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Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "Acquisition Research Program" (Funding Opportunity Number NPS BAA 13 003) is a discretionary federal funding announcement issued by the Naval Supply Systems Command. It is set up as a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) intended to bring in strong researchers and scholars to study problems that matter to the defense acquisition community. Awards under this opportunity may be made as either grants or cooperative agreements, and the work is categorized under science and technology and other research and development. The relevant CFDA listing provided is 12.300 (Basic and Applied Scientific Research), and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement stated.

The central purpose of the program is to fund innovative research in "defense acquisition management and policy" for a research effort of about 12 months, carried out within a broader window running from September 2013 through May 2015. In practical terms, the sponsor is looking for projects that produce actionable insights on how the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of the Navy (DoN) buy, manage, and sustain products and services, or how they could do so better. The scope is intentionally broad and not limited to traditional acquisition specialties. Proposals can draw from disciplines that influence acquisition outcomes such as economics, finance and financial management, information systems, organizational theory, operations management, human resources management, and marketing, in addition to core acquisition areas like contracting, program and project management, logistics, and systems engineering management. A key theme is that the research should either directly concern defense acquisition or credibly show how methods from other fields can be applied to improve defense acquisition performance.

A major requirement is that the research must create a public benefit that goes beyond internal government process improvement. While the DoD/DoN value of improving efficiency, quality, innovation, or cost performance is clearly important, the announcement emphasizes that the results must also have wider usefulness, such as lessons that could improve private-sector competitiveness or effectiveness. The expected mechanism for sharing results is the dissemination of findings in a final Technical Report, which implies that the program is aiming for publishable, broadly transferable knowledge rather than purely proprietary or operationally restricted outcomes.

Eligibility is largely open: all responsible institutions from academia and industry may apply, meaning the competition is not restricted to a narrow set of organization types. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions (MIs) are explicitly encouraged to participate, including through partnerships, but the announcement also clarifies that no funding is set aside specifically for those institutions. At the same time, the BAA excludes several categories of organizations from receiving awards directly. U.S. Government schools of higher education, Navy laboratories and warfare centers, and other DoD or civilian agency labs are not eligible to receive awards under this BAA. Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), including Department of Energy national laboratories, are also not eligible to receive awards. These ineligible organizations are instructed not to submit white papers or full proposals; instead, if they want to contribute to acquisition research, they should provide a technical proposal and cost estimate to the technical point of contact identified in the full announcement to discuss potential research areas, suggesting they may only be able to participate through alternate arrangements rather than as direct awardees.

The timeline included in the source data shows the opportunity was posted and created on April 16, 2013, with an original and current closing date of June 13, 2013, and an archive date of July 13, 2013. This means it was a time-limited competition with a roughly two-month application window. For practical application logistics and any referenced attachments, the announcement points applicants to an "Additional Information Link" described as a link to all NPS BAAs, indicating that the detailed submission instructions, formatting rules, evaluation criteria, and points of contact likely sit in the full BAA package rather than the short synopsis.

For assistance accessing the complete announcement, the listed contact is Christina Beal, Contract Specialist, at 619-556-7329, identified as the business point of contact.

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