CATEGORIES OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- Supplements to Existing Projects
- Limited Submissions
- Arts & Humanities
- Biomedical
- Business
- Engineering/Technology
Summary
Information about the funding opportunities and federal agency notices listed below follows, including links to the full requests for proposals or agency publications.
Supplements
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH/DHHS
National Institutes of Health/DHHS
National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Limited Submissions
Hearst Foundations
Journalism Awards Program -- Photojournalism Competition - News & Features Photography
Hutchinson (Fred) Cancer Research Center
Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health/CDC/DHHS
NIOSH Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health® (U19)
U.S. Agency for International Development
Sustainable Coastal Fisheries Management Activity in the Pacific Region
Arts & Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities/Natl. Fndn. on the Arts & Humanities
Dialogues on the Experience of War
National Endowment for the Humanities
Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations
Biomedical
Corporation for National and Community Service
AmeriCorps State and National Grants
National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
RFA-CA-20-053 -- Genomic Data Analysis Network: Genomic Data Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Eye Institute/NIH/DHHS
National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ERA Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) Follow up Studies
Administration for Children and Families
OPRE Improve Capacity for Administrative Data Sharing and Analysis: Child and Caregiver Outcomes Using Linked Data, Expanded (CCOULD X)
Administration for Children & Families
ACYF/FYSB Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: Culturally Specific Special Issue Resource Centers (CSSIRCs)
Administration for Children and Families
ACYF/CB Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
HIV Vaccine Research and Design (HIVRAD) Program (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health/ National Cancer Institute
Tobacco Control Policies to Promote Health Equity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes of Health/ National Cancer Institute
Genomic Data Analysis Network: Genomic Data Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Synopsis
National Institutes of Health/ National Eye Institute
NEI Audacious Goals Initiative: Translation-Enabling Models to Evaluate Survival and Integration of Regenerated Neurons in the Visual System (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Synopsis
National Institutes of Health/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
HeartShare: Next-Generation Phenomics to Define Heart Failure Subtypes (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health/ National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: Functional Neural Circuits of Interception (R01, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute
Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Collaborative Approaches to Engineer Biology for Cancer Applications (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes of Health/ The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice of Intent to Publish Funding Opportunity Announcements for Music and Health: Understanding And Developing Music Medicine (R01)
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice of Intent to Publish a HEAL Funding Opportunity Announcement for Research on Related DSM-5 Diagnoses (R2D2) Coordination and Dissemination Center
Business
Department of the Army
AMENDMENT -- SBSA -- Army SPARTN SBIR BAA 20.5
Department of the Navy
AMENDMENT--SBSA -- Sales Forces Training Materials and Services
Department of the Navy
Submarine Portable Launch System SBIR Phase III
Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering/NSF
CISE Community Research Infrastructure
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH/DHHS
Small Business Administration
Women’s Business Center - Initial Phase Grant
Engineering/Technology
Department of Energy
Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSYNBIO)
Department of Homeland Security
Blue Campaign Program Evaluation & Violence Prevention Advisement
Department of the Air Force
AMENDMENT -- Elastic Tactical Networking for Autonomous Swarms
Department of the Air Force
AMENDMENT -- Agile Cyber Technology 3 (ACT 3)
Department of the Navy
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health/CDC/DHHS
RFA-OH-20-002 -- Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement (U01)
Office of Naval Research
Navy ManTech - Composites Manufacturing Center (CMC)
Office of Naval Research
Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC) Broad Agency Announcement
National Science Foundation
Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
National Science Foundation
Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
Supplements
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH/DHHS
Application Deadline: 15-Oct-2020
Summary: The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) announces the availability of Administrative Supplements for the NINDS Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology and Emergency Medicine (R25 awards made in response to PAR-13-384, PAR-18-346) and subsequent reissuances.
National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Application Deadline: 16-Oct-2020
Summary: The participating Institutes and Centers (ICs) are inviting applications to expand existing awards that are not currently focused on Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias (AD/ADRD)—frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, vascular cognitive impairment with dementia, and multiple etiology dementias—to allow the research to develop such a focus. Active awards with project end dates in FY 2022 or later are eligible. The award may not be in a terminal no-cost extension or going into a no-cost extension in FY 2021. Please note that a few ICs limit no-cost extensions in the final non-competing year of an award. For that reason, it is important to contact staff at the Institute supporting the award when planning the request.
National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Application Deadline: Continuous Submission
Summary: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention hereby notify Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) holding specific types of research grants (activity codes listed above) that funds are available for administrative supplements to enhance the diversity of the research workforce by recruiting and supporting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from underrepresented backgrounds, including those from groups that have been shown to be nationally underrepresented in health-related research. This supplement opportunity is also available to PD(s)/PI(s) of research grants who are or become disabled and need additional support to accommodate their disability in order to continue to work on the research project. Administrative supplements must support work within the scope of the original project.
Limited Submissions
Hearst Foundations
Journalism Awards Program -- Photojournalism Competition - News & Features Photography
Application Deadline: 03-Nov-2020
Summary: This category of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program is for news and feature photography.
Limited Submission: This is a limited submission funding award opportunity. UAB may submit one (1) application. If you wish to prepare an application on behalf of UAB, please contact the Research Development Office (
Hutchinson (Fred) Cancer Research Center
Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Application Deadline: 15-Dec-2020
Summary: The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. Awardees will participate in a scientific symposium honoring Hal Weintraub and his commitment to innovative science.
Limited Submission: This is a limited submission funding award opportunity. UAB may submit one (1) application. If you wish to prepare an application on behalf of UAB, please contact the Research Development Office (
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health/CDC/DHHS
NIOSH Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health® (U19)
Application Deadline: 03-Feb-2021
Summary: NIOSH/CDC invites applications for the NIOSH Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health (TWH). The purpose of this FOA is to solicit meritorious applications for Centers of Excellence for TWH to develop and conduct a broad range of multidisciplinary research, intervention, outreach and education, and evaluation activities that advance the overall safety, health, and well-being of the diverse population of workers in our nation. Center structure should take advantage of diverse scientific resources and focus on local, regional, or national worker safety and health issues. Centers should emphasize creating and implementing evidence-based solutions to address evolving challenges and opportunities related to worker safety, mental and physical health, and well-being. Collaborations in partnership with academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and other groups focused on occupational safety and health are expected. Applicants must concisely describe the occupational health burden within their service area and directly link research and outreach activities to help alleviate the burden. Applicants should also clearly articulate the anticipated impacts of the proposed work, both during the project period and beyond.
Limited Submission: This is a limited submission funding award opportunity. UAB may submit one (1) application. If you wish to prepare an application on behalf of UAB, please contact the Research Development Office (
U.S. Agency for International Development
Sustainable Coastal Fisheries Management Activity in the Pacific Region
Application Deadline: 19-Oct-2020
Summary: This five-year Sustainable Coastal Fisheries Management Activity in the Pacific Region seeks to address the drivers of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing that are degrading coastal fisheries and biodiversity and negatively impacting local livelihoods, food stability, and maritime security. Through this cooperative agreement, the United States Agency for International Development, Pacific Islands (USAID/Pacific Islands) looks to co-develop an activity to support sustainable coastal fisheries and protection of associated coastal and marine ecosystems in the Pacific Islands Region. While the primary focus is on coastal fisheries, this activity considers the ecological connection of coastal and oceanic fisheries and thus seeks solutions to challenges of IUU fishing across the Pacific. This activity will support the overall development goal of increasing the self-reliance of Pacific Island partners. At the penultimate level, this activity will improve the quality of life for Pacific Islanders by increasing ecosystem services and resilience at both the ecosystem and community level. This will be done in connection with ensuring a free and open environment for the people of the Pacific Islands, and the implementation of safeguards to secure the natural capital associated with their coastal marine resources. Integrating private sector partners, civil society organizations (CSO), and various levels of governmental stakeholders will ensure long-term success of the program and a way to establish and foster partnerships within and between Pacific communities to reach this goal.
Limited Submission: This is a limited submission funding award opportunity. UAB may submit one (1) application. If you wish to prepare an application on behalf of UAB, please contact the Research Development Office (
Arts & Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities/Natl. Fndn. on the Arts & Humanities
Dialogues on the Experience of War
Application Deadline: 21-Sep-2020 [Optional]
Summary: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the Dialogues on the Experience of War program, as part of its current initiative, Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War. The purpose of the program is to support the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. Dialogues is designed to reach military veterans; however, men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public may also participate.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations
Application Deadline: Dec 02, 2020
Summary: The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations.
Biomedical
Corporation for National and Community Service
AmeriCorps State and National Grants
Application Deadline: 06-Jan-2021
Summary: The mission of CNCS is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. Through AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and the Volunteer Generation Fund, CNCS has helped to engage millions of citizens in meeting community and national challenges through service and volunteer action. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who engages in community service through an approved national service position. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits while serving. Upon successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award from the National Service Trust that members can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.
National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
RFA-CA-20-053 -- Genomic Data Analysis Network: Genomic Data Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: 13-Oct-2020 [Optional][LOI/Pre-App]
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to support genomic programs managed by the Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG). The overall goal of all CCG programs is to help elucidate the mechanisms of cancer initiation and evolution, as well as resistance to therapy by means of genomic characterization of well-annotated, high quality tumor samples. These data could, in the future, be used to identify and accelerate the development of new diagnostic and prognostic markers, new targets for pharmaceutical interventions, and new cancer prevention and treatment strategies. It is not the intent of this FOA to fund follow-up translational and functional studies, but rather to enable the cancer research community to develop a new generation of studies that will leverage the genomic findings from NCI programs for the benefit of cancer patients. NCI project data, both ongoing and completed, will provide a unique reference resource on cancer-specific genomic aberrations for the cancer research community at large.
National Eye Institute/NIH/DHHS
Application Deadline: 15-Dec-2020 [Optional][LOI/Pre-App]
Summary: The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate development of translation-enabling models for evaluating survival and integration of regenerated photoreceptors (PRCs) and retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in model systems that are closer to human visual anatomy, function and/or disease than current models. The development of these models, tools, devices, novel therapies and/or other resources is expected to provide a resource to vision researchers developing cell-replacement therapies for visual system diseases and disorders.
National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
Application Deadline: 17-May-2021
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams of clinical and mental health services researchers, behavioral scientists, social scientists, health information and communications technologists, health systems engineers, decision scientists, and mental health stakeholders (e.g., service users, family members, clinicians, payers) to engage in high-impact studies that will significantly advance clinical practice and generate knowledge that will fuel transformation of mental health care in the United States. Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers will support the rapid development, testing, and refinement of novel and integrative approaches for (1) optimizing the effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions for mental disorders within well-defined target populations; (2) organizing and delivering optimized mental health services within real world treatment settings; and (3) continuously improving the quality, impact, and durability of optimized interventions and service delivery within diverse care systems.
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Application Deadline: 10-Dec-2020
Summary: Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding complex neurobiological systems, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines. Through the CRCNS program, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Department of Energy (DOE); the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF); the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR); the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF); Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT); and Spain’s State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) and National Institute of Health Carlos III (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII) support collaborative activities that will advance the understanding of nervous system structure and function, mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies used by the nervous system.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ERA Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) Follow up Studies
Application Deadline: Nov 10, 2020
Summary: The purpose of this NOFO is to gain knowledge about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including risk factors for ASD and the expression of ASD, from childhood through early adulthood, and to obtain information that can be used to improve the health and functioning of individuals with ASD as they mature. This will be completed through 1) analysis of existing data and biospecimens from preschool-aged children and their families who participated in the CDC funded study known as the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED), a multi-phase, multi-site, case-control study of children identified at age 2-5 years with ASD, other developmental disabilities (DD), and from the general population (POP); and 2) longitudinal follow-up of and research on previous SEED participants to obtain information through early adulthood on their health and functioning, service use and needs, and the impact of ASD on their families.
Administration for Children and Families
OPRE Improve Capacity for Administrative Data Sharing and Analysis: Child and Caregiver Outcomes Using Linked Data, Expanded (CCOULD X)
Application Deadline: May 20, 2021
Summary: In order to support the development of state-level linked child welfare and Medicaid data, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) forecasts awarding $375,000 each in cooperative agreements for two years for the Improve Capacity for Administrative Data Sharing and Analysis: Child and Caregiver Outcomes Using Linked Data, Expanded (CCOULDX) project
Administration for Children & Families
ACYF/FYSB Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: Culturally Specific Special Issue Resource Centers (CSSIRCs)
Application Deadline: May 20, 2021
Summary: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPSA) Program seeks to award three cooperative agreements under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, to establish and maintain three Culturally-Specific Special Interest Resource Centers (CSSIRC) that will enhance intervention and prevention efforts for victims of domestic violence for members of racial and ethnic minority groups: African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Latino/Latina
Administration for Children and Families
ACYF/CB Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2021
Summary: This funding opportunity announcement will fund 4-8 Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) sites for five-year intensive projects of national significance to demonstrate integrated, cross-sector approaches that engage communities in developing child and family well-being systems. Projects will be informed by public health models and approaches and work to improve overall child and family well-being by strengthening the whole family and reducing the likelihood of child maltreatment and unnecessary contact with the formal child welfare system
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
HIV Vaccine Research and Design (HIVRAD) Program (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: Mar 15, 2023
Summary: The HIV Vaccine Research and Design (HIVRAD) Program supports projects that address hypotheses crucial to the design of an efficacious HIV/AIDS prophylactic vaccine. Extensive evaluation of vaccine concepts in non-human primates may be included. Small animal models, such as transgenic humanized mice, may be included.
National Institutes of Health/ National Cancer Institute
Tobacco Control Policies to Promote Health Equity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: Sep 07, 2023
Summary: The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce tobacco-related cancer health disparities, and in doing so, to promote health equity among all populations. Applicants submitting applications related to health economics are encouraged to consult NOT-OD-16-025 to ensure that the research projects align with NIH mission priorities in health economics research.
National Institutes of Health/ National Cancer Institute
Genomic Data Analysis Network: Genomic Data Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Synopsis
Application Deadline: Nov 12, 2020
Summary: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is designed to support genomic programs managed by the Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG). The overall goal of all CCG programs is to help elucidate the mechanisms of cancer initiation and evolution, as well as resistance to therapy by means of genomic characterization of well-annotated, high quality tumor samples.
National Institutes of Health/ National Eye Institute
NEI Audacious Goals Initiative: Translation-Enabling Models to Evaluate Survival and Integration of Regenerated Neurons in the Visual System (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Synopsis
Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2021
Summary: The National Eye Institute (NEI) Audacious Goal Initiative (AGI) was launched in 2012 with an open competition for bold, innovative ideas to stimulate innovation in establishing a national vision research agenda. A single audacious goal emerged from this process, namely, restoring usable vision in humans by regenerating neurons and neural connections in the eye and visual system. The National Advisory Eye Council further recommended that PRCs and RGCs are the most compelling targets for regeneration through this initiative because the loss of either cell type by disease or injury leads to severe visual disability and blindness.
National Institutes of Health/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
HeartShare: Next-Generation Phenomics to Define Heart Failure Subtypes (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: Dec 07, 2020
Summary: Heart failure (HF) research has significant public health importance due to the staggering human and economic costs of this disorder. HFpEF was initially thought to be due to diastolic dysfunction but is now recognized as a complex interplay of impairments in cardiac reserve, as well as altered pulmonary, renal, skeletal muscle and vascular function. There is increasing interest in the association of HFpEF with extra-cardiac features, including disorders of peripheral skeletal muscle, adipocytes and metabolic regulation. The co-existence of HFpEF with cognitive impairment and its resulting higher morbidity are an understudied area that is likely to be another manifestation of these extra-cardiac contributors.
National Institutes of Health/ National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: Functional Neural Circuits of Interception (R01, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: Dec 18, 2020
Summary: The goal of this FOA is to enhance our fundamental understanding of interception with a specific focus on dissecting and determining the function of neural circuits that connect peripheral organs/tissues with the central nervous system (CNS) via peripheral ganglia. For this FOA, interception science includes studies of the processes by which an organism senses, interprets, integrates, and regulates signals originating from within itself. The FOA encourages projects that combine diverse expertise and use innovative approaches to delineate interoceptive mechanisms at the molecular, cellular, circuitry, functional, and/or behavioral levels.
National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute
Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Collaborative Approaches to Engineer Biology for Cancer Applications (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2021
Summary: NIH intends to publish a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to solicit applications that develop and apply innovative synthetic biology approaches to address challenges across the continuum of cancer research. This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants time to develop responsive projects and meaningful collaborations.
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: Feb 15, 2021
Summary: The SRP seeks to support mechanistic and/or mode of action research that includes laboratory- and population-based studies for unraveling critical biological pathways that contribute to disease when perturbed by environmental contaminants.
National Institutes of Health/ The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice of Intent to Publish Funding Opportunity Announcements for Music and Health: Understanding And Developing Music Medicine (R01)
Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2021
Summary: This notice is to increase our understanding of how music affects the brain when it is used therapeutically and/or use that knowledge to better develop evidence-based music interventions to enhance health or treat specific diseases and disorders. Proposed R01 projects could also focus on the development or refinement of specific musical interventions relevant to the participating institutes, agencies, and offices. When appropriate, collaborations among basic researchers, technology developers, music intervention experts, or other clinical researchers are highly encouraged
National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice of Intent to Publish a HEAL Funding Opportunity Announcement for Research on Related DSM-5 Diagnoses (R2D2) Coordination and Dissemination Center
Application Deadline: Jan 04, 2021
Summary: The National Institute on Health (NIH) intends to publish two Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) to solicit applications to build a network of researchers to develop sustainable evidence-based interventions to effectively treat chronic pain (CP) and opioid use disorder (OUD). This network will be part of the of the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative to speed the development and implementation of scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis. The NIH HEAL Initiative will bolster research across NIH to (1) improve treatment and prevention of opioid misuse and opioid use disorder and (2) enhance pain management.
Business
Department of the Army
AMENDMENT -- SBSA -- Army SPARTN SBIR BAA 20.5
Application Deadline: 08-Oct-2020
Summary: The objectives of the Army SBIR Program include stimulating technological innovation, strengthening the role of small business in meeting Army research and development needs, fostering and encouraging participation by minority and disadvantaged persons in technological innovation, and increasing the commercial application of Army-supported research or research and development results.
Department of the Navy
AMENDMENT--SBSA -- Sales Forces Training Materials and Services
Application Deadline: 05-Oct-2020
Summary: THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITAITON
The Regional Contracting Office, Marine Corps Recruit Depot- Parris Island, SC intends to solicit and award a Firm Fixed Price Contract for Solicitation number M00263-20-R-1001 Sales Forces Training Materials and Services. In addition, this contract will be a single Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a five (5) year ordering period.
(1) The Government intends to award without discussions, but reserves the right to conduct discussions, if the Contracting Officer determines that discussions are necessary. Offerors are cautioned to examine this solicitation in its entirety and to ensure that their proposal contains all necessary information, provides all required documentation, and is complete in all respects.
(2) Use of general or vague statements such as “standard procedures will be used” will not satisfy this requirement. Unnecessary elaboration or presentations beyond what is sufficient to present a complete and effective solution are not desired and may be construed as a lack of understanding of the requirement for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 15.101-1, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation: quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Department of the Navy
Submarine Portable Launch System SBIR Phase III
Application Deadline: 07-Oct-2020
Summary: The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) intends to award, on a sole source basis under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(5) , a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity type contract to Systems Engineering Associates Corporation (SEACORP), CAGE Code 2V276, Middletown, RI. This requirement is to support the continued development, upgrade, and application of the CSA-PI Data Interface (CDI) software after completion of Phase II SBIR contract N68335-19-C-0146. SEACORP owns, and has full rights to the data that was developed under previous Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) efforts.
Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering/NSF
CISE Community Research Infrastructure
Application Deadline: 15-Dec-2020 [LOI/Pre-App]
Summary: The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI) program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE disciplines of the three participating divisions [(Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS), and Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)] by funding the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure. This research infrastructure will specifically support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering. This support involves developing the accompanying user services and engagement needed to attract, nurture, and grow a robust research community that is actively involved in determining directions for the infrastructure as well as management of the infrastructure. This should lead to infrastructure that can be sustained through community involvement and community leadership, and that will enable advances not possible with existing research infrastructure. Further, through the CCRI program, CISE seeks to ensure that researchers from a diverse range of institutions of higher education (IHEs), including minority-serving and predominantly undergraduate institutions, as well as researchers from non-profit, non-academic organizations, have access to such infrastructure.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH/DHHS
Application Deadline: 04-Nov-2020 [Optional][LOI/Pre-App]
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports Phase IIB (R44) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) to conduct validation studies and accelerate the commercialization of promising environmental health science-related sensor technologies developed in previous Phase II grants or contracts funded by NIH or other federal agencies. The goal of this program is to demonstrate sensor data quality, tool reliability, and usability under real-world conditions in order to transition to more wide-spread adoption and commercialization of these sensor technologies in environmental epidemiology studies, community-based studies, and other public health intervention efforts.
Small Business Administration
Women’s Business Center - Initial Phase Grant
Application Deadline: 24-Sep-2020
Summary: The Small Business Administration announces this funding opportunity that will provide entrepreneurial development services to women, with an emphasis on socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs in locations that are outside of the geographical areas of existing WBCs. No proposal for a new Women’s Business Center will be considered if it will be located within 100 miles of an existing WBC. The SBA expects to provide funding for up to two Initial Phase awards, each not to exceed $150,000.
Engineering/Technology
Department of Energy
Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy (ECOSYNBIO)
Application Deadline: 26-Oct-2020 [LOI/Pre-App]
Summary: This funding opportunity seeks submissions to establish new technologies to significantly improve the carbon efficiency of bioconversion platforms through the accommodation of external reducing equivalents. Proposed systems of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) carbon optimized fermentation strains that avoid CO2 evolution, (2) engineered mixotrophic consortia or systems that avoid CO2 evolution, (3) biomass or gas fermentation with internal CO2 utilization, (4) cell-free carbon optimized biocatalytic biomass conversion and/or CO2 utilization, and (5) cross-cutting or other proposed carbon optimized bioconversion schemes.
Department of Homeland Security
Blue Campaign Program Evaluation & Violence Prevention Advisement
Application Deadline: 19-Oct-2020
Summary: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is committed to using cutting-edge technologies and providing scientific expertise in its quest to make America safer. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is tasked with researching and organizing the scientific, engineering, and technological resources of the United States and leveraging these resources to develop tools, methods and research to help protect the homeland. The Social Sciences Technology Center (SS-TC) advances technology and knowledge to improve performance, policy, strategy, tactics, techniques, procedures, and operational impacts to enable communities to augment their existing programs and prevention and response plans to ensure that they include effective protocols and strategies to address the immediate and long-term needs of victims, families, first responders and communities after mass violence or terrorism incidents and, human trafficking crimes
Department of the Air Force
AMENDMENT -- Elastic Tactical Networking for Autonomous Swarms
Application Deadline: 02-Jul-2021
Summary: Seeking innovative and affordable technologies that provide tactical airborne networking for autonomous systems. The Air Force is investigating networking and communications technologies to enable future autonomous manned/unmanned teaming capabilities. It is interested in solutions across all layers of the protocol stack, but is primarily focused on protocols for the application, transport, and network layers.
Department of the Air Force
AMENDMENT -- Agile Cyber Technology 3 (ACT 3)
Application Deadline: Continuous Submission
Summary: The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome NY (AFRL/RI) has a requirement to perform multiple activities necessary to achieve AFRL's vision of cyber superiority. Emphasis will be placed on: a) development of technology capability solutions that address specific user requirements; b) delivery of prototype technologies for evaluation and feedback in the context of the user's operational environment; and c) provision of a mechanism for user acquisition of limited product quantities required for operational introduction of technologies. The technical requirements will encompass rapid development, design, prototyping, demonstration, scenario development, experimentation and evaluation, integration, testing, technical installation, transitions through initial operations and cyber technologies, and support in the following areas: 1) Cyber Threat Avoidance and Cyber Defense, 2) Full Spectrum Cyber Operations, 3) Cyber Network Exploitation, 4) Cyber Situation and Mission Awareness, 5) Cyber Command and Control, 6) Cyber Modeling, Simulation, and Wargaming, 7) Cyber Infrastructure, and 8) Cyber Mission Assurance.
Department of the Navy
Application Deadline: 23-Sep-2020
Summary: The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) is a Department of Defense (DoD) entity responsible for research and development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support organization for the Navy’s ships, submarines, military watercraft and unmanned vehicles. NSWCPD requires innovative sustainment technological solutions to address current and future security threats in maritime environments. NSWCPD is looking to identify, shape, and secure innovative sustainment solutions to effectively address current and future security threats in maritime environments. NSWCPD intends to competitively establish a Base OTA with a Consortium that will, through its members, conduct individual and collaborative efforts to carry out prototype projects directly relevant to the technology concept areas.
National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health/CDC/DHHS
RFA-OH-20-002 -- Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement (U01)
Application Deadline: 22-Dec-2020 [Optional][LOI/Pre-App]
Summary: This Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement was established by The Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-281), as amended by the Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-281), and is intended to provide funding to individuals in academia, members of non-profit organizations and businesses involved in fishing and maritime matters, and other entities with expertise in commercial fishing safety. The funding will be used to support research on improving the occupational safety of workers in the commercial fishing industry. This includes: improving vessel design; developing and improving emergency and survival equipment; enhancing vessel monitoring systems; improving communication devices, deicing technology, and severe weather detection.
Office of Naval Research
Navy ManTech - Composites Manufacturing Center (CMC)
Application Deadline: 09-Nov-2020
Summary: The Secretary of Defense established a Manufacturing Technology Program to further the national security objectives of Section 2501(a) of U. S. Code Title 10 – Armed Forces, through the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes that will reduce the acquisition and supportability costs of defense weapon systems and reduce manufacturing and repair cycle times across the life cycles of such systems. The purpose of the program is to improve the manufacturing quality, productivity, technology, and practices of business and workers providing goods and services to the Department of Defense (DoD). DoD Directive 4200.15 implements the Manufacturing Technology Program, and it dictates that DoD is to rely on private sector investment and the “free enterprise” system to provide the manufacturing technology necessary to produce DoD material. The Directive mandates ManTech investments are to be directed at improving the quality, productivity, technology, and practices of business and workers providing goods and services to the DoD.
Office of Naval Research
Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC) Broad Agency Announcement
Application Deadline: 30-Oct-2020
Summary: NSWC IHEODTD is soliciting research of interest in support of the NEEC. Work funded under a BAA may include basic research, applied research and some advanced technology development research.
National Science Foundation
Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
Application Deadline: Jun 01, 2021
Summary: The long-range goal of the Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG) program is to strengthen the nation's scientific competitiveness by increasing the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences, be they in academia, government, or industry. A significant part of this goal is to directly increase the proportion and the absolute number of U.S. students at the RTG sites who pursue graduate studies and complete advanced degrees in the mathematical sciences.
National Science Foundation
Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research
Application Deadline: Dec 03, 2020
Summary: Resources proposed in this category will be initially deployed as a prototype/testbed system supporting S&E research through delivery of novel forward-looking capabilities and services. Resources proposed in this category can represent the deployment of new technologies, system architectures, or usage modalities at scale, with plans for developing a national S&E user community that will benefit from the proposed capabilities. Proposed systems could include novel process or architectures supporting artificial intelligence applications, distributed systems leveraging edge devices, domain-specific architectures and technologies, such as but not exclusively, reconfigurable and/or software defined systems, systems designed for streaming data and/or real-time processing, etc.
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
Application Deadline: Dec 10, 2020
Summary: Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding complex neurobiological systems, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines.