April 25, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities
The new CHIPS and Science Act authorized, Tech Hubs Program, seeks to strengthen U.S. economic and national security by ensuring the industries of the future start, grow, and remain in the U.S. The Tech Hubs Program will make place-based investments in regions with the assets, resources, capacity, and potential to become globally competitive in critical technologies and industries. The Fact Sheet is designed to help those consortia groups interested in applying for the upcoming funding opportunity prepare and outlines applicant eligibility requirements, timelines, and other program details.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks to develop a diverse, world-class pool of scientists and engineers engaged in NIST’s measurement science and standards research, and to support the development of a general population that understands and appreciates measurement science and standards. NIST is soliciting applications for financial assistance for Fiscal Year 2023 within the following NIST grant programs:
- Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services Grant Program supports technology innovation and service to American industry in the following fields: bioscience, chemistry, dimensional metrology, electronics, engineering, infrastructure, information technology, manufacturing, manufacturing metrology, materials science and engineering, nanotechnology, neutron research, optics, and physics.
- Associate Director for Laboratory Programs supports research in areas consistent with the interests of NIST research programs including but not limited to bioscience, communications, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, resilience, and quantum information science.
- Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) supports research consistent with the CTL mission in broad areas that support the accelerated development, testing, and deployment of advanced communications and connected systems technologies in support of both commercial and government applications.
- Engineering Laboratory (EL) supports research in the following fields: advanced manufacturing; additive manufacturing; robotics; intelligent systems and information systems integration for applications in manufacturing; polymeric materials; heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC & R) equipment performance; mechanical systems and controls; heat transfer and alternative energy systems; indoor air quality and ventilation and applied economics.
- Fire Research support research in areas of current interest to the Fire Research Division.
- Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) supports research in the following fields: Applied and Computational Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biometrics, Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cybersecurity, Forensic Science, Health Information Technology, High-Performance Computing, Human Factors and Usability, Information Access, Information Processing and Understanding, Internet of Things (IoT), Metrology Infrastructure for Modeling and Simulation, Privacy Engineering, and Statistics for Metrology.
- International and Academic Affairs Office supports activities that strengthen and enhance the international metrology community and promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness in support of the NIST mission.
- Material Measurement Laboratory supports the NIST mission by serving as the national reference laboratory for measurements in the chemical, biological, and material sciences.
- NIST Center for Neutron Research supports research involving neutron scattering and the development of innovative technologies that advance the state-of-the-art in neutron research.
- Physical Measurement Laboratory supports research in the broad areas of mechanical metrology, semiconductors, ionizing radiation physics, medical physics, biophysics, neutron physics, atomic physics, optical technology, optoelectronics, electromagnetics, time and frequency, quantum physics, weights and measures, quantum electrical metrology, temperature, pressure, flow, far UV physics, nanotechnology, and metrology with synchrotron radiation.
- Special Programs Office supports research in broad areas of critical national need and in response to federal mandates that cut across NIST’s scientific and technical mission focused laboratory programs such as forensic science research, foundation studies, and standards; greenhouse gas measurements research and standards; and open data programs.
- Standards Coordination Office plays a unique role by coordinating Federal standards and conformity assessment activities, supporting U.S. industry with standards-related tools and information necessary to effectively compete in the global marketplace, and serving as a resource to Federal agencies and the private sector on the U.S. approach to standards and conformity assessment.
This grant program provides grants to institutions of higher education to prepare personnel in early intervention, special education, and related services to work with children, including infants, toddlers, and youth, with disabilities and ensure that these personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge to be successful in serving children with disabilities. The purpose is to increase the number and improve the quality of personnel, including multilingual personnel and personnel from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, who are fully credentialed to serve children who have high-intensity needs in early intervention and special education. The program will fund high-quality projects that prepare scholars in early intervention and special education at the bachelor’s degree, certification, master’s degree, or educational specialist degree levels for professional practice in natural environments, early childhood programs, classrooms, school settings, and in distance learning environments serving children with disabilities who have high-intensity needs.
The Modeling and Simulation Program supports the study of modeling and simulation at institutions of higher education by promoting the enhancement or development of modeling and simulation degree and certificate programs. Grant funds may be used to establish a modeling and simulation program that may include a major, minor, career-track, certificate, or concentration component, provide adequate staffing (including full-time and supportive faculty), and purchase necessary equipment. Grant funds may also be used to enhance an existing modeling and simulation program by expanding the multidisciplinary nature of the program, recruiting students through fellowships and assistantships, creating new courses, conducting research to support new methodologies and techniques, and purchasing necessary equipment.
The STrengthening Research Opportunities for NIH Grants (STRONG): The STRONG-RLI program will support research capacity needs assessments by eligible Resource-Limited Institutions (RLIs). The program will also support the recipient institutions to use the results of the assessments to develop action plans for how to meet the identified needs.
RLIs are defined as institutions with a mission to serve historically underrepresented populations in biomedical research that award degrees in the health professions and in STEM fields and social and behavioral sciences and have received an average less than $25 million per year in NIH Grants over the past three fiscal years.
The Desalination and Water Purification Research Program (DWPR) works with researchers and partners to develop innovative, cost-effective, and technologically efficient ways to desalinate and treat water. DWPR funding plays a critical role in iterating an idea from the lab to a real-world demonstration, yielding products that serve the water treatment community and attract commercialization interest. The Department of Interior is interested in research where the benefits are widespread but where private-sector entities are not able to make the full investment and assume all the risks, and in research that has a national significance where the issues are of large-scale concern and the benefits accrue to a large sector of the public. The goal of the DWPR program is to address the need to reduce the costs, energy requirements, and environmental impacts of treating impaired and unusable water.
The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. This solicitation will fund applications proposing an innovative strategy or model to improve community safety, build trust, limit unnecessary involvement in the criminal justice system, and improve residents’ perceptions of law enforcement and procedural fairness and legitimacy. The resulting community safety model should include, but is not limited to, the development of a close and active collaboration that implements new programs, expands existing programs, builds partner organization capacity, and/or expands the role of local government agencies to address less serious and lower-level criminal offenses. The model will be expected to serve as an alternative, but complementary, model to traditional enforcement processes and functions such as arrest, prosecution, sentencing, and court supervision. Collaborating entities are expected to coordinate with law enforcement, who would continue to handle more serious or violent offenses.
The Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity) Program supports the implementation of, scaling of, or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas:
- The Cyberinfrastructure Programmatic Area supports the implementation of, scaling of, or major improvement to cyberinfrastructure for biology that advances or transforms contemporary biology and that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers.
- The Biological Collections Programmatic Area supports major improvements to or digitization of biological collections and collection-based information, enabling the advancement of biological understanding in important research areas, and increasing the broader applicability of collections.
- The Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories Programmatic Area supports major improvements to biological field stations or laboratories in any terrestrial, marine, estuarine, or freshwater environment for research and education.
The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) Program supports research to design novel or greatly improved research tools and methods that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Biological Sciences Directorate. The Innovation Program focuses on research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to researchers in three programmatic areas:
- The Bioinformatics Programmatic Area supports the design of novel and innovative bioinformatics approaches that have the potential to become part of the cyberinfrastructure that will advance or transform biological understanding and that have the potential to be broadly applicable in biology.
- The Instrumentation Programmatic Area supports the design of novel and innovative instrumentation and associated methods that address a clearly defined gap in biologists’ ability to capture observations of biological phenomena and that have the potential to be broadly applicable in biology.
- The Research Methods Programmatic Area supports the design of novel and innovative laboratory- or field-based methodologies with the potential for a transformative impact, enabling new and important insights into biological processes and to be broadly applicable in biology.
The innovative nature of the proposed work must be emphasized, and proposals with high-risk/high reward potential are welcome. Principle Investigators are encouraged to leverage NSF-supported scientific infrastructure, such as databases, data networks, computational resources, software, and centers.
