Federal Science and Technology Grants

FY2025 National Aquaculture Initiative: Strengthening U.S. Coastal, Marine, and Great Lakes Aquaculture Through Business Support aims to enhance the development and efficiency of U.S. aquaculture businesses by funding projects that address critical business needs and promote partnerships between researchers, industry stakeholders, and Sea Grant extension personnel.

The purpose of this document is to advise the public that the NOAA RESTORE Science Program is soliciting proposals for projects of five years in duration with the option for a five year, non-competitive renewal award for high-performing projects. This announcement invites proposals that request funding for partnerships that include researchers, resource managers, and other interested parties to conduct a collaborative research project that will identify, track, understand, or predict trends and variability in the Gulf of Mexicos natural resources and the abiotic and biotic factors driving those trends. Funding is contingent upon the availability of funds in the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund. It is anticipated that final recommendations for funding under this Announcement will be made in June 2025, and that projects funded under this Announcement will have a October 1, 2025 start date. Total funding for this competition will be approximately $17.5 million over five years and approximately six projects may be funded. The minimum individual award amount is approximately $1 million over five years (an average of $200,000 per year) and the maximum individual award amount is approximately $4 million over five years (an average of $800,000 per year). An additional $21 million may be available for five year, non-competitive renewals for high performing projects. Information regarding this Announcement, including webinars and additional background information, is available on the Science Programs website (https://restoreactscienceprogram.noaa.gov/funding-opportunities/ffo-2025).The NOAA RESTORE Science Program encourages applicants and awardees to support the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion when writing their proposals and performing their work. Promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity improves the creativity, productivity, and vitality of the research and management communities and leads to more robust natural resource management decisions.Electronic Access: The NOAA RESTORE Science Program website (http://restoreactscienceprogram.noaa.gov/) furnishes supplementary information. Full proposals should be submitted electronically through Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov).

This funding opportunity supports U.S. and UAE educational and nonprofit organizations in developing innovative lunar payload concepts through collaborative projects involving graduate students.

This funding opportunity supports U.S. and Nigerian nonprofit organizations and educational institutions in enhancing collaboration in the creative, digital, and innovation sectors to strengthen economic ties and create job opportunities.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for innovative projects that develop products and interventions to improve the quality of life and independence of individuals with disabilities, particularly those with high support needs.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for a U.S.-based organization to establish a centralized laboratory that will conduct essential drug behavior analyses for early phase cancer clinical trials, helping to improve the development of new cancer treatments.

This funding opportunity supports U.S.-based nonprofit organizations and educational institutions to engage international audiences on key policy issues through expert-led programs focused on America First priorities.

The FY 2025 MARFIN grant aims to fund research and development projects that enhance the sustainability and management of marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the South Atlantic states.

This program provides funding for technology developers and industrial facilities to collaboratively test and validate innovative energy-efficient technologies in real-world industrial settings, enhancing their performance and adoption.

The U.S. Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for developing tool to help understand how sagebrush vegetation dynamics are changing over space and time, naturally, from disturbances, and associated with restoration efforts. These spatial tools could directly inform decisions regarding where and when to plant sagebrush, how retore it effectively and how to manage and treat invasive annual grasses to support sage-grouse conservation and population recovery. Understanding where and when ecosystems are undergoing changes that could result in detrimental consequences to system function is paramount to implementing successful management that helps resist transitions to less desired states. Monitoring changes in vegetation components such as canopy cover of shrubs and annual grasses is central to assessing changes in ecological function. Similarly, knowing where vegetation components are stable can help target limited conservation resources more efficiently, be it for restoration, enhancing conservation effectiveness, or to more effectively implement management efforts that resist ecological transformation. Such management is critically needed within sagebrush ecosystems, which have been drastically reduced and face continuing degradation by a multitude of well-described threats. Thus, developing a biome-wide vegetation change monitoring tools to track changes (losses or gains) in functioning sagebrush ecosystem components measured through vegetation components such as sagebrush cover, connectivity, or invasive annual grasses as fine fuels, could inform BLM decisions regarding conservation and restoration efforts, and directly assist sage-grouse recovery. To understand the effectiveness of and help guide conservation and restoration efforts, specific studies could focus on sagebrush restoration approaches in post-fire landscapes including, but not limited to: (1) planting sagebrush in previously occupied burned sage-grouse habitat, (2) measuring sagebrush regrowth in post restoration treatments, (3) evaluating the use of revegetated areas by sage-grouse, (4) predicting the success of sage-grouse using revegetated areas, (5) assessing structural and functional sagebrush connectivity across the biome, 6) identifying the anthropogenic and environmental drivers and precinct rates of change in invasive annual grass cover across the sagebrush biome, (7) assessing the effectiveness of treatments for invasive annual grasses, (8) maps of predicted rates of invasion in locations currently uninvaded areas, and/or (9) develop maps of future rates of invasion due to climate change and land-use change. Collectively, these spatial tools should directly inform decisions regarding where and when to plant sagebrush, guiding fuel break placement and directly assisting habitat restoration and sage-grouse recovery.

This program provides funding for interdisciplinary research projects that improve American infrastructure by integrating social sciences with STEM fields, targeting institutions, nonprofits, and businesses dedicated to enhancing societal wellbeing and economic growth.

This funding opportunity supports early-career researchers at U.S. academic or nonprofit institutions to develop innovative solutions for national security challenges, with mentorship from DARPA.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to state agencies administering the WIC program to enhance program integrity, improve access to nutritious foods, and modernize technological systems for low-income women and children.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that demonstrate integration of technology developed in the COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) program. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Great Lakes states and tribes for collaborative projects aimed at preventing and managing aquatic invasive species across state and tribal boundaries.

This funding opportunity supports research projects that develop and evaluate interventions to improve long-term health outcomes for individuals living with traumatic brain injury, particularly focusing on chronic care management and community-based support.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for small businesses to develop innovative technologies for harnessing geothermal energy from extremely hot rock formations, promoting sustainable electricity production.

This grant provides funding for innovative energy research projects that aim to develop transformative technologies for improving energy efficiency, reducing emissions, and enhancing energy security in the United States.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to eligible public and nonprofit organizations to develop technology-driven solutions that improve the efficiency and accessibility of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) operations.

This grant provides funding for alumni of U.S. government exchange programs to develop innovative projects that leverage digital technologies and AI to address economic and technological challenges in Kazakhstan, fostering community engagement and strengthening U.S.-Kazakhstan partnerships.