Defense Security Cooperation University - Research Grants

Award ceiling
$2,500 – $800,000
Closes
Aug 7, 2028
Last verified
2026-09-07

Awards $2,500 – $800,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Aug 7, 2028.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Science, Technology, Research & Development

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Defense Security Cooperation University - Research Grants awards $2,500 – $800,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Aug 7, 2028.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$800,000
Award floor
$2,500
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Aug 7, 2028
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 8, 2023
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
evidence-, theory, and data-building activities that contribute to the body of knowledge on security cooperation or irregular warfare
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$800,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
industry
use
evidence-, theory, and data-building activities that contribute to the body of knowledge on security cooperation or irregular warfare
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Young Institute: open to individual researchers or research teams with or without an affiliation; professional military education (PME) and civilian academic institutions; U.S. and international research and think thank institutions;…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Aug 7, 2028699 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

1 category
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
evidence-, theory, and data-building activities that contribute to the body of knowledge on security cooperation or irregular warfare

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

Who has received this funding?

21 awards
Awards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.

21 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
CALIFORNIA MILITARY DEPARTMENTNot stated$5,018,9322025
CLEMSON UNIVERSITYNot stated$584,4402024
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL (UK)Not stated$580,0002025
AMERICAN UNIVERSITYNot stated$465,0892025
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEENot stated$397,8482024
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES - U.S. (THE)Not stated$387,3882025
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIESNot stated$384,6162025
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INCNot stated$308,9732024
ROBERT RALSTON FOXCURRANNot stated$283,0942024
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLINNot stated$237,2992025
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYNot stated$235,9452024
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INCNot stated$226,1762025
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITYNot stated$218,2522025
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCNot stated$201,1792024
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)Not stated$189,9222025
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNot stated$162,1352024
DELPHI GLOBAL RESEARCH CENTER INCNot stated$154,0002025
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITYNot stated$140,9002025
NWC FOUNDATIONNot stated$130,0002025
EMORY UNIVERSITYNot stated$108,9482025
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNot stated$98,6452024

Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.

What comparable notices state

113 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 113 of 353 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$500,000
  • Median$1,500,000
  • 75th percentile$5,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

21 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

21 federal awards on file under assistance listing 12.024, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

6 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$2,500 – $800,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Aug 7, 2028.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?
evidence-, theory, and data-building activities that contribute to the body of knowledge on security cooperation or irregular warfare, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
Has this programme funded anyone before?
21 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Washington Headquarters Services. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.

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Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-07
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02

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