ONR FY2020 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Program: Sponsor Deadline for White Papers

ONR FY2020 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Program (VBFF)
Sponsor Registration Deadline (required): August 14, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (required): August 16, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): January 17, 2020
Award Information: The maximum award with be $3M over 5 years.

The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) program is sponsored by the Basic Research Office, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD (R&E)). VBFF supports innovative basic research within academia, as well as opportunities intended to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers for the defense workforce. This FOA seeks distinguished researchers for the purpose of conducting innovative basic research in areas of interest to the DoD and fostering long-term relationships between the VBFF Fellows and the DoD. VBFF is oriented towards bold and ambitious “blue sky” research that may lead to extraordinary outcomes such as revolutionizing entire disciplines, creating entirely new fields, or disrupting accepted theories and perspectives. Faculty with tenure and full-time research staff with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to conduct the proposed research as the principal investigator (PI) are invited to submit an application. Applicants should have a record of substantial scientific contributions. The PI must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

This FOA is for single investigator grant proposals for basic research in one or more of the following technical subject categories of interest to the DoD:

• Engineering Biology

• Quantum Information Science

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Novel Engineered Materials

• Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

• Other fields of research with high potential