Mathematics, Computational, & Data Sciences

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Z. Yan (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

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Only two nominations are allowed per institution.

Program Description
Our commitment to enriching the research skills and professional growth of young faculty members at ORAU member institutions is embodied in the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards Program. These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members that often result in additional funding from other sources. The award amount provided by ORAU is $5,000. The applicant’s institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This grant has a duration of one year, running from July 1 to June 30, with award notifications issued in early June.

Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at ORAU member institutions within two years of their tenure track appointment at the time of application. If there is a question about eligibility, your ORAU Councilor makes the final determination. Only two nominations are allowed per institution.

Research must fall within on of these seven diciplines:

• Engineering and Applied Science
• Life Sciences
• Mathematics/Computer Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Policy, Management, or Education
• Critical Mineral Constraints on SMR Deployment Capacity in the U.S.
• Responsible AI in STEM Education Policy

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O. Leal-Neto (Global Health Institute) 

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An organization is allowed to submit up to two applications in the same or different focus areas. Joint projects with multiple organizations count as a single application under the lead applicant.

Overview
Nearly half of the world’s population lives in cities. Public services shape those residents’ everyday lives. They affect whether they can get health care, find meaningful work, live safely, and have a voice in local decisions. City governments and their partners are on the front lines of delivering these public services. 

Artificial intelligence now offers new ways to meet these needs. AI can help residents access services, anticipate problems before they become crises, and respond to resident needs more effectively. Putting these capabilities to work requires solutions built around residents’ needs and developed in partnership with city governments. 

In 2023, we convened over 40 civic leaders to explore how AI could improve city services. City data and AI leads across six continents, along with academic, philanthropic, and nonprofit partners, shared their use cases and discussed how to best optimize AI’s promise while mitigating the potential risks. Throughout the two- day convening, the partners expressed a clear and consistent theme: cities want to have the talent, tools, and resources to improve city services and resident wellbeing with cutting-edge technologies. In response, The Rockefeller Foundation supported partnerships for three cities to test how AI could improve livelihoods. Building on this experience, we are pleased to deepen our collaboration and expand our ambition to improve the wellbeing of city residents. 

There is growing demand, and growing potential, to strengthen public services on a global scale. Philanthropy is well-positioned to support the innovation and partnerships necessary to meet this potential. 

The Rockefeller Foundation and OpenAI Foundation are committing $50 million to Cities Deliver to support this work. The initiative will provide grants of $500,000 to $2 million to organizations working with city governments to improve public services through AI, especially for underserved communities. Together, these projects will aim to reach up to 100 million city residents worldwide. 

Building on the lessons from this cohort and others, we aspire to grow our reach and impact through new funding partnerships, supporting the actors, sectors, and conditions necessary for safe AI solutions to benefit humanity. As societies work to shape the future of AI, we aim to spark imagination and make possible a future in which a mix of AI innovation and human ingenuity improves opportunities and wellbeing for the world’s most vulnerable communities.

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K. Limesand (Graduate College)

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Applicant institutions are limited to no more than one letter of intent or application as the lead institution.

Executive Summary
American scientists and engineers will power the super intelligence (SI) revolution in science and innovation through the Genesis Mission. DOE SC hereby invites applications from United States (U.S.) Institutions of Higher Education and domestic doctoral-granting institutions to develop and demonstrate the effectiveness of novel four-year doctoral training pilots with dual competency in SI and another scientific discipline. Two high-impact research experiences are required as part of the pilot, one at a DOE National Laboratory or SC user facility and one in industry. The purpose of this pilot is to lay the foundation for the first cohort of Genesis Mission Graduate Fellows, representing a new generation of Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers with exceptional training in SI and scientific disciplines along with practical research experiences. All graduate fellowships supported by this NOFO must support research activities related to SC-relevant Genesis Mission National Science and Technology Challenges as detailed in the Request for Applications (RFA), DE-FOA-0003612.

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Please note that we are limiting each university to five total applications per RFI.

Program Description

Full sponsor guidelines are available at this box link (NetID login required). 

The RTX University Research Program provides funding for academic research that aligns with RTX strategic technology priorities and long-term development objectives and its three industry-leading businesses: Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. These projects help to strengthen and extend our collaborative research relationships with our select university partners.  Please read all the information below regarding the process and the timeline for awards. 

The ten topics are as follows: 

1. Sensing Systems
2. Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
3. Microelectronics
4. Autonomy
5. Advanced Propulsion
6. Artificial Intelligence
7. Digital Lifecycle
8. Integrated Battlespace
9. Intelligent Aviation
10. Integrated Power and Thermal Systems

Who can apply?

We accept applications from Principal Investigators (PIs) who meet the eligibility criteria:

• PI’s institution: PIs must belong to a university or educational institution.
• PI’s position: PIs must be a full-time professor (adjunct professors and adjunct researchers are not eligible) or researcher and be eligible to supervise Ph.D. students at the PI’s institution.
• Full professors, associate professors, and assistant professors are eligible to apply.

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Limit on Number of Applications: An applicant may submit only one application in response to this NOFO. If  a  project  will  be carried  out  by two  or more  entities (project  partners),  only one  entity may submit  the  application.  The  other entities (project  partners) must  be  proposed  as subrecipients rather than  co-applicants.  An  entity may be  proposed  as a  subrecipient  in  more  than  one  application.  For additional  information  regarding  subawards,  see  the  Application  Resource Guide. 

Purpose of Funding
The  Office  of  Justice  Programs (OJP)  is committed  to  advancing  work that  furthers the  U.S.  Department  of  Justice’s (DOJ)  mission  to  keep  our country safe  and  secure  and uphold  the  rule  of  law  and  protect  the  rights of  American  citizens.  OJP  provides federal  leadership,  funding,  and  other critical  resources to  directly support  law  enforcement,  combat  violent  crime,  protect  American  children,  provide  services to  American  crime  victims,  and  address public safety challenges,  including  human  trafficking  and  the  opioid  crisis.  

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program Support. This opportunity supports a national network of 61 multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces engaged in investigations, forensic examinations, and prosecutions related to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. This is accomplished through the provision of services and support to OJJDP, the ICAC task forces, ICAC National Training providers, and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies partnering with the ICAC Task Force program. Funds will support activities that enhance training access, expand prevention and outreach capabilities, advance the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, and improve collaboration among ICAC task forces.

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PI TBA

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This solicitation is open to two categories of offerors: (i) organizations proposing to serve as the Ecosystem Coordinator (see Section 5.3); and (ii) organizations proposing to serve as an Expert Performer Team within one or more of the five Translation Themes (see Section 5.2). An organization may submit a proposal as Ecosystem Coordinator or as an Expert Performer Team, but not both.
 

Overview

The NSF Ecosystem for Low-dimensional Electronics: Growth, Assembly, Nanoelectronics, and Translation (NSF ELEGANT) program will position the U.S. for success in translating advanced microelectronics technologies into next-generation capabilities for artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, advanced communications, and other key technology areas critical to national security and economic competitiveness.  

To achieve program objectives, this Other Transaction Agreement Solutions Offering (OTASO) seeking an Eecosystems Ccoordinator and Expert Performer Teams in five translation themes:

Theme 1: Manufacturable Materials Platform.

Theme 2: Process Technology and Process Design Kit.

Theme 3: Device, Circuit and Full-Chip Demonstration.

Theme 4: Manufacturing Readiness and Transition.  

Theme 5: AI-Enabled Acceleration.

See OTASO and Additional Information attached to this posting for full details. Full sponsor guidelines are linked here. 

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An eligible organization can submit a maximum of two Written Proposals per Topic Announcement for Phase 0 as a lead organization. Senior/Key Personnel may be listed on a maximum of one Written Proposal per Topic Announcement.

Topic Description 
Decades of progress in AI algorithms, robotics, sensing, and embedded computing, combined with accelerating industry investment, have positioned the U.S. to redefine how intelligent systems interact with the physical world. While digital AI has advanced rapidly, the next frontier requires developing intelligent, adaptive, and scalable systems capable of perceiving, acting and learning directly within complex physical environments with adaptive human-robot interaction.

Achieving this vision demands innovations in foundational platform technologies to support situational adaptability, continuous learning, and right-sized simulation-to-reality systems. 

Imagine heterogeneous autonomous swarms in military and disaster triage environments capable of high-stakes collective decision making in collaboration with human counterparts and the situational adaptability to perform complex locomotion, sensing, and targeted delivery tasks. Or bio-inspired robotics that operate with adaptive sensing for reflexive sensor input control, neuromorphic cognitive efficiency, and self-healing materials and behaviors. These advances demand significant, continual, and cross-disciplinary ecosystems to save lives, and catalyze U.S. technological and economic innovation. 

NSF X-Labs teams will target early-stage platform technologies that enable breakthroughs to accelerate entirely new forms of AI integration in physical systems including advanced sensors, robotics, embodied systems, human-robot interfaces, or cyber-physical systems. Examples of relevant Missions include, but are not limited to: technologies to enable new forms of distributed learning and swarming; adaptive behavior in the absence of connectivity; novel algorithms for sensor integration into digital twin or cyber-physical simulations; new capabilities in edge AI for physical systems; new modalities for AI control of emerging robotics such as bio-inspired or biohybrid components; platforms to support the next generation of robotic manufacturing based on mass-customizability and intuitive learning; and breakthroughs in the development of training data that, together with other advances, prepare physical AI systems for real-world variability including interactions with human counterparts. The resultant innovative platform technologies should benefit a broad range of application domains critical to U.S. competitiveness and security, which may include healthcare, national defense, emergency response, advanced manufacturing, and scientific discovery. 

An NSF X-Labs Mission in this Topic must be transformative, accelerating breakthrough R&D in physical AI towards creating or reshaping new lines of research and technologies. Successful teams will develop platform technologies, overcome technical barriers facing AI for physical systems, demonstrate measurable impact on the U.S. science and technology landscape, and position their technologies for widespread use and investment. Teams proposing to this Topic must justify that their proposed Mission will develop a technology not presently supported by existing R&D investments by the U.S. public or private sector. 

Examples of challenges not considered in scope for this Topic include computational or software solutions without practical integration into a physical system, integration of current technologies without significant advancement of the state-of-the-art, development of technologies where the impact is narrow and not widely deployable, fundamental research without potential for application in platform technologies, incremental advancement of the state-of-the-art, or advancement of technologies that are already appropriately developed to the point of full-scale commercialization.

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J. Roveda (Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering)

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Applicant institutions are limited to no more than 1 letter of intent or proposal as the lead institution.   

There is no limitation to the number of proposals on which an institution appears as a subrecipient or for which the institution is not the lead in a multi-institution team using collaborative applications. 

Should DOE receive submissions in excess of the applicable limits, DOE reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to request additional or clarifying information to ascertain the institution’s intended submissions.  Otherwise, DOE will consider the latest received submissions to be the institution’s intended submissions. 

• Letters of intent in excess of the limited number of submissions will be discouraged. 
• Proposals in excess of the limited number of submissions will be declined without review. 

Executive Summary
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces interest in receiving applications to develop a concerted quantum computing verification and validation capability.  This effort should consist of interdisciplinary multi-institutional teams addressing the challenge of characterizing performance of fault-tolerant quantum computers that will accelerate scientific discovery and enable new computational workflows.  Successful efforts are expected to develop and apply a complete set of necessary tools and expertise to perform performance verification of fault tolerant quantum computers.  They should address multiple qubit technologies and be designed with enough flexibility to accommodate the rapidly evolving needs of the DOE. 

Proposed efforts should develop new and adapt existing tools for characterizing the quantum computing stack: physical hardware; quantum gates; logical quantum architecture; quantum algorithm and applications, and classical control. These teams will pave the way for the deployment of a first-of-a-kind scientifically relevant fault-tolerant quantum computing capability for the Nation, advancing DOE's mission, and ensuring America’s security, economic and scientific competitiveness, and prosperity.  Teams are encouraged to leverage the extensive scientific software, hardware, algorithms, and data resources developed under the ASCR and SC quantum-computing-related solicitations and by U.S. industry and academia.  The resulting tools, applications, and workflows may be integrated into the Genesis Mission infrastructure platform and the American Science Cloud for broad adoption by research communities. 

Proposed efforts must focus on the developing, testing, and applying algorithms, benchmarks, and software tools for real-world quantum systems.  Teams must validate their tools by demonstrating successful performance verification of the state-of-the-art quantum hardware.  Quantum hardware research and development efforts are out of scope, unless they are essential for tools development and validation.  ASCR anticipates that teams will engage in multiple quantum hardware evaluations in parallel across several qubit technologies, and the size and composition of the teams should be appropriate to meet this requirement. 

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Topic Areas

1. Vertical Solar Array - open
2. In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Oxygen from Regolith Production System - open
3. Radioisotope Stirling Generator System - open
4. In Space Advanced Manufacturing - H.J. Kim (Civil Engineering)
5. Innovative Nanomaterial Production - Q. Hao (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)

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Each Topic constitutes a separate competitive opportunity under this solicitation authority. All eligible Offerors under this solicitation will be permitted to submit one proposal per Topic as the prime. Offerors submitting proposals under more than one topic shall submit a separate, complete proposal for each individual topic.

Overview
The purpose of this solicitation is to acquire technology maturation, risk reduction, and capability demonstration efforts in five technology areas that address lunar and cislunar infrastructure technology gaps. These efforts are intended to generate the knowledge foundation NASA needs to support informed technical and programmatic decisions. The scope of this solicitation is derived from NASA Space Technology’s Civil Space Shortfalls and focuses on near-term mission-relevant lunar and cislunar technology priorities. 

The Government is seeking innovative solutions in the following five technology areas (hereafter referred to as “Topics”): 

• Topic 1: Vertical Solar Array 
• Topic 2: In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Oxygen from Regolith Production System 
• Topic 3: Radioisotope Stirling Generator System 
• Topic 4: In Space Advanced Manufacturing 
• Topic 5: Innovative Nanomaterials Production 

Each Topic constitutes a separate competitive opportunity under this solicitation authority. All eligible Offerors under this solicitation will be permitted to submit one proposal per Topic as the prime. Offerors submitting proposals under more than one topic shall submit a separate, complete proposal for each individual topic. 

These Topics are focused on technology and manufacturing maturation, as well as ground-based demonstration activities, to advance capabilities toward Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 5–6 and reduce technical, programmatic, integration and operational risk associated with future mission applications. 

Through this acquisition, industry partners will be expected to design, develop and demonstrate prototype systems and generate validated performance data, analytical models, and operational insights through testing and demonstration activities. These efforts should provide evidence necessary to assess system performance and reduce technical, programmatic, integration and operational risks.

NASA anticipates active collaboration with selected Offerors through ongoing Government insight and oversight activities to evaluate technical progress and support achievement of program objectives. Offerors are expected to apply independent scientific and engineering judgment in selecting approaches that best satisfy the objectives and outcomes identified for the Topic(s) to which they are proposing. 

Topic-specific attachments provide additional technical objectives, desired performance outcomes, scope considerations, and reference requirements (see Section 11 Attachments). Offerors are strongly encouraged to review the applicable attachment(s) in their entirety prior to preparing and submitting proposals.

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Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, all proposals from that institution will be considered ineligible for funding.

Executive Summary
The Bureau of Emerging Threats (ET) leads the Department of State in anticipating and responding to national security challenges arising from adversary use of new technologies across cyberspace, outer space, critical infrastructure and undersea domains, quantum technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI). ET focuses on protecting U.S. national security in these areas of strategic and technological competition using diplomatic tools and interagency capabilities as part of coordinated foreign policy responses.

Within ET, the Office of Critical Infrastructure Security (ET/CI) is responsible for addressing novel threats and disruptions to critical infrastructure that threaten lives, economic stability, and national power. ET/CI addresses threat vectors targeting major critical infrastructure sectors, including energy systems, communications networks, transportation and logistics, financial systems, healthcare, and water, and works to coordinate “upgrade and secure” efforts with allies and partners, counter attacks against data centers, and protect against cloud security vulnerabilities.

In the Western Hemisphere, adversaries have exploited weak cyber defenses in government networks and critical infrastructure to gain intelligence advantages, potential coercive leverage over sovereign decision-making, and latent access pathways that may extend to U.S. interests. Argentina, under the Milei administration, has signaled that it seeks close alignment with the United States on strategic and economic issues, including a deliberate transition away from untrusted foreign digital infrastructure suppliers in favor of trusted, market-oriented partners.

Persistent and sophisticated cyber threats—including advanced persistent threats (APTs), targeted ransomware, and espionage campaigns—continue to target Argentine ministries and critical infrastructure. Without a mature national-level Security Operations Center (SOC) with clear authorities, mission, charter, and well-trained staff, a country’s ability to detect, analyze, and respond to such threats in a coordinated manner remains limited.