3:44 p.m.
Dear Faculty,
Please review the grant opportunity below. If you are interested, please let us know.
Thanks,
Juliet
From: Kirstin Wilsey
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:38 AM
To: Jennifer Silver; Juliet Ray; Jean Cody
Subject: FW: [Minerva] Announcing the 2013 Minerva Research Initiative solicitation
Sorry if I already sent this - but it looks like a great opportunity so if I haven't I
wanted to share.
Thanks,
K
From: Fitzgerald, Erin CIV OSD OUSD ATL (US) [mailto:erin.fitzgerald1.civ@mail.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:32 PM
Cc: Staffin, Robin SES OSD OUSD ATL (US); Hawkins, Harold L CIV (US); Estabrooke, Ivy V
CIV (US); Benjamin.Knott@wpafb.af.mil<mailto:Benjamin.Knott@wpafb.af.mil>; Lavery,
John E CIV (US); Laborde, Kent P CIV (US)
Subject: [Minerva] Announcing the 2013 Minerva Research Initiative solicitation
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is pleased to announce that the FY14 Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) -- seeking proposals for 2014 Minerva Research Initiative awards -- has
been released!
Download
here<http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=ONRB...
(Please make sure you download the most current version; amendments may be released in the
course of this process.)
Minerva is a university-based social science basic research program initiated by the
Department of Defense in 2008 to improve our fundamental understanding of the social and
cultural forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S.
Minerva is jointly run by OSD-Policy and OSD(ATL) Research and Engineering. As always,
selection and execution of new awards will be conducted in partnership with the Army
Research Office, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval
Research.
White papers and full proposals are solicited which propose basic research in the
following four topics / twelve subtopics listed below. The detailed descriptions of each
are intended to provide the proposer a frame of reference and are not meant to be
restrictive. Topics are not mutually exclusive and proposals may consider issues relating
to questions, scope, or regions beyond those listed.
(1) Belief Propagation and Movements for Change
(1-A) Belief formation and influence
(1-B) Group identities, cultural norms, and security
(1-C) Mobilization for change
(1-D) The structural dynamics of disruptive organizations
(2) Models of Societal Resilience and Change
(2-A) Economic contributors to stability
(2-B) Governance contributors to stability
(2-B) Energy, environment, and resource contributors to stability
(2-C) Additional factors impacting societal resilience and stability
(3) Theories of Power and Escalation
(3-A) The changing role of the state in a globalizing world
(3-B) Beyond conventional deterrence
(4) Emerging Topics in Conflict and Security
(4-A) Quantification and metrics
(4-B) Additional topics
Proposals will be considered both for single-investigator awards as well as larger,
multidisciplinary and multi-institution teams. This competition is open to institutions of
higher education (universities), including DoD institutions of higher education and
foreign universities. Non-profit institutions and commercial entities are also eligible to
compete as collaborators on university-led proposals. In 2013 fourteen university-led
projects ranging in size from $200K to $1M were awarded Minerva grants, with research just
begun or about to begin. We look forward to a new cohort of interesting and important
basic research efforts to begin in Fall 2014.
Scheduled deadlines:
- White Papers: Monday, November 18, 2013 by 3:00 PM EST
- Full Proposals: Friday, February 14, 2014 by 3:00 PM EST
Visit http://minerva.dtic.mil often for any updates to the FY14 Minerva Research
Initiative BAA and for answers to frequently asked questions, as well as links to ongoing
Minerva research efforts.
Please distribute broadly.
--
Erin Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
Program Director, Minerva Research Initiative
ASD(R&E) Basic Research
http://minerva.dtic.mil<http://minerva.dtic.mil/>
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