ONR · US
Fiscal Year 2027 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), tri-agency (ONR/ARO/AFOSR)
Deadline
April 9, 2027 148 days left
Award
Approximately $170M total program funding over 5 years; typical award up to $1.5M per year, 3-year base plus 2-year option, up to approximately $7.5M per team over 5 years
What this means for your lab
Several of this year's topics need cryogenic and UHV characterization: work on nuclear clocks and qubit assemblies in solid-state hosts needs milli-Kelvin cryostats or dilution refrigerators for coherence and clock-transition measurements, while work on tunable semiconductors and hybrid quantum solids needs UHV thin-film growth and low-temperature STM or ARPES characterization of the resulting materials.
Who can apply
US institutions of higher education only, team PIs, no career-stage restriction. Optional white paper due 2026-11-20; invited full proposals due 2027-04-09.
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