Universities Receive $260 Million in Defense Research Funding

The Defense Department has announced plans to provide 69 academic institutions $260 million over the next five years to perform multidisciplinary basic research. Awards are subject to the successful completion of negotiations between the academic institutions and the research offices that will make the awards: the Army Research Office; the Office of Naval Research; and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The awards are the result of the fiscal year 2009 competition that the offices conducted under the Defense Department's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program.