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Funding Friday 07/23/2021 Edition 35
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NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Instrumentation Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-MH-20-555) - Letter of Intent Due: 09/08/2021 and Application Due: 10/08/2021

The NIMH Instrumentation Program encourages applications from NIH funded investigators to purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available. Examples of instruments that might be submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include light microscopes, electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, and biomedical imagers.  

NIMH intends to commit a total of $5,000,000 to fund 11 awards in fiscal year 2020. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations.

Applications will be accepted with an award budget between $300,000 and $600,000. There is no maximum limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $600,000. S10 awards are only for the cost of the instrument, so indirect costs cannot be requested.

The maximum project period is 1 year.
NASA ROSES 2021: Planetary Major Equipment and Facilities NNH21ZADA001N-PMEF - $50,000-$200,000 approximately - Preliminary Proposal: 12/03/2021 and Full Proposal Due: 02/03/2022

The Planetary Major Equipment and Facilities (PMEF) program element allows proposals for the purchase or development of new or upgraded non-flight analytical, computational, telescopic, and other instrumentation to be used in investigations in Planetary Science Division (PSD) research programs.

For a proposal to be relevant to PMEF, the instrument must enable or enhance PSD funded research in at least one of the "Target" program elements listed in Table 1 of this program element directly below. In addition, PMEF proposals are allowed from NASA Centers to support activities conducted under the Internal Scientist Funding Model (ISFM), provided that the activities are demonstrated to be relevant to one of the non ISFM program elements. There are two types of PMEF instruments that may be proposed: Investigator Instruments and Facility Instruments.
NSF Division of Astronomical Studies Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) NSF 18-576 - Deadline: 11/15/2021

The Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for development of new technologies and instrumentation for astronomy and astrophysics. The program supports overarching science objectives of the Division of Astronomical Sciences. Development of innovative, potentially transformative technologies are encouraged, even at high technical risk. Supported categories include but are not limited to: advanced technology development or concept feasibility studies and specialized instrumentation to enable new observations that are difficult or impossible to obtain with existing means. Proposals may include hardware and/or software development and/or analysis to enable new types of astronomical observations. The program encourages making products of research available to the public. It also encourages community coordination of technology and instrumentation development efforts via an annual Principal Investigators meeting.
NSF Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF) NSF 16-609 - $500,000 - $1,000,000 - Deadline: Continuous

The Instrumentation and Facilities Program in the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR/IF) supports meritorious requests for infrastructure that promote research and education in areas supported by the Division (see
https://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=EAR). EAR/IF will consider proposals for:

  1. Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment that will advance laboratory and field investigations and student research training opportunities in the Earth sciences. The maximum request is $500,000. The maximum request for upgrade of research group computing facilities remains $75,000.
  2. Development of New Instrumentation, Techniques or Software that will extend current research and research training capabilities in the Earth sciences. The maximum request is $500,000.
  3. Community Facility Support to make complex and expensive instruments, systems of instruments or services broadly available to the Earth science research and student communities. There are no maximum request limitations but potential proposers of new Community Facilities must contact cognizant Program Officers before submission.

Planned research uses of requested instruments, software, and facilities must include basic research on Earth processes SUPPORTED BY CORE PROGRAMS OR SPECIAL PROGRAMS OF THE DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES (see https://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=EAR for a current list of programs funded by
the Division of Earth Sciences).

The Laboratory Equipment Donation Program (LEDP) was established by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to grant surplus and available used laboratory equipment to full-time faculty at universities and colleges in the United States for use in energy oriented Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educational programs. The listing of equipment available through LEDP is updated as new equipment is identified. It is available at no cost for a limited time and is granted on a first-received qualified application basis.
Althea Sheets, Communications Manager for Research Development, Office of Sponsored Programs, althea.sheets@unlv.edu, 702-895-1880
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