The Introduction describes the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), the mechanism AFOSR uses to solicit research proposals. It also provides an overview of the general approach used to submit proposals. AFOSR's foreign research offices, in London (the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development-EOARD) and Tokyo (the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development-AOARD) also employ this BAA. EQARD and AOARD manage programs that provide access to international research and research organizations of interest to the Air Force and other DoD organizations. In fiscal year 1996, EOARD and AOARD awarded III contract and grants totaling $3 .5M to research universities and institutions from African, Asian, European, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Rim countries. (Sec EOARD and AOARD homepages for more information.) The New World Vistas (NWV) section describes the NWV reports on science and technology needed to support six future Air Force capability areas: Global Awareness, Dynamic Planning and Execution Control, Global Mobility in War and Peace, Projection of Lethal and Sub-lethal Power, Space Operations, and People.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) manages all basic research conducted by the U.S. Air Force. To accomplish this task, AFOSR solicits proposals for research through a general Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) and through specialized BAAs published in the Commerce Business Daily. This general BAA outlines the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program and is reprinted in Section IV, Proposal Guidance, for your convenience. AFSOR invites proposals for basic research in many broad areas. Section II of this pamphlet describes those areas in greater detail.

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Abstracts are given for 6.1 basic research in chemical propulsion sponsored by the Army Research Office and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.