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Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction

Program Information

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Program Number

12.351

Program objective

To support and stimulate basic, applied and advanced research at educational or research institutions, non-profit organizations, and commercial firms, which support the advancement of fundamental knowledge and understanding of the sciences with an emphasis on exploring new and innovative research for combating or countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

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Additional program information

  1. 2019

    Awarded grants for basic research in areas such as Bifunctional Materials for CWA Defeat: Integrating Catalysts in High Capacity Mesoporous Metal Oxide Absorbents; De novo computational design of catalytic peptide and peptoid macrocycles; and Enhanced Diffusion of Chemical Warfare Agents in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Detoxification.

  2. 2024

    Awarded several new grants in the area of chemical and biological, cooperative threat reduction, and other mission related basic research. One such award advanced research of a molecular docking system based on generative artificial intelligence machine learning for accelerated drug development is now being used in academia and industry.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Regulations, Guidelines and Literature sources are specified in the individual relevant Broad Agency Announcements. The DoDGARS (as updated through DoD’s interim implementation of 2 CFR part 200 which can be found at 2 CFR part 1103) applies to DoD grants and cooperative agreements.

  1. 10 U.S.C. 2358 (R&D Grants and cooperative agreements). 10 U.S.C. 2361 (Grants & contracts to universities-competitive). 10 U.S.C. 2371 (Transactions other than contracts and grants).