Funding Opportunities
DOD US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025
Link: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327285
Limited Submission: No
Description
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is intended to fulfill requirements for scientific study and experimentation directed toward advancing state-of-the-art technologies and/or increasing knowledge and understanding as a means of eliminating current technology barriers.
Deadline: On-going through February 28, 2025
DOD-ONR Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Program
Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2023
Link: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339127
Limited Submission: No
Description
ONR seeks a broad range of applications for augmenting existing and/or developing innovative solutions that directly maintain and/or cultivate a diverse, world-class Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ technological superiority. The goal of proposed efforts must provide solutions that establish, build, and/or maintain STEM educational pathways and workforce opportunities for diverse U.S. citizens directly relevant to ONR science and technology areas.
Deadline: On-going through March 31, 2023
NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)
Deadline: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/campus-cyberinfrastructure-cc
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program invests in coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Learning and workforce development (LWD) in cyberinfrastructure is explicitly addressed in the program. CC* awards will be supported in seven program areas: Area (1) Data-Driven Networking Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher; Area (2) Regional Connectivity for Small Institutions of Higher Education; Area (3) Network Integration and Applied Innovation; Area (4) Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum; Area (5) Regional Computing; Area (6) Data Storage; and Area (7) Planning Grants and CI-Research Alignment.
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Core Programs, Large Projects
Deadline: Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/computer-information-science-engineering-core-0
Limited Submission: No
Description
This solicitation invites proposals on bold new ideas tackling ambitious and fundamental research problems within scope of one or more of the participating CISE divisions core programs listed above, and that are well suited to a large-scale integrated collaborative effort. Teams should consist of two or more investigators (PI, co-PI(s), or other Senior Personnel) with complementary expertise. Investigators are strongly encouraged to come together within or across disciplines and/or institutions and combine their creative talents to identify compelling, transformative research agendas where the impact of the results will exceed that of the sum of each of their individual contributions.
NSF Expeditions in Computing
Deadline: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/expeditions-computing-expeditions
Limited Submission: No
Description
CISE established this program to build on past successes and provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are strongly encouraged to come together within or across departments or institutions to combine their creative talents in the identification of compelling, transformative research agendas that look ahead by at least a decade and promise disruptive innovations in computer and information science and engineering for many years to come.
NSF Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF)
Deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/formal-methods-field-fmitf
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF) program aims to bring together researchers in formal methods with researchers in other areas of computer and information science and engineering to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for designing and implementing correct-by-construction systems and applications with provable guarantees. FMitF encourages close collaboration between two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in the area of formal methods, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as principled approaches based on mathematics and logic to system modeling, specification, design, analysis, verification, and synthesis. The second group consists of researchers in the "field," which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is defined as any area within computer and information science and engineering that currently does not benefit from having established communities already developing and applying formal methods in their research. All proposals must make a strong case for why formal methods is appropriate for the field area, and why it is one that does not currently benefit from formal methods.
Deadline: February 15
Create the Future Independent Research Effort (CFIRE)
Deadline: Friday, January 20, 2023
Link: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344688
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Create the Future Independent Research Effort (CFIRE) seeks to ensure the future technological superiority of the DOD by cultivating emerging areas of research at institutions of higher education today. The topic areas are independent from those described in the open BAA (Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research) and do not fall completely within any one research program. AFOSR seeks to support multidisciplinary research efforts, creating synergies to speed DoD-relevant research and development. For 2023, proposals are sought in three topic areas: Astrodynamics, Materials for Quantum Information Science, and Synthetic Biology.
Deadlines: January 20 – White paper; March 17 – Proposal
NSF Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT)
Deadline: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/experiential-learning-emerging-novel-technologies
Limited Submission: No
Description
Through this new initiative, the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the newly established Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) seek to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics).
Deadline: March 2 (Pivots and Beginnings Tracks only)
NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/secure-and-trustworthy-cyberspace-satc
Limited Submission: No
Description
The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, drawing on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication, and information sciences; engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both welcome. Deadline: On-going
NSF Tectonics
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/tectonics
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Tectonics Program supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere (i.e. above the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary). The Program focuses on deformation processes and their tectonic drivers that operate at any depth within the continental lithosphere, on time-scales of decades/centuries (e.g. active tectonics) and longer, and at micro- to plate boundary/orogenic belt length-scales. Deadline: On-going
DOD-AFRL Air Delivered Effects
Link: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338821
Limited Submission: No
Description
This BAA is intended to cover, in general nature, all research areas of interest under this Directorate. Offerors contemplating a submission to AFRL/RW are strongly encouraged to contact the AFRL/RW technical POC for the research area to ascertain the extent of interest AFRL/RW may have in a specific research project. Research areas include: Weapon Airframe Systems Technology Research; Bioprincipic Sensors, Information Processing, and Control; Autonomous Target Recognition; Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Technologies; Advanced Scene Generation; EO/IR/LADAR/SAL System Research; Navigation and Estimation Technology; Modeling, Simulation & Analysis of Advanced Weapon Concepts; Lethality, Vulnerability, and Survivability; Warhead Research; Fuze Research; Munitions Energetic Materials; Facilities and Equipment Enabling Ordnance Technologies and Advanced Energetics; Multi=Function, Multi-Mode Radar Research; Modular Open Systems Research; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for Education Outreach; Weapons Autonomy Technology Research; Technology Transfer Innovative Collaboration; Cyber Resiliency Security Research for Precision-guided Munitions; and Strategic Planning, Prototyping and Experimentation. Deadline: On-going
NSF Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD)
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/dynamics-control-and-systems-diagnostics-dcsd-0
Limited Submission: No
Description
DCSD program promotes the fundamental science and engineering of dynamic systems to advance solutions to urgent societal problems. Such problems include mitigating the impacts of climate change; responding to epidemics, cyber-attacks, extreme weather, and other natural and man-made events; promoting efficient and equitable production and distribution of resources; developing resilient infrastructure; improving the experience of work and learning; and meeting the challenges of aging and illness. Deadline: On-going
NSF Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/opportunities-promoting-understanding-through-synthesis-opus
Limited Submission: No
Description
The OPUS program is targeted to individuals, typically at later-career stages, who have contributed significant insights to a field or body of research over time. The program provides an opportunity to revisit and synthesize that prior research into a unique, integrated product(s) useful to the scientific community, now and in the future.
Deadline: On-going
NSF Arctic Observing Networks (AON)
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/arctic-observing-networks-aon
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Arctic Observing Network (AON) program encourages proposals to make long-term field observations to detect and understand Arctic system change occurring on time scales longer than the duration of a typical NSF research grant. These projects should address major drivers and/or impacts of system change and generate data intended for wider use by the scientific research community in understanding the changing Arctic system. Data analysis may be included as part of the proposed work.
Deadline: On-going
NSF Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity) Program
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21501/nsf21501.htm
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity) Program supports the implementation of, scaling of, or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at NSF. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas: Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. This program will also accept proposals for planning activities or workshops to facilitate coordination that may be necessary in building capacity in infrastructure that meets the needs of a research community.
Deadline: On-going
NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Link: https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503634&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Limited Submission: No
Description
The DEB Core supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time. Research may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative studies; synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling.
Deadline: On-going
DOD-DARPA Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
Link: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=341144
Limited Submission: No
Description
The DSO Office-wide BAA invites proposers to submit innovative basic or applied research concepts or studies and analysis proposals that address one or more of the following technical thrust areas: (1) Novel Materials & Structures, (2) Sensing & Measurement, (3) Computation & Processing, (4) Enabling Operations, (5) Collective Intelligence, and (6) Global Change. Each of these thrust areas is described below and includes a list of example research topics that highlight several (but not all) potential areas of interest. Proposals must investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances. Thrust areas include: Novel materials & structures; Sensing and measurements; Computation and processing; Enabling operations; Collective intelligence; and Global change.
Deadline: On-going
NSF Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22610/nsf22610.htm
Limited Submission: No
Description
The CMMT program supports fundamental research that advances conceptual understanding of hard and soft materials, and materials-related phenomena; the development of associated analytical, computational, and data-centric techniques; and predictive materials-specific theory, simulation, and modeling for materials research. First-principles electronic structure, quantum many-body and field theories, statistical mechanics, classical and quantum Monte Carlo, and molecular dynamics, are among the methods used in the broad spectrum of research supported in CMMT. Research may encompass the advance of new paradigms in materials research, including emerging data-centric approaches utilizing data-analytics or machine learning.
Deadline: On-going
NSF Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS)
Link: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/computational-and-data-enabled-science-and-engineering-mathematical-and
Limited Submission: No
Description
The CDS&E-MSS program accepts proposals that engage with the mathematical and statistical challenges presented by (1) the ever-expanding role of computational experimentation, modeling, and simulation on the one hand, and (2) the explosion in production and analysis of digital data from experimental and observational sources on the other. The goal of the program is to promote the creation and development of the next generation of mathematical and statistical software tools, and the theory underpinning those tools, that will be essential for addressing these challenges.
Deadline: On-going
NASA-ROSES High Priority Open-Source Science
Link: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bB364DBB8-390B-744D-013F-8F4C304B9A63%7d&path=&method=init
Limited Submission: No
Description
This program element supports the development of innovative open-source tools, software, frameworks, data formats, and libraries that will have a significant impact to the SMD science community. Proposals must clearly state how the work supports the OSSI. Deadline: On-going
DOD-ARO LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC)
Link: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332894
Limited Submission: No
Description
The mission of the LQC can be captured in three broad goals: 1) pursue disruptive fundamental research and enabling technologies with a focus on qubit development for quantum computing and other applications (such as sensing); 2) grow deep, collaborative partnerships to tackle the most difficult and relevant long-term problems in quantum information science and technology; and 3) build a quantum workforce of tomorrow through research experiences in government at LPS and at LQC partners. The LQC will offer a mechanism for collaborative research between LPS and academia, industry, FFRDCs, and Government Laboratories to advance foundational and transformative research on challenging problems that have hindered progress in quantum information processing and associated technologies.
Deadline: On-going
NSF Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505920
Limited Submission: No
Description
The CDS&E meta-program encourages research that pushes the envelope of science and engineering through computation and data, welcoming proposals in any area of research supported by the participating divisions. A proposal may address topics that develop or enable interactions among theory, computing, experiment, and observation to achieve progress on hitherto intractable science and engineering problems.
Deadline: varies by program
NSF Cyberinfratstructure Centers for Excellence (CI CoE)
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505744&WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Limited Submission: No
Description
The Nations advanced research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem catalyzes discovery and innovation across all areas of science and engineering (S&E) research and education. The increasingly complex and rapidly evolving S&E landscape requires an agile, integrated, robust, trustworthy, and sustainable CI ecosystem that will drive new thinking and transformative discoveries in all areas of research and education.
The success of this vision depends on the ability of the research community to be able to easily and effectively access and use state-of-the-art research CI resources and services in a timely way. This, in turn, drives a set of requirements on the development, operation, and evolution of the CI ecosystem. First, research CI resources and services must be designed to leverage and drive innovations, and they must be user-centric and interoperable to enable the efficient, flexible end-to-end discovery pathways that are increasingly essential for the conduct of research. Second, the information, expertise, and services needed to maximally utilize the CI ecosystem must be disseminated broadly and concertedly to the research community.
The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Centers of Excellence (CI CoE) Program aims to realize the above vision by supporting hubs of expertise and innovation targeting specific areas, aspects, or stakeholder communities of the research CI ecosystem. Supported CI CoEs provide expertise and services related to CI technologies and solutions; gather, develop, and communicate community best practices; and serve as readily-available resources for both the research community and the CI community. A key objective of this program is to support CI CoEs that drive advancements in and positively impact the CI ecosystem through structured but strongly community-engaging and community-serving approaches. Overall, CI CoEs are a means of concentrating resources on a specific area of identified need in support of the broader goal of advancing capabilities and performance of the national CI ecosystem [1].
Activities. Successful CI CoE projects will perform a range of functions such as:
- Exploring emerging technologies, disruptions, opportunities, and community needs, and developing proactive design and adoption strategies, practices, and other approaches in response;
- Nurturing communities of stakeholders and experts in their area(s) of focus (foci) with the overall goal of achieving self-sustaining communities of practice; and
- Providing services, training, and outreach to target communities.
Topics and Pathways. NSF anticipates creating such CI CoEs in response to specific needs and gaps. NSF anticipates issuing Dear Colleague Letters to indicate interest in pilot CI CoE proposals on particular focus areas. NSF may initially invest in two-year pilot CI CoE projects which aim to develop concepts and plans and demonstrate feasibility through pilot activities as preparatory precursors to eventual proposals for establishing full-scale CI CoEs. The level of support for pilot CI CoE projects is expected to vary, based on the topic and range of activities proposed.
Lifecycle and expected endpoint. CI CoEs are typically expected to operate for five years and may be renewed, subject to the outcome of performance reviews, NSF prioritization, continuing demonstrated need for the CI CoE, and availability of funds, consistent with NSF merit review principles.
Guidance to proposers. Individuals interested in submitting a proposal for a CI CoE project must first discuss their project idea with the cognizant CI CoE Program Director(s) in the relevant areas prior to submission and indicate the occurrence of such a discussion as a Supplementary Document in the eventual proposal. Proposals submitted without such documented prior discussion will be returned without review.
NSF Foundational Research in Robotics (Robotics)
Link: https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505784
Limited Submission: No
Description
The focus of the Robotics program is on foundational advances in robotics. Robotics is a deeply interdisciplinary field, and proposals are encouraged that explore the full range of fundamental engineering and computer science research challenges arising in robotics. However, all proposals must convincingly explain how a successful outcome will enable transformative new robot functionality or substantially enhance existing robot functionality. The proposal should clearly articulate how the intellectual contribution of the proposed work addresses fundamental gaps in robotics.
Deadline: Anytime after August 1, 2020
NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER)
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505385
Limited Submission: No
Description
The CESER program aims to catalyze new science and engineering discovery pathways through early-stage collaborative activities between disciplinary scientists and engineers as well as developers/implementers of innovative cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities, services, and approaches. A central feature of successful CESER projects is a strong, mutually-dependent collaborative team comprising expertise in the target science/engineering discipline(s) and expertise in CI development and implementation.
Deadline: On-going