Depscor

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Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. DEPSCoR is administered cooperatively with The Department of Defense (DoD), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA ->). DEPSCoR is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. universities, in the "NSF EPSCoR states" to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense. The Department of Defense awarded already in early 2001 $18.7 million to 29 academic institutions in 18 states including Puerto Rico following a FY 2001 competition. DEPSCoR included such programs like "Control and Dynamics of Interacting Spins in Nanoscale Metamaterials", "Random Noise Monopulse Radar Technique for Covert Tracking of Missiles in Flight" or "Cluster-Assembled Soft Magnets for Power Electronics Applications".