Basic Research Initiatives
Abstract
The Basic Research Initiatives project, Project Code 010, includes Strategic Support for Basic Research (SSBR) and the Minerva Research Initiative. SSBR supports oversight, policies, and initiatives to create conditions that allow defense basic research investments to produce high-payoff, transformative scientific breakthroughs for the Department, which can open new approaches of technology dominance and mastery of new domains of warfare. SSBR initiatives support the five Basic Research Office strategic goals: (1) support the modernization priorities set by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD); (2) coordinate and conduct oversight of DoD basic research programs; (3) improve the science and engineering workforce and public outreach; (4) enhance university-industry collaboration; and (5) engage with the academic research community and international partners. The Minerva Research Initiative, a DoD basic research program in the social sciences directed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), funded in partnership with Air Force and Navy University Research Initiatives and executed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), seeks to build a fundamental understanding of the sources of present and future conflict. FY 2020 was the last year of funding requested for the Minerva Research Initiative in this Project Code. In FY 2021, the program received a $17.000 million Congressional increase in support of Minerva efforts. Beginning in FY 2022, Minerva efforts will be funded under separate Project Code 016.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 010_0601110D8Z_1_0400_PB_2023
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