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A -- PERSONNEL SECURITY THESIS, DISSERTATION AND INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1995 AND 1996 POC Point of contact: L. Rosenbaum, ONR 252 (703) 696-2599. The Defense Personnel Security Research Center announces a program to help fund (through the Office of Naval Research) research addressing issues pertinent to personnel security. The areas covered by this funding program include financial and credit candidate screening and crime detection procedures, prescreening, background investigation, adjudication, continuing assessment, employee assistance programs, security awareness, security education and forensic psychophysiology. Participation is sought from graduate students and from scientists, faculty, consultants, and practitioners at financial, research, business, governmental, and educational institutions. The maximum award for masters degree thesis awards is $3,000/student. The maximum award for dissertation grants is $10,000/student. The maximum award for institutional awards is $25,000/project. The maximum awards for forensic psychophysiology are $5,000, $15,000 and $50,000 respectively. Institutions are eligible to receive multiple awards. This notice constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in FAR 6.102 (dX2). No request for proposal (RFP), solicitation or other announcement of this opportunity will be made. Submission of proposals is not restricted in any way to any particular entity. Historically black Colleges and Universities, minority institutions, and small and disadvantaged businesses are encouraged to participate. Proposers should state in their proposal that it is submitted in response to this BAA. This is to notify potential proposers that each grant or cooperative agreement that is awarded under this announcement or solicitation to an institution of higher education must include the following clause: ''As a condition for receipt of funds available to the Department of Defense (DoD) under this award, the recipient agrees that it is not an institution that has a policy of denying, and that it is not an institution that effectively prevents, the Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military recruiting purposes: (A) entry to campuses or access to students on campuses, or (B) access to directory information pertaining to students. If the recipient is determined, using procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement section 558 of Public Law 103-337 (1994), to be such an institution during the period of performance of this agreement, and therefore to be in breach of this clause, the Government will cease all payments of DoD funds under this agreement and all other DoD grants and cooperative agreements, and it may suspend or terminate such grants and agreements unilaterally for material failure to comply with the terms and conditions of award''. If your institution has been identified under the procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement section 558, then: (1) no funds available to DoD may be provided to your institution through any grant, including any existing grant, (2) as a matter of policy, this restriction also applies to any cooperative agreement, and (3) your institution is not eligible to receive a grant or cooperative agreement in response to this solicitation. Proposals may be submitted any time through 15 Jun 1996. Proposals will be received, evaluated and funded on a continuing basis at any time during the open period. Details are outlined in the PERSEREC Personnel Security Thesis, Dissertation and Institutional Research Awards for Fiscal Years 1995 and 1996, a copy of which may be obtained by sending a self-addressed label to the Defense Personnel Security Research and Education Center, 99 Pacific Street, Bldg 455, Suite E, Monterey, CA 93940-2481. (0202)

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