National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency HBCU/MI/HSI research program FY09

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This BAA by NGA describes the Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) research grant competition for the NGA Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Educational Research Initiative (HBCU/MI ERI) program. The purpose of this program is to enhance the capabilities of U.S. HBCU/MI schools to perform research and related education in science and engineering areas critical to NGA’s mission and the national defense.

Specifically, this program seeks to strengthen the geospatial science and technology research capabilities of HBCU/MI schools (1) to enhance geospatial intelligence (GEOINT)-based educational research to help in educating minority students in GEOINT enabling sciences, mathematics, and engineering and (2) to recruit and encourage highly-qualified minority students, especially those who are U.S. citizens, to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in those disciplines through research opportunities. An applicant institution may propose any one of several different types of projects, and the project may involve interaction with NGA subject matter experts. It is intended and presumed that all work and data will be unclassified.