2021 National NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research Cooperative Agreement (Notice RRR CAN)
Letter of Interest Due: November 30, 2020
The National NASA EPSCoR Program has announced a new solicitation entitled “Rapid Response Research” (RRR) program. The goal of this effort is to develop close collaborations among NASA, industry and university faculty to solve specific current NASA research challenges. It is anticipated that approximately 20 research proposals that will not exceed $100,000 each for a one-year project duration will be awarded to address a subset of the NASA topics listed in the National solicitation Appendices (attached). Each jurisdiction may submit one proposal per NASA science office division (note: this is different from previous years), i.e., Nevada may submit, through the NV NASA EPSCoR Office, up to 9 proposals, but only one for each science office division addressing one of the research topics for that office division.
Any NSHE faculty member interested in submitting a proposal first submit a letter of interest. If there are multiple faculty interested in a common topic area or multiple topic areas within one NASA science office division, we will request that the faculty consider collaborating on a single proposal. If collaboration is not an option, the NV NASA EPSCoR Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) will review the letters of interest and select the proposal(s) that will be submitted to the National solicitation.
Eligibility: Faculty at NSHE institutions, particularly junior faculty, women, and members of other underrepresented populations are encouraged to apply. Faculty who have a current National NASA EPSCoR Research CAN project are not eligible to apply while their project is on-going.
Funding: The NASA EPSCoR RRR CAN will provide an award of $100,000 total for a one-year project period with no match requirement. The federally negotiated indirect cost recovery (ICR) rate for each NSHE institution must be included in the budget as well as the NSHE EPSCoR/SPO ICR rate.
