FY 2020 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP) | N00014 19 S F007

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The FY 2020 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) is a Department of Defense (DoD) grant opportunity designed to help universities buy major research equipment and instrumentation that directly supports research programs aligned with DoD priorities. The program is administered through the DoD basic research offices, specifically the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). In practical terms, DURIP is not primarily about funding a new research project from scratch; it is about strengthening a university's research capabilities by paying for high-value instruments that enable or significantly improve ongoing or planned research relevant to national defense needs.

A central emphasis of DURIP is the educational impact of research instrumentation. Proposals are expected to go beyond listing technical specifications and instead make a clear case for how the requested equipment will enhance research-based education and workforce development in fields important to DoD missions. That means an applicant should explain how students (undergraduate, graduate, and/or postdoctoral researchers) will be trained on the instrument, what kinds of research experiences it will enable, and how it will improve the institution's ability to educate scientists and engineers through hands-on participation in DoD-relevant research. The DoD is explicitly looking for the connection between equipment access and the training pipeline that produces future researchers and technical professionals in critical disciplines.

The research areas considered responsive to this opportunity are those that match the published interests and technical goals of ARO, ONR, and AFOSR. Rather than providing a single consolidated topic list in the announcement itself, the program points applicants to the agencies' websites for the most current and detailed descriptions of priority research areas and objectives. This structure signals that the burden is on the applicant to demonstrate fit: a strong proposal should map the instrument's intended use to specific DoD research interests and explain how the instrument will help generate capabilities, data, experiments, prototypes, or measurements that matter to those goals.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary, science and technology / research and development grant opportunity with CFDA number 12.300. The funding opportunity is issued by the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, under Funding Opportunity Number N00014-19-S-F007. The announcement was created on February 20, 2019, with an original closing date of May 17, 2019, and it anticipated making approximately 99 awards. The listed award ceiling is shown as 0 in the source data, which usually indicates the ceiling was not specified in that field and applicants would need to consult the full announcement for typical award sizes, allowable costs, and any practical limits on instrument budgets.

Eligibility is framed around universities, but the listing also notes "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," meaning prospective applicants should verify institutional eligibility details in the full solicitation materials. Overall, DURIP is best understood as a competitive equipment program: universities submit proposals requesting funding to purchase specific instrumentation, justify why it is necessary, show how it supports DoD-relevant research, and explain how it will expand research training and education in disciplines tied to defense priorities.

• The Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2020 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.300.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 20, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 17, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 99 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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