Robust Learning and Effective Human/Bot Teaming
• Topic 13: Highly Heterogeneous Meta-macrostructures Created via Fine-particle Interactions
• Topic 14: Non-Silica Inorganic Material Phases Synthesized from Genetically Modified Diatoms
• Topic 15: Novel Mechanisms of Neuro-Glio Bio-Computation and Reinforcement Learning
• Topic 16: Quantum Network Science
• Topic 17: The Same is Different: Integrating Multiple Phenomena in Single Materials
• Topic 18: Tunable Dilute Anion III-Nitride Nanostructures for Stable Photocatalysis

White papers and proposals addressing the following topics should be submitted to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR):

• Topic 19: Mechanisms of Novel Reactivity in Aqueous Microdroplets
• Topic 20: Topological Plasma Electromagnetics
• Topic 21: Interfacial Engineering of Superconductors
• Topic 22: Targeted Optical Stimulation of Individual Retinal Photoreceptors
• Topic 23: Quantum Random Access Memory
• Topic 24: Metasurface Edge Sensing, Processing and Computing
• Topic 25: Non-Hermitian Programmable Materials at Exceptional Points
• Topic 26: Mathematical Foundations for Enabling Robust Optimal Design of Hypersonic Systems

White papers and proposals addressing the following OSD topic should be submitted to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR):

• Topic 27: Advanced Modeling of Evolutionary Cyber Eco-Systems with Autonomous Intelligence