FederalOpenFixed dateAir Force Office of Scientific Research

FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) – RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)

Award ceiling
$200,000 – $600,000
Closes
Apr 5, 2027
Last verified
2026-10-23

Awards $200,000 – $600,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Apr 5, 2027.

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

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FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) – RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC) awards $200,000 – $600,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification) in AK, AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GU, HI, IA, ID, KS, KY,…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$14,400,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$600,000
Award floor
$200,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Apr 5, 2027
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 10, 2026
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
AK · AL · AR · CT · DC · DE · GU · HI · IA · ID · KS · KY · LA · ME · MN · MO · MS · MT · ND · NE · NH · NJ · NM · NV · OK · OR · PR · RI · SC · SD · TN · VI · VT · WI · WV · WY
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
science and engineering (S&E) research responsive to the needs of the DoD
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
$14,400,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$600,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
state
AK, AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GU, HI, IA, ID
+26more, KS, KY, LA, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, VI, VT, WI, WV, WY
Source field: states
industry
use
science and engineering (S&E) research responsive to the needs of the DoD
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

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…

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When does it close?

Apr 5, 2027164 daysDeadline type Fixed date
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What can the money be used for?

1 categoryThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
science and engineering (S&E) research responsive to the needs of the DoD

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

What comparable notices state

135 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 135 of 331 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$417,500
  • Median$1,200,000
  • 75th percentile$5,471,747

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?

3313 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

3313 federal awards on file under assistance listing 12.431, 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

7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$200,000 – $600,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$14,400,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Apr 5, 2027.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
Which locations are eligible?
AK, AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GU, HI, IA, ID, KS, KY, LA, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, VI, VT, WI, WV, WY.
What can the funding be used for?
science and engineering (S&E) research responsive to the needs of the DoD, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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What else is open

Also open from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Also open under assistance listing 12.431

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-23
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-03
Assistance listing12.431

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