Assistance program
Basic Scientific Research
$4.5 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Dept of the Army, Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 12.431
- What it does
- To support basic research, and enhance fundamental knowledge in the chemical, life, physical, engineering, materials, mechanical, computing, information, network, mathematical, earth, and social sciences, related to long-term national security needs. The insights gained from this research hold significant promise for advancing Army programs and operations.
- Who benefits
- Investigators and resulting awardees.
- Who applies
- See specific broad agency announcements or similar announcements resulting from this CFDA number for eligibility requirements. Awards will not be made to individuals.
- Authorized by
- 10 U.S.C. 4001
- 10 U.S.C. § 4021 and 4022
- 31 U.S.C. § 6303
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$4.5B
100%
Other
$20.3M
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments