Basic Research Challenge

Submission date for FY 2009 challenge has passed. 
Broad agency announcement 09-017 is available for information purposes only.

The ONR Basic Research Challenge (BRC) program was established to competitively select and fund promising research programs in new areas not addressed by the current basic research program. The program stimulates new, high-risk basic research projects in multidisciplinary and departmental collaborative efforts, and funds topics that foster leading edge science and attract new principal investigators and organizations. Basic Research Challenge awards are for a period of four years. Topics are submitted by ONR program officers and are selected for BRC awards by ONR's director of research. Basic Research Challenge award topics are then issued as a broad agency announcement.

FY09 Selected Topics:

• DNA-Based Molecular-Scale Nanofabrication
• Elastomeric Polymer-by-Design to Protect the Warfighter against Traumatic Brain Injury by Diverting the Blast Induced Shock Waves from the Head
• Irreducible Uncertainty and the Limits of Predictability