Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
The DRMS grant supports social and behavioral science research to enhance decision-making effectiveness in various contexts, including funding for DDRIGs.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: January 19, 2027 (Application closing date)
Funding Amounts: No cost sharing or matching required
Summary: Supports social and behavioral science research that improves understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society.
Key Information: Research must be grounded in theory and generalizable; purely algorithmic management-science proposals belong in Operations Engineering.
Description
The National Science Foundation’s Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) program supports scientific research on how individuals, groups, organizations, and societies make decisions. It funds disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants, and conferences. Supported areas include judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public-policy decision making; and management science and organizational design.
The program seeks research with solid foundations in social and behavioral science theories and methods that advances knowledge, addresses fundamental scientific and societal issues, and has strong broader impacts. DRMS also supports time-sensitive research involving ephemeral data through RAPID and, less frequently, unusual, potentially transformational proof-of-concept research through EAGER.
