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The Department of Defense (DoD) provides funding for the Multidisciplinary
Research Program, one element of the University Research Initiative (URI).
The URI is a DoD initiative with the goal of enhancing the capabilities of
universities to perform basic research (and related education) in science
and engineering fields critical to national defense.
The Multidisciplinary Research Program of the URI, or MURI, supports
university teams whose research efforts intersect more than one traditional
science and engineering discipline. The DoD believes that multidisciplinary
team efforts can accelerate research progress through synergy and
cross-fertilization of ideas. Such team efforts also can help to hasten the
transfer of basic research findings to practical applications. By supporting
team efforts, MURI complements other DoD programs that support university
research through single-investigator awards.
The DoD expects MURI programs to focus on basic research in science and
engineering that will eventually lead to applications for defense purposes
primarily, but also for commercial purposes. Therefore, cooperative linkages
with research and development institutions outside the MURI team that apply
research findings to practical use are important. Such institutions include
U.S. industry, federal laboratories, and DoD organizations that perform
research and development for defense applications.
Examples of cooperative linkages outside the MURI team include collaboration
in the performance of the proposed research, exchange of scientific and
engineering personnel, and exchange of technical information. Such
interactions are likely to positively impact research outcomes and the
development of practical applications, and broadly contribute to the goals
of the MURI program.
All MURI awards are made on behalf of the Research Office of the Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Science & Technology, DUSD(S&T). This
occurs under the supervision of Research Topic Chiefs from four agencies: the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO),
the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). For more information please visit the
DUSD(S&T) website.
This MURI is being supervised by AFOSR. Other Air Force basic research
funding opportunities can be found at the
AFOSR website.
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