DOD Announces Awards for Social Science Research Under the Defense Education and Civilian University Partnership

The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced a $2 million award for partnerships between six university and Defense Professional Military Education (PME) institution faculty teams in an effort to facilitate connections between faculty who share complementary research interests. These Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnerships exist under DoD’s Minerva Research Initiative, which strengthens the DOD’s connections with the social science community and helps DoD better understand and prepare for future challenges.

Each DECUR partnership is set to pursue one of the following research projects:

• Critical Minerals, Battery Technology, and Reducing Dependence on Hostile Suppliers in the Clean Energy Supply Chain
• Strategic Competition in Cyberspace: Measuring the Effects of Cyber Campaigning through Experimental Methodology
• Understanding Multi-stakeholder Regime Formation: The Case of Cislunar Space
• Characterizing and Countering the Normalization of Extremism and Communal Violence in Cyber-Social Space
• Assessing the Influence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Local Communities at Global Scale
• Artificial Intelligence Design across Cultures: Cognitive Linguistics Describes Ethical Implications

Read more about the awards and partnerships here.