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DARPA - Unsolicited Proposals [01540]
Synopsis: Support is provided to individuals and institutions for unique and innovative methods or approaches to accomplish mission requirements.
Objectives: Support is provided to individuals and institutions for unique and innovative methods or approaches to accomplish mission requirements. Research proposals are sought in the following areas:
The Advanced Technology Office (ATO): explores high payoff programs in the areas of maritime, communications, and early entry/special forces operations.
The Defense Science Office: seeks to pursue the most promising discoveries and innovations in science and engineering to create paradigm shifts in defense capabilities.
The Information Processing Technology Office: focuses on inventing the networking, computing, and software technologies vital to ensuring DOD military superiority.
The Information Exploitation Office: develops sensor and information system technology and systems with application to battle space awareness, targeting, command and control, and the supporting infrastructure required to address land-based threats in a dynamic, closed-loop process.
The Microsystems Technology Office: focuses on the heterogeneous microchip-scale integration of electronics, photonics, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
The Special Projects Office: focuses on developing systems solutions, along with the required enabling technologies, to counter current and emerging threats.
The Tactical Technology Office: engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced military research, emphasizing the "system" and "subsystem" approach to the development of aeronautic, space, and land systems as well as embedded processors and control systems.
The Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) Office: the DARPA activity charged with leading the DoD effort to develop and demonstrate the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems. The J-UCAS program is a joint DARPA/Air Force/Navy effort to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational value for a networked system of high performance, weaponized unmanned air vehicles to effectively and affordably prosecute 21st century combat missions, including Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD), surveillance, and precision strike within the emerging global command and control architecture.
Motorola Foundation [01697]
Synopsis: The sponsor focuses its funding on education, especially programs that support math and science teacher-training programs and charitable organizations that excite young people about these subjects.
Objectives: Through the foundation, the sponsor nurtures relationships with local, national and international non-profit organizations — to extend resources to communities in need and to help expand the scope of their missions. They support important causes in three ways: 1) Through cash donations; 2) Through product donations; and, 3) By enabling employees to participate in volunteer and charitable-giving programs.
The sponsor's strategic focus emphasizes the following:
Education: With programs that encourage an interest in science, technology, engineering and math — particularly among girls and the underserved minorities.
Connecting the unconnected: To help bring the transformative power of wireless communication to communities that might otherwise be overlooked.
Critical community needs: To support a wide variety of programs that have a direct impact in the communities where we do business.
Employee involvement: With their time, energy and pocketbooks, Motorola employees play a crucial role in nearly all of our philanthropic efforts.
DOC/NIST - Measurement, Science and Engineering Research Grants Programs--Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) Grants Program [02200]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support for research in the following fields of research: Dimensional Metrology for Manufacturing, Mechanical Metrology for Manufacturing, Intelligent Systems, and Information Systems Integration for Applications in Manufacturing.
Objectives: The Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) Grants Program will provide grants and cooperative agreements in the following fields of research: Dimensional Metrology for Manufacturing, Mechanical Metrology for Manufacturing, Intelligent Systems, and Information Systems Integration for Applications in Manufacturing.
Funding: In fiscal year 2007, the MEL Grants Program funded 8 new awards, totaling $729,775.49. In fiscal year 2008 the MEL Grants Program anticipates funding of approximately $500,000, including new awards and continuing projects. Individual awards are expected to range from approximately $25,000 to $250,000. For the MEL Grants Program, proposals will be considered for research projects from one to five years. When a proposal for a multi-year award is approved, funding will generally be provided for only the first year of the program. Continuation of an award to increase funding or extend the period of performance is at the total discretion of NIST.
NSF - Small Grants for Exploratory Research [02221]
Synopsis: Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the sponsor may be submitted to individual programs. The maximum award will not normally exceed $200,000.
Objectives: Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the sponsor may be submitted to individual programs. Such research is characterized as: preliminary work on untested and novel ideas; ventures into emerging and potentially transformative research ideas; application of new expertise or new approaches to "established" research topics; having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural disasters and similar unanticipated events; or efforts of similar character likely to catalyze rapid and innovative advances.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education - Faculty Research Participation at the National Center for Toxicological Research [06044]
Synopsis: Support is provided for college and university faculty to participate in research on biological effects of potentially toxic chemicals and solutions to toxicology problems that have a major impact on human health and the environment. Appointments are ten weeks to three months; some sabbatical appointments are available.
Objectives: The sponsor offers college and university faculty opportunities and support for research in biological effects of potentially toxic chemicals and deriving solutions to the problems in toxicology that have a major impact on human health and the environment. Research disciplines include biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, medicine, pharmacology, toxicology, and related scientific disciplines. Research takes place at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)in Jefferson, Arkansas.
DOA - Short Term Innovative Research (STIR) Program [06643]
Synopsis: Support is provided to educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial organizations for basic research in chemistry, electronics, environmental sciences, life sciences, materials science, mathematical and computer sciences, mechanical sciences and physics. Awards provide up to $50,000.
Objectives: Support is provided for innovative ideas in basic research in chemistry, electronics, environmental sciences, life sciences, materials science, mathematical and computer sciences, mechanical sciences, and physics. Proposed research may be for the continuation of or the natural out-growth of experimental or theoretical explorations.
NSF - Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics [08409]
Synopsis: Support is provided to: advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate the atmosphere’s synoptic and planetary circulation, weather and climate, and sustain the pool of human resources required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research.
Objectives: The goals of the program are to: advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate the atmosphere’s synoptic and planetary circulation, weather and climate, and sustain the pool of human resources required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research.Research topics include theoretical, observational and modeling studies of the general circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere; synoptic scale weather phenomena; processes that govern climate; the causes of climate variability and change; methods to predict climate variations; extended weather and climate predictability; development and testing of parameterization of physical processes; numerical methods for use in large-scale weather and climate models; the assembly and analysis of instrumental and/or modeled weather and climate data; data assimilation studies; and development and use of climate models to diagnose and simulate climate and its variations and change.
American Numismatic Society - Donald Groves Fund [09131]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support to promote publication in the field of early American numismatics involving material dating no later than 1800.
Objectives: The sponsor promotes publication in the field of early American numismatics involving material dating no later than 1800. Funding is available for travel and other expenses in association with research as well as for publication costs.
DOA - Conference and Symposia Grants [10639]
Synopsis: Support is provided to tax-exempt, scientific, technical, or professional organizations for conferences and symposia in special areas of science that bring experts together to discuss research or education findings. The sponsor encourages the convening in the United States of international assemblies, alliances, and conferences.
Objectives: The sponsor supports conferences and symposia in special areas of science that bring experts together to discuss recent research, education findings, or to expose other researchers or advanced graduate students to new research and education techniques. The sponsor encourages the convening in the United States of major international conferences and assemblies of international alliances.
NIST - Measurement, Science and Engineering Research Grants Programs--Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory Grants Program [15135]
Synopsis: The Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) Grants Program will provide grants and cooperative agreements in the following fields of measurement science research, focused on reference methods, reference materials and reference data: Biotechnology, Process Measurements, Surface and Microanalysis Science, Physical and Chemical Properties, and Analytical Chemistry.
Objectives: The Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) Grants Program will provide grants and cooperative agreements in the following fields of measurement science research, focused on reference methods, reference materials and reference data: Biotechnology, Process Measurements, Surface and Microanalysis Science, Physical and Chemical Properties, and Analytical Chemistry.The Programs are structured to support CSTL's three objectives: Provide the national traceability and international comparability structure for measurements in chemistry, chemical engineering, and biochemical sciences; Assure that U.S. industry has access to accurate and reliable data and predictive models to determine the chemical and physical properties of materials and processes; Anticipate and address next-generation measurement needs of the Nation.
NIST - Measurement, Science and Engineering Research Grants Programs--Physics Laboratory Grants Program [15137]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support for research in electron and optical physics; atomic physics; optical technology; ionizing radiation; time and frequency; and quantum physics.
Objectives: The sponsor provides support for research under the following divisions:
Electron and Optical Physics Division, 841: The objective is to supplement division activities in characterization of nanometer-scale electronic and magnetic structures, characterization of EUV optical components to support semiconductor lithography and ultraviolet radiometric metrology, and to support ongoing activities in Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information.
Atomic Physics Division, 842: The primary objective is to support division programs aimed at determining basic atomic properties and developing new metrology techniques in atomic spectroscopy, quantum
processes, plasma radiation, laser cooling and trapping, and quantum
metrology.
Optical Technology Division, 844: The primary objective is to develop, improve and maintain national standards for radiation
thermometry, spectroradiometry, photometry, and spectrophotometry as well as conduct basic theoretical and experimental research on the photophysical and photochemical properties of materials, in radiometric and spectroscopic techniques and instrumentation, and in the application of optical technologies.
Ionizing Radiation Division, 846: The primary objective is to provide primary standards, measurement methods, and technology to support the Division's work in meeting national needs in radiation interactions and dosimetry, neutron interactions and dosimetry, and radioactivity including both theoretical/experimental and applied research programs in support of Industry, Homeland Security and Health Care.
Time and Frequency Division, 847: The primary objective is to supplement division basic and applied research programs in the areas of time and frequency standards, phase noise measurements, network synchronization, ion storage, quantum information, atomic standards and scale atomic clocks, time and frequency dissemination services,support of time and frequency applications such as navigational systems and telecommunications and measurement methods.
ONR - C4ISR Applications [27067]
Synopsis: This division supports programs in surface and aerospace surveillance, communications, and electronic combat. Research areas in surface and aerospace surveillance include sensors, primarily radar and electro- optic/infrared, and associated signal and image processing methods. Areas of interest in communications include military radio communications with an emphasis on anti-jam and low-probability-of-intercept techniques, radio networks, and dynamic internetworking. Electronic combat research areas include threat warning systems, electronic support measures, decoys, and electronic countermeasures. Navigation research includes GPS anti-jam and associated inertial navigation techniques.
ONR - Aerospace Science Research Division--Strike Technology Research Program [27768]
Synopsis: Naval unique or essential projects in this program are involved with basic and applied research for high energy lasers, hypersonics, rotorcraft technology, advanced propulsion Naval air/surface weaponry and Naval aircraft that could provide transformational capabilities for the Navy After Next.
Objectives: This division is structured into two major programs, weapons technology and aircraft technology. These programs directly support Navy S & T requirements for Joint Strike Warfare involving Air Superiority and Precision Attack, and Air and Surface Battlespace requirements of Joint Littoral Warfare involving Aircraft, Naval Surface Fire Support, and Ship Self Defense. In support of these mission area requirements, the division conducts exploratory and advanced development programs in the areas of aeronautics, avionics, air vehicle propulsion, missile solid and air breathing propulsion, gun propulsion, missile and gun projectile guidance and control, warheads, fuze and safe and arm devices, fire control and targeting.
NSF - Communicating Research to Public Audiences [33393]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides grants of up to $75,000 to support projects that communicate to public audiences the process and results of current research that is being supported by any NSF directorate through informal science education activities, such as media presentations, exhibits, or youth-based activities.
Objectives: The purpose of this program is to promote the discovery, integration, dissemination, and employment of new knowledge in service to society and to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. These grants will provide an opportunity for Principal Investigators (PIs) to explain in non-technical terms the methods and/or results of their research to a broad and diverse audience.
NSF/NIST - Interaction in Chemistry, Materials Research, Molecular Biosciences, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering [33888]
Synopsis: This program is intended to facilitate interactions between faculty and students supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) and Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL), including the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). Participant support for per diem and travel expenses associated with work at the NIST may be requested as a supplement to an existing NSF grant.
Objectives: This program provides supplements to NSF supported researchers with active awards in the NSF's Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Chemical and Transport Systems, and Bioengineering and Environmental Systems for collaboration with researchers at NIST's CSTL and MSEL.
CSTL is divided into the following Divisions: Analytical Chemistry; Biotechnology; Physical and Chemical Properties; Process Measurements; and Surface and Microanalysis Science.
MSEL is divided into the following Divisions: Ceramics; Materials Reliability; Polymers; Metallurgy; NIST Center for Neutron Research; and the Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science.
McDonnell (James S.) Foundation - 21st Century Collaborative Activity Awards--Studying Complex Systems [54736]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on problems or issues, to help launch interdisciplinary research networks, or to fund communities of researchers/practitioners dedicated to developing new methods, tools, and applications of basic research to applied problems. All proposed activities must involve multi-institutional collaboration.
Objectives: Grants in this program area will support scholarship and research involving the development of theories and models that can be applied to the study of complex, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address issues in fields such as biology, biodiversity, climate, demography, epidemiology, technological change, economic development, governance, or computation. However, the program's emphasis will be on the development and application of theoretical models used in these research fields and not on particular fields per se.
DOA - Life Sciences Program [58492]
Deadline note: This program ends September 30, 2011.
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support for basic research in biotechnology. Proposals are sought from educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial organizations.
Objectives: The sponsor provides support in the following areas: bioengineering; molecular genetics and genomics; microbiology and biodegradation; and neurophysiology and cognitive neuroscience.
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