Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
Funding Agency:
Funding Agency
Department of War
RFP# and Website:
RFP# and Website
Awards:
Awards
The total amount of funding for the five years available for grants resulting from this MURI NOFO is estimated to be approximately $170 million dollars pending out-year appropriations.
Anticipated Funding Amount:
Letter of Intent:
Letter of Intent
Please contact the program director
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:
Preliminary Proposal Deadline:
Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s)
White Papers Due (optional): 20 November 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Full Proposal Submission Deadline:
Full Proposal Submission Deadline
Proposals or Invited Proposals Due: 9 April 2027, 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Contacts:
Contacts
One or more Research Topic Chiefs are identified for each SPECIFIC MURI TOPIC. Questions of a technical nature on a specific topic shall be directed to one of the Research Topic Chiefs identified in Section I entitled “TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS” of this NOFO.
Description
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The MURI program supports basic research in science and engineering at U.S. institutions of higher education (hereafter referred to as "universities") that is of potential interest to DoW. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoW. As defined in the DoW Financial Management Regulation:
Basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind. It includes all scientific study and experimentation directed toward increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding in those fields of the physical, engineering, environmental, and life sciences related to long-term national security needs. It is farsighted high payoff research that provides the basis for technological progress (DoD 7000.14-R, vol. 2B, chap. 5, para. 050105. A.)
DoW’s basic research program invests broadly in many fields to ensure that it has early cognizance of new scientific knowledge.
Detailed descriptions of the topics and the Topic Chief for each can be found in Section I., entitled, “TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS.” The detailed descriptions are intended to provide the Applicant a frame of reference and are not meant to be restrictive to the possible approaches to achieving the goals of the topic and the program. Innovative ideas addressing these research topics are highly encouraged.
Applicants contemplating the use of an individual as Principal Investigator (PI) for more than one proposal and/or topic are strongly encouraged to contact the Topic Chief(s) prior to white paper submission to determine if the Topic Chief(s) support PI participation in multiple proposals and/or topics. Support of the use of a PI over multiple proposals and/or topics is at the discretion of the Topic Chief(s).
PI participation in multiple proposals and/or topics shall be identified in all white paper submissions where the PI is proposed. The white paper should also document the amount of time the PI is available for the project(s) and how the PI will manage their time given the possibility of multiple awards.
Applicants that do not submit white papers, but wish to submit a proposal, shall document PI participation in multiple proposals and/or topics in all proposals where the PI is proposed. The proposal should also document the amount of time the PI is available for the project(s) and how the PI will manage their time given the possibility of multiple awards.