DoD's National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows program will provide up to $3 million in research support to each fellow for up to five years, William Rees, deputy undersecretary of defense for laboratories and basic science, said in a statement released on Monday (June 2).

The funds will be used to conduct "basic research in core science and engineering disciplines that underpin future DoD technology development," Rees added.

DoD said nearly 150 universities submitted more than 500 applications for the fellowship program. In addition, more than 350 technical papers were submitted and reviewed.

Pentagon research officials are now negotiating terms of the basic research with the winning universities before making grant awards. DoD did not say what the negotiations cover or how long they would take.

A list of winners, their universities and research projects are available here.

According to the National Defense Industrial Association, which promotes greater use of military technologies, the Defense Department expects its laboratories to lose 13,000 scientists and engineers by 2015. Under the DoD research program, the lobbying group said, "the Defense Department is trying to engage the best clearable university faculty to pursue long-term, critical research."

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