Department of Defense (DoD)

The Office of Naval Research’s Software and Cyberspace Information Assurance program is interested in receiving proposals for basic scientific research that will forge major advancements in software and systems research. It will lead to new insights and understanding of software producibility, systems engineering, and trust in cyberspace. It will address new and emerging challenges for the extended naval information infrastructure, which by 2020 is expected to be a highly mobile, extremely heterogeneous, globally connected, very widely dispersed, partly trusted, federated enterprise environment. The two basic research areas are broadly defined and address fundamental issues in software, motivated by cyberspace, trust and producibility. Visit http://www.fbo.gov for more information.

The Air Force Research Laboratory Rome Research Site is soliciting white papers for innovative research in Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT) Technology Development. The announcement seeks significant advances in collection, processing, exploitation, dissemination, and information fusion in the six MASINT subdisciplines, including simulation and modeling of such systems. The subdisciplines include: Electro-Optical technologies; Radar technologies; Nuclear technologies; Materials technologies, Radio Frequency Seek technologies; and Geophysical research. Total funding for FY10 is $10 million. Only domestic entities may serve as prime contractors for research funding under this announcement. White paper responses are due before May 1, 2009. More information regarding BAA-05-09-IFKA is available at: http://www.fbo.gov

DARPA invites proposals for R&D in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics under the Young Faculty Award program. This program provides high-impact funding to rising stars early in their careers in order to develop their research ideas in the context of DoD needs. High-risk/high-payoff ideas are strongly encouraged. Multiple awards of up to $300,000 each are anticipated. Eligibility is restricted to untenured Assistant or Associate Professors within six years of appointment to a tenure-track position at a U.S. institution of higher learning. Full proposals are due Feb. 16, 2009. More information regarding DARPA- RA-09-14 is available at: http://www.darpa.mil/MTO/solicitations/ra09-14/index.html