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 (VBFF) Program.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0601110D8Z_1_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2022 increase for Minerva.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Biological Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Computer Science
• Department Of Defense
• Education
• Engineered Materials
• Engineering
• Information Science
• Materials
• Materials Science
• Military Capabilities
• Military Education
• National Security
• Quantum Information Science
• Social Sciences
• United States

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Research Science/Academic Research