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    National Security Science & Engineering Faculty Fellowships

    The Director, Defense Research and Engineering announces the second
    opportunity in 2008 to be nominated and apply for the National Security
    Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF) program. Annual
    opportunities are anticipated in future years.

    Important due dates (see BAA for complete details - linked provided
    below):

    * 25 June 2008 University letters of Intent to Nominate (required)


    * 11 July 2008 Nominee White Paper with supporting documentation
    (required)

    * 5 Sept 2008 Security clearance initiated for nominees invited to
    submit full proposals

    * 3 Oct 2008 Full Proposal (invited)

    NSSEFF ensures that DoD maintains an active, long-term, and aggressive
    basic research and engineering portfolio that attracts the foremost
    creative, innovative, and productive university faculty scientists,
    engineers and their students. Distinguished faculty, whose PhD was
    awarded within the past 25 years, and are employed by a U.S. accredited,
    degree-granting academic institution are invited to pursue relevant
    basic research ideas for the Department of Defense. NSSEFF provides an
    opportunity for researchers to be exposed to extraordinary DoD
    challenges and to benefit from extensive, long-term financial support
    for their research.

    NSSEFF Fellowships are unclassified basic research science and
    engineering grants of up to $600K/year for up to five years. The
    Fellowships are open to all science and engineering disciplines.


    Link to complete BAA:

    http://www.nps.edu/Research/WorkingWithNPS.html

    Other items of interest:

    http://nsseff.ida.org

    DoD Press Release Announcing Inaugural Class of NSSEFF Fellows

    http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11964Download file "NSEFF06-08.pdf"