Closed · HQ003422NFOEASD04 · CFDA 12.431 · Discretionary
Minerva Research Initiative’s (Minerva) Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership
Federal grant opportunity posted by Washington Headquarters Services, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $200K-$200K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- November 29, 2022
- Close date
- 6
- Expected awards
The verdict
Minerva Research Initiative’s (Minerva) Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership is a closed discretionary listing from Washington Headquarters Services that offered $200,000 -- $200,000 across 6 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- $200K-$200K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 6
- expected awards
- 12.431
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Minerva Research Initiative’s (Minerva) Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership - is cataloged under number HQ003422NFOEASD04 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 12.431, posted by Washington Headquarters Services. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on July 6, 2022 and last updated on October 28, 2022. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a grant.
Award economics. The award range on file is $200,000 -- $200,000. The agency has projected $2.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 6 awards. If the agency funds the expected 6 awards from the $2.0 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $333,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on November 29, 2022. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
$200,000 -- $200,000
Close Date
November 29, 2022
Posted
July 6, 2022
Est. Total Funding
$2,000,000
Expected Awards
6
Instrument
Grant
Description
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is interested in receiving applications for Minerva’s DECUR Partnership. The DECUR Partnership aims to develop collaborative basic research partnerships between PME Institutions and Civilian Research Universities by supporting fundamental scientific research that improves the capacity of security-related basic social science research and education. Building upon the success of Minerva’s university research awards, the DECUR Partnership aims to pair civilian university researchers with PME faculty to facilitate collaborative research in the fundamental understanding of the social and cultural forces shaping U.S. strategic interests globally. OSD is particularly interested in projects that align with and support the upcoming 2022 National Defense Strategy. Minerva emphasizes questions of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy, and the DECUR partnership aims to increase the Department’s intellectual capital in the social sciences and improve its ability to address future challenges and build bridges between the Department and the social science community. Minerva brings together universities and other research institutions around the world and supports multidisciplinary and cross-institutional projects addressing specific interest areas determined by the Department of Defense. The Minerva program aims to promote research in specific areas of social science and to promote a candid and constructive relationship between DoD and the social science academic community. The Minerva Research Initiative competition is for research related to nine (9) topics listed below. Innovative white papers and applications related to these research areas are highly encouraged. Detailed descriptions of the interest areas—which are intended to provide a frame of reference and are not meant to be restrictive—can be found in Section XI.C of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) document, “Specific Minerva Research Initiative Topics.” Topic 1: Social Implications of Environmental Change Topic 2: Resource Competition, Social Cohesion, and Strategic Climate Resilience Topic 3: Security Risks in Ungoverned, Semi-Governed, and Differently-Governed Spaces Topic 4: Analysis of Foreign Influence Operations in Cross-Cultural Perspective Topic 5: Community Studies on Online and Offline Influence Topic 6: Computational Social Science Research on Difficult-to-Access Environments Topic 7: Social and Cultural Implications of Artificial Intelligence Topic 8: Humans and Outer Space Topic 9: Management and Information in the Defense Environment For complete information related to this NFO, please see the Related Documents Tab. For any questions regarding this NFO, please contact Dr. Fiona Butcher, OUSD(R&E): fiona.d.butcher.fn@mail.mil.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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Jonathan Bertsch
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