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  • Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD)

    Supports research on new ways to use spatiotemporal data to model human dynamics, with an emphasis on identifying and forecasting unusual events and future threats. There are two areas of interest:

    • Develop mathematical, statistical and computational algorithms for analysis of massive spatiotemporal datasets, at scale; and
    • Develop mathematical theory to guide the application of advanced artificial intelligence to processing massive spatiotemporal data.

    Deadline: February 21, 2024; recurring annually on the third Wednesday in February

    Award: Unspecified

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    Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

    Supports work that enables scientists and scientific discovery by improving the security, robustness, and trustworthiness of cyberinfrastructure.

    • Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS): Projects in this program area should support novel and/or applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration, encourages the adoption of security into the scientific workflow, and helps create a holistic, integrated security environment that spans the entire scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
    • Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD): Projects in this program area should leverage instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows and workloads as reference data artifacts that can help support reproducible security research, testing and evaluation.
    • Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR): Projects in this program area should improve the robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, validation, and technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. The TCR area further encourages transition activities that advance the deployment and use of reproducibility in CI, workflows, and data.

    Deadline: February 1, 2024

    Award: $600K (UCSS and RSSD) - $1.2M (TCR) for durations up to three years

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    Safe Learning-Enabled Systems

    Supports foundational research that leads to the design and implementation of learning-enabled systems in which safety is ensured with high levels of confidence.

    • Foundation Projects
    • Synergy Projects

    Deadline: January 16, 2024

    Award: Foundation $800K for durations up to three years; Synergy $1.5M for durations up to four years

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    Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience

    Supports the establishment of a new Synthesis Center focused on organismal resilience and plasticity as well as training new generations of researchers in data-intensive, open, cross-disciplinary and collaborative science.

    Deadline: January 12, 2024 (Preliminary); July 15, 2024 (Full Proposal)

    Award: $20M over five years

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    Ideas Lab: Personalized Engineering Learning (PEL)

    The goal of the Personalized Engineering Learning Ideas Lab is to extend engineering education research to enable advanced personalization in pedagogy and assessment in a K-12 or higher education context. The following broad areas have been identified as possible avenues to advance knowledge: personalized engineering education, multimodal sensing for personalized learning systems and team-based personalized learning.

    Deadline: November 29, 2023 (Preliminary Proposal); May 8, 2024 (Full Proposal)

    Award: Selected individuals will participate in an Ideas Lab and may be selected to submit a full proposal

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    Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award

    Supports individual engineers and scientists who propose novel research projects with the potential to innovatively and creatively address major societal challenges, advance US leadership, and catalyze the convergence of engineering and science domains.

    Deadline: Concept Outline due November 9, 2023; Full Proposal due February 15, 2024

    Award: $3M for durations up to three years

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    Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

    Supports coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements for science applications and distributed research projects.

    • Area (1) Data-Driven Networking Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher;
    • Area (2) Regional Connectivity for Small Institutions of Higher Education;
    • Area (3) Network Integration and Applied Innovation;
    • Area (4) Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum;
    • Area (5) Regional Computing;
    • Area (6) Data Storage; and
    • Area (7) Planning Grants and CI-Research Alignment.

    Deadline: September 11, 2023

    Award: $100K - $1.2M depending on area for durations up to two years

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    Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase II (PIPP Phase II Centers Program)

    Supports interdisciplinary team-based approaches to accelerate research and development activities in emerging infectious diseases and pandemics. The overall goal of the PIPP Phase II Centers program is to support research and development activities needed to transform society’s ability to forecast the likelihood of pandemic-scale events, detect outbreaks early, and respond efficiently.

    • Theme 1: Pre-emergence – Predicting and detecting rare events in complex, dynamical systems
    • Theme 2: Data, AI/ML and Design - Computing, manufacturing and technology innovation for pandemics
    • Theme 3: The Host as the Universe - Identifying host-pathogen tipping points that dictate control or spread of an infection
    • Theme 4: Human Systems – The role of human behavior, activities and environments in disease emergence, transmission, and response or mitigation

    Deadline: December 8, 2023 (LOI due August 25, 2023)

    Award: $15-18M for durations up to seven years

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    Cyberinfrastructure Technology Acceleration Pathway (CITAP)

    Supports the translation of innovative research CI software, such as system software, libraries, application codes, and software enabling data services.

    Deadline: September 6, 2023

    Award: $10M for durations up to five years with opportunity for renewal

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    Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)

    Supports developing centers (Phase I) and large, multi-institutional research centers (Phase II) focused on major, long-term chemical research challenges.

    Deadline: August 10, 2023 (Preliminary Proposal)

    Award: $1.8M for durations up to three years, eligible for Phase II ($4M/year for durations up to five years)

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    Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO)

    Supports the assessment of how investments in science and technology research and development will contribute to specific technology outcomes: technology capabilities, technology production, and technology use. These models should be able to predict future as well as past states of technology outcomes.

    Deadline: August 21, 2023 (Preliminary)

    Award: $500K to $4M per year for durations of one to five years

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    BioFoundries to Enable Access to Infrastructure and Resources for Advancing Modern Biology and Biotechnology (BioFoundries)

    Supports grand challenge questions requiring a deeper understanding of biological systems and technologies are as diverse as life itself. Understanding the complexity of living systems and their interactions with human-derived products and processes, ensuring the safe, ethical and equitable access to and co-generation of knowledge and products, requires the sustained development of technologies, sophisticated instrumentation, workflow pipelines and their automation, and advanced computing that are beyond the capabilities found in the laboratories of individual investigators.

    Deadline: October 2, 2023 (LOI due August 1, 2023)

    Award: $15-24M for durations of six years

    This is a limited submission opportunity due July 11, 2023.

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    NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2023 Cohort - Tracks K, L, M

    Supports the transition of basic research and discovery into practice—to solve high-impact societal challenges aligned with specific research themes (tracks).

    • Track K: Equitable Water Solutions
    • Track L: Real-World Chemical Sensing Applications
    • Track M: Bio-Inspired Design Innovations

    Deadline: August 22, 2023 (LOI due July 11, 2023)

    Award: $750K for Phase 1 for durations of one year (supports application to Phase 2 for $5M total for durations of two years)

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    Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)

    Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

    Deadline: June 20, 2023; (Internal LSO due April 25)

    Award: $1.5M for durations up to three years

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    NSF Engines Builder Platform

    Supports an organization that can help develop, launch, and run a “Builder Platform” to support its NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awardees, a signature initiative of NSF’s Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) directorate.

    Deadline: June 12, 2023

    Award: $9.5M (total) for durations of three years

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    Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies - Satellite-Terrestrial Coexistence (SWIFT-SAT)

    Supports research on techniques to overcome radio interference and light pollution conflicts between satellite users (communications, earth sensing) and terrestrial users (communications, astronomy) enabling usage growth to benefit society.

    Deadline: June 5, 2023

    Award: $750K for durations up to three years

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Other Funding Opportunities

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