04/08/2022 Edition 58
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OSP is often asked "Where can I find equipment funding opportunities?". See the OSP Equipment Funding Opportunities webpage or see below for the most common external equipment funding opportunities.
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Provides support to purchase instrumentation in support of research in areas of interest to the DoD, including areas of research supported by the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment.
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Supports the acquisition of equipment/ instrumentation under the Research and Education Program for HBCU/MI. The Research and Education Program is designed to enhance the research capabilities of HBCUs and MIs and to strengthen their STEM education programs. The purpose of the FOA is to (1) support the acquisition of equipment/instrumentation to augment existing capabilities or to develop
new capabilities in research areas of interest to DoD, and (2) attract students to pursue studies leading to STEM careers. Although funding provided under this FOA cannot be used for student support, in order to further DoD’s objective of attracting students to pursue studies leading to STEM careers, applicants must address the impact of the requested equipment/instrumentation on student participation in research.
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Surplus and available used energy-related laboratory equipment to universities and colleges in the United States for use in energy oriented educational programs. The listing is of equipment available and is updated routinely. It is available at no cost for a limited time and is granted on the first-received qualified application basis.
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This program allows proposals for new or upgraded nonflight analytical, computational, telescopic, and other instrumentation required by investigations sponsored by the Planetary Science Research Program’s science research programs. A Planetary Major Equipment (PME) proposal may be submitted in one of two ways: (1) as a special section that is appended to an eligible Planetary Science research program; or (2) as a stand-alone equipment proposal submitted to an eligible Planetary Science research program.
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The Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single high-priced, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $25,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $250,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, basic cell sorters, confocal microscopes, ultramicrotomes, gel imagers, or computer systems.
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The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $600,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, and biomedical imagers.
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The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, X-ray diffractometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, and biomedical imagers.
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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.
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CCRI community awards provide infrastructure, tools, resources, and user services to support the associated research community in pursuing innovative research ideas to fruition. This could include equipment, testbeds, software, and data repositories needed to push the limits of computing, communications and information systems. CCRI awards are not meant to support resources used by only a single investigator, a single organization, or a closed group of organizations pursuing a common research agenda. Individual investigators or small groups of investigators may wish to consider embedding expenses for modest research equipment, datasets, or resources within their CISE research proposals.
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EAR/IF accepts proposals seeking support for the acquisition of new research equipment or the upgrade of existing equipment, and will consider proposals requesting support to acquire, ship and make suitable for research use, used analytical equipment. EAR/IF will consider Equipment Acquisition or Upgrade proposals from community colleges and minority serving non-Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education where the intended uses of the equipment are solely or predominantly focused on educational applications. EAR/IF accepts proposals seeking support for the development of new instrumentation, techniques and associated software that extend or will improve current research capabilities in the Earth sciences. EAR/IF will also consider the development of analytical standards and/or interlaboratory method comparisons under this category.
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The MRI Program serves to increase access to shared instrumentation for scientific and engineering research and research training. This program especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering by supporting proposals for shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments. Harvard may submit only three proposals for the NSF MRI competition. If three proposals are submitted, at least one of the proposals must be for instrument development (i.e., no more than two proposals may be for instrument acquisition).
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The Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research (Sustaining) Program supports the continued operation of existing research infrastructure that advances contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) at NSF. The Sustaining Program focuses primarily on sustaining critical research infrastructure that is cyberinfrastructure or biological living stocks and that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers. Projects are expected to ensure continued availability of existing, mature resources that will enable important science outcomes achieved by users representing a broad range of research supported by BIO and its collaborating organizations.
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Althea Sheets, Communications Manager for Research Development, Office of Sponsored Programs, althea.sheets@unlv.edu, 702-895-1880
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