US Army Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) Foundational Science Research Unit (FSRU: Basic Scientific Research 2016 BAA

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Foundational Science Research Unit (FSRU) of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) solicits new proposals for its fiscal year 2016 program of basic research in behavioral science. ARI has identified the following six domains as particularly germane to its basic research needs: 

1. Learning in Formal and Informal Environments
2. Leader Development
3. Personnel Testing and Performance
4. Organizational Effectiveness
5. Socio-Cultural Capabilities
6. Psychophysiology of Individual Differences

This list is neither comprehensive nor exclusive and ARI is especially open to proposals that combine or cut across these domains.

The funding opportunity is divided into two types of proposals for basic research:

(1) Standard Basic Research proposals and

(2) Early Career Basic Research proposals.

Funding: No fixed limit (median grant in recent years $556,000)

Duration: 2-3 years (early career: 1 year)

White paper (encouraged) due date: 11.3.16

Full proposal due date: 6.5.16