The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced plans to award research grants to universities totaling more than $150 million.
The DoD will issue 30 basic research grants to 20 universities totaling about $13.5 million in fiscal year 2006 and about $30.2 million per year starting in fiscal year 2007 for a total of $150.6 million over five years.
The MURI program is designed to address large multidisciplinary topic areas representing exceptional opportunities for future DoD applications and technology options. The awards will provide long-term support for research, graduate students and laboratory instrumentation development that supports specific science and engineering research themes vital to national defense.
This announcement is the result of a rigorous competition over many months under the MURI program. After a thorough evaluation of 143 proposals, DoD technical expert teams selected 30 of these proposals for funding.
Some of the recognized work included Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s silicon-based lasers and nanophotonics proposal and University of California-Santa Barbara’s proposal on multifunctional EMO (Electrical, Magnetic and Optical) chips.
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