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A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA 98-5) FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1999 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP) SOL BAA 98-5 DUE 082098 POC Captain Bob Latin, (202) 767-5069 WEB: Research Opportunities, http://www.afosr.af.mil. E-MAIL: None, robert.latin@afosr.af.mil. Due 20 August 1998. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) announces the availability of a BAA for the 1999 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) on behalf of the Department of Defense (DOD). This program will be administered through the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. universities to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment. This competition is open only to U.S. institutions of higher education, other than federal government, with degree granting programs in science, math, and/or engineering. The 1999 solicitation is open to proposals for equipment acquisitions that will support research and research-related education in any of the areas of interest to the four aforementioned sponsoring agencies. The BAA provides the procedures for obtaining the individual sponsors' solicitations that contain program descriptions and areas of interest of each organization. These descriptions of research interests are generally available from university offices of sponsored programs, but also through the addresses available in this BAA. It is highly recommended that potential proposers contact DOD program managers in the relevant technical areas to explore possible mutual interests before submitting proposals. Names and addresses for the agencies' program managers can be found in the descriptive material for each of the agencies. The BAA is accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.afosr.af.mil. Please select the "Research Opportunities" section. See Note 26. (0121)

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