FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) – RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)
Overview
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The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) – Research Collaboration (RC) opportunity. The program is sponsored and managed by the Basic Research Office, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD [R&E]), awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR),
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- Space & Defense, Other
- Technology
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- Target stage
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- Project duration
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- Estimated preparation
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Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- $200K ~ $600K
- Currency
- USD
- Total programme budget
- $14.4M
- Support type
- Cash
- Co-funding
- None (fully funded)
- Matching fund
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- Disbursement
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- Note
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Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
This funding opportunity aims to create basic research collaborations between a pair of researchers, namely 1) Applicant/Principal Investigator (PI), henceforth referred to as Applicant, a full-time faculty member who has never served as a PI on a prior DoD directly funded research Prime award and 2) Collaborator/co-Principal Investigator (co-PI), henceforth referred to as Collaborator, an investigator who will provide mentorship to the Applicant and has served as a PI on a DoD directly funded research Prime award actively between 1 October 2018 and 30 September 2026. This structure is aimed at introducing potential applicants to the DoD’s unique research challenges and its supportive research ecosystem. Tenured or tenure-track faculty members with appointments at IHE, in the following States/Territories are eligible to apply for DEPSCoR opportunities under this announcement: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming see eligibility table in III A.
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Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
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- Local entity
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- Location condition
- A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.
Required Documents
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Application Process
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Evaluation
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Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
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Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
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- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
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- IP ownership
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- Deliverable ownership
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- Exclusivity
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- Right of first refusal
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- Audit & settlement
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- Bayh-Dole government licence
US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.
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Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
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IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
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AI Analysis
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Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
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Source & Provenance
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- Application URL
- https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363526
- Last fetched
- 2026.08.17
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.17
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
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