Federal Science and Technology Grants

This funding opportunity supports research projects aimed at reducing violence against women and girls and improving responses within the criminal justice system, targeting issues such as domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research aimed at improving lung cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survivorship, particularly for military personnel, veterans, and their families.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations that will promote and implement employment research for individuals with disabilities, enhancing collaboration among stakeholders like employers and policymakers.

This funding opportunity supports U.S. researchers studying Earth's ice, land, and atmosphere using advanced satellite data to better understand climate and environmental changes.

This funding opportunity is designed to support innovative research and development in advanced materials analysis technologies, targeting a wide range of organizations, including academic institutions and private companies, to enhance capabilities for defense applications such as material identification and forensic analysis.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for early-stage researchers to conduct small-scale studies that inform public health policies related to tobacco use and regulation.

This grant provides funding for U.S. educational institutions to conduct research in optimization, dynamical systems, and control, specifically aimed at improving decision-making processes for the Air Force and Space Force.

The "ROSES 2024: A.55 Decadal Survey Incubation Program: Science and Technology" grant aims to support U.S. institutions in advancing research and technology development in space and Earth sciences aligned with NASA's decadal survey goals.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations and educational institutions to enhance Argentina's capabilities in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, fostering collaboration with U.S. entities and promoting secure digital practices among local entrepreneurs and innovation hubs.

This grant provides funding for doctoral students in U.S. universities to conduct innovative research that advances geographical knowledge and theory, focusing on the interactions between human activities and environmental processes.

This funding opportunity supports non-profit organizations and educational institutions in organizing a large-scale summit in Singapore that connects emerging leaders from Southeast Asia with U.S. technology firms to promote the adoption of artificial intelligence tools and address regional challenges.

This grant provides funding for researchers and organizations to develop innovative tools and methods in heliophysics, supporting the study of solar and space phenomena.

This funding opportunity supports U.S. institutions in developing open-source science projects that improve the accessibility and reproducibility of NASA research, encouraging community engagement and collaboration.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to state governments and Indian tribes for modernizing and expanding emergency alert systems to improve public safety communication.

The FY24 ALSRP Therapeutic Idea Award (TIA) supports new, innovative, high-risk, high-gain ideas aimed at Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) drug or therapy discovery. The studies supported by this award mechanism are expected to be hypothesis-driven and generate preliminary data for future avenues of therapeutic investigation. Projects that focus primarily on pathophysiology of ALS without development of a therapy are outside the scope of this funding opportunity.Applications may demonstrate the ability to achieve interpretable results in the absence of preliminary data supporting the hypothesis. While the inclusion of preliminary data is not prohibited, the strength of the application should rely on the approach.The key elements of this award mechanism are:Innovation: Research deemed innovative may introduce a new paradigm, challenge current paradigms, introduce novel concepts or technologies, or exhibit other uniquely creative qualities that may lead to potential therapeutics for ALS.Impact: The FY24 TIA can be for a specific ALS subtype and does not have to broadly apply to all patients. Research should be non-incremental and pioneer transformative results that could lay the foundation for a new direction in the field of ALS therapy development. Incremental research does not meet the intent of this funding opportunity.Strong Scientific Rationale: Projects that address in the intent of the mechanism should include a well-formulated, testable hypothesis based on strong scientific rationale that holds translational potential to improve ALS treatment and/or advance a novel treatment modality.Biomarkers: Applicants are required to include consideration to biomarker(s) development in parallel with their proposed Therapeutic Idea Award research for eventual clinical trials. Efforts should be mechanism-specific and may include development of target engagement biomarkers, objective pharmacodynamic biomarkers to measure the biological effect of an investigational therapeutic, or predictive/cohort-selective biomarkers that indicate whether a specific therapy will be effective in an individual patient or patient subgroup, including pre-symptomatic gene carriers. Development of markers for the purposes of diagnosis, prognosis, or measurement of disease progression apart from consideration of the therapeutic development process will not be supported and instead investigators should consider the Clinical Outcomes and Biomarkers Award (HT942524ALSRPCOBA).

This funding opportunity supports U.S. academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and government laboratories in conducting innovative astrophysics research and technology development to advance NASA's scientific missions and goals.

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in biogeochemistry to evaluate the bioaccessibility of lead and other elements in contaminated soils from variety of environments.

The NIST-Hawaii Partnership in Plastic Pollution Research is seeking applications from eligible applicants to establish an institutional award, as described in the Department of Commerce Grants and Cooperative Agreements Manual, Chapter 6.A.2 (20 April 2021), for activities to partner on the nations priority plastic pollution research with efforts focusing on the Hawaiian Island region. Eligible applicants should describe how they can host and interact with at least three NIST scientists with office, laboratory and other appropriate facilities to perform multi-disciplinary plastic pollution research with the intent to establish a long-term partnership between NIST and the recipient, as discussed in Section I.1. The proposal should also include a description of administrative, research and outreach/educational support that would be offered by the applicant in the partnership to achieve world-class research in the field of plastic pollution.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research projects aimed at developing new therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), encouraging high-risk ideas that include biomarker development to guide future clinical applications.

This grant provides funding for innovative research and development projects that enhance U.S. space operations and cybersecurity capabilities, targeting a wide range of applicants including private companies, universities, and research organizations.