FY2020 ONR Young Investigator Program: Sponsor Deadline

FY2020 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
FAS/OSP Deadline: August 7, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: August 16, 2019
Award Information: Applicants may request up to $170,000 per year for 3 years. Additional funding may be requested as an option (under the 36-month period) up to $250,000 to cover equipment costs, testing, ship time, etc.

The objectives of the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR's) Young Investigator Program (YIP) are to attract outstanding faculty members of Institutions of Higher Education to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Proposals addressing research areas (as described in the ONR Science and Technology Department section of ONR's website at www.onr.navy.mil) which are of interest to ONR program officers will be considered. Contact information for each division (a subgroup of an S&T Department) is also listed within the S&T section of the website. Applicants are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to contact the appropriate Program Officer who is the point of contact for a specific technical area to discuss their research ideas. A list of most Program Officers and their contact information can be found at: https://www.onr.navy.mil/our-research/technology-areas or at: https://www.onr.navy.mil/our-research/our-program-managers. Brief informal pre-proposals may be submitted to facilitate these discussions but are not required.

The ONR YIP seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2012, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The Principal Investigator of a proposal must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident (on the date proposals are due). The ONR YIP is a single principal investigator (PI) award. Co-principal investigators (Co-PIs) are not allowed. Upon completion of the award period, individuals may apply for continued support under ONR's Long Range BAA.

Recent recipients include Na Li (SEAS, 2019), Jarad Mason (CCB, 2019), and Adam Cohen (CCB, 2009).