{"id":136070,"date":"2022-02-25T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/department-of-defense-awards-28-7m-in-grants-for-the-fy2021-minerva-research-initiative"},"modified":"2022-02-25T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T05:22:52","slug":"department-of-defense-awards-28-7m-in-grants-for-the-fy2021-minerva-research-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/department-of-defense-awards-28-7m-in-grants-for-the-fy2021-minerva-research-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Department of Defense Awards $28.7M in Grants for the FY2021 Minerva Research Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/department-of-defense-awards-28-7m-in-grants-for-the-fy2021-minerva-research-initiative2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DoD announced today awards of $28.7 million in grants to 17 university-based faculty teams through the FY2021 Minerva Research Initiative to support research in social and behavioral science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a dynamic world, and many of the challenges we face are social or have social elements to them,\u201d said Dr. Bindu Nair, Director, Basic Research Office in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. \u201cThe knowledge and methodologies generated from Minerva awardees have improved DoD\u2019s ability to define sources of present and future conflict with an eye toward better understanding the political trajectories of key regions of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This initiative supports basic research that focuses on topics of particular relevance to U.S. national security. Through its network of faculty investigators, the Minerva Research Initiative also strengthens the Department\u2019s connections with the social science community and helps DoD better understand and prepare for future challenges, including National Defense Strategy priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoD announced today awards of $28.7 million in grants to 17 university-based faculty teams through the FY2021 Minerva Research Initiative to support research in social and behavioral science. \u201cWe live in a dynamic world, and many of the challenges we face are social or have social elements to them,\u201d said Dr. Bindu Nair, Director, Basic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}