June 05, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Writing for Grant Success offered through MSU HR- Professional Development
This workshop introduces grant writing to participants, then outlines the process
of creating an effective grant proposal, from analyzing the call to answering the
proposal to implementing the award. This workshop provides examples and tips,
as well as a Q&A session. FREE!
Thursday, June 11, 2015 from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. in 300 Ernst Bessy Hall
Export Control Procedures
All PIs and other project personnel are individually responsible for compliance
with export controls and trade sanctions. OSP has put together a list of
circumstances that require review (follow link in title). Dan Segalman is
Engineering’s resource for any export control questions. Email:
segalamn@egr.msu.edu Phone: 517-432-4904
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges : SAMSI Ideas
Lab
The Ideas Lab process entails participation in an intensive five-day residential
workshop, the development of multidisciplinary collaborative proposals through a
real-time and iterative review process, and the opportunity to submit proposals
for small, 1-year awards to further build the collaborations.
July 20 to 24, 2015 in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Clarifying Publication Reporting Instructions for Research Performance Progress
Reports (RPPR) and Renewal Applications
Attention NIH awardees: Clarifying Publication Reporting Instructions for
Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR) and Renewal Applications - This
guidance applies to the following activity codes: T15, T32, TL1, T34, TL4, T35, T90,
R25, RL5, R90, RL9, K12, KM1, KL2, D43, D71, DP7, U2R, and U45.
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Awardees are responsible for ensuring publications are deposited into the
NIHMS upon acceptance for publication.
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Authors can use the Applicability & Submission Method Wizard
(http://publicaccess.nih.gov/determine-applicability.htm) to learn how to bring
their publication into compliance and report it to NIH.
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Investigators, authors and delegates can track public access compliance in
My Bibliography (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/). Program
Directors/Principal Investigators may wish to track publications they do not
author in the collection Other Citations (see the My Bibliography FAQ for more
instructions). Other Citations is especially helpful for managing institutional
training grants and complex awards.
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NIH recommends investigators or their delegates check the public access
compliance of all the papers directly arising from their award at least once a
quarter.
RFI - Solar PV on Commercial Buildings
The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) is specifically
interested in information on practical, industry-driven, financially enduring, and
self-sustaining strategies that facilitate solar deployment for buildings.
SPA (OSP|CGA) Federal Uniform Guidance
Stay up to date with grant regulation changes resulting from Uniform Guidance.
Energy Department Launches Competition to Drive Innovations in Wave Energy
The Energy Department announced the opening of the registration period for the
Wave Energy Prize competition that aims to double the state-of-the-art
performance of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices over the next two years.
Teams must be registered by June 15, 2015.
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
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Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) NSF
13-594
Early Stage Innovations (ESI) NNH15ZOA001N-15ESI-B2
Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office Wide DARPA-BAA-14-39
Economic Analysis of the National Need for Technology Infrastructure to
Support the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) 2015-NIST-TPO-01
Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields
(REVEAL) DARPA-BAA-15-44
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) For Research Initiatives at the Naval
Postgraduate School NPS-BAA-14-004
Solar Bankability Data to Advance Transactions and Access FOA (SB-DATA)
DE-FOA-0001319
Michigan Truck Safety Commission (MTSC) Strategic Plan for 2015-2019
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Fulbright Global Flex Award
Nuclear Science and Engineering Nonproliferation Research Consortium
DE-FOA-0001300
National Robotics Initiative (NRI) NSF 15-505
IARPA's Office for Anticipating Surprise Office-Wide Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) IARPA-BAA-15-04
1) 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: Letter of intent due June 26, 2015
2) Early Stage Innovations (ESI) NNH15ZOA001N-15ESI-B2
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters has
released a solicitation, titled Early Stage Innovations (ESI), as an appendix to the
Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) umbrella NASA Research
Announcement (NRA) titled "Space Technology Research, Development,
Demonstration, and Infusion 2015 (SpaceTech-REDDI-2015). This Appendix seeks
proposals to develop unique, disruptive, or transformational space technologies
that have the potential to lead to dramatic improvements at the system level
performance, weight, cost, reliability, operational simplicity, or other figures of
merit associated with space flight hardware or missions.
Deadline: July 10, 2015
3) Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office Wide DARPA-BAA-14-39
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative
research proposals of interest to the Information Innovation Office (I2O). I2O
explores game-changing technologies in the fields of information science and
technology to anticipate and create rapid shifts in the complex national security
landscape. The I2O portfolio covers a broad space, investigating enterprise
networks, secure communications, industrial systems, and purpose-built military
systems.
Deadline: July 15, 2015
4) Economic Analysis of the National Need for Technology Infrastructure to
Support the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) 2015-NIST-TPO-01
NIST is soliciting applications from eligible applicants to assess the economic
impacts of meeting the Nation’s need for technology infrastructure to support the
Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). Advanced materials are essential to economic
security and human well-being, with applications in industries aimed at
addressing challenges in clean energy, national security, and human welfare, yet it
can take 20 or more years to move a material after initial discovery to the market.
This prospective (strategic planning) study involves, at a minimum, expertise in
the following disciplines: technology assessment, high-tech industry behavioral
and structural analyses, microeconomic modeling of complex technology
development and commercialization patterns, high-tech industry survey and data
collection techniques, and quantitative and qualitative analyses of technology
infrastructure gaps that are inhibiting the advancement of technologies. The goal
of the analysis is to identify gaps in the Nation’s technology infrastructure needed
to support the MGI and estimate the economic value of eliminating these gaps.
The specific goals of this study are to: (1) assess the technological and economic
trends in the research, development, adoption and deployment of MGI related
technologies, including demonstrated and anticipated adopters of MGI
technology; (2) assess gaps in the technology infrastructure associated with the
efficient domestic development of highly complex emerging materials research
technologies; (3) assess qualitatively these gaps in terms of industry investment
criteria and research mechanisms used, (4) determine the quantitative empirical
rankings of the economic benefit of eliminating these gaps based on novel data
and modelling; and (5) assess the implied U.S. and international government
policy responses, specific to phases in the R&D cycle, technology transfer efforts
and subsequent scale-up (capital formation).
Deadline: July 28, 2015
5) Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields
(REVEAL) DARPA-BAA-15-44
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences
Office (DSO) Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Lightfields (REVEAL) program is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of
optical imaging and sensing of high dimensional degrees of freedom of light
across all photon pathways.
Deadline: July 30, 2015
6) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) For Research Initiatives at the Naval
Postgraduate School NPS-BAA-14-004
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is interested in receiving proposals for
research initiatives that offer potential for advancement and improvement in the
NPS core mission of graduate education and research. Readers should note that
this is an announcement to declare NPS’s solicitation in competitive funding of
meritorious research initiatives across a spectrum of science and engineering,
business, politics and public/foreign policy, operational and information sciences,
and interdisciplinary disciplines that are in line with the NPS’ graduate education
and research mission.
Deadline: July 31, 2015
7) Solar Bankability Data to Advance Transactions and Access FOA (SB-DATA)
DE-FOA-0001319
The Solar Bankability Data to Advance Transactions and Access FOA (SB-DATA)
will facilitate the growth and expansion of the solar industry by creating a
standardized data landscape for distributed solar. As the solar market continues
to rapidly grow, it’s critical that the collection, management, and exchange of
solar datasets, especially those that affect the bankability of solar assets – across
the value chain from project origination to grid integration, operations, and
decommissioning – are coordinated and streamlined to protect consumers,
increase efficient pricing, and to support new and existing businesses entering the
solar marketplace (e.g. new financial, underwriting products, operations and
maintenance services). The goal of SB-DATA is to support the creation and
adoption of industry-led de facto open data standards for rapid and seamless data
exchange across the value chain from origination to decommissioning.
Deadline: July 31, 2015
8) Michigan Truck Safety Commission (MTSC) Strategic Plan for 2015-2019
The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) and the Michigan Truck
Safety Commission (MTSC) are requesting proposals from universities and nonprofit agencies to update the Michigan Truck Strategic Plan for 2015-2019.
Deadline: full proposal due August 01, 2015
9) Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
The core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program provides approximately 800 teaching
and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide
variety of academic and professional fields. Grants are available in over 125
countries worldwide.
Deadline: August 03, 2015
10) Fulbright Global Flex Award
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Global Flex Award provides U.S. academics and
professionals with the flexibility to engage in advanced regional or trans-regional
research and/or teaching. As a truly worldwide award, U.S. scholars will be able to
collaborate and engage in scholarly activities in two or three countries in one or
more regions.
Deadline: August 03, 2015
11) 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
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National Robotics Initiative (NRI) NSF 15-505
The goal of the National Robotics Initiative is to accelerate the development and
use of robots in the United States that work beside or cooperatively with people.
Innovative robotics research and applications emphasizing the realization of such
co-robots working in symbiotic relationships with human partners. The purpose of
this program is the development of this next generation of robotics, to advance
the capability and usability of such systems and artifacts, and to encourage
existing and new communities to focus on innovative application areas. It will
address the entire life cycle from fundamental research and development to
manufacturing and deployment. Collaboration between academic, industry, nonprofit and other organizations is strongly encouraged to establish better linkages
between fundamental science and technology development, deployment and
use.
Deadline: December 03, 2015
13) IARPA's Office for Anticipating Surprise Office-Wide Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) IARPA-BAA-15-04
IARPA invests in high-risk, high-payoff research that has the potential to provide
our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries.
This BAA solicits abstracts/proposals for the Office for Anticipating Surprise (OAS).
OAS focuses on characterizing and reducing uncertainty through anticipatory
intelligence. OAS is pursuing innovative new technology approaches that provide
decision makers with timely and accurate forecasts of significant global events.
This BAA solicits research that explores or demonstrates the feasibility of
revolutionary concepts that may deliver real-time indications and warning, in
context, to support rapid, nuanced understanding by intelligence consumers.
Deadline: January 14, 2016
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)