Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

The Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research opportunity is issued by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR. The opportunity is identified as FA955026S0001 and supports Science and Technology and other Research and Development under Assistance Listing 12.800, Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. AFOSR plans, coordinates, and executes the Air Force Research Laboratory basic research program in response to technical guidance from AFRL and requirements of the Air Force. AFOSR also fosters, supports, and conducts research within Air Force, university, and industry laboratories and works to ensure that research results transition in ways that support U.S. Air Force needs. The opportunity focuses on research areas expected to provide significant and comprehensive benefits to national war fighting and peacekeeping capabilities. AFOSR organizes and manages these research interests through its scientific activities, including Engineering and Information Science, Physical and Biological Sciences, and its international offices. The Grants.gov synopsis classifies the opportunity under Science and Technology and other Research and Development. The listed funding instruments include cooperative agreements, grants, other instruments, and procurement contracts. The synopsis does not provide detailed research topic requirements, allowable cost rules, prohibited costs, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, or individual periods of performance, so applicants must consult the full announcement for those requirements. The opportunity lists an award ceiling of 10000000 dollars. Grants.gov displays an award floor of zero dollars, which is treated as missing for data-entry purposes rather than as a valid minimum award amount. Estimated total program funding is not provided. The synopsis lists an expected number of awards of 9999. No cost sharing or matching requirement applies according to the Grants.gov general information. The source does not provide additional funding tiers, per-year award limits, or a total program funding figure. Eligibility on the Grants.gov synopsis is listed as Others, with applicants directed to the text field for additional information. That field states only See Announcement. Consequently, the synopsis does not establish which specific governmental, nonprofit, higher education, tribal, individual, or business applicant classes qualify. It also does not establish a U.S. nationwide eligibility rule, individual state restrictions, or specific eligible cities, counties, territories, ZIP codes, or other service areas. Applicants therefore need to review the full announcement before relying on a particular organizational or geographic eligibility interpretation. The opportunity was posted on June 4, 2026 and was last updated on August 21, 2026. Both the original and current closing date fields state Open until superseded. This language establishes that the opportunity remains continuously open rather than operating under a stated fixed application deadline. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, initial application, or other pre-application gating deadline is identified in the supplied synopsis. No separate application opening date is expressly identified. Because the opportunity is open until superseded, it is treated as rolling rather than recurring, and no next-cycle date is calculated. Applications may be initiated through the Grants.gov Apply function associated with the opportunity. The supplied synopsis does not identify specific application narratives, forms, attachments, evaluation criteria, scoring factors, review stages, notification dates, award dates, or performance periods. Applicants should therefore rely on the full announcement and application package for those submission and review requirements rather than inferring requirements from the synopsis. The source also does not provide previous recipients or enough application-component detail to support a reliable application preparation time estimate. For difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, the identified contact is Jennifer Brown, Procurement Analyst. The listed program contact email is afosr.baa@us.af.mil. No telephone number is supplied in the provided material. No explicit direct PDF URL for the full announcement is present in the supplied source, so a PDF link cannot be entered without generating or guessing a URL.

Align the proposed research with AFOSR research interests and clearly demonstrate its potential benefit to national war fighting and peacekeeping capabilities and support for U.S. Air Force needs. Consult the full announcement for specific research and eligibility requirements not provided in the synopsis.