Federal Science and Technology Grants

This grant provides funding for innovative cancer research projects that improve diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, specifically targeting military service members, veterans, and their families.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to existing Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers to enhance their services and capabilities, ultimately improving the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers and their supply chains.

This grant provides funding for research and technology development focused on improving water quality applications, targeting a wide range of organizations including government, private, and non-profit entities involved in environmental science.

Please note that this program requests optional Notices of Intent, which are due via NSPIRES by April 8, 2024. See the full posting on NSPIRES for details. Proposers must retrieve the instructions document (zip file) associated with the application package for this opportunity as there is at least one required form that must be attached to the submitted proposal package. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) released its annual omnibus Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024 (OMB Approval Number 2700-0092, CFDA Number 43.001) on February 14, 2024. In this case "omnibus" means that this NRA has many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD. Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- or intra-agency transfers, depending on the nature of the work proposed, the proposing organization, and/or program requirements. However, most extramural research awards deriving from ROSES will be grants, and many program elements of ROSES specifically exclude contracts, because contracts would not be appropriate for the nature of the work solicited. The typical period of performance for an award is three years, but some programs may allow up to five years and others specify shorter periods. In most cases, organizations of every type, Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, domestic and foreign (with some caveats), may submit proposals without restriction on teaming arrangements. Tables listing the program elements and due dates (Tables 2 and 3), a table that provides a very top level summary of proposal contents (Table 1), and the full text of the ROSES-2024 "Summary of Solicitation", may all be found NSPIRES at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024. This synopsis is associated with one of the individual program elements within ROSES, but this is a generic summary that is posted for all ROSES elements. For specific information on this particular program element download and read the PDF of the text of this program element by going to Tables 2 or 3 of this NRA at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024table2 and http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024table3, respectively, click the title of the program element of interest, a hypertext link will take you to a page for that particular program element. On that page, on the right side under "Announcement Documents" the link on the bottom will be to the PDF of the text of the call for proposals. For example, if one were interested in The Lunar Data Analysis Program (NNH24ZDA001N-LDAP) one would follow the link to the NSPIRES page for that program element and then to read the text of the call one would click on C.8 Lunar Data Analysis Program (.pdf) to download the text of the call. If one wanted to set it into the context of the goals, objectives and know the default rules for all elements within Appendix C, the planetary science division, one might download and read C.1 Planetary Science Research Program Overview (.pdf) from that same page. While the letters and numbers are different for each element within ROSES (A.12, B.7, etc.) the basic configuration is always the same, e.g., the letter indicates the Science Division (A is Earth Science, B is Heliophysics etc.) and whatever the letter, #1 is always the division overview. Frequently asked questions for ROSES are posted at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs. Questions concerning general ROSES-2024 policies and procedures may be directed to Max Bernstein, Lead for Research, Science Mission Directorate, at sara@nasa.gov, but technical questions concerning specific program elements should be directed to the point(s) of contact for that particular element, who may be found either at the end of the individual program element in the summary table of key information or on the web list of topics and points of contact at: http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list. Not all program elements are known at the time of the release of ROSES. To be informed of new program elements or amendments to this NRA, proposers may subscribe to: (1) The SMD mailing lists (by logging in at http://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions"), (2) The ROSES-2024 blog feed for amendments, clarifications, and corrections to at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2024/, and (3) The ROSES-2024 due date Google calendars (one for each science division). Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links (link from the words due date calendar).

This program provides funding to interdisciplinary teams working with communities to develop and implement innovative solutions for regional climate challenges across the U.S.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for management-focused studies on National Conservation Lands, targeting state and local governments, educational institutions, tribal organizations, and nonprofits dedicated to conservation and resource management.

This funding opportunity supports multidisciplinary teams in the U.S. to accelerate the development of advanced catalysts for energy applications through high-throughput experimentation and artificial intelligence.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for various organizations to implement prevention and control measures against the invasive golden mussel in Western U.S. waters, focusing on ecological protection and public awareness.

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 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.

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.

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.