Department of Defense (DOD)
Total Recovery Act funding
Approximately $7.4 billion in defense-related appropriations.
Funding opportunities
- Close Date: N/A
Opportunity Title: Air Force Fiscal Year 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Research Program – Presolicitation Notice
Agency: DOD – Air Force - Office of Scientific Research
Funding Number: AFOSR-BAA-2009-3
Description: This notice is provided for information purposes only. This opportunity is available only to contractors under the air force fiscal year 2009 Recovery Act research program. Anticipated efforts are subject to final Recovery Act approval and funding. Contractors should wait for receipt of the formal solicitation prior to incurring proposal preparation costs. This American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Research Program will create new research jobs and new technologies that will provide further economic stimulus. This American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Research Program will investigate the underpinning science necessary to develop nanoscale additives for novel fuels. The ability to dissolve or suspend additives or catalysts in fuels has created the opportunity to develop new sets of desirable properties for fuels for aircraft, rockets, and satellites. An understanding of how these new catalytic processes occur and how multifunctional catalysts can be developed will be investigated. Areas of interest include understanding fundamentals of catalytic processes involved including interactions between catalyst and substrate, charge donation and charge transfer; understanding fundamental properties of nanostructures and their roles as catalysts; the role and effect of water and impurities on fuel additives; addition of additives to ionic liquids; the aging and long time behavior of catalysts; the performance of fuels developed with these new additives. This program seeks to bring together recently developed experimental and theoretical methods and approaches so that the optimum nanostructured catalysts can be developed for use in propulsion systems. A multidisciplinary effort is required to address this developing opportunity including fundamental research in chemistry, physics, surface and materials science, and computational simulation and modeling. Full Announcement AFOSR-BAA-2009-3 will be posted within 10 days of this presolicitation notice.
Latest news and information
- Release of DoD Recovery Act Projects
On March 20, 2009, the Department of Defense released its expenditure plan (pdf) for the projects to be funded with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Recovery Act provides $7.4 billion to the Department largely for projects that are located at Defense installations spread across all fifty states, District of Columbia and two U.S. territories. The report includes $2.3 billion in construction projects, including two major hospital construction projects: Camp Pendleton, California; Fort Hood, Texas; and a hospital alteration project at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. The plan also contains $3.4 billion for nearly 3,000 facility repair and improvement projects that will immediately generate additional employment in communities around Defense installations. Furthermore, the plan details how $300 million for near-term energy technology research will be allocated. The allocation of the remaining $800 million for defense facility infrastructure investment be announced at a later date. - Department of Defense Expenditure Plans (pdf)