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 (current closing date)
Funding Amounts: No cost sharing or matching required; award amounts are not listed
Summary: Supports social and behavioral science research that improves understanding of decision making and its effectiveness.
Key Information: Research must be grounded in theory and generalizable; purely algorithmic management-science proposals belong in another NSF program.
Description
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on how individuals, groups, organizations and societies make decisions. Topics include judgment and decision making; decision analysis and aids; risk analysis, perception and communication; societal and public-policy decision making; and management science and organizational design. Research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues, and have strong broader impacts.
The program also supports conferences and doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIGs). Its RAPID mechanism can support research involving ephemeral data, typically associated with disasters or other unanticipated events. Less frequently, EAGER supports unusual, high-risk proof-of-concept projects with potentially transformational outcomes.
