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The program is also strategically aiming to determine if the same problem-solving techniques can also be utilized to help children overcome and cope with stressful environments and social issues such as bullying and other forms of emotional abuse.

For the fiscal years 2011 to 2012, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has allocated an estimated budget in the amount of $25,000,000 to support the ENGAGE program.

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The following organizations and institutions will be deemed eligible to take part in the ENGAGE program:

a) Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses and Minority Institutions

b) Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and Government entities including but not limited to military educational institutions.

Despite these guidelines, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will still consider eligibility submissions on a case-by-case basis.

The Department of Defense, the primary agency funding the ENGAGE: Learning to Solve Problems, Solving Problems to Learn program, is the country's leading agency that is mainly responsible for protecting the security of the United States through five major areas, such as peacekeeping and war-fighting efforts, Homeland Security, evacuation and humanitarian causes.

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