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A -- DOD AUGMENTATION AWARDS FOR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH TRAINING (AASERT), BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) Sol DAAH04-95-R-BAA5, Due 110795, contact, Davis Hein, 919-549-4228, Contracting Officer, Patsy S. Ashe, 919-549-4270. The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the FY96 competition for the Augmentation Awards for Science and Engineering Research Training (AASERT) program. The AASERT program is designed to increase the number of high-quality scientists and engineers educated as part of defense-sponsored Research. DoD is seeking AASERT proposals from faculty investigators with DoD university research contracts or grants in effect on January 25, 1996. The AASERT funding will build upon the faculty investigator's base of defense research funding by providing support for one or two additiona graduate students and their research work toward their advanced degrees. Subject to Congressional appropriation of requested funds, DoD will fully fund 3-year awards from approximately $50 million of FY96 appropriations. The resulting grants will be awarded by the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Proposals under this BAA are due by 4:00 p.m. est on November 7, 1995 to the appropriate agency address shown below. Individuals desiring a copy of the BAA should request on from their university sponsored programs office or from any of the following agencies: U.S. Army Research Office, Attn: AMXRO-ICA (AASERT), 4300 South Miami Boulevard, P.O. Box 12211, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211, (919) 549-4339; Office of Naval Research, Attn: ONR 353 (AASERT), Room 804, N. Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22217-5660, (703) 696-4111; Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Attn: NI/AASERT-96, 110 Duncan Avenue, Suite B115, Bolling AFB, DC 20332-0001, (202) 767-4969; Advanced Research Projects Agency, Attn: DSO/AASERT, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714, (703) 696-2241; Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Attn: TRI Room 12086, 7100 Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310-7100, (703) 604-0136. This is to notify potential proposers that each grant that is awarded under this announcement of 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 (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 the 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 an 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. (222)

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