Federal Science and Technology Grants

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations working to prevent the online recruitment of Central Asian migrant workers by extremist groups, focusing on community engagement and digital literacy initiatives.

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that significantly advance the performance, capabilities and the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of atomic vapor sensors for electric field sensing, imaging, communications, and quantum information science (QIS). 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 partner institutions affiliated with the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit to research and manage the invasive Black Carp species in the upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.

This program provides funding for research projects that investigate integrated water processes through field campaigns, benefiting a wide range of organizations involved in Earth science.

This grant provides funding to U.S.-based solar manufacturers and training organizations to develop workforce training programs that address skill gaps and promote diversity in the solar manufacturing industry.

The NRL Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PFP) is a funding opportunity for postdoctoral scientists and engineers to conduct innovative research in scientific and technical fields with maritime applications, aligned with the Navy's interests, while benefiting from the Naval Research Laboratory's resources and expertise, with the fellowship covering stipends, travel, and relocation expenses.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to higher education institutions for training researchers in disability policy, focusing on improving health, employment, and community living outcomes for people with disabilities, while promoting diversity in research participation.

The "Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams" grant is a funding opportunity provided by the National Science Foundation to support innovative, collaborative engineering research projects that tackle complex societal challenges in areas like healthcare, energy, and transportation, with a budget of $1 million to $1.5 million for up to four years, and applications are due by January 22, 2025.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research projects aimed at advancing prostate cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, specifically targeting high-risk groups such as Service Members and Veterans.

This funding opportunity supports the development of community partnerships to create cybersecurity training programs that address local workforce needs and prepare job-ready candidates in the U.S.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research projects aimed at improving drug therapies and precision medicine for pregnant individuals, breastfeeding mothers, neonates, and children, particularly those from underrepresented populations.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research proposals from small businesses, academic institutions, and research organizations to develop high-risk, high-reward microsystem technologies for defense applications.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to various organizations to help strengthen Iraq's ability to counter drone threats and protect U.S. energy investments in the region.

This funding opportunity supports U.S. colleges and universities in developing innovative curricula on documentary standards and standardization, particularly encouraging participation from community colleges and minority-serving institutions.

This grant provides funding opportunities for research and higher education organizations to collaborate with USAID and local institutions to address key development challenges sustainably.

The FY24 ARP Career Development Award supports early-career, independent investigators and/or the transition of established investigators from other research fields to conduct innovative, high-impact ideas or early-phase, proof-of-principle clinical trials with the potential to have a major impact on ASD. Applications are strongly encouraged to address one of the FY24 ARP Career Development Award Areas of Interest or provide justification that the proposed research addresses a critical problem, question, or need in ASD.This award enables such investigators to compete for funding separately from investigators with established programs of ASD research. Previous experience in ASD research is allowed, but not required. However, in FY24 Career Development Award applications that name a Principal Investigator (PI) with limited background in ASD research, the ARP strongly encourages the inclusion of collaboration with investigators who are experienced in ASD research and/or possess other relevant expertise in order to strengthen the application. PIs must meet specific eligibility criteria as described in Section II.C, Eligibility Information.Research funded by the FY24 ARP should be responsive to the needs of people with ASD, their families, and/or caregivers. Researchers are therefore encouraged to establish and utilize effective collaborations and partnerships with community members to maximize the translational and impact potential of the proposed research.CDMRP encourages research on health areas and conditions that affect women uniquely, disproportionately, or differently from men, including studies analyzing sex as a biological variable. Such research should relate anticipated project findings to improvements in womens health outcomes and/or advancing knowledge for womens health.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations in Zambia to help qualified students access U.S. higher education through the EducationUSA program, including financial assistance for high-achieving students with limited resources.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity for research to study overwinter hydrodynamics on Lake Erie coldwater fish spawning reefs. Loss of winter presents a challenge for management of coldwater fishes. Ice cover has declined in recent decades in the Great Lakes, which is expected to continue based on existing climate projections. Ice cover has been linked to reproductive success for coldwater fishes, such as fishes from the genus Coregonus. Several factors have been proposed as potential mechanisms for ice cover-recruitment linkages, including wind-driven currents displacing early life stages from nursery habitats and causing burying of early life stages with fine sediments. The hypothesis is that ice cover protects the water’s surface from wind and creates a more stable hydrodynamic environment. However, the hydrodynamics on spawning reefs have not been measured under conditions of ice cover to estimate the conditions experienced by coldwater fish early life stages.

This funding opportunity supports multidisciplinary research centers focused on understanding and improving the transmission of seasonal influenza viruses, inviting applications from a wide range of organizations, including universities, nonprofits, and government entities.

This grant provides funding for the development of innovative instruments and technologies to enhance solar system observations, aimed at researchers and organizations involved in planetary science and exploration.