The Department of Defense aims to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the country. Many DOD offices have their own research programs. 

The Office of Land and Emergency Management provides policy, guidance and direction for the Agency's emergency response and waste programs

The mission of the DOE Office of Science is to deliver the scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States.

The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) provides national leadership to ensure that the Nation’s energy delivery system is secure, resilient and reliable.

The EERE aims to create and sustain American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy.

The program aims to carry out research on and development and demonstration of:

1. biofuels and biobased products
2. the methods, practices, and technologies, for the production of biofuels and biobased products

This program aims to increase institutional capacities to respond to State, regional, national, or international educational needs by strengthening college and university teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences.

The purpose of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) program is to encourage research designed to increase our knowledge concerning agricultural production systems that:

Projects under this program aim to carry out research, to facilitate or expand promising breakthroughs in areas of the food and agricultural sciences of importance to the nation and to facilitate or expand on-going State-Federal food and agricultural research programs.

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) provides leadership and funding for programs that advance agriculture-related sciences. They invest in and support initiatives that ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA applies an integrated approach to ensure that groundbreaking discoveries in agriculture-related sciences and technologies reach the people who can put them into practice.