Although most German universities are allowed to conduct only non-military research, some of them have received grants from the US Department of Defence for projects with dual commercial and military purposes from explosives to radar systems, as Spiegel found out.
German universities and research institutions have received $21.7 million worth of grants from Pentagon since 2008, the German magazine Spiegel calculated after examining the US budget data. According to the outlet, 260 of such transfers have been registered with some of the universities repeatedly receiving financing from the US military. The support is focused on technical and scientific disciplines.