February 8, 2023 Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Agriculture; Natural Resources Conservation Service Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Competitive Grants Program applications due March 27, 2023 The primary goal of the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (UAIP) program is to support the development of urban agriculture and innovative production. There are two types of grants available under this funding opportunity: Planning Projects and Implementation Projects. Planning Projects are projects that will initiate, develop, or support the efforts of farmers, gardeners, citizens, government officials, schools, members of tribal communities, and other stakeholders in areas where access to fresh foods are limited or unavailable. Implementation Projects are for accelerating existing and emerging models of urban and/or innovative agricultural practices that serve multiple farmers or gardeners. Innovation may include new and emerging, as well as traditional or indigenous, agricultural practices.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Drug-Free Communities Support Program applications due April 11, 2023 The purpose of the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program is to establish and strengthen collaborations to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth. The DFC Support Program has two goals:

1. Establish and strengthen the collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger).

2. Reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance use among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increases the risk of substance use and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance use.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration FY23 First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act applications due March 14, 2023 The purpose of this program is to support first responders and members of other key community sectors to administer a drug or device approved or cleared under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) for emergency reversal of known or suspected opioid overdose. Recipients will train and provide resources to first responders and members of other key community sectors at the state, tribal, and local levels on carrying and administering a drug or device approved or cleared under the FD&C Act for emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose. Recipients will also establish processes, protocols, and mechanisms for referral to appropriate treatment and recovery support services, safety around fentanyl, carfentanil, other synthetic opioids, and other licit and illicit drugs associated with overdoses.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Federal Emergency Management Agency Staffing for Fire and Emergency Response Grant applications due March 17, 2023 The Staffing for Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Program provides funding directly to fire departments and volunteer firefighter interest organizations to assist in increasing the number of firefighters to help communities meet industry minimum standards and attain 24-hour staffing to provide adequate fire protection from fire and fire-related hazards, and to fulfill traditional missions of fire departments.

U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance FY23 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-based Program Grants.gov deadline March 21, 2023 JustGrants portal deadline March 28, 2023 This program provides funding to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to the overdose crisis and the impacts of use and misuse of opioids, stimulants, or other substances. This program provides resources to support state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts to respond to illicit substance use and misuse; reduce overdose deaths; promote public safety; and support access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services in the community and justice system.

U.S. Department of Justice; Bureau of Justice Assistance Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program Grants.gov deadline March 21, 2023 JustGrants portal deadline March 28, 2023 Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding programs that support cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

U.S. Department of Justice; Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program Grants.gov deadline March 21, 2023 JustGrants portal deadline March 28, 2023 Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

U.S. Department of Justice; Bureau of Justice Assistance Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Outcomes for Adults in Reentry Grants.gov deadline March 28, 2023 JustGrants deadline April 4, 2023 Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to establish, expand, or improve evidence-based, culturally relevant programs to address the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support needs of people, including parents of minor children and pregnant/postpartum women, during incarceration and reentry in an effort to reduce recidivism, expand access to evidence-based treatment, promote long-term recovery, and, in the process, improve public safety and public health.

U.S. Department of Justice; Bureau of Justice Assistance Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies Grants.gov deadline April 4, 2023 JustGrants deadline April 11, 2023 Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, and correctional agencies performing law enforcement functions to purchase or lease body-worn cameras (BWCs) to establish or expand comprehensive body-worn camera programs with a specific and demonstrated plan to implement this technology to maximize the benefits of BWCs. Funding under this program also supports agencies with existing BWC programs that are seeking to improve the management, sharing, and integration of digital evidence generated from BWCs; optimize how prosecutors leverage BWC footage to improve operations; or use BWC footage to enhance officer training or constitutional policing practices.

U.S. Department of Justice; Bureau of Justice Assistance Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program Grants.gov deadline April 24, 2023 JustGrants deadline May 1, 2023 This opportunity will support law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety as well as responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration High Priority Program – Commercial Motor Vehicle applications due April 3, 2023 The objective of the High Priority-Commercial Motor Vehicle (HP-CMV) program is to support, enrich, and evaluate CMV safety programs and to target unsafe driving of CMVs and non–CMVs in areas identified as high-risk crash corridors, promote the safe and secure movement of hazardous materials, improve safety of transportation of goods and passengers in foreign commerce, demonstrate new technologies to improve CMV safety, support participation in the Performance Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) program, support safety data improvement projects, increase public awareness and education on CMV safety, and otherwise improve CMV safety.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration Corridor Identification and Development Grant Program applications due March 27, 2023 This is comprehensive intercity passenger rail planning and development program that will help guide intercity passenger rail development throughout the country and create a pipeline of intercity passenger rail projects ready for Implementation. The Corridor ID Program is intended to support both a sustained long-term development effort and a capital project pipeline ready for Federal (and other) funding.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Transit Administration Areas of Persistent Poverty Program applications due March 10, 2023 The purpose of this funding opportunity is to create new opportunities for those experiencing poverty to help improve transit in areas experiencing long-term economic distress. This grant funding through the Federal Transit Administration’s Areas of Persistent Poverty (AoPP) Program provides more resources to underserved and disadvantaged communities seeking to expand or improve transit.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Transit Administration Low or No Emission Grant Program and Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities applications due April 13, 2023 The purpose of the Low-No Program is to support the transition of the nation’s transit fleet to the lowest polluting and most energy efficient transit vehicles. The Low-No Program provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities. The purpose of the Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program is to assist in the financing of buses and bus facilities capital projects, including replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment, and rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities.

January 25, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Scientific Machine Learning for Complex Systems pre-applications due March 1, 2023

The Department of Energy’s program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research seeks research applications to explore potentially high-impact approaches in the development and use of scientific machine learning (SciML) and artificial intelligence in the predictive modeling, simulation and analysis of complex systems and processes. The focus of this funding opportunity is on basic research and development at the intersection of uncertainty quantification (UQ) and SciML applied to the modeling and simulation of complex systems and processes. In the context of this funding opportunity, UQ refers to the processes of quantifying uncertainties in a computed quantity of interest, with the goals of accounting for all sources of uncertainty and quantifying the contribution of specific sources to the overall uncertainty. For hybrid SciML modeling and simulations, the development and use of UQ will incorporate additional or other sources of uncertainties. Such considerations bring new basic research challenges in UQ beyond those encountered in traditional modeling and simulation approaches.

Forecasted: U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Federal Emergency Management Agency Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention funding notices forecasted to be released March 1, 2023 with an anticipated applications deadline of April 25, 2023

The Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program provides funding to develop sustainable, multidisciplinary targeted violence and terrorism prevention capabilities in local communities, to pilot innovative prevention approaches, and to identify prevention best practices that can be replicated in communities across the country. Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a range of violent extremist ideologies, of both domestic and foreign origin, represent the most persistent terrorism-related threat facing the U.S. This program will continue to support projects that prevent all forms of targeted violence and terrorism as well as projects that focus on preventing the most pressing current targeted violence and terrorism threats.

Many violent extremists exploit online platforms to spread hate, sow discord and division, and promote narratives to encourage violence. This program supports online, in-person, and hybrid programs that address the threat of online promotion of violence as well as the threat of violence in physical spaces. Many states have developed state targeted violence and terrorism prevention strategies, and this program supports the development and implementation of state, regional, or community targeted violence and terrorism prevention strategies.

National Endowment for the Arts Research Grants in the Arts Grants.gov deadline March 27, 2023 and NEA Applicant portal deadline April 6, 2023

Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) welcomes research proposals that address the following priority topics areas:

• The arts’ impact on health, education, and the economy;
• The arts’ role in community transformation and healing;
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts; or
• The evolving ecosystem of the arts in the U.S.

National Endowment for the Arts Research Labs Grants.gov deadline March 27, 2023 and NEA Applicant portal deadline April 6, 2023

The NEA Research Labs program funds transdisciplinary research teams grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, yielding empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. The NEA Research Labs program funds longer-term research agendas that include multiple research studies and activities that build and inform the field throughout the life of an NEA Research Lab. Each NEA Research Lab will design a transdisciplinary research agenda, conduct project activities to execute that agenda, and prepare and disseminate reports and other products or services that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of the following research areas of special interest to the NEA:

• Measuring the Impacts of the Arts:
  • On U.S. Economic Growth, and/or Innovation
  • On Cognition and Learning
  • On Health and Wellness for Individuals
• Monitoring and Improving Systems:
  
  • Community Health and/or Revitalization
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Arts
  • Other Aspects of the Arts Ecology

National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities and Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges applications due May 9, 2023

The purpose of these programs is to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present. Projects must address a core topic or set of themes drawn from humanities areas such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, or humanities-informed composition and writing skills.

National Science Foundation Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering letters of intent due March 10, 2023

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program aims to increase research capacity and broaden participation in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) and related disciplines through the creation of a diversified investment portfolio in research and education that will lead to scientific and engineering breakthroughs, while securing a talent pipeline in a field where workforce needs of industry, government and academia continue to outgrow the available talent.

National Science Foundation Future Manufacturing proposals due April 19, 2023

The goal of Future Manufacturing is to support fundamental research and education of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Future Manufacturing imagines manufacturing decades into the future, and supports research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for established companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national security, by expanding job opportunities to a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce, and by reducing the impact of manufacturing on the environment. At the same time, Future Manufacturing enables new manufacturing that will address urgent social challenges arising from climate change, global pandemics and health disparities, social and economic divides, infrastructure deficits of marginalized populations and communities, and environmental sustainability. Future Manufacturing will require creative convergent approaches in science, technology and innovation, empirical validation, and education and workforce development. It will benefit from cross-disciplinary partnerships among scientists, mathematicians, engineers, social and behavioral scientists, STEM education researchers, and experts in arts and humanities to provide solutions that are equitable and inclusive.

National Science Foundation Future of Semiconductors proposals due April 24, 2023

The goal of this solicitation is to cultivate a broad coalition of researchers and educators from across science and engineering communities that utilizes a holistic, co-design approach to fundamental research and workforce education and training, to enable rapid progress in new semiconductor technologies. The future of semiconductor manufacturing will require the design and deployment of diverse new technologies in materials, chemical and materials processes, devices, and architectures through the development of application-driven systems. Partnerships between industry and academic institutions are essential to spur innovation and technology transfer, to inform the research needs, and to train the future workforce.

The program seeks to fund research as well as curriculum and workforce development to improve STEM education at institutions of higher education to advance semiconductor design and manufacturing. This solicitation encourages bold, potentially transformative activities that address future semiconductor manufacturing technical challenges and shortages in the skilled scientist, engineer, and technician workforce. This solicitation n encourages proposers to include a holistic perspective on workforce regarding diversity and equitable access to STEM career paths and education by engaging the academic community to broaden access and exposure to advanced technologies and research capabilities.

New: National Science Foundation Manufacturing Systems Integration proposals accepted anytime

The Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) Program supports fundamental research addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for the next industrial revolution, with particular emphasis on the digital integration of design and manufacturing within the larger life cycle ecosystem. MSI proposals should address underlying principles and advances that are generalizable for globally competitive and world leading industries. Connectivity, automation, and secure collaboration are examples of areas that are integral to digital environments capable of supporting the innovation, realization and sustainment of manufactured products and systems in the value creation process.

National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology releases new solicitation

The Division of Environmental Biology’s (DEB) core programs support research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time. Research may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative studies; synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling. Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters; Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science. DEB also encourages interdisciplinary proposals that cross conceptual boundaries and integrate over levels of biological organization or across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

National Science Foundation launches the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning Prize Challenge to develop innovative learning technologies for K-12 students

NSF has launched a $6 million prize challenge to develop innovative learning technologies for K-12 students, made possible through a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and the Walton Family Foundation. The three-phase, one-year challenge, known as the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning, or VITAL, Prize Challenge, will encourage interdisciplinary teams from the science and engineering research and startup or small-business communities to advance innovative concepts into prototypes for potentially game-changing learning technologies. Participating teams will have the chance to receive over $70,000 in development and commercialization support through the Discovery, Semi-final and Final rounds, and up to $250,000 in prizes. These teams will be supported through training, coaching, resources, and funding to develop a marketable educational technology prototype that can equitably impact learning. They will simultaneously build capacities in entrepreneurship, research-based design, learner variability, inclusion, and equity in the education marketplace. The VITAL Prize Challenge portal will begin accepting concept papers in Winter 2023. To receive an email notification about when and how to submit a concept paper, sign up for NSF’s email newsletter for VITAL.

January 19, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency Fiscal Year 2023 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention applications due April 25, 2023

Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) helps to prevent targeted violence and terrorism through funding, training, increased public awareness, and the development of partnerships across every level of the government, the private sector and in local communities across our country. The program provides financial assistance to eligible applicants to develop sustainable, multidisciplinary targeted violence and terrorism prevention capabilities in local communities, to pilot innovative prevention approaches, and to identify prevention best practices that can be replicated in communities across the country. Project types are raising societal awareness, understanding violent content, civic engagement, youth resilience programs, threat assessment and management teams, bystander training, referral services, as well as recidivism reduction and reintegration.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program Update and Reissue applications due March 14, 2023

The purpose of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) grant program is to maximize the number of children under the age of six protected from lead poisoning by assisting states, cities, counties/parishes, Native American Tribes or other units of local government in undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately-owned rental or owner-occupied housing populations. In addition, there is Healthy Homes Supplemental funding available that is intended to enhance the lead-based paint hazard control activities by comprehensively identifying and addressing other housing hazards that affect occupant health.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing-Related Hazards & Lead-based Paint Capital Fund Program applications due April 13, 2023

The purpose of the Housing-related Hazards Capital Fund (HRHCF) & Lead-based Paint Capital Fund Program (LBPCF) Notice of Funds Opportunity (NOFO) is to evaluate and reduce residential health hazards in public housing, including lead-based paint, carbon monoxide, mold, radon, fire safety, and asbestos. $65 million shall be made available for competitive grants to public housing agencies to evaluate and reduce housing-related hazards including lead-based paint in public housing, whereas no less than $25 million of the $65 million of the available funds shall be awarded for evaluating and reducing lead-based paint hazards specifically by carrying out the activities of lead-based risk assessments, inspections, abatement, interim controls, and clearance examinations. These amounts shall be combined with an additional $35 million made available under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 for housing-related hazards and approximately $7.4 million in recaptured and/or carryover funding from the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 for housing-related hazards or lead-based paint, as applicable.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program (EJG2G) applications due April 10, 2023

The purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Justice Government to Government (EJG2G) program is to provide funding to eligible entities to work collaboratively with underserved communities to understand, promote and integrate approaches to provide meaningful and measurable improvements to public health and/or the environment in those communities. The EJG2G program goals are to: 1). achieve measurable and meaningful environmental and/or public health results in communities; 2). build broad and robust, results-oriented partnerships, particularly with community-based nonprofit organizations (CBO) within disproportionately impacted areas; 3). pilot activities in specific communities that create transferable models, which can be expanded or replicated in other geographic areas and; 4). strengthen the development and implementation of meaningful approaches to achieve environmental justice.

National Endowment for the Arts Research Grants in the Arts, FY2024 Part I applications due March 27, 2023 and Part II applications due April 6, 2023

Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.

National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural and Community Resilience applications due May 16, 2023

This program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the U.S. or its jurisdictions, and encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grants applications due June 15, 2023

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program. The program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

January 12, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Climate Program Office Earth System Science and Modeling Research for Coastal Inundation applications due March 17, 2023

The Earth System Science and Modeling Division programs address climate challenges by managing competitive research programs that support high-priority science initiatives. The programs advance our understanding of the Earth’s climate system and foster the application and use of this knowledge to improve the resilience of our Nation and its partners. The National Ocean Service provides data, tools, and services that support coastal economies and their contribution to the national economy, especially in the area of preparedness and risk reduction. This opportunity is a joint collaboration with the National Weather Service, to develop and support research on the topic of coastal inundation.

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Climate Program Office Climate and Societal Interactions Division Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Climate and Atmospheric Research applications due March 29, 2023

The goal of this funding opportunity is to support collaborative research and community engagement projects that improve climate adaptation planning and action. Collaborative research and community engagement are defined as the process of developing trusted and sustained partnerships between scientists, decision-makers, and communities that lead to shared understandings of climate adaptation needs and the co-generation of credible and actionable climate knowledge to support community defined plans, including implementable solutions. Outcomes from this work will support and inform the identification of equitable and inclusive infrastructure investments that mitigate flooding and wildfire risks.

U.S. Department of Defense; Office of Naval Research Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and Workforce Program white papers due April 14, 2023

The Office of Naval Research is providing a funding opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs and activities, which is formal or informal education that is primarily focused on physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social sciences, and mathematics disciplines, topics, or issues, including environmental science education or stewardship. STEM education programs and activities that could be supported by this funding opportunity include one or more of the following as the primary objective:

• Develop learners’ knowledge, skill, or interest in STEM.
• Attract students to pursue certifications, licenses, or degrees (two-year degrees through post-doctoral degrees) or careers in STEM fields.
• Provide growth and research opportunities for post-secondary, college and graduate students in STEM fields, such as working with researchers or conducting research that is primarily intended to further education.
• Improve mentor/educator (K-12 pre-service or in-service, post-secondary, and informal) quality in STEM areas.
• Improve or expand the capacity of institutions to promote or foster STEM fields.

U.S. Department of Energy; Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, Building Technologies Office; and Office of Electricity issue Multi-Topic funding opportunity with concept papers due February 3, 2023

This funding opportunity will support activities to advance efficiency improvements and enhance manufacturing competitiveness through technological innovation by focusing on three main topic areas:

• Next Generation Materials and Manufacturing Processes;
• Secure and Sustainable Materials; and
• Energy Technology Manufacturing.

The goals of this multi-topic opportunity are to:

• Validate and demonstrate next generation materials and manufacturing processes including domestic pilot demonstrations and related technologies to support the transition to U.S. manufacturing;
• Enable environmentally and socially responsible domestic manufacturing with diversified domestic supply of feedstocks including from recycled goods; and
• Mature nascent technologies, processes, and methods that improve the performance and market penetration of clean energy technologies and emerging building efficiency technologies.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Research Opportunities in Accelerator Stewardship and Accelerator Development pre-applications due February 7, 2023

The Department of Energy program in Accelerator Research and Development and Production seeks applications to conduct cross-cutting use-inspired basic research and development to advance accelerator science and technology and domestic supplier development that supports the Office of Science’s activities in physical sciences research, and which is of broader benefit to other U.S. government agencies and industry.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science releases topic-specific Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce Funding Opportunities

Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) aims to build foundations for Office of Science (SC) research and training at institutions historically underrepresented in the SC research portfolio. RENEW leverages SC’s unique national laboratories, user facilities, and other research infrastructures to provide undergraduate and graduate training opportunities for students and academic institutions not currently well represented in the U.S. science and technology (S&T) ecosystem. The hands-on experiences gained through RENEW will open new career avenues for participants, forming a nucleus for a future pool of talented young scientists, engineers, and technicians with the critical skills and expertise needed for the full breadth of SC research activities. Principal Investigators, key personnel, and students of RENEW awards will be invited to participate in researcher meetings and/or SC-wide professional development and collaborator events. RENEW funding opportunity announcements have been issued in the following areas:

• Fusion Energy Science pre-applications due February 20, 2023
• Biological and Environmental Research pre-applications due February 21, 2023
• Advanced Scientific Computing Research pre-applications due February 21, 2023
• Isotope R&D and Production pre-applications due February 21, 2023
• High Energy Physics applications due March 31, 2023
• Nuclear Physics applications due April 17, 2023

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Disease Control A Strategic Approach to Advancing Health Equity for Priority Populations with or at Risk for Diabetes applications due March 7, 2023

This funding opportunity seeks to prevent or delay onset of type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes and improve self-care practices, quality of care, and early detection of complications among people with diabetes. Additionally, this funding opportunity will support implementation of evidence-based, family-centered childhood obesity interventions as a type 2 diabetes risk reduction strategy. All work supported under this funding opportunity will focus on reducing health disparities and achieving health equity for priority populations, defined as those who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Programs for Inclusion and Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research applications due March 10, 2023

The overarching goal of this National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Research Education Program is to support mentoring and research education activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce. The major goal of this program is to establish long-term mentoring that will enable junior faculty who are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to develop a research program and obtain NIH funding. This funding opportunity specifically invites applications from senior faculty, established researchers, and experienced mentors to develop and direct the Summer Institutes of the Programs for Inclusion and Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) program in order to mentor promising eligible junior faculty who have specific scientific interests in heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders research.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health reissues Innovative Mental Health Services Research funding opportunity

The purpose of this funding announcement is to encourage innovative research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness.

Forecasted: U.S. Department of Labor; Employment and Training Administration Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

The purpose of this program is to fund public-private partnerships to develop, strengthen, and scale promising and evidence-based training models in H-1B industries and occupations critical to meeting the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and to maximize the impact of these investments. The country will need a proficient workforce to fill the good-paying jobs created by this historic investment, and this grant program will train job seekers in advanced manufacturing; information technology; and professional, scientific, and technical services occupations that support renewable energy, transportation, and broadband infrastructure sectors. The Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program represents a down payment for the future skilled workforce needs that are being developed through the BIL investments by investing in the development and expansion of the workforce partnerships that will be needed to build equitable pathways to good infrastructure jobs. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Grant Program serves dual purposes by implementing and scaling worker-centered sector strategies to support the workforce necessary for successful implementation of the BIL.

National Science Foundation Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams letters of intent due February 1, 2023

The Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS) supports enabling and transformative engineering research at the nano, micro, and macro scales that fuels progress in engineering system applications with high societal impact. This includes fundamental engineering research underlying advanced devices and components and their seamless penetration in power, controls, networking, communications, or cyber systems. The research is envisioned to be empowered by cutting-edge computation, synthesis, evaluation, and analysis technologies and is to result in significant impact for a variety of application domains in healthcare, homeland security, disaster mitigation, telecommunications, energy, environment, transportation, manufacturing, and other systems-related areas. ECCS also supports new and emerging research areas encompassing 5G and Beyond Spectrum and Wireless Technologies, Quantum Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data. ECCS, through its ASCENT program, offers the engineering community the opportunity to address research issues and answer engineering challenges associated with complex systems and networks that are not achievable by a single principal investigator or by short-term projects and can only be achieved by interdisciplinary research teams. ECCS envisions a connected portfolio of transformative and integrative projects that create synergistic links by investigators across its three ECCS clusters: Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems, Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices, and Energy, Power, Control, and Networks, yielding novel ways of addressing challenges of engineering systems and networks. ECCS seeks proposals that are bold and ground-breaking, transcend the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research efforts, and lead to disruptive technologies and methods or enable significant improvement in quality of life.

National Science Foundation Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences proposals due March 27, 2023

The Pathways into the Geosciences – Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric Sciences (GEOPAths) funding opportunity invites proposals that specifically address the current needs and opportunities related to education, learning, training and professional development within the geosciences community through the formation of STEM Learning Ecosystems that engage students in the study of the Earth, its oceans, polar regions and atmosphere. The primary goal of the GEOPAths funding opportunity is to increase the number of students pursuing undergraduate and/or postgraduate degrees through the design and testing of novel approaches that engage students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience. In order to broaden participation in the geosciences, engaging students from historically excluded groups or from non-geoscience degree programs is a priority. This solicitation features three funding tracks that focus on Geoscience Learning Ecosystems (GLEs):

• Informal Networks: Collaborative projects in this track will support geoscience learning and experiences in informal settings for teachers, pre-college (e.g., upper level high school) students, and early undergraduates in the geosciences.
• Undergraduate Preparation: Projects in this track will engage pre-college and undergraduate students in extra-curricular experiences and training in the geosciences with a focus on service learning and workplace skill building.
• Graduate Opportunities: Projects in this track will improve research and career-related pathways into the geosciences for undergraduate and graduate students through institutional collaborations with a focus on service learning and workplace skill building.

National Science Foundation Biodiversity on a Changing Planet proposals due March 29, 2023

The biodiversity found in nature is essential for healthy ecosystems and human well-being, however, the disruption and decline of Earth’s biodiversity is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate. The resulting shifts in biodiversity dynamic, including changes in the scope and structure of biodiversity, are increasingly significant but not well-understood. Shifting biodiversity dynamics in turn influence functional biodiversity, which includes the roles of traits, organisms, species, communities, and ecosystem processes in natural systems. Changes in biodiversity dynamics and functional biodiversity are essential factors for future planetary resilience under environmental change, including climate change. The connection between functional biodiversity and biodiversity dynamics on a changing planet is the main focus of the Biodiversity on a Changing Planet program. The program encourages proposals that integrate pattern- and process-based research approaches in the context of the constant gain, loss, and reorganization of biodiversity on a changing planet. To advance a comprehensive understanding of functional biodiversity requires a highly integrative approach, including consideration of spatial and temporal dimensions from the organismal to the ecosystem level and from recent to deep timescales. The program therefore places a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary research among climatic, geological, paleontological, ecological, organismal, phylogenetic and evolutionary sciences.

National Science Foundation Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research proposals due March 30, 2023

The overarching vision of this program is to support multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work. The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to:

• facilitate inter-disciplinary or convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of behavioral science, computer science, economics, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences;
• develop deeper understandings of how human needs can be met and values respected in regard to how new technologies, conditions, and work experiences are changing;
• support deeper understanding of the societal infrastructure that accompanies and leads to new work technologies and new approaches to work and jobs, and that prepares people for the future world of work;
• encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way workers learn and adapt to technological change, creative and inclusive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales;
• promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad and diverse workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical, learning or cognitive impairment and other visible and invisible disabilities; and
• understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks including inequity arising from future work at the human-technology frontier.

National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation proposals due July 12, 2023

The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit. This solicitation offers two broad tracks for proposals.

The Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track offers the opportunity to translate prior national Science Foundation (NSF) funded research results in any field of science or engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential and societal impact. PFI-TT supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any NSF-funded science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Concurrently, students and postdoctoral researchers who participate in PFI-TT projects receive education and leadership training in innovation and entrepreneurship. Successful PFI-TT projects generate technology-driven commercialization outcomes that address societal needs.

The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct use-inspired research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact.