The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is interested in receiving proposals for the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative Pilot Program (BARI), which is jointly sponsored by the US Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI). The department is particularly interested in research attempting to understand new phenomena or produce discoveries that would impact understanding societal resilience in relation to social influence and information campaigns. The goal of the program is to produce significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences in understanding and influencing behavior below the threshold of armed conflict, specifically in relation to countering influence that leads to socio-economic and political instability.
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