Welcome to Science and Technology Foundations

Our  Vision:

Foster innovation and scientific and technological dominance across the Department of Defense, with our domestic partnerships and international alliances, and through excellent S&T workforce today and tomorrow

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Our  Mission: 

Sustain U.S. scientific and technological superiority to enable unquestioned battlefield dominance

 

About Us

The Office of Science and Technology (S&T) Foundations fosters an innovation-driven defense enterprise through leading-edge research programs, stewardship of laboratories and research institutions, development of a superior science and engineering workforce, engagement with industry, academia, and other Government agencies, and cooperation with international allies and partners. To preserve the Department’s unrivaled technical expertise, the Director of S&T Foundations advocates for the DoD laboratories and engineering centers, Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories (STRLs), federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), and university affiliated research centers (UARCs) and leads Department-wide STEM education and outreach and workforce development initiatives. The office is a proponent of basic research, small business engagement, and rapid innovation, while focusing its S&T priorities directly on military modernization as the United States competes to maintain its long-held technological dominance.

Announcements

DOD Awards $161 Million to Universities to Purchase Equipment Supporting Defense-Relevant Research

The Department of Defense today announced awards totaling $161 million to 281 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. The grants will support the purchase of major equipment to augment current and develop new research capabilities relevant to the Department at 120 institutions across 39 states in fiscal year 2024.  

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DOD Invests $40 Million to Establish Research Centers of Excellence at Minority-serving Institutions

The Department of Defense today announced the establishment of four new research centers of excellence at minority-serving institutions of higher education, as part of its Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-serving Institutions Research and Education Program.

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DOD Announces 2023 Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative Fellows

LUCI fellows are accomplished researchers within defense laboratories who seek to collaborate with prominent DOD-funded academic researchers – either recipients of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship or principal/co-principal investigators under the 

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The DOD Selects 2023-2024 Minerva-USIP Peace and Security Dissertation Fellows

The Department of Defense today announced the 21 awardees of the 2023-2024 Minerva-U.S. Institute of Peace’s “Peace and Security Dissertation Fellowship,” providing fellowships of up to $20,000 to doctoral candidates who show great potential to advance policy and practice in the peacebuilding and security fields.

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