Basic Research Initiatives
Abstract
Basic research provides the Department of Defense (DoD) with a deep and broad awareness of current directions in areas of research important to U.S. military capabilities – including physics and the physical sciences, materials science, chemistry and chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, mechanical and aerodynamic engineering, ocean sciences, biological sciences, and the social sciences, among others. Basic research sustains scientific and engineering communities as it generates the critical technical knowledge underpinnings of DoD capabilities. Basic research allows exploration and discovery, yielding disruptive non-incremental advances that can improve or radically change military capabilities, strategy, and operations. The Basic Research Initiatives program element (PE) supports the defense basic research enterprise in three critical areas: Strategic Support for Basic Research (SSBR), the Minerva Research Initiative (MRI), and the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Program (VBFF).
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 0601110D8Z_1_0400_PB_2021
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2021 internal program adjustments will support the Laboratory University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI) executed under Project 010. Internal program adjustments are consistent with higher priority DoD requirements. Defense-Wide Review: The FY 2021 funding request was reduced by $12.947 million during DWR to account for the end of the Minerva Research Initiative in FY 2021.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
Related Documents
- Child Project: Basic Research Initiatives
- Child Accomplishment: Strategic Support for Basic Research (SSBR)
- Child Accomplishment: Minerva Research Initiative
- Child Project: Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
- Child Accomplishment: Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Program