June 26, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advanced Notice of New Facilities and Administrative (F&A) or Overhead Rates
The University has negotiated new Facilities & Administrative (F&A) rates that will
be effective from July 1, 2015 until June 30, 2019. Although MSU has not received
the “official” rate agreement, we can use the following rates for new proposals.
We anticipate receiving the final agreement by June 30, 2015, and it will be
posted to the OSP/CGA web site.
The federal rates for July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 are:
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Research - 53.5%.
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Other Sponsored Activities - 36%.
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Off-Campus - 26%.
The new federal rates for July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2019 are:
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Research - 55%.
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Other Sponsored Activities - 36%.
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Off-Campus - 26%.
Consistent with past practice, these new rates will apply to new proposals and will
not be applied retroactively to existing proposals or awards. The increase in the
research rate (+1.5) is primarily due to an increase in costs for major
infrastructure projects. The other sponsored activities rate and off-campus rates
are unchanged.
Write On-Site with Trifecta
Trifecta’s “Write On-Site” is a way to build in writing time and accountability.
Bring your laptop or whatever writing materials you need and get started. This is
an open invitation; we always have coffee and sometimes cookies!
Every Wednesday | 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | CAS207
Defense Sciences Office Proposers Day DARPA-SN-15-41
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences
Office (DSO) is sponsoring a two-day Proposers Day event to provide information
to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated DSO Office-wide Broad
Agency Announcement (BAA). The event will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday,
July 21-22, 2015 from at the DARPA Conference Center (675 North Randolph
Street, Arlington, VA 22203). The event will be webcast for those who would like
to participate remotely. Advance registration is required for both the physical
meeting and the webcast. Registration for the physical meeting and webcast
participants will include an opportunity to schedule a sidebar meeting with a DSO
Program Manager.
Save the Date: 2015 MSU-FBI Academic Alliance Conference
Monday, September 28, 2015 from 8:00am-5:00pm. The 2015 FBI-MSU Academic
Alliance Conference is full-day program at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference
Center. Free event but registration is required.
Request for Information: Antimicrobial Resistance Rapid, Point-of-Care Diagnostic
Test Challenge
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Biomedical Advanced Research
and Development Authority (BARDA) are sponsoring the prize competition, and
seek public comments regarding the technical criteria and performance
characteristics of the diagnostic(s) for which the prize(s) will be offered.
SPA (OSP|CGA) Federal Uniform Guidance
Stay up to date with grant regulation changes resulting from Uniform Guidance.
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
Completed proposals must be provided to OSP at least three full business days
prior to the sponsor's deadline to be considered on time. On-time proposals will
take precedence over those considered late. Thank you for your continued
cooperation and commitment to improving the process of proposal review,
approval and timely submission.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
1.
Standoff Explosives Detection on Vehicles (SED-V) BAA-HSHQDC-15-RB0003
2. NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program Analysis Centers (U01) RFA-HG-15026
3. The National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
(NSSEFF) Program N0001415RFO11
4. Nuclear Science and Engineering Nonproliferation Research Consortium
DE-FOA-0001300
5. Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP) DE-FOA-0001329
6. Concentrating Solar Power: Concentration Optics for Lower Levelized
Energy Costs: (COLLECTS) DE-FOA-0001268
7. Expeditionary Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Science and
Technology N00014-15-R-BA010
8. International Technology Alliance (ITA) US Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) & United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD)W911NF-15-R-0003
9. ROSES 2015: Planetary Protection Research NNH15ZDA001N-PPR
10. Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) NSF 15-582
11. Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) NSF
13-594
12. USAID/Indonesia Development Innovation Accelerator for Indonesia's
Development Challenges Indonesia-BAA-DIA
1) Standoff Explosives Detection on Vehicles (SED-V) BAA-HSHQDC-15-RB0003
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T)
Directorate is soliciting white papers which will be evaluated in accordance with
this BAA. This BAA is for basic and applied research as well as development not
relating to a specific piece of hardware or system. The purpose of this solicitation
is to initiate a three-phase developmental activity for standoff detection
capabilities.
Deadline: white papers due July 23, 2015
2) NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program Analysis Centers (U01) RFA-HG-15026
NHGRI seeks to establish NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program Analysis Centers
(GSPAC), which will undertake computational analyses of the data produced by
the NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program (GSP; See "Companion Funding
Opportunities") with the purpose of extracting genomic and biological knowledge.
Specifically, the GSPACs will have two roles. First, they will undertake novel,
investigator-initiated analyses that will cut across the individual projects and
grants that are the primary data producing constituents of the overall GSP. These
analyses may also use data generated by other large-scale genomics projects.
GSPACs will develop improved or novel analyses and methods for all nonautomated aspects of characterizing sequence variants in the data, after lower
level data processing and variant calling. NHGRI has particular interest in
questions about identifying associations between variants and disease
phenotypes; analyses using existing functional data to leverage associations
and/or make functional inferences; means to improve study design; and other
higher level analyses. Second, the GSPACs will work together with the other GSP
components on cross-program analyses that are directly relevant to goals defined
in the Companion Funding Opportunities, which currently include defining the
point at which a common disease/rare variant genome sequencing study is
“comprehensive” or complete, and developing specifications for sample sets that
could serve as common controls for common disease genome sequencing studies.
Deadline: letter of intent due July 25, 215
3) The National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
(NSSEFF) Program N0001415RFO11
The National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF)
program is sponsored by the Basic Research Office, Office of Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD (R&E)). NSSEFF supports innovative
basic research within academia, as well as education initiatives that seek to create
and develop the next generation of scientists and engineers for the defense and
national security workforce. The NSSEFF program will focus its funding on
innovative basic research projects that have the potential for significant long-term
impact and support the development of the next generation of scientists and
engineers for the defense and national security workforce.
Deadline: white paper due August 10, 2015
4) Nuclear Science and Engineering Nonproliferation Research Consortium
DE-FOA-0001300
The intent of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to award a five
year cooperative agreement to a consortium of accredited U.S. Colleges and
Universities. This cooperative agreement will allow the universities to receive and
administer research and development funding awarded by the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D).
Deadline: August 12, 2015
5) Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP) DE-FOA-0001329
The Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP) FOA will support many
activities in solar training and education. Firstly, it will support coordination
among the Solar Training Network (STN), military bases and the solar industry.
This will ensure that solar instructors are well connected to solar employers, the
STN materials are up-to-date, and veterans are connected to solar training
institutions. Secondly, it will establish new credentials in solar operations &
maintenance and mid-scale installations. Next, this FOA will enable solar training
and education for professionals in indirect and related fields such as real estate,
finance, insurance, fire and code enforcement, and state regulations. Finally, it
will support the expansion of the GEARED initiative.
Deadline: full proposal due August 14, 2015
6) Concentrating Solar Power: Concentration Optics for Lower Levelized
Energy Costs: (COLLECTS) DE-FOA-0001268
Concentrating Optics for Lower Levelized Energy CosTS (COLLECTS) FOA seeks to
further CSP system technologies by soliciting disruptive, transformative projects
for the concentrating solar collectors in the CSP plant. These innovative projects
will seek to surpass the targets set out in the SunShot Vision Study, enabling CSP
to be cost-competitive with conventional forms of electric power generation.
Projects will target the design and manufacturing of novel solar collectors with
the ability to significantly reduce the solar field contribution to the overall LCOE of
the CSP plant, and which have not been previously specifically targeted by CSP
FOAs.
Deadline: August 25, 2015
7) Expeditionary Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Science and
Technology N00014-15-R-BA010
The opportunity presented by this BAA is to perform research that enables
improvement to expeditionary Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
(ISR) capabilities that are applicable to both amphibious and irregular warfare.
The opportunity described in this BAA is focused on the following development
areas that the ISR Enabling Capability has identified as critical shortcomings in
tactical expeditionary ISR:• Advanced query capabilities against NoSQL data
stores • Network statistics on rich graphs • Conventional analysis of open source
data including complex event recognition • Transform and opportunistic learning
from open source • Actionable empirical models of factional dynamics • Level 1
and level 2 fusion applied to complex graphs • Calculations of cost functions for
predictions from embedded data • Complex event detection conditioned by
entity pedigree • Knowledge based workflow management • Civil Information
Exploitation. This BAA is intended for proposals related to basic research, applied
research, or advanced technology development. Basic research proposals should
offer high innovative approaches having the promise to enable a revolutionary
capability. Applied research and advance technology development offerings
should focus on showing that a capability is technically feasible and operationally
relevant and be oriented toward rapid maturation, demonstration, and transition.
Deadline: August 28, 2015
8) International Technology Alliance (ITA) US Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) & United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD)W911NF-15-R-0003
The purpose of this United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and United
Kingdom Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) International
Technology Alliance (ITA) Program Announcement (PA) is to solicit offers that will
help to fulfill the research and development goals of the US Department of Army
and UK Ministry of Defence. This document announces a new and innovative
opportunity for cooperation between the US and the UK in the area of Distributed
Analytics and Information Science (DAIS).The DAIS ITA Program is comprised of
two components: (1) the Basic Research Component and (2) the Technology
Transition Component. The Basic Research Component will provide for
fundamental research, the results of which will be in the public domain, while the
Technology Transition Component will provide for the application of the
fundamental research results to military, security and commercial applications to
foster the best technologies for future defense and security needs.
Deadline: full proposal due August 31, 2015
9) ROSES 2015: Planetary Protection Research NNH15ZDA001N-PPR
This ROSES NRA (NNH15ZDA001N) solicits basic and applied research in support
of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This 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, scientific balloon, sounding rocket, International Space Station, CubeSat
and suborbital reusable launch vehicle 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.
Deadline: September 04, 2015
10) Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) NSF 15-582
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. The ABI
program accepts three major types of proposals: Innovation awards that seek to
pioneer new approaches to the application of informatics to biological problems,
Development awards that seek to provide robust cyberinfrastructure that will
enable transformative biological research, and Sustaining awards that seek to
support ongoing operations and maintenance of existing cyberinfrastructure that
is critical for continued advancement of priority biological research.
Deadline: September 22, 2015
11) Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) NSF
13-594
The Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program develops
long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The centers
are catalyzed by a small investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
and are primarily supported by industry center members, with NSF taking a
supporting role in the development and evolution of the center. Each center is
established to conduct research that is of interest to both the industry members
and the center faculty. An I/UCRC contributes to the nation's research
infrastructure base and enhances the intellectual capacity of the engineering and
science workforce through the integration of research and education. As
appropriate, an I/UCRC uses international collaborations to advance these goals
within the global context.
Deadline: September 25, 2015
12) USAID/Indonesia Development Innovation Accelerator for Indonesia's
Development Challenges Indonesia-BAA-DIA
USAID/Indonesia's Development Innovation Accelerator (DIA) is a Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) that seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest,
and collaborate in basic and applied research and development on Indonesia's
Development Challenges. The United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) invites individuals, organizations and companies to
participate with USAID in response to Development Challenges in Indonesia
through Addenda issued under the Accelerator, as described below, by providing
research, innovations, technologies and partnerships that further
USAID/Indonesia's development goal of "A stronger Indonesia advancing national
and global development."
Deadline: September 30, 2015
All deadlines listed in this announcement indicate the agency’s due date. Please
adjust your PPF submission to account for the new deadline policies.
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)