Engineering Information Foundation Grant Program

OSP Deadline: February 21, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: February 28, 2019

Award Amount: $5,000 - $25,000. Overhead is not allowed. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.  

 

The Engineering Information Foundation supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit their fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries. The foundation is interested in innovative projects with measurable results that promote significant and lasting change, projects that can be successfully replicated elsewhere, and methodologies that are specific, well-defined and cost-effective.

Open Technology Fund: Internet Freedom Fund

OSP Deadline: February 22, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2019

Award Amount: Up to $900,000 for a yearlong contract, though most supported efforts range between $50,000 and $200,000.

 

The Internet Freedom Fund supports projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and every-day people living within repressive environments who wish to speak freely online.

 

Preference is given to organizations and individuals without a history of prior support, and who have a deep understanding of the surveillance, censorship, and security issues affecting communities from the Global South living in repressive environments. Strong priority goes to projects with the potential for immediate impact and long-term sustainability, and that make intellectual property publicly available via open licensing and open source code. OTF highly values projects that incorporate collaborative partnerships with other organizations and/or individuals within the internet freedom community or their respective area of focus.

Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health: Targeted Topics in Mining Safety and Health Research *

OSP Deadline: March 1, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: March 8, 2019

Award Amount: Up to $750,000 for up to 36 months

 

The Alpha Foundation's mission is to improve mine safety and health through funding research and development projects. The Alpha Foundation is seeking to award research addressing the root causes of disease, injuries, and fatalities in the mining industry and achieve successful implementation of practical solutions derived from the research effort. The Foundation is now seeking proposals that address any of these topics and priority areas:

The Foundation is also interested in receiving strong proposals that address other compelling mining safety and health needs that are not explicitly listed.

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund New Directions Grants *

OSP Deadline: March 8, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: March 15, 2019

Award Amount: $110,000 over 2 years. Overhead is not allowed. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.    

 

The goals of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) are to support fundamental research in the petroleum field, and to develop the next generation of engineers and scientists through support of advanced scientific education. The New Directions (ND) Grants Program aims to stimulate a new direction of research for established faculty, and to support the careers of their student scientists and engineers. ND grants program provides funds to scientists and engineers with limited-or even no-preliminary results for a research project they wish to pursue, and who intend to use the PRF-driven preliminary results to seek continuation funding from other agencies. ND grants are to be used to illustrate proof of concept/feasibility. Accordingly, they are to be viewed as seed money for new research ventures. The lead principal investigator must demonstrate that this is an entirely new research direction from what the lead principal investigator has done to date.

 

The PRF Committee requires at least 60 percent of the total proposal budget be devoted to support the education and training of students (graduate students, undergraduates, graduate stipends and/or postdoctoral fellows). 

Eppley Foundation for Research: Support for Advanced Scientific Research

Sponsor LOI Deadline: March 15, 2019

Award Amount: Unspecified; the foundation disburses up to $460,000 a year; recent past awards have ranged from $11K to $28K

 

The Eppley Foundation for Research was incorporated in 1947 for the purpose of "increasing knowledge in pure or applied science...in chemistry, physics and biology through study, research and publication."  Particular areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, climate change, whole ecosystem studies, as well as research on single species if they are of particular significance in their environments, in the U.S. and abroad. The proposal is expected to be concise and incorporate clear statements of significance, objectives, novelty, methods, expectations of success, and why the researcher believes the work cannot reasonably expect federal support, or support from other conventional funding sources. It is important to the Foundation that the work proposed be novel in its insights and unlikely to be underway elsewhere. The Foundation is prepared to take risks.

 

The Eppley Foundation supports advanced, novel, scientific research by PhDs or MDs with an established record of publication in their specialties. The Foundation limits its contribution to overhead to 15 percent. Travel and fringe benefits do not qualify for overhead allocation.

 

Human Frontier Science Program Research Grants

Sponsor Deadline to Initiate an Application: March 18, 2019

Sponsor LOI Deadline: March 28, 2019

Award Amount: up to $450,000 per year for the whole team depending on the size of the team. A maximum of 10% overhead may be charged to the Program Grants. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application. The Young Investigator Grants are exempt from this policy.

 

HFSP supports international, preferably intercontinental, collaborations in basic life science research. Applications are invited for projects concerned with basic approaches to understanding complex mechanisms of living organisms. Applicants are expected to develop novel lines of research distinct from their ongoing research. The principal applicant must be located in one of the HFSP member countries but co-investigators may be located in any country.

 

Two types of Research Grant are available:

Breakthrough Prizes - Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics *

Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2019

Review by Harvard OSP not required

Prize Amount: $3,000,000

 

The Breakthrough Prizes recognize major achievements in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics, with special attention to recent developments.  

 

One Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ($3 million) will recognize an individual(s) who has made profound contributions to human knowledge. It is open to all physicists - theoretical, mathematical and experimental - working on the deepest mysteries of the Universe. The prize can be shared among any number of scientists. Nominations are also being taken for the New Horizons Prize in Physics, which awards $100,000 to junior researchers who have already produced important work in their fields.

 

Up to four Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences ($3 million each) will be awarded to individuals who have made transformative advances in understanding living systems and extending human life. One prize per year is for work contributing to the understanding of Parkinson's Disease & Neurodegenerative Disorders. 

 

One  Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics ($3 million) will be awarded to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics. Nominations are also being taken for the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics, which awards $100,000 to early career mathematicians who have already produced important work in their fields.

 

Nominations:

While institutional review is not required, nominators are asked to provide the names of any FAS or SEAS nominees to Erin Hale at [email protected].

Environmental Research and Education Foundation: Research in Sustainable Solid Waste Management *

OSP Deadline: April 24, 2019

Sponsor Pre-Proposal Deadline: May 1, 2019

Award Amount: Previously awarded grants have ranged from $15,000 to over $500,000 with the average grant amount in recent years being $160,000. Typical project durations are about 2 years.

 

The Environmental Research and Education Foundation funds projects with a strong focus towards research that relates to the sustainable waste management practices. Pre-proposal topics must relate to sustainable solid waste management practices and pertain to the following topic areas:

Desirable aspects of the above topics, in addition to or as part of hypothesis driven applied research, also include: economic or cost/benefit analyses, feasibility studies for untested technologies or management strategies, life cycle analysis or inventory, and analyses of policies that relate to the above.

There are a number of topics that may require approval before a pre-proposal will be considered. See RFP for a list of topics requiring approval. Investigators must contact EREF at least 2 weeks in advance to discuss the topic prior to submitting a pre-proposal.  

Proposed research in excess of $300,000 or longer than 3 years should contain sufficient details that justify the need for the higher than average amount and longer project duration.

Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Grants Program 2019*

Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: June 3, 2019 by 12 PM

Sponsor Deadline: August 1, 2019

Award Amount: $60,000 per year for up to three years

 

The Mallinckrodt Foundation supports early stage investigators engaged in biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. The funds are designed to provide faculty members who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, and who are in the first to fourth year of a tenure-track position (appointed on or after August 1, 2015), with support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained. Applicants with current R01 funding are not eligible to apply.

 

Please Note:  This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard may put forward only one nominee to submit a proposal. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will conduct the internal competition to select the Harvard nominee. To be considered for the Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal via the link above.

Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research

Deadline: February 28, 2019

Award Amount: up to $150,000 in direct costs for individual investigators; up to $300,000 in direct costs for collaborative proposals involving funding to multiple independent investigators (project budgets should not include indirect costs). Up to five awards will be made annually.

Eligible Applicants: This competition is open to ladder faculty members in the four participating schools (HMS, HSPH, FAS and SEAS). In HMS, this program is open to ladder faculty (assistant professors, associate professors, and professors) who have primary appointments in the HMS basic and social science departments AND whose laboratories are located on the HMS Quadrangle. In HSPH, eligible PIs include primary Harvard Chan School ladder faculty whose research operation is based at the Harvard Chan School.

 

The Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research (formerly known as the Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research) provides seed funding to interdisciplinary high-risk, high-impact projects in the life, physical, and social sciences. Early-stage projects that are unlikely to receive funding from traditional grant-making agencies are encouraged.

 

Individual investigators may request up to $150,000 in direct costs; collaborative proposals involving funding to multiple independent investigators may request up to $300,000 in direct costs. Only investigators based at the four participating schools may be included in the budget. Project budgets should not include indirect costs. 

 

Award recipients will present and discuss their projects with a range of scholars in multiple disciplines at a Challenge event on May 10, 2019, prior to receipt of funding.

Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship *

Deadline: March 5, 2019 by 5:00PM

Award Amount: $5,000 - $50,000
Eligible Applicants: FAS and SEAS assistant, associate and tenured faculty; professors in residence and professors of the practice are also eligible.

 

The Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship is a targeted program that provides funding in the following categories:

In addition, the    Inequality in America Initiative    is providing an additional increment of bridge and seed funding to support basic research and applied projects aimed at advancing the understanding of the causes and consequences of inequality, testing interventions, and developing and disseminating resources. The Initiative is especially interested in supporting research projects that engage with the   core themes   of the initiative and that involve any of the following: interdisciplinary collaboration among departments or Harvard schools; new and early career investigators; training opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students.  

Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund *

Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching: Spark Grants

Deadline: March 20, 2019

Award Amount: Up to $15,000

Eligible Applicants: Harvard University benefits-eligible faculty, staff, and postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply for funding, individually or as groups. 

 

The Spark Grants are designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success. Funding can be used in various ways; for example, to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, or convene collaborative groups. Through Spark Grants, awardees will receive resources, feedback, and community support to help them develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations. Each Spark Grant will be assigned a HILT Grants Coach, who will serve as a strategic thought partner during the funding cycle. HILT will also strive to support any future scaling-up of Spark Grant projects by increasing their visibility and connecting awardees and project outcomes with others in the broader Harvard community. In general, grant proposals should align with HILT's mission to catalyze innovation and excellence in teaching and learning at Harvard University.

 

 

The William F. Milton Fund

Deadline: April 1, 2019

Award Amount: Up to $50,000

Eligible Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a junior faculty appointment. This includes FAS and SEAS Assistant or Associate Professors, Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and those in a postdoctoral position at Harvard with a formal accepted offer to join the Junior Faculty at one of Harvard's schools.

 

The Milton Fund supports research projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history and science that promote the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, investigate and determine the value and importance of any discovery or invention, or assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease. Funds awarded through the Milton Fund support research to explore new ideas, to act as the catalyst between ideas and more definitive directions, and to consider new methods of approaching solutions.

DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative: Defense Applications (ERI:DA) *

• Technical Area 1 will support the immediate development or demonstration of ERI technologies, for the purpose of enabling defense capabilities, via a partnership between one or more current ERI program performers and an organization with a demonstrated ability to deliver technologies to the U.S. national security community.
• Technical Area 2 will support efforts where the proposing defense transition partner has not yet established a relationship with a current ERI performer on an Eligible ERI Program. Efforts should lead to the future development or demonstration of ERI technologies via a partnership between defense transition partners and an ERI program performer.
• Technical Area 3 will support the provision of infrastructure, to include facilities and personnel, for the purpose of enabling collaboration between defense transition partners, Government organizations, existing ERI performers, and other relevant science and technology organizations.

Research Interests of the United States Air Force Academy: CALL 0007: Research of Technologies Advancing Corrosion Prevention and Control *

Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (required): February 19, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA

Award Amount: The total anticipated funding for all awards made as a result of this CALL is up to $2M. The anticipated period of performance for awards resulting from this CALL is up to 4 years per award. The Government anticipates awarding 0-4 Cooperative Agreements as a result of this CALL.

 

The United States Air Force Academy's Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) performs a range of structural integrity research tasks in support of multiple Government, academic and commercial sponsors. Among these pursuits, CAStLE engages in a wide range of corrosion engineering and material science research efforts, with more emphasis on applied research, and that part of development not related to a specific system or hardware procurement.

 

This CALL is focused on fundamental research that can lead to the future development of capabilities to prevent and control corrosion and degradation of materials and the structures of systems and facilities. The ultimate goal of these capabilities is reducing costs, improving availability of systems and increasing the safety of military assets, which serve a dual interest in public structures and facilities. Projects must be new research efforts. Proposals for the continuation of existing research projects funded under previous grant or cooperative agreement awards are not desired. Collaboration among proposing institutions is strongly encouraged.

 

Specific research areas of interest include the following Corrosion Investment Categories:

NSWC-CRANE Experimental Research to Investigate the Ability to Control Pyrotechnic Flame Photoemission via Electromagnetic Stimulation *

OSP Deadline: February 20, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 27, 2019

Award Amount: $655,000 for 30 months. 3 Cooperative Agreements are anticipated.

 

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division is interested in funding experimental and computational research to investigate the ability to control pyrotechnic flame photoemission via electromagnetic stimulation. Next generation of pyrotechnic emitters requires a paradigm shift away from the "emission control via formulation" use of such hazardous reactants toward development of universal formulations with on command battlefield selectable emission characteristics. NSWC Crane is interested in fundamental research to demonstrate and develop an understanding to enable microwave-selectable color and intensity emissions within a single pyrotechnic formulation by exploiting electromagnetic flame interactions.

 

As part of the Cooperative Agreement, NSWC Crane can provide, upon request, the following government furnished equipment: a 2'x'4'x8' stainless steel RF cavity with waveguide connection panel, pyrotechnic loading door, exhaust system, and optional diagnostic ports; 2kW Microwave magnetron, waveguide, corresponding forward/reverse power meters, USB NI DAQ for easy data acquisition; UV/VIS Ocean Optics ectrometer and calibration source; NIR Ocean Optics spectrometer and calibration source; B&W Phantom High Speed Camera; Color Phantom High Speed Camera.

DARPA Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas (KAIROS)

OSP Deadline: February 20, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 27, 2019

Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this solicitation has not been predetermined and will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The program will have three phases. The first phase will be 18 months long, the second phase will be 24 months long, and the third phase will be 12 months long, for a total of 54 months.

 

DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) is soliciting innovative research proposals for the creation of a schema-based artificial intelligence capability to enable contextual and temporal reasoning about complex real-world events, in order to generate actionable understanding of these events and predict how they will unfold. DARPA is seeking revolutionary ideas that use schema-based AI to comprehend events, their components, and the participants involved. The KAIROS program will seek to overcome the scaling limitations of prior approaches in two stages. The first stage entails learning schemas from big data, and the second stage applies these schemas to multi-media/multilingual information to discover and extract complex events of interest to KAIROS users. Although it is expected that there will be some overlap between the technical approaches required for the two stages, each will likely require a different type of expertise.

 

The program will consist of four technical areas (TAs):

A proposal may address any single technical area, a combination of TA1 and TA2, or a combination of TA3 and TA4. DARPA anticipates multiple awards for Technical Areas 1 and 2 and single awards for Technical Areas 3 and 4.

DARPA Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) Opportunity: Intelligent Neural Interfaces (INI) *

OSP Deadline: February 25, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 4, 2019

Award Amount: The total award value for the combined Phase 1 base (6 months) and Phase 2 option (12 months) is limited to $1M.

 

DARPA is issuing an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) Opportunity inviting submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of neurotechnology. This AIE Opportunity is issued under the Program Announcement for AIE, DARPA-PA-18-02 .

 

This AIE Opportunity for the Intelligent Neural Interfaces (INI) program is soliciting proposals to establish the proof of concept prototype for third-wave artificial intelligence methods that could improve and expand the application space of next-generation neurotechnology. Teams will address two major challenges specific to central and/or peripheral neural interfaces. These challenges include: (1) decision making for sustainment and maintenance of neural interfaces to promote robustness and reliability, and (2) modeling and maximizing the information content of biological neural circuits to increase the bandwidth and computational abilities of the neural interface. Proposals must be unclassified and must address two independent and sequential project phases (a Phase 1 Feasibility Study (base) and a Phase 2 Proof of Concept (option)).

 

Two Technical Areas (TAs) have been identified for this program:

Proposers may address multiple technical areas (TAs) but please note that proposers shall address only one TA per proposal.

DARPA Measuring Biological Aptitude (MBA) *

Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): February 28, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: April 8, 2019

Award Amount: The amount of resources made available to each performer under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The MBA program will have a total period of performance of 48 months over three phases: 18-month Phase I (Base), 12-month Phase II (Option 1), and 18- month Phase III (Option 2).

 

DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO) is soliciting proposals for the Measuring Biological Aptitude (MBA) program which addresses the need for a more capable fighting force by improving how an individual warfighter identifies, measures, and tracks personalized biomarkers to help achieve new levels of performance for specialized roles throughout their career. The MBA program will give warfighters the ability to understand, in real-time, the underlying biological processes that govern their own performance by elucidating the internal expression circuits (e.g., genetic, epigenetic, metabolomic, etc.) that shape military-relevant cognitive, behavioral, and physical traits. Simultaneously, the program will create new technologies for tracking these expression circuits in real time, providing instantaneous user feedback to aid the warfighter to be successful throughout training, assessment and selection, and mission execution for their desired military specialty.

 

The MBA program will consist of three technical areas (TAs):

Proposing teams will be required to address both TA1 and TA2 together, and must provide an integrated, multidisciplinary approach addressing each element of TA1 and TA2. TA3 will require teams to submit an independent validation and verification (IV&V) plan to conduct separate analyses of all results generated in the program and verify and validate the analyses and technologies generated in the efforts under TA1 and TA2. To avoid conflicts of interest, teams that are selected for TA3 will not be allowed to perform on TA1 and TA2.

 

Multiple awards are anticipated.

DARPA Technologies for Mixed-mode Ultra Scaled Integrated Circuits (T-MUSIC)

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 12, 2019. Proposals may be submitted after the due date until April 8, 2019, though the likelihood of available funding is greatly reduced for proposals submitted after the initial closing date.

Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will

depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The T-MUSIC program is a four-year effort which will have an 18-month Phase 1, 18-month Phase 2, and 12-month Phase 3.

 

DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is soliciting research proposals for the development of advanced RF mixed-mode foundry processes, building blocks, and novel high frequency mixed-mode devices on a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) fabrication platform. It is expected that such advances will enable new DoD applications including high capacity, robust communications, radars, and precision sensors.

 

The T-MUSIC program consists of the following Technical Areas (TAs):

Proposers must submit to TA-1A and/or TA-1B independently. TA-2 is independent of TA-1, and proposals submitted to TA-2 must be separate and standalone from any submission to TA-1. Submitting to TA-1 does not require a submission to TA-2 and vice versa.

 

Multiple awards are anticipated. TA-1A is considered to be a large portion of the overall program effort and it is expected that at most two large awards will be made in this technical area. It is expected that multiple smaller awards will be made targeted to both TA-1B circuit demonstrations and TA-2 exploratory work. Approximately $70M of funding is anticipated for awards made against this BAA, with a distribution of:

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 12, 2019 for TA3; deadline has passed for TA1 & TA2

Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. SCORE is a 36-month program, comprising two phases with durations of 18 months each.

 

• TA1: Data
• TA2: Experts
• TA3: Algorithms

DARPA Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security (GAPS)

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 4, 2019 for TA3; March 22, 2019 for TA1 and TA2. Proposals for all TAs may be submitted after the due dates until April 8, 2019, though the likelihood of available funding is greatly reduced for proposals submitted after the initial closing dates.

Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. Each TA will consist of three 18 month phases.

 

DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of developing hardware and software architectures with physically provable guarantees to isolate high risk transactions and to enable systems with multilevel data security assertions. The proposed effort should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances for the DoD to maintain separation of systems with different security levels. The DoD needs to be able to leverage commercial hardware and most importantly, commercial software development paradigms to enforce physical primitives to increase security and allow the fusion of data across systems of different levels to support DoD operations.

 

GAPS is divided into three technical areas (TAs):

Proposers must submit to each Technical Area separately. While proposers may submit proposals for all three TAs, proposers selected for any TA cannot be selected for any portion of the other two TAs, whether as a prime, subcontractor, or in any other capacity from an organizational to individual level. This is to avoid organizational conflict of interest (OCI) situations between the TAs and to ensure objective test and evaluation results.

 

DARPA anticipates multiple awards for Technical Area 1 and 2 and a single award for Technical Area 3.

DARPA Panacea

OSP Deadline: February 14, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 22, 2019

Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The Panacea research and development program is divided into three sequential Phases: Phase 1 (Base) - 24 months, Phase 2 (Option) - 24 months, and Phase 3 (Option) - 12 months.

 

Human physiology is a limiting factor in the operational readiness of the United States Department of Defense. When the human body is damaged or a physiological system is not functioning optimally, interventions are required to help mend the injury or support continued performance. DARPA's Biological Technologies Office seeks to develop new technological approaches in medicinal chemistry and systems pharmacology to expand the druggable proteome and discover new therapeutic tools in the areas of soft tissue pain/inflammation and metabolic stress that limit optimal physiological function. This new platform technology will directly address needs within the Department of Defense to support the unique physiological demands of the warfighter and provide proof-of-concept for novel drug discovery and development pipelines.

 

Proposals must address both of the following major tasks:

• Task 1: Predict and evaluate drug targets and effects.
• Task 2: Novel intervention design and synthesis.

Multiple awards are anticipated.

DTRA Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (C-WMD): Amendment 9 *

Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Application White Papers (required): March 4, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA

Award Amount: Varies by topic area. Please see the BAA for additional information.

 

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) safeguards America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and provides capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat and effects from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives. DTRA seeks to identify, adopt, and adapt emerging, existing and revolutionary sciences that may demonstrate high payoff potential to Counter-WMD (C-WMD) threats, including improvised threats.

 

In this Amendment, DTRA solicits White Papers under Thrust Area 7 - Fundamental Science for Chemical and Biological Defense in the following topic areas:

Please Note:  Topic I7: An Every-Atom-Counts Approach to Designing Small Cluster Catalysts and Topic I9: Design of Repellent Permanent Thin Films for Chemical and Biological Agent Resistance have been removed from this solicitation and abstracts will not be accepted in those areas. DTRA's requirement for abstract pre-coordination is waived for these topic areas; pre-coordination of an abstract is not required for these topics prior to the submission of a pre-application white paper.

CDMRP DMRDP JPC-6/CCCRP Multi-Domain Lifesaving Trauma Innovations (MuLTI) Award *

Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Proposals (required): March 5, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): May 29, 2019

Award Amount: The anticipated total costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for an FY19 MuLTI Award shall not exceed $2.5M in total costs for studies involving prospective accrual of human subjects and clinical trials, and $1M in total costs for all other research. The maximum period of performance is 3 years. The JPC-6/CCCRP expects to allot approximately $10.7M of its FY19, $9.9M of its FY20, and $9.5M of its FY21 appropriations to fund approximately 12-30 awards, depending on the quality and number of proposals received.

 

This Funding Opportunity Announcement is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) through the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) for the Joint Program Committee-6/Combat Casualty Care Research Program (JPC-6/CCCRP) Multi-Domain Lifesaving Trauma Innovations (MuLTI) Award. The MuLTI Award will support the development of highly innovative materiel products and new ways, methods, or modifications to existing trauma practice (i.e., knowledge products) for future multi-domain operations (MDO) where evacuation capabilities may be significantly delayed or unavailable. Projects should consider the varied expertise levels of the medical providers and the possible diverse environmental conditions. A focus is on enhancing capabilities at the point of greatest need, including life-saving interventions to be rendered immediately post-injury, during periods of prolonged care in theater, and during transport/en route care within and from theater. Medical materiel solutions are encouraged to include characteristics relevant to military use in austere, combat environments. Projects funded under this BAA must be for applied and clinical research (including clinical trials) not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement. This BAA may not be used to support fundamental basic research. Research and development funded through this BAA is intended and expected to benefit and inform both military and civilian medical practice and knowledge.

 

This program has three overarching Focus Areas for funding in FY19:

• Focus Area 1 - Prolonged and En Route Care
• Focus Area 2 - Battlefield Resuscitation for Immediate Stabilization of Combat Casualties
• Focus Area 3 - Neurotrauma

ESTCP Broad Agency Announcement

Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Proposals (required): March 7, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): August 1, 2019 for Environmental Technologies proposals; August 8, 2019 for Installation Energy proposals

Award Amount: Unspecified

 

The Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) demonstration and validation program for environmental and installation energy technologies. The ESTCP Office is interested in receiving pre-proposals for innovative technology demonstrations that address DoD environmental and installation energy requirements as candidates for funding. ESTCP demonstrations are conducted under operational conditions at DoD facilities or locations for which DoD holds environmental responsibility. Candidate technologies are expected to have successfully completed laboratory testing and, when applicable, initial small-scale field testing. The demonstrations are intended to generate supporting cost and performance data for acceptance or validation of the technology. ESTCP demonstration projects also are required to support the future implementation of the tested technology through the development of appropriate guidance, design, and/or protocol documents.

 

Technologies in the following topic areas will be considered for funding:

It is expected that multiple awards totaling approximately $12 million will result, depending on availability of funds. 

ARL BAA for Basic and Applied Scientific Research: Translational Research Innovative Application Discovery (TRIAD) *

Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (required): March 8, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: TBA

Award Amount: Awards made in FY19 are expected to have a two year period of performance with potential for up to three additional years.

 

The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Scientific Research was recently amended to include a new topic in innovative research solutions. This initiative is seeking research and development solutions in support of new technologies and translational research-based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of applied research and technology to enable the Army of 2028 to be ready to deploy, fight, and win decisively against any adversary, anytime, and anywhere, in a joint, multi-domain, high-intensity conflict, while simultaneously deterring others and maintaining its ability to conduct irregular warfare. Solutions sought in conjunction with this effort consist of innovation-enabling technologies and approaches that will improve the Army's ability to rapidly and cost-effectively capitalize on global advances in the following areas:

Applicants need not address all of the technology areas but must address how they would enable the Army to develop or exploit novel methodologies to develop and assess the value of new technologies and particularly multi-disciplinary solutions. It is anticipated that one or more awards will be made in FY19.

 

DARPA Underminer *

OSP Deadline: March 8, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 15, 2019

Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this Special Notice will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. Multiple awards are expected, with total funding not to exceed $11M dollars. DARPA envisions a fifteen-month effort.

 

This announcement describes a research thrust, entitled "Underminer," released under DARPA's current Tactical Technology Office (TTO) Office Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Disruptive Capabilities for Future Warfare . The goal of the Underminer program is to demonstrate the feasibility of rapidly constructing tactical tunnel networks that enable secure, responsive resupply. Adversaries, peer competitor nations, and allies around the world are building and exploiting tunnels for tactical operations. Capability exists in the commercial sector be it oil/gas, utility, geological, environmental, or other industries in this area. However, no DoD Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) includes offensive tactical tunneling, nor does any technology or equipment support tactical tunnel creation or exploitation. In addition, current tunneling operations primarily rely on exploratory bores and above ground guidance beacons, both closely-coupled with human operators to guide drilling/boring routes. Underminer will create aggressive tunneling approaches, downhole sensing, and operations concepts that surpass these limitations. A tactical tunnel network could provide secure logistics support infrastructure, enabling concepts of operations (CONOPS) such as pre-positioning supplies in advance of an operation or providing ongoing resupply as troops move through an area. The ability to rapidly bore tactical tunnels could be helpful in contingency operations such as rapid ammunition resupply, rescue missions, or other immediate needs.

 

DTRA Chemical/Biological Technologies FY2019 Program Build *

Sponsor Deadline for Phase I White Papers (required): March 18, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Phase II Full Proposals (if invited): June 13, 2019

Award Amount: Budget limits not specified. The period of performance may be a maximum of five years.

 

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies (CBT) were established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide state-of-the-art defense capabilities to allow military forces of the United States to operate and to successfully complete their missions in chemical and biological warfare environments. The scope of mission efforts and the priorities assigned to specific projects are influenced by changes in military and civilian Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD) science and technology, advanced developments, operational requirements, military threat assessments, and national defense strategies. To keep pace with defense capability requirements, the CBD as part of its mission, routinely promulgates chemical and biological research. The comprehensive research program encompasses both intramural and extramural sources, and the role of each is vital to the fulfillment of the Program objectives.

 

DTRA is seeking optimum approaches to meet technology objectives within the areas listed below, with a goal to identify and select science and technology projects that can be transitioned to joint acquisition programs: 

Please see the BAA for a list of more specific topic areas of interest.

CDMRP Peer Reviewed Medical Research Programs (PRMRP) *

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline: Varies by award type. See below for details.

Award Amount: Varies by award type. See below for details.

 

The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Peer Reviewed Medical

Research Programs (PRMRP) supports research across the full range of science and medicine, with an underlying goal of enhancing the health, care, and well-being of military Service members, Veterans, retirees, and their family members. The PRMRP is committed to supporting research that has the potential to profoundly impact the development and implementation of medical devices, drugs, and clinical guidance that will enhance the precision and efficacy of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment across a wide range of disciplines including cardiovascular and endocrine health, autoimmune diseases and immunology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, neurological and psychological health, orthopedic and regenerative medicine, and respiratory and environmental health and injury. Congress appropriated $350 million for the FY19 program to solicit proposals in 49 topic areas.

 

A number of award mechanisms are available under the PRMRP:

 

DARPA Material Architectures and Characterizations for Hypersonics (MACH) *

OSP Deadline: April 4, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: April 11, 2019

Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The MACH program is a four year, two-phase effort. Proposals should be structured as a 27-month base Phase I with a 21-month optional Phase II.

 

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of high performance leading edges for hypersonic air platforms. The Materials Architectures and Characterization for Hypersonics (MACH) program seeks to demonstrate new thermal management designs and materials solutions for sharp, shape-stable leading edges for hypersonic vehicles. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in the materials design and implementation of shape-stable, high heat flux capable leading edge systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice without significant added cooling, including enhancements to composites composed principally of C-C (e.g. utilizing coatings to enable higher temperature operation), approaches that rely principally on ablation as a thermal management method (shape change is not acceptable), and techniques for enhancing heat transfer solely through solid conduction (e.g. utilizing highly conductive materials in C-C to increase emissive heat rejection).

 

The program is divided into two Technical Areas (TAs). TA1 will focus on developing and testing fully integrated thermal management systems for a scaled leading edge. TA2 will focus on next generation leading edge materials research that can enable leading edge capability well beyond TA1 performance metrics including new thermal management techniques, metals, ceramics, and coatings, as well as new computational capabilities required to develop these new techniques and materials. Proposers may submit to either or both TAs. If planning to submit to both TA1 and TA2, separate proposals must be written for each TA.

 

DARPA anticipates multiple awards.

DARPA Polyplexus Pilot 2 * 

Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): August 14, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: September 3, 2019

Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this solicitation has not been predetermined and will depend on the scope and quality of the proposals received, as well as the availability of funds. Approximately 10 awards at the $100,000 level for 12-month projects are anticipated throughout the duration of this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA).

 

DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is seeking participants for a pilot program designed to utilize modern connectivity to rapidly develop promising basic research pathways and then efficiently develop basic research proposals. DSO's intent is to fund research proposals resulting from this pilot program. As with other recent DARPA/DSO opportunity announcements, the goal of this program is to deliver research proposals that seek to investigate innovative approaches to enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. In particular, this announcement is intended to support the DSO mission to anticipate scientific surprise.

 

Note that submission of abstracts and proposals is not mandatory to participate in the Polyplexus platform. Researchers who desire to participate due to curiosity; the desire to learn, teach, or explore; or any other constructive reason are encouraged to do so. Pilot participation is open to all scientists and engineers who want to engage in this online platform. 

Please Note:  Interested participants should go directly to  polyplexus.com  to register instead of using the original website provided in DARPA-SN-18-78 Special Notice.  

ONR Sabbatical Leave Program 

OSP Deadline: Review not required for individual fellowships

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: Rolling (proposals must be submitted 6 months prior to the start of the proposed sabbatical)

Award Amount: Participants receive a monthly stipend making up the difference between salary and sabbatical leave pay from their home institution. Relocation and travel assistance are provided to qualifying participants. Appointments will last for a minimum of one semester to a maximum of one year in length.

 

The Sabbatical Leave Program provides an opportunity for faculty members to engage in scholarly, creative, professional, research, or other academic activities at a sponsoring U.S. Navy Laboratory that will enhance the faculty member's further contributions to their institution. This program is residential and all work must be completed on site.

 

Expected benefits of the Sabbatical Leave Program:

• Broaden the scope and horizon of faculty member's research interests and provide a foundation for future research collaborations.
• Provide an understanding of the Department of the Navy research interests and the technological implications thereof, thus enhancing the abilities of Fellows to pursue and obtain funding for research at their home institution.
• Foster lasting relationships between Fellows and the researchers at the Navy laboratories.

Applicants are required to identify a mentor at a Participating Laboratory that matches the applicant's research interests.

 

Data Science for Discovery in Chemical and Materials Sciences *

Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): March 8, 2019

Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2019

Award Amount: Up to $500,000/year for up to 3 years

 

ARPA-E: Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-Control (ATLANTIS) *

Office of Science: New Bioimaging Approaches for Bioenergy

Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): April 4, 2019

Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: May 20, 2019

Award Amount: $500,000-$750,000/year for 3 years

 

The DOE Biological Systems Science Division in Biological and Environmental Research hereby announces its interest in receiving applications to support fundamental research towards enabling new bioimaging approaches to achieve an advanced understanding of plant and microbial systems relevant to bioenergy research.

 

New quantum dot (QD)-based-imaging approaches including quantum probes and sensors, and complementary optical imaging instrumentation, are needed to allow the observation and characterization of multiple complex biological processes occurring within living plant and microbial systems, including rhizosphere and soil microbiomes. Processes of interest include, but are not limited to measuring enzyme function within cells, tracking metabolic pathways in vivo, monitoring the transport of materials within cells or across cellular membranes, monitoring signaling processes between cells within plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. Development of probes and sensors with desirable optical properties functionalized with specific biologically active molecules to interact and bind with specific cellular targets of interest are encouraged. Proposed approaches should enable dynamic localization and imaging to facilitate testing and validation of hypothesized cellular processes. It is expected that applications will make use of quantum-dot enabled approaches for imaging of biological targets non-destructively and in real time, to dramatically enhance our ability to measure biological processes in and among living cells.

Other DOE Opportunities

Proposers' Day Notification for Secure, Assured, Intelligent Learning Systems (SAILS) and Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) *

Registration Deadline: February 20, 2019

Proposers Day Conference: February 26, 2019 9:00AM-4:30PM

 

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) will host a Proposers' Day Conference for the SAILS and TrojAI programs on February 26, 2019 in anticipation of the release of two new solicitations. The Conference will provide information on the SAILS and TrojAI programs and the research problems the programs aim to address. Questions from potential proposers will also be answered. The Conference will be held from 9:00-4:30 EST in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Additionally, the Conference will be remotely accessible via conference call; remote attendees' questions can be emailed in during the Conference and addressed during a dedicated Q&A session.

 

Attendees must register no later than 5pm EST on February 20, 2019 at https://eventmanagement.cvent.com/SAILSTrojAIPD

 

The SAILS program aims to develop methods for creating models robust to attacks against privacy. The goal is to provide a mechanism by which model creators can have confidence that their trained models will not inadvertently reveal sensitive information. Towards this end, SAILS will focus on a variety of problem domains, to include speech, text, and image, as well as black box and white box access models. Performers will be expected to develop techniques, including but not limited to new training procedures, new model architectures, or new pre-/post-processing procedures. Developed methods will be scored against state-of-the-art baselines within the chosen domain while using published model vulnerabilities. The SAILS draft BAA can be found here.

 

The goal of the TrojAI program is to combat Trojan attacks by finding them in AIs, before the AI is deployed. Performers will create software that reads in an AI's code and states the probability that the AI has a Trojan. Performers' software will be tested against thousands of real AIs, with and without Trojans inside them. TrojAI will initially focus on AIs created for simple image classification tasks; if successful, TrojAI will then expand to examine AIs from other problem domains, such as audio or text classification. The TrojAI draft BAA can be found here.

2019 Dual Use Technology Development Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Sponsor Deadlines for Step-1 Proposals (required): May 1, 2019

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Award Amount: NASA awards will range from $10,000 to $100,000 for up to 12 months, and must be matched or exceeded by Offeror contributions. Contributions can be cash, in-kind (non-cash) resources, or a combination of each.

 

Under this program, NASA seeks to award cooperative agreements for technology development partnerships with United States commercial businesses and/or colleges and universities with the goal of developing a technology to meet a specific NASA need at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), as well as those of the partner. This goal will be accomplished by selecting Offerors who will cooperatively share in the development cost of the technology that meets the specified NASA need. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama, is one of NASA's largest and most diversified installations. The Marshall Center provides leadership in the complex engineering of space transportation and propulsion systems, large space structures and systems, and scientific research to make human space exploration a reality.

 

This CAN will follow a 2-step process for proposal submissions. Step-1 of the proposal process is submission of a White Paper by the Offeror. The Offeror may submit a Step-1 White Paper at any time prior to the due date of either one of two White Paper open periods. In Step-2 of the process, NASA will assess each White Paper submitted in the 2 applicable open periods and invite selected Offerors to submit a full project Proposal.

 

Multiple awards are anticipated.

Unsolicited Proposals

 

1. Review the current versions of the NASA Strategic Plan and documents from the specific directorate, office, or program for which the proposal is intended to determine if the work planned is sufficiently relevant to current goals to warrant a formal submission.
2. Potential proposers must review current opportunities to determine if any solicitation already exists to which the potential project could be proposed.
3. Potential proposers should review current awards (e.g., by doing key word searches at Research.gov, or at the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) grant status page, and the NASA Life and Physical Sciences Task Book) to learn what, if any, related work is already funded by NASA. Such preparation reduces the risk of redundancy, improves implementation, and sometimes results in collaboration.

Johnson Space Center Research Opportunities for ISS Utilization: Exploration Technology Demonstration and National Lab Utilization Enhancements 

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to sponsor deadline

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: Rolling through December 31, 2019 (see solicitation for schedule of review cycles)

Award Amount: Details below

 

This announcement is for the development of experiment hardware with enhanced capabilities; modification of existing hardware to enable increased efficiencies (crew time, power, etc.); development of tools that allow analyses of samples and specimens on orbit; enhanced ISS infrastructure capabilities (eg, communications or data processing); and specific technology demonstration projects. Submission of a white paper is recommended in advance of a full proposal.

 

Within the NASA International Space Station (ISS) Research Integration Office, the Technology and Science Research Office (TSRO) and Commercial Space Utilization Office (CSUO) act as "gateways" to the ISS. The Technology and Science Research Office serves as the gateway for NASA-funded technology demonstrations. The Commercial Space Utilization Office serves as the gateway for non-NASA government-funded investigations, as well as non-profit or commercially-funded investigations.

 

Proposed technology demonstrations submitted to TSRO should address at least one of the technology areas mentioned in the ISS Technology Demonstration Plans .

NASA also seeks technological concepts via CSUO related to the National Lab Thrust Areas and to expand the onboard research and analytical capabilities. The general thrust areas are:

• Innovative uses of the ISS or ISS hardware that leverage existing capabilities to stimulate both utilization of the ISS and economic development in the U.S.
• Other improvements to existing ISS capabilities, including but not limited to infrastructure, in situ analytical tools, and communication/data transmittal, to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the technology demonstrations and science investigations performed on the ISS.
• Unique partnering arrangements that leverage NASA's existing capabilities but increase the commercial participation in research and on board services. 

Funds are not currently available for awards under this NASA Research Announcement (NRA). The Government's ability to make award(s) is contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds from which payment can be made and the receipt of proposals that NASA determines acceptable for award under this NRA. Successful proposals will have launch and integration costs covered by NASA. 

Other NASA Opportunities

NIH Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams *

Harvard University Area Pre-Proposal Deadline: March 4, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: May 25, 2019

Award Amount: $1.5 million maximum direct costs per year. It is anticipated that most awards will be between $700,000-$900,000 direct costs. An additional $250,000 direct costs per year may be requested for optional exploratory pilot studies for ESIs.

 

This funding opportunity is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six PD/PIs that propose to conduct research to address complex and challenging biomedical problems, important for the mission of NIGMS, through deeply integrated, multidisciplinary research teams. Collaborative program teams are expected to accomplish goals that require considerable synergy and managed team interactions. Project goals should not be achievable with a collection of individual efforts or projects. Teams are encouraged to consider far-reaching objectives that will produce major advances in their fields. Applications should address critical issues and be sufficiently challenging, ambitious, and innovative that objectives could not be achieved by individual investigators.

 

To be successful, programs of this level of complexity are expected to require significant effort from all PD/PIs involved. The contact PD/PI is required to devote at least 30% of his/her time available for research to this award, while other PD/PIs are required to devote at least 25% of his/her time available for research to this award. The time available for research should be expressed in person-months and should not include time expended toward teaching, administration, and/or clinical duties. 

NIGMS intends to fund a limited number of applications. Therefore, consultation with relevant staff is strongly encouraged. Once applicants have identified overall program objectives and PD/PI participants, NIGMS staff may be able to advise applicants whether the proposed research strategy meets the goals and mission of the Institute, whether it addresses one or more high priority research areas, and whether it is appropriate for a collaborative team program. 

Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity and only one application may be put forward from the Harvard University Area (Cambridge campus) per review cycle . Therefore, applicants from the University Area who wish to apply for the May 25, 2019 NIH deadline must first submit a pre-proposal via the link above no later than March 4, 2019. Those interested in applying for subsequent NIH deadlines of January 25, 2020 or May 25, 2020 should NOT apply to this competition, but are encouraged to express their interest via email to Erin Hale at  [email protected] .

NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Programs *

FAS/SEAS Statement of Intent Deadline: March 11, 2019 by 5:00PM

Sponsor Deadline: May 31, 2019

Award Amount: $50,000-$2,000,000

Target Applicants: Groups of three or more PIs on active, distinct NIH research awards

 

The objective of these three NIH Instrumentation Grant Programs is to make available to institutions expensive research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational or clinical areas of biomedical/behavioral research.  The program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. These grant programs include the Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (for requests $50,000-$600,000), the High End Instrumentation Grant Program (for requests $600,001-$2,000,000), and the Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research Grant Program (SIFAR) (for requests $50,000-$750,000 for instrumentation to support research using animals or related materials).

 

While there is no restriction on the number of applications an institution can submit for these opportunities, there are restrictions on applications submitted for similar equipment from the same institution.  In order to determine if there are any overlapping requests within Harvard, potential applicants from FAS and SEAS are asked to submit a brief statement of intent to Erin Hale at [email protected] no later than March 11, 2019 . 

 

The statement of intent should include the following:

• BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - March 7, 2019
• Pre-application for a Biomedical Technology Research Resource (X02) - March 15, 2019

STEM Education for the Future

• The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Shaping the Future [FW-HTF]
• Harnessing the Data Revolution for 21st Century Science and Engineering [HDR]

1. Proposals focused on educational transformation: These proposals will leverage technology, computation and/or big data to develop, implement, and analyze educational interventions designed to prepare a diverse workforce, researchers, and innovators of the future. Proposals that explore how students learn to integrate knowledge across disciplines to solve complex problems fall into this category. 
2. Proposals focused on the science of teaching and learning: These proposals will leverage technology, computation and/or big data to develop, implement, and analyze new tools for assessing and evaluating convergent education strategies that aim to promote student learning at all levels
3. Planning grants, Research Coordination Networks, Conference, and Workshop Proposals: These proposals will create communities of STEM educators to address convergent curriculum and pedagogical challenges across disciplinary boundaries brought about by the human-technology frontier, the data revolution, or both.

Conference Proposals on Concepts for Advancing Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) Research Networks

OSP Deadline: March 15, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 22, 2019
Award Amount: up to $50,000

NSF is calling for conference  proposals on "Concepts for Advancing Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) Research Networks." The conference proposals are to be submitted via FastLane to the Environmental Sustainability program ( PD 18-7643 ) in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport System Division of NSF's Directorate for Engineering. The most recent solicitation on Research Networks can be found here.  In January 2018, NSF's Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (ACERE) completed the report entitled "Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda." This report is accessible here . Preparation of conference proposals should be guided, but not constrained, by the ACERE report and the most recent Research Networks solicitation. In particular, it would be beneficial for conference proposals to include plans to identify activities that could catalyze strong industry-municipality-academia collaborations on use-inspired research that has high potential for significant societal and sustainability impacts. It would also be advantageous for proposals to describe activities that will develop a deeper understanding of urban systems as integrated, social-ecological-technological systems and that will improve education related to SUS themes.

Planning for New Signals in the Soils (SitS) - Themed NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRCs)

OSP Deadline: April 10, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for IUCRC Planning Grant Preliminary Proposal: April 17, 2019 (second round)
Award Amount: The award amount for a planning grant seeking to establish a new IUCRC is $15,000 per academic institution with a 12-month duration. The $15,000 is for all applicable planning expenses including travel to the IUCRC "boot camp" and is inclusive of applicable Indirect Costs. 

 

This DCL encourages the submission of planning grant proposals, through the submission process described in the   IUCRC solicitation , for an eventual SitS-themed IUCRC. The planning grant theme should integrate fundamental science and engineering knowledge in different disciplines with the aim of developing a next generation of sensor systems capable of in situ measurement of dynamic soil biological, physical, and chemical variables over time and space in managed and unmanaged soils. These sensor systems will also require associated advances in ground penetration, data transmission, data analytics, dynamic models, and visualization tools. If successful, these research concepts will enable scientists and engineers to advance basic understanding of dynamic processes in soils and provide the underlying science and engineering to enable others to develop new ways of studying soil properties and managing soils and natural resources. Advances in measurement systems, understanding, and models will provide new capabilities that will enable practitioners to use new sensors, models, and time series data to achieve a better understanding of soil processes and higher efficiencies of resource use; this improved understanding will in turn help meet societal goals such as less contamination of soil and water supplies and greater food security, as well as address the "National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge" of managing the Nitrogen cycle.

 

For information on the appropriate SitS themes, please see the earlier NSF DCL on Signals in the Soil (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18047). For submitting a SitS-Themed IUCRC planning grant preliminary proposal, please review the current IUCRC program solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf17516). Submitters are strongly encouraged to contact IUCRC Program Officers Prakash Balan ([email protected]) or Andre Marshall ([email protected]) and relevant SitS Program Officers at [email protected] for guidance and topic approval prior to submitting a preliminary proposal for an IUCRC planning grant. 

Division of Chemistry (CHE) International Supplements 2019 *

OSP Deadline: April 24, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: May 1, 2019
Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget required

 

The Division of Chemistry is inviting requests for supplemental funding from its existing awardees who may wish to add a new, or strengthen an existing, international dimension of their award when such collaboration advances the field of chemistry and enhances the U.S. investigator's own research and/or education objectives. Principal Investigators supported by NSF Division of Chemistry awards are advised to consult with their cognizant NSF program director prior to submitting a supplemental funding request.  Supplemental funding requests should address how the proposed international collaboration enhances intellectual merit and broader impacts in the following ways:

EarthCube Office *

OSP Deadline: February 21, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: February 28, 2019

Award Amount: $1M - $2M per year for 3 years, pending availability of funds

EarthCube is a community-driven activity to transform the conduct of geosciences research and education, sponsored through a partnership between the NSF Directorate of Geosciences and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. EarthCube aims to accelerate the ability of the geosciences community to understand and predict the Earth system by enabling access to geosciences data. EarthCube will require a long-term dialog between NSF and the interested scientific communities to develop new modes for sharing data that is thoughtfully and systematically built to meet the current and future needs of geoscientists.

This solicitation seeks the services of a qualified organization to act as the EarthCube Office. This organization will provide the services required to maintain and manage the community governance structures and to carry out activities consistent with EarthCube priorities as guided by community governance. The award, to be administered as a Cooperative Agreement, is intended to cover an initial 3-year period.

Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Frameworks (I-DIRSE-FW) *

OSP Deadline: April 30, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: May 7, 2019
Award Amount: It is anticipated that 8 - 10 awards will be made in FY 2019 pending availability of funds and the type, scale, and variety of project ideas proposed. Up to a total of $21 million is available for 8 - 10 two-year awards stemming from the Frameworks proposals.

 

The HDR Institutes activity seeks to create an integrated fabric of interrelated institutes that can accelerate discovery and innovation in multiple areas of data-intensive science and engineering. The HDR Institutes will achieve this by harnessing diverse data sources and developing and applying new methodologies, technologies, and infrastructure for data management and analysis. The HDR Institutes will support convergence between science and engineering research communities as well as expertise in data science foundations, systems, applications, and cyberinfrastructure. In addition, the HDR Institutes will enable breakthroughs in science and engineering through collaborative, co-designed programs to formulate innovative data-intensive approaches to address critical national challenges.

 

This program encourages applications from teams of researchers proposing Frameworks for integrated sets of science and engineering problems and data science solutions. The conceptualization phase will result in two-year awards aimed at building communities, defining research priorities, pursuing initial interdisciplinary fundamental research advances, and/or developing interdisciplinary prototypes of systems/cyberinfrastructure solutions. NSF anticipates implementing the subsequent convergence and co-design phase in the 2021 timeframe with awards that integrate and scale successful initial prototypes into larger, more comprehensive HDR Institutes that bring together multiple and new science and engineering communities with computer and computational scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and information scientists around common data science approaches.

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE: CUE) *

Materials Innovation Platforms *

OSP Deadline: April 19, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: April 26, 2019

Award Amount: See description below

 

Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. These tools in a user facility benefit both a user program and in-house research, which focus on addressing grand challenges of fundamental science and meet national needs. MIPs embrace the paradigm set forth by the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which strives to "discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost," and conduct research through iterative "closed-loop" efforts among the areas of materials synthesis/processing, materials characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. In addition, they are expected to engage the emerging field of data science in materials research. Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other contributors who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how. The knowledge sharing is designed to strengthen collaborations among scientists and enable them to work in new ways, fostering new modalities of research and education/training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment.

 

The scientific focus of the MIP program is subject to change from competition to competition. The first MIP competition in 2015 focused on developing new bulk and thin-film crystalline hard materials. The second MIP competition, in 2019, focuses on the convergence of materials research with biological sciences for developing new materials.

 

The number of awards will depend on the availability of funds and the quality of the proposals. Awards totaling $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 over a five-year period are anticipated. The proposed budget must be commensurate with the scope of the project and thoroughly justified in the proposal. MIP funding is provided yearly. Pending the availability of funds, it is anticipated that $12,000,000 will be available in Fiscal Year 2019.

 

Please Note:  This is a limited submission opportunity and only one proposal may be submitted with Harvard as the lead.  If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Erin Hale in FAS Research Development at  [email protected].

National Science Foundation: Directorate for Engineering (NSF: ENG)

• Advanced Manufacturing (AM) - Rolling
• Biological and Environmental Interactions of Nanoscale Materials - Rolling
• Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) - Rolling
• Biophotonics - Rolling
• Biosensing - Rolling
• Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) - Rolling
• Catalysis - Rolling
• Cellular and Biochemical Engineering (CBE) - Rolling
• Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) - Rolling
• Combustion and Fire Systems - Rolling
• Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) - Rolling
• Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering (DARE) - Rolling
• Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) - Rolling
• Electrochemical Systems - Rolling
• Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) - Rolling
• Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN) - Rolling
• Engineering Design and System Engineering (EDSE) - Rolling
• Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) - Rolling
• Engineering of Biomedical Systems (EBMS) - Rolling
• Environmental Engineering - Rolling
• Environmental Sustainability - Rolling
• Fluid Dynamics - Rolling
• Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) - Rolling
• Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) - Rolling
• Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (M3X) - Rolling
• Molecular Separations - Rolling 
• Operations Engineering (OE) - Rolling
• Particulate and Multiphase Processes - Rolling
• Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics - Rolling
• Thermal Transport Processes - Rolling
• Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE) - Rolling 

OSP Deadline: February 25, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: March 4, 2019

Award Amount: up to $3M over up to 5 years (Track 1: Research Grants); up to $250,000 over up to 24 months (Track 2: Planning Grants) 

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) seeks innovations in Arctic observational networks and fundamental convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, and computing and information sciences, and engineering that address the intersection of natural, social, and built systems. NNA promotes initiatives that empower new research communities, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, integrates the co-production of knowledge, and engages partnerships, particularly among international stakeholders. NNA also strongly encourages projects that include or focus on advancing STEM education and workforce development objectives on the scientific themes described below.

Major goals of NSF's NNA Big Idea include:

Preliminary Proposal Deadline: March 4, 2019

OSP Deadline for Full Proposals (if selected): June 12, 2019

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if selected): June 19, 2019
Award Amount: Up to a total of $20 million is available for 10 - 15 two-year awards stemming from full proposals that will be developed in the Ideas Lab workshop.

 

NSF's  Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Big Idea  is a national-scale activity to enable new modes of data-driven discovery that will allow fundamental questions to be asked and answered at the frontiers of science and engineering. The HDR Institutes activity seeks to create an integrated fabric of interrelated institutes that can accelerate discovery and innovation in multiple areas of data-intensive science and engineering. HDR Institutes will be developed through a two-phase process involving conceptualization followed by convergence. The Ideas Labs contribute uniquely to the conceptualization phase of the HDR Institutes DIRSE activity by creating an environment for interdisciplinary teams, comprising individual participants with complementary expertise, to emerge organically through an iterative process. The process is designed to bring together diverse expertise into several Ideas Labs based on focused yet broadly applicable data-intensive research themes.

 

Submission of the preliminary proposal will be considered an indication of availability to attend and participate through the full course of a five-day Ideas Lab, which will be held at a location near the NSF headquarters in Alexandria, VA, on April 22 - April 26, 2019. It should be noted that travel to an Ideas Lab, accommodation, refreshments, and meals will be covered by NSF. Following the Ideas Labs, teams may be selected to submit full proposals to NSF by the June 19, 2019, deadline. Participation in an Ideas Lab is required to be eligible to submit a full conceptualization proposal pursuant to this solicitation.

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): Elements and Framework Implementations*

OSP Deadline: April 1, 2019

Sponsor Deadline: April 8, 2019

Award Amount: Estimated program budget, number of awards, and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds. Up to 25 Elements awards, and up to 10 Framework Implementations awards are anticipated . Up to $15,000,000 is expected to be available for Elements awards, and up to $31,500,000 is expected to be available for Framework Implementations awards .

 

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) umbrella program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure. This program continues the CSSI program by removing the distinction between  software and data  elements/framework implementations, and instead emphasizing integrated cyberinfrastructure services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation. This particular CSSI solicitation requests only Elements and Framework Implementations classes of awards.

Prospective Principal Investigators (PIs) should be aware that this is a multi-directorate activity and that they are encouraged to submit proposals with broad, interdisciplinary interests. PIs interested in responding to this solicitation are encouraged to refer to core program descriptions, Dear Colleague Letters, and recently posted descriptions on directorate and divisional home pages to gain insight about the priorities for the relevant areas of science and engineering to which their proposals may be responsive. Finally, it is strongly recommended that prospective PIs contact program officer(s) from the list of Cognizant Program Officers in the division(s) that typically support the scientists and engineers who would make use of the proposed work, to gain insight into the priorities for the relevant areas of science and engineering to which their proposals should be responsive. As part of contacting Cognizant Program Officers, prospective PIs are also encouraged to ascertain that the focus and budget of their proposed work are appropriate for this solicitation.

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For assistance, please contact:

Erin Hale

Senior Research Development Officer

[email protected] | 617-496-5252

Jennifer Corby

Research Development Officer

[email protected] | 617-495-1590