What is required to submit a successful proposal?
CAE/IAEs are required to advertise and manage a competition for scholarship applicants; conduct an evaluation of applicants’ qualifications and abilities; and submit all the applications received to DoD, along with the CAE/IAE’s assessment and recommendation of each proposed scholar’s capabilities and potential. Institutions are also required to submit a basic (scholarship program) technical and cost proposal in response to the grant solicitation addressing the CAE/IAE’s plan for establishing and managing the IA Scholarship Program if a grant is awarded. Basic proposals should cover the design and scope of the proposed program; unique qualities that might distinguish it from the approaches of other institutions; disciplines to be encompassed; and the institution’s plan for administering and managing scholarship awards, stipends and other financial aspects of the program. Finally, the basic proposal should describe the process the CAE/IAE used to publicize the program, and recruit and a
