The Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MSI), funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research, Technology, and Laboratories) (OUSD(R&E)/RT&L), will be administered through the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
The Army has a long history of supporting research and education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions. DoD, through the CCDC Army Research Laboratory, as the Army's corporate laboratory, is leading new initiatives for HBCU/MSIm which directs DoD to provide assistance to HBCUs and MSIs to assist DoD in defense-related research, development, testing and evaluation activities.
The DoD and the Nation need the best scientists and engineers to sustain defense capabilities, and recognize that this can only be accomplished through partnerships with, and support of, Institutions of Higher Education (IHE). The DoD will address this need by supporting innovative research and education programs that encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), particularly at covered educational institutions.
The CCDC ARL invites applications from covered educational institutions for research and education programs that will meet the following objectives:
- Enhance research and engineering capabilities in areas important to national defense;
- Increase the number of graduates in STEM disciplines; and
- Encourage research and education collaborations with other institutions of higher education and with defense organizations.
Support for research, development, testing, evaluation, or educational enhancements will be through the competitive awarding of grants or cooperative agreements. Applications should reflect the unique needs and capabilities of an institution and should describe the institution's area of emphasis and how their proposed project will support the objectives identified above.
The top DoD research and engineering activities intended to modernize DoD's key capabilities and support the NDS are:
- Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning
- Autonomy
- Bioscience
- Biotechnology
- Cyber
- Data Analytics
- Directed Energy
- Fully Networked Command, Control and Communications (FNC3)
- Hypersonics
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Microelectronics
- Quantum Science
- Space
An applicant is encouraged to consider innovative approaches for their research projects with a view toward enhancing the ability of their institution to develop stronger science and engineering programs that will enable the institution to participate more competitively in a variety of defense research programs and attract and retain good students by exposing them to state-of-the-art research, encouraging them to pursue careers in STEM disciplines.
None is available.