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A -- BAA FOR THE 2000 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP) SOL AFOSR-BAA-99-03 DUE 081999 POC Victoria Franques, Dr., Phone 703 696-7313, Fax 703 696-7320, Email victoria.franques@afosr.af.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&;ProjID=AFOSR-BAA-99-0 3&LocID=1542. E-MAIL: Victoria Franques, victoria.franques@afosr.af.mil. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) announces the availability of a BAA for the 2000 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 2000 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. The FY00 DURIP competition includes a special focus on information technology. Subject to the receipt of a sufficient number of meritorious proposals, a minimum of $3 million of the FY00 DURIP funding will be allocated to the purchase of equipment in support of defense-related research in information technology areas: software engineering (end-user programming, component-based software development, active software, and autonomous software), high confidence systems (assurance foundations and technologies, information security, survivability technology, software control systems, and public key infrastructures), networking (reliability, security robustness, quality of service, bandwidth allocation, collaboration technologies, network modeling and simulation, digital libraries, distributed computing, and anytime/anywhere connectivity), human-centered systems (collaborative workspace, information storage, information agents, distributed cognition, knowledge acquisition, multilingual technologies, virtual reality environments, and visualization systems), and high-end computing (advanced computer hardware, cooperative computing, system software technologies, future-generation computing, advanced computing technologies, high-end simulation software, national grid of computers, and high-end computing architectures). For detailed information regarding technical goals, potential proposers are advised to consult the announcements cited in the BAA and may contact DoD program mangers listed therein to explore mutual interest before submitting proposals. The BAA is accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.afosr.af.mil. Please select the "Research Opportunities" section. See Note 26. Posted 05/20/99 (D-SN333991). (0140)

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