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: August 18, 2026 (full application deadline)
Funding Amounts: No specified minimum or maximum; typical NSF project awards and DDRIGs funded; no cost-sharing required.
Summary: Supports fundamental research to advance understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society.
Description
The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) program funds scientific research that enhances understanding of decision making at multiple levels—individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Supported research must be grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, advancing both theoretical knowledge and addressing significant scientific or societal issues with broad impacts. The program welcomes disciplinary and interdisciplinary projects, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIGs), and conferences in areas such as judgment and decision making, decision analysis and aids, risk analysis and communication, societal and public-policy decision making, and management science and organizational design.
DRMS also supports:
- RAPID funding for urgent research tied to ephemeral data (e.g., disasters, unanticipated events).
- EAGER grants for high-risk, potentially transformative proof-of-concept projects (used less frequently).
Note: Proposals focused purely on algorithmic management science should be directed to the Operations Engineering (OE) Program.
