The Multidisciplinary Research Program (MURI) is a multi-agency DOD program that supports research teams whose efforts intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline. Multidisciplinary team effort can accelerate research progress in areas particularly suited to this approach. Multidisciplinary research also can help to hasten the transition of research findings to practical application.

In 2001, a broad multidisciplinary team lead by CSEM at the University of Michigan was awarded a DOD MURI grant to support the application of modeling to the study of solar eruptive events (such as coronal mass ejections) and their effects on space weather. The long term goal of the project is to achieve significant progress in our quest toward a predictive space weather modeling capability which can eventually be transitioned to use by civilian and DOD space weather forecasting centers.

The Space Weather MURI project is closely coordinated with its sister effort, the Solar MURI Project, coordinated by the University of California at Berkeley.