Human, Social, Cultural and Behavioral Sciences basic research, applied research and advanced

Post Date

December 8th 2008

Application Due Date

January 15th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

ONRBAA08-025

CFDA Number(s)

12.300

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

All responsible sources from academia and industry may submit proposals under this BAA. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions (MIs) are encouraged to submit proposals and join others in submitting proposals. 11 However, no portion of this BAA will be set aside for HBCU and MI participation. Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDCs), including Department of Energy National Laboratories, are not eligible to receive awards under this BAA. However, teaming arrangements between FFRDCs and eligible principal bidders are allowed so long as they are permitted under the sponsoring agreement between the Government and the specific FFRDC. Navy laboratories and warfare centers as well as other Department of Defense and civilian agency laboratories are also not eligible to receive awards under this BAA and should not directly submit either white papers or full proposals in response to this BAA.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

Science and technology investment in human, social, cultural and behavioral (HSCB) sciences is focused on building capability through the development of a knowledge base, building models, and creating training capacity in order to understand, predict, and shape human behavior cross-culturally. The need to understand the motivations and influences underlying adversarial behavior, behavior of contested populations, and populations with whom US Forces have not yet interacted, how they vary cross-culturally, and what is innately human behavior that extends across cultural boundaries is required at all levels of military operations. An understanding of these motivations and influences will be gleaned from inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches that draw on approaches and methods from a wide range of social and human/behavioral sciences including (but not exclusively) anthropology, sociology, linguistics, political science, theology, economics, history, criminology, psychology, cognitive sciences, genetics, mathematics, statistics and neuroscience. Understanding how these influences are exerted, through media, community, schools, familial ties, etc. is important.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Defense

• Office:

  Office of Naval Research

• Agency Contact:

  Kristin Fuller
  Contract Specialist
  703.696-4591

• Agency Mailing Address:

  grants.gov questions

• Agency Email Address:

  fullerk@onr.navy.mil

• More Information:

  Link to all ONR BAA's