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Find similar grantsVannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) is sponsored by Department of Defense (DoD). The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship is the DoD's flagship single-investigator award for basic research, supporting university scientists and engineers to explore frontiers of knowledge and advance transformative, fundamental research.
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gov Maintenance Calendar Class of 2025 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Document Type:Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number:N0001424SF007 Funding Opportunity Title:Class of 2025 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) Opportunity Category:Discretionary Opportunity Category Explanation: Funding Instrument Type:Grant Category of Funding Activity:Science and Technology and other Research and Development Expected Number of Awards:10 Assistance Listings:12.
300 -- Basic and Applied Scientific Research Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:No Last Updated Date:Jan 16, 2025 Original Closing Date for Applications:Feb 14, 2025 Current Closing Date for Applications:Mar 14, 2025 Archive Date:Mar 16, 2025 Estimated Total Program Funding:$ 30,000,000 Eligible Applicants:Private institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Additional Information on Eligibility: ## Additional Information Before World War I, Dr. Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) was a professor and Dean of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founded a large defense and electronics company.
He was a forward-thinking policymaker who, during World War II, went on to serve as the director of the U.S. Defense Department’s Office of Scientific Research and Development, coordinating the work of thousands of scientists in the service of ending the war.
In his 1945 report to the President of the United States, Science, “The Endless Frontier”, Bush called for an expansion of government support for science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Bush was concerned about how the scientific research supported by the Department of Defense (DoD) during WWII could be sustained with a focus on peacetime goals.
He believed that basic research was “the pacemaker of technological progress”. “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown”, Bush wrote. “They are founded on new principles and new conceptions, which in turn are painstakingly developed by research in the purest realms of science”.
Dr. Bush’s life work embodies the spirit of this research program, formerly known as the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF). Therefore, in his in his honor, the name was changed to the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) program (https://www. defense.
gov/News/Article/Article/955536/dod-debuts-vannevar-bush-faculty-fellowship). The VBFF program is sponsored by the Basic Research Office, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD (R&E)). VBFF supports innovative basic research within academia, as well as opportunities intended to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers for the defense workforce.
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