U.S. DOD Minerva Research Initiative - Social and cultural forces shaping U.S. strategic interest – White papers

The competition is for research related to nine (9) topics listed below.

Topic 1: Social Implications of Environmental Change

Topic 2: Resource Competition, Social Cohesion, and Strategic Climate Resilience

Topic 3: Security Risks in Ungoverned, Semi-Governed, and Differently-Governed Spaces

Topic 4: Analysis of Foreign Influence Operations in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Topic 5: Community Studies on Online and Offline Influence

Topic 6: Computational Social Science Research on Difficult-to-Access Environments

Topic 7: Social and Cultural Implications of Artificial Intelligence

Topic 8: Humans and Outer Space

Topic 9: Management and Information in the Defense Environment

Funding: $150K/year to $1.0M/year for 3-5 years.

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333371.