Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) W911NF-18-S-0001 for the Foundational Science Research Unit of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) solicits new proposals for its fiscal year 2018 program of basic research in behavioral science. The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is the Army lead agency for the conduct of research, development, and analyses for the improvement of Army readiness and performance via research advances and applications of the behavioral and social sciences that address personnel, organization, training, and leader development issues. The basic research program supports research projects that are designed to expand fundamental knowledge and discover general principles in behavioral and social sciences.
A key consideration in the decision to support a research proposal is that its findings are likely to stimulate new, basic behavioral research which, in turn, will lead to improved performance of Army personnel and their units. Proposals may address both traditional behavioral issues as well as psychophysiological (to include neuroscience) and network science approaches to social phenomena, memory, cognition, and personality. ARI will not support proposals through this BAA that are primarily applied research projects (e.g., human factors studies or training program evaluations) or purely focused on physiology, psychopathology, or behavioral health.
Interested offerors are encouraged to submit white papers prior to submitting proposals.
The full research announcement and application instructions for both white papers and proposals may be viewed at grants.gov under opportunity number W911NF-18-S-0001.
White paper submissions due by April 4, 2018.
Full proposal submissions due by June 15, 2018.
Research topic areas of interest include the domains listed below (see the BAA p. 8, available here, for more information):
- Personnel Testing and performance
- Leader Development
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Learning in Formal and Informal Environments
- Culture