Basic and Applied Scientific Research (12.300)
Basic and Applied Scientific Research (Assistance Listing 12.300) is run by the Department of the Navy, part of the Department of Defense. It awarded $4.1 billion in 6,165 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $670,297 per award on average. 8 funding opportunities are open or forecast now.
The typical award was $320,544. Half of the 6,165 awards fell between $150,164 and $594,966, and they ranged from $0 to $75.0 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$4.1 billion
- Grant awards6,165
- Typical award$320,544
- Awarded in FY 2025$669 million
- Size rank107 of 1824
- Type of assistanceCooperative agreements, project grants
Key findings
- Annual funding fell from $826 million in fiscal 2021 to $669 million in fiscal 2025.
- It is the 107th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- The 20 largest recipients received 39% of the money.
- Awards went to recipients in 53 states and territories.
What the program funds
To support and stimulate basic and applied research and technology at educational institutions, non-profits and other research organizations, which have potential for superiority in the improvement of naval operations, and to train and motivate future researchers in science and engineering disciplines.
Open opportunities
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
- Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program
- NRL Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research
- FY25 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
- Research Initiatives at the Naval Postgraduate School
- Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC) Broad Agency Announcement for Fiscal Year 2026
Rules from the program listing
Who can apply
All responsible sources from academia, industry and the research community worldwide. Office of Naval Research (ONR) headquarters Grants and Agreements cannot be awarded to individuals or families. Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDCs), including the Department of Energy National Laboratories, are not eligible to receive award.
What the money can and cannot pay for
Basic, applied and advanced research in the physical, mathematical, environmental, engineering and life sciences providing knowledge necessary for the Department of the Navy to make informed decisions about further exploratory development to provide the technology base from which naval capabilities are drawn and partial support of symposia in the listed disciplines. Programs to encourage careers in science, technology and engineering by supporting outstanding research by graduate and undergraduate students pursuing studies in areas of naval concern; research programs to increase the number of science and engineering graduates from underrepresented minority groups and programs providing funding for universities to purchase major, high-cost research instrumentation.
Matching requirements
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Deadlines
Deadlines do not apply
Award range and average, in the agency's words
Mean=$431,532; Median=$174,704
Examples of funded projects
Fiscal Year2018: Properties and Performance of Compositionally Complex AlCrFeMn Alloys for Marine ApplicationsFiscal Year2019: Generalized Computations for Learning, Memory, and Decision Making in Artificial and Biological Neural NetworksFiscal Year2021: 100 drifting wave buoys were deployed in the Southern Ocean. Storms in the Southern Ocean generate energetic waves that radiate across the Pacific, Atlantic , and Indian ocean. Progress in ocean Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the grantee to collect unprecedented data densities, which directly improves ocean and wave theories, validate and constrain ocean and atmospheric models, and provide a ground truth for satellite remote sensing data. The technology deployed by the grantee was developed with ONR sponsorship. It represents a shift in global ocean sensing toward a distributed paradigm with massive arrays of low-cost internet-connected nodes.Fiscal Year2025: Data Fusion and Assimilation for Multiscale 3D Velocity and Wall Stress Reconstructions in a Tip Gap Flow. The overarching goal of the proposed work is to advance knowledge of flow physics and cavitation inception in tip gap flow fields through the development and application of AI/ML data fusion and assimilation methods to realize spatio-temporal measurements of near-wall velocity, pressure, and wall shear stress fluctuations.
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Basic and Applied Scientific Research (12.300) awarded$4.1 billion across 6,165 grant awards, an average of $670,297 per award.
Who usually wins
Colleges and universities received 80% of the money, nonprofits 17% and businesses 1.4%.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colleges and universities | 5,190 | $3.3 billion | 80% |
| Nonprofits | 690 | $692 million | 17% |
| Businesses | 130 | $57.5 million | 1.4% |
| Small businesses | 36 | $40.6 million | 1.0% |
| State and local governments | 38 | $16.0 million | 0.4% |
| Other | 70 | $8.1 million | 0.2% |
| Tribal governments and organizations | 11 | $2.1 million | less than 0.1% |
By state
49 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| California | 916 | $577 million |
| Massachusetts | 429 | $365 million |
| Florida | 221 | $187 million |
| Maryland | 251 | $185 million |
| Pennsylvania | 338 | $185 million |
| New York | 293 | $185 million |
| District of Columbia | 86 | $155 million |
| Michigan | 168 | $152 million |
| Washington | 234 | $147 million |
| Virginia | 232 | $146 million |
| Texas | 301 | $132 million |
| Colorado | 148 | $119 million |
| Connecticut | 93 | $117 million |
| Hawaii | 61 | $107 million |
| Indiana | 170 | $105 million |
| Wisconsin | 87 | $89.8 million |
| Minnesota | 39 | $87.0 million |
| Illinois | 144 | $80.4 million |
| Rhode Island | 107 | $78.4 million |
| North Carolina | 137 | $75.5 million |
| Georgia | 138 | $74.6 million |
| Alaska | 33 | $63.7 million |
| Ohio | 86 | $60.5 million |
| Arizona | 113 | $59.8 million |
| New Hampshire | 41 | $47.3 million |
| New Jersey | 111 | $45.4 million |
| Oregon | 61 | $42.1 million |
| Tennessee | 41 | $29.6 million |
| New Mexico | 29 | $28.2 million |
| South Carolina | 41 | $24.3 million |
| Montana | 18 | $23.9 million |
| Missouri | 26 | $23.8 million |
| Delaware | 32 | $22.9 million |
| Kansas | 24 | $22.2 million |
| Arkansas | 10 | $20.1 million |
| Mississippi | 17 | $19.6 million |
| North Dakota | 13 | $18.9 million |
| Iowa | 47 | $15.0 million |
| Oklahoma | 19 | $14.5 million |
| Nebraska | 12 | $13.4 million |
| Kentucky | 12 | $13.3 million |
| Maine | 4 | $11.8 million |
| Utah | 37 | $11.5 million |
| Alabama | 26 | $10.0 million |
| Louisiana | 21 | $7.0 million |
| Nevada | 9 | $5.9 million |
| Idaho | 8 | $4.3 million |
| West Virginia | 8 | $2.2 million |
| Wyoming | 3 | $1.8 million |
| South Dakota | 4 | $736,081 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | $299,980 |
| Vermont | 1 | $299,568 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $258,025 |