The National Science Foundation's ATE program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields with an emphasis on two-year colleges. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. Eligible activities include: curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways from secondary schools to two-year colleges and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions. A secondary goal is articulation between two- and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education. Eligible applicants include: two-year colleges, other associate-degree-granting institutions; and academic consortiums. Award ceiling: $300,000 per year. Preliminary proposal deadlines: April 26, 2007; April 24, 2008; and April 23, 2009. Application deadlines: October 16, 2008.
The Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) program seeks to encourage new approaches to the analysis and dissemination of biological knowledge for the benefit of both the scientific community and the broader public. The ABI program is especially interested in the development of informatics tools and resources that have the potential to advance, or transform, research in biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Eligible applicants include: non-profit, non-academic organizations; independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities; and universities and two and four-year colleges (including community colleges) located and accredited in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Total program funding: $20,000,000. Application deadline: August 12, 2008.
The National Energy Technology Laboratory solicits applicants to work with states and local agencies on expanding financial resources of the Program at the federal, state, and local level; also known as leveraging. The specific objectives under this area of interest are: facilitate leveraging partnerships and data development, collection, and interpretation. Eligible applicants include: domestic entities, except other Federal agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Contractors, and nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: July 28, 2008.
AT&T, Inc. and its philanthropic arm, the AT&T Foundation, have announced a three-year, $100 million program to provide in-home Internet and technology access to low-income families and underserved communities across the country. Through the AT&T AccessAll program, the company will provide technology packages, including Internet access, to fifty thousand low-income families and supply families with one-on-one technology instruction in many locations through its AT&T Pioneers program. Habitat for Humanity affiliates and other low-income housing providers identified by One Economy will screen applicants to ensure that they meet eligibility requirements. AT&T AccessAll participants must be current or future residents of Habitat for Humanity or low-income housing communities. Application deadline: open.
The Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program drives discovery and learning in the computing disciplines by supporting the creation, enhancement and operation of world-class computing research infrastructure. Further, through the CRI program CISE seeks to ensure that individuals from a diverse range of academic institutions, including minority-serving and predominantly undergraduate institutions, have access to such infrastructure. Eligible applicants include: Non-profit, non-academic organizations; Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities; and universities and two and four-year colleges (including community colleges) located and accredited in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Award ceiling: $1,500,000. Application deadline: September 22, 2008.
In the last five years, the private sector has launched a number of highly effective internet-scale applications powered by massively scaled, highly distributed computing resources. Academic researchers have expressed a need for access to similar computing resources that will allow them to engage and explore this emerging and pervasive model of computing. Through the Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program, National Science Foundation funded researchers will use software and services running on a Google-IBM cluster to explore innovative research ideas in data-intensive computing. Proposals funded are expected to cover a range of activities that first lead to advances in computing research, but that also explore the potential of this computing paradigm to contribute to science and engineering research and to applications that promise benefit to society as a whole. Eligible applicants include: non-profit, non-academic organizations; Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities; and universities and two and four-year colleges (including community colleges) located and accredited in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Award ceiling: $500,000. Application deadline: July 17, 2008.
This NSF crosscutting program supports community efforts to provide for broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for Data Interoperability Networks that will be responsible for consensus-building activities and for providing the expertise necessary to turn the consensus into technical standards with associated implementation tools and resources. Examples of the former are community workshops, web resources such as community interaction sites, and task groups. Examples of the latter are information sciences, software development, and ontology and taxonomy design and implementation. Eligible applicants include: universities and colleges; non-profit, non-academic organizations associated with educational or research activities; for-profit organizations; state educational offices or organizations; local school districts; and unaffiliated individuals. Application deadlines: July 23, 2008.
The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program from NSF supports innovative research and education projects that have the potential to: lead to significant improvements in computer systems by increasing our fundamental understanding of them; address challenges raised by new technologies or system requirements; lead to systems software that is quantifiably more reliable, easier to use, and/or more efficient; and produce innovative curricula or educational materials that better prepare the next generation of computing professionals. The CSR program is partitioned into two parts: CORE areas (Embedded and Hybrid Systems; Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems; Advanced Execution Systems; and Systems Modeling and Analysis); and THEMATIC areas (Cross-Systems Integration; Virtualization for Configuration Management; and, Cyber Physical Systems). Eligibility is unrestricted. Award ceilings: $450,000 (CORE); $400,000 (THEMATIC). Application deadlines: January 17, 2007; Second Friday in November, Annually Thereafter: November 14, 2008.
CyberLearning provides up to 50% matching grants to all eligible organizations including schools, colleges, non-profits, workforce development programs, banks, government agencies and corporations. Matching grants may be used to access their 1,000 plus high-quality online courses in IT (Information Technology- all levels and almost all topics), Management (Harvard ManageMentor modules) and TestPrep (Barrons SAT, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT...). They provide follow up cash grants to the grantees to assist them in implementing holistic CyberLearning or TTCM (Teacher/Mentor-Technology-Courseware-Motivation) solutions that make a difference in the lives of their target populations. Grantees can use the follow up cash grants to improve teacher/mentor training as well as to acquire computers, software, access and motivational rewards for students and teachers. Eligible applicants include: K-12 school districts and schools; Colleges and Universities; Nonprofits; Government Agencies; and Corporations. Application deadline: open.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) announces the Discovery Challenge Thrusts program (DCTs). This research effort will consist of interdisciplinary teams of researchers with the skills needed to address the relevant research challenges necessary to meet the program goals. Multi investigator teaming is encouraged but not required. It is expected that proposals will describe cutting-edge efforts on basic scientific problems. The duration of the proposed effort is three years. Eligible applicants include: small businesses, historically black colleges and universities, minority institutions, minority researchers, academia, and industry. Total program funding: $3,000,000. Application deadline: July 1, 2008.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR)is interested in receiving proposals for efforts that aim to develop and demonstrate science and technology for the next generation (2009-2012) electronic devices under the following focus area: Multifunction Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Component Development; RF Solid State Power Amplifiers; and RF Supporting Technologies. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: Unspecified. Application deadline: August 1, 2008.
NSF is requesting proposals through this solicitation from organizations, willing to serve as HPC Resource Providers, who propose to acquire and deploy a new, and/or upgrade an existing, High Performance Computing System (HPC system). Competitive HPC systems will: 1) Enable researchers to work on a range of computationally-challenging science and engineering applications; 2) Incorporate reliable, robust system software essential to optimal sustained performance; and 3) Provide a high degree of stability and usability. Eligibility is unrestricted. Award ceiling: $30,000,000. Application deadline: November 28, 2008.
The National Science Foundation's three Anthropology programs (Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology) have established the High Risk Research in Anthropology Program. Anthropological research may be conducted under unusual circumstances, often in distant locations. As a result the ability to conduct potentially important research may hinge on factors that are impossible to assess from a distance and some projects with potentially great payoffs may face difficulties in securing funding. This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program. Projects which face severe time constraints because of transient phenomena or access to materials may also be considered. Eligible applicants include: universities and colleges; non-profit, non-academic organizations associated with educational or research activities; for-profit organizations; state educational offices or organizations; local school districts; and unaffiliated individuals. Award ceiling: $125,000. Application deadline: ongoing.
This FOA encourages investigators to submit applications studying the impact of health information technology on health interventions and services. Studies related to the impact of technology on the delivery of health-related information as well as health-related clinical interventions are encouraged. This FOA runs in parallel with FOAs of identical scientific scope, PA-06-224 and PA-06-225. Eligible applicants include: state, county, city, township, and special district governments; for profit organizations; small businesses; independent school districts; nonprofits; Native American tribal governments and organizations; private, public and state controlled institutions of higher education; public/Indian housing authorities; foreign institutions; eligible agencies of the Federal Government; and faith-based or community-based organizations. Application deadline: October 5, 2008.
The National Science Foundation's (NSF), Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) Program supports the development of novel instrumentation or instrumentation that has been significantly improved by at least an order of magnitude or more in fundamental aspects. Supported instruments are expected to have a significant impact on the study of biological systems at any level. The development of new instrumentation must be firmly based in biological research need. The IDBR Program supports the development or major improvement of software for the operation of instruments only as associated with the development of the instrument. Data analysis and acquisition software are only supported to the extent that the availability of the software, in connection with new instrumentation, will clearly advance biological research. Proposals are encouraged that focus on proof-of-concept development for entirely novel instrumentation. Proposals must target instrument developments that meet a broad need in the biological community in areas supported by NSF Biology programs. Proposals are encouraged for instrumentation that does not currently exist in the form of a working prototype. In the selection of projects for funding, the program does not support the development of biological instrumentation that would be used for clinical or biomedical applications. Eligible applicants include: U.S. academic institutions, U.S. non-profit research organizations including museums, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities, and consortia of eligible organizations. Total program funding: $4,000,000. Application deadline: September 5, 2008.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports International Materials Institutes (IMIs) in order to enhance international collaboration between U.S. researchers and educators and their counterparts worldwide. These Institutes advance fundamental materials research by coordinating international research and education projects involving condensed matter and materials physics, solid state and materials chemistry, polymers, metals, ceramics, electronic materials, biomaterials and, in general, the design, synthesis, and characterization of and phenomena in materials to meet global and regional needs. The Institutes must be university-based and provide a research environment that will attract leading scientists and engineers. The Institutes' long term goal is the creation of a worldwide network in materials research and the development of a generation of scientists and engineers with enhanced international leadership capabilities. A critically important aspect of an IMI is its potential impact on advancing materials research on an international scale and developing an internationally competitive generation of materials researchers, and this distinguishes an IMI from other materials research centers that NSF supports. Eligible applicants include: universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) located and accredited in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Award ceiling: $1,200,000 annually. Application deadline: July 15, 2008.
Microsoft Unlimited Potential grants offer support to Community-Based Technology and Learning Center (CTLC) organizations to develop technology training programs ranging from learning basic computer skills to using advanced business productivity applications. Eligible entities are nonprofit organizations, school-based nonprofit or governmental organizations, government funded nonprofit organizations, or nonprofit organizations that partner with governmental entities. Funding decisions are made in March and October of each year. Proposals are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in cooperation with the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD), is releasing a Cooperative Agreement Notice soliciting proposals for the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI). Proposers will be required to clearly articulate an innovative, interdisciplinary, lunar research program, together with plans to advance the full scope of NLSI objectives as defined in the Institute's Mission Statement. Proposals may address science of the Moon, on the Moon, and from the Moon, including objectives that meet NASA's future lunar exploration needs. Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted. Award ceiling: Unspecified. Notices of Intent deadline: June 27, 2008. Application deadline: August 29, 2008.
The National Science Foundation seeks to establish a national network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. The program has four tracks: Pathways projects are expected to provide stewardship for the content and services needed by major communities of learners. Services projects are expected to develop services that support users and resource collection providers that enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the NSDL network. Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services, and other aspects of the development of the NSDL network. The NSDL Resource Center will provide collaboration assistance across all projects; undertake strategic partnership development on behalf of projects particularly with respect to non-academic entities; coordinate and, in some cases, perform thematic research and evaluation studies related to the program; synthesize findings across the portfolio; and disseminate findings of the accomplishments of the NSDL program. Eligible applicants include: various. Application deadline: June 27, 2008.
Synthesis is an essential component of scientific inquiry. Synthetic works-those that integrate information from numbers of studies-have historically been influential in describing the state of a field and in spawning new research directions. To encourage synthetic studies, the Ecological Biology, Ecosystem Science, and Population and Evolutionary Processes Clusters in the Division of Environmental Biology have established OPUS (Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis). OPUS supports investigators to synthesize the body of their research. OPUS awards target investigators who have, over time, produced important papers from a series of related research projects, but have not integrated that series into a synthetic work. OPUS will fund single or multiple investigators to synthesize the body of work they themselves have generated, but OPUS funds generally will not be provided for the production of new data or for synthesizing other investigators' research. Support will be provided for syntheses by investigators at mid-to-late career stages, as well as by those early enough in a career to produce unique, integrated insight useful both to the scientific community and to the development of the investigator's future work. In some areas, multiple investigators may have collaborated throughout the history of a series of research projects. In these cases, support would enable two or more scientists to work collaboratively on a synthesis. We expect that OPUS awards will have the potential of generating critical synthesis, and do so in a way that will acknowledge the prestige of this important component of scientific scholarship. Eligible applicants include: universities and colleges; non-profit, non-academic organizations associated with educational or research activities; for-profit organizations; state educational offices or organizations; local school districts; and unaffiliated individuals. Award ceiling: $150,000 annually. Application deadline: July 16, 2008.
This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more of the following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. This ROSES NRA covers all aspects of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data; aircraft, stratospheric balloon, and suborbital rocket investigations; development of experiment techniques suitable for future SMD space missions; development of concepts for future SMD space missions; development of advanced technologies relevant to SMD missions; development of techniques for and the laboratory analysis of both extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, as well as terrestrial samples that support or otherwise help verify observations from SMD Earth system science missions; determination of atomic and composition parameters needed to analyze space data, as well as returned samples from the Earth or space; Earth surface observations and field campaigns that support SMD science missions; development of integrated Earth system models; development of systems for applying Earth science research data to societal needs; and development of applied information systems applicable to SMD objectives and data. Eligible applicants include: U.S. and non-U.S. organizations; including educational institutions, industry, not-for-profit institutions, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as NASA Centers and other U.S. Government agencies; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Other Minority Universities (OMUs); small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs); veteran-owned small businesses; service disabled veteran-owned small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; and women-owned small businesses (WOSBs). Participation by non-U.S. organizations in this program is welcome but subject to NASA's policy of no exchange of funds, in which each government supports its own national participants and associated costs. Award ceiling: $1,000,000. Application deadline: June 20, 2008.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Manufacturing Technology Division (AFRL/MLM) of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate solicits research proposals for the Production Technology Partnerships (PTP) program. The overall objective of this program is to provide DPA Title III with a procurement vehicle for executing anticipated and unanticipated appropriations and urgent requirements for emerging technical areas of interest and relevance to OSD. Production technology topics include: High Performance Battery and Energy Storage Device Production; High Performance Coatings Production; Advanced Affordable Materials Production; Wide Bandgap Material and Device Production; Precision Navigation & Timing Device Production; High-Performance Quartz Oscillators Production; High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Wire Production; Nanotechnology Materials and Device Production; Advanced Electronic Device Production; Advanced Mechanical Component and Device Production; Biological & Chemical Sensor Production; Advanced Structural Materials Production; Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Production; Electro-Optical Device Production; and Critical Infrastructure Protection and Production. Eligibility is unrestricted. Application deadline: open.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) plans, coordinates, and executes the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) basic research program in response to technical guidance from AFRL and requirements of the Air Force; fosters, supports, and conducts research within Air Force, university, and industry laboratories; and ensures transition of research results to support USAF needs. The focus of AFOSR is on research areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to our national warfighting and peacekeeping capabilities. Eligible applicants include: responsible, potential applicants from academia and industry; small businesses; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; minority institutions; and minority researchers. Award ceiling: $200,000,000. Application deadline: open.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is releasing a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for foundational research in support of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD). This announcement solicits fundamental research proposals for the four programs within ARMD: the Airspace Systems Program, the Aviation Safety Program, the Fundamental Aeronautics Program and the Aeronautics Test Program. The Airspace Systems Program will directly address the Air Traffic Management (ATM) research needs of the Next Generation Air Transportation Systems (NextGen) initiative as defined by the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO). The Aviation Safety Program will take a proactive approach to safety challenges with new and current vehicles operating in the Nation's current and future air transportation system. The Fundamental Aeronautics Program will pursue long-term, cutting edge research in all flight regimes to produce data, knowledge, and design tools that will be applicable across a broad range of air vehicles that fly through any atmosphere at any speed. The Aeronautics Test Program (ATP) is focused on ensuring a healthy suite of facilities and platforms to meet the nations testing needs including the development of new test instrumentation and test technologies. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unrestricted. Application deadline: July 2, 2008.
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more of the following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: $1,000,000. Application deadline: July 30, 2008.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more of the following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. This ROSES NRA covers all aspects of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: October 1, 2008.
This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more of the following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. This ROSES NRA covers all aspects of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data; aircraft, stratospheric balloon, and suborbital rocket investigations; development of experiment techniques suitable for future SMD space missions; development of concepts for future SMD space missions; development of advanced technologies relevant to SMD missions; development of techniques for and the laboratory analysis of both extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, as well as terrestrial samples that support or otherwise help verify observations from SMD Earth system science missions; determination of atomic and composition parameters needed to analyze space data, as well as returned samples from the Earth or space; Earth surface observations and field campaigns that support SMD science missions; development of integrated Earth system models; development of systems for applying Earth science research data to societal needs; and development of applied information systems applicable to SMD objectives and data. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: July 18, 2008.
NASA solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more of the following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: June 27, 2008.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research and development proposals in the area of self-healing mixed signal Integrated Circuits (ICs)/Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs). The goal of the program is the development of techniques to maximize the number of fully operational mixed-signal SoCs on an individual wafer that meet all performance goals in the presence of extreme process variations and environmental conditions. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: May 19, 2009.
The National Science Foundation's Science, Technology, and Society Program supports research and associated activities that examine the relationships among science, technology, engineering, and society. It considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, social, cultural, policy, and ethical questions that arise in connection with science and technology, and their respective interactions with society. It is committed to the importance and intrinsic value of scholarly research conducted by individual investigators; to qualitative, interpretive, and quantitative research; and to analytical, critical, theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, and comparative studies. Eligible applicants include: individuals and US academic institutions. Award ceiling: $180,000. Application deadline: August 1, 2008.
DARPA is soliciting innovative research and development (R&D) proposals in the area of Silicon-based Photonic Analog Signal Processing Engines with Reconfigurability (Si-PhASER). The overall goal is the creation of novel silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) elements and associated programmable filter array concepts, which can be fabricated in a CMOS-compatible process, and that enable high-throughput, low-power signal processors which overcome the limits of conventional electronic DSP technology. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: May 30, 2009.
This program will be acquired in two Phases. White papers are currently being solicited for Phase I. Phase I will consist of defining, developing, and documenting the Concept of Operations (CONOPS), a user-oriented document that describes system characteristics for a proposed system from the users' viewpoint; and Defining, developing and documenting the architecture and the fundamental organization of the Systems and Software Test Track as embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution. Awards of efforts as a result of this announcement will be in the form of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions depending upon the nature of the work proposed.
Applicant eligibility is unrestricted. Individual awards will not normally exceed 6 months. Award amounts for Phase I range from $300,000 to $400,000 per year. Awards given for Phase II will not normally exceed 18 months with dollar amounts ranging between $700,000 and $3,000,000 per year. Application deadlines: October 31, 2008.
The GTECH After School Advantage Program provides nonprofit community organizations with computer centers. These computer centers are designed to provide inner-city children aged 5 to 15 with a meaningful learning experience in a safe environment during the critical after-school hours. This year, the After School Advantage Program will be implemented in Florida. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The National Science Foundation invites proposals from teams of investigators to conduct a worldwide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms. Each project should conduct fieldwork necessary to fill gaps in existing collections, produce descriptions, taxonomic revisions, web-searchable databases, and interactive keys (or other automated identification tools) for all new and known species in the targeted group, analyze their phylogenetic relationships, and establish predictive classifications for the group. Proposals may target any particular group of organisms, from terrestrial, fresh-water, or marine habitats, at any feasible level in the taxonomic hierarchy. Eligible applicants include: universities and colleges; non-profit, non-academic organizations associated with educational or research activities; for-profit organizations; state educational offices or organizations; local school districts; and unaffiliated individuals. Award ceiling: Various. Application deadline: July 9 2008.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in Terahertz (THz) Electronics. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in electronic devices and integrated circuits achieving THz frequencies (at least 1.0 x 1012 cycles per second). Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. Eligible applicants include: unrestricted. Award ceiling: unspecified. Abstract Due Date: July 14, 2008. Proposal Due Date: August 29, 2008.
The National Science Foundation provides awards to enhance the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and outreach programs at Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaskan Native-serving Institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions. Support is available for the implementation of comprehensive institutional approaches to strengthen STEM teaching and learning in ways that improve access to, retention within, and graduation from STEM programs. Through this program, assistance is provided to eligible institutions in their efforts to bridge the digital divide and prepare students for careers in information technology, science, mathematics and engineering fields. Proposed activities should be the result of a careful analysis of institutional needs, address institutional and NSF goals, and have the potential to result in significant and sustainable improvements in STEM program offerings. Typical project implementation strategies include curriculum enhancement, faculty professional development, undergraduate research and community service, academic enrichment, infusion of technology to enhance STEM instruction, collaborations, and other activities that meet institutional and community needs. Eligible applicants include: Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions. Award ceiling: $2,000,000. Application deadline: October 20, 2008.
DARPA's Strategic Technology Office (STO) is soliciting proposals for BAA 07-07, Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) Adaptive Network Development (WAND) to design and develop the network technologies necessary to establish ultra-large (tens of thousands of nodes), highly-scalable, highly-adaptive ad-hoc networks that provide robust networking across densely-connected deployments of inexpensive wireless nodes. WAND-enabled networks should adapt to changing conditions and mission requirements by adjusting the topology of the network and the operational mode of the wireless nodes, particularly at the physical and link layers, to create and maintain a rich, multiply-connected network fabric. This interconnection fabric will provide superior battlefield communications at lower system costs and enhance survivability by ensuring information, applications, and services are readily available within the tactical environment. Eligibility is unrestricted. Application deadline: February 22, 2009.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Research Program supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years (on or after 1 May 2003) and who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. Proposals addressing the research areas of interest for the Air Force Research Laboratory will be considered. Eligible applicants include: U.S. institution of higher education, industrial laboratory, or non-profit research organization where the principal investigator is employed on a full-time basis and holds a regular position. Award ceiling: unspecified. Application deadline: July 22, 2008.
