Division of Engineering Research
THE E-FUNDING NEWS
Mar 6, 2009
Announcements:
- Engineering Noontime Session - Tuesday, No Session Mar 10 – Enjoy Spring Break
- NSF Day at MSU – April 6 – Agenda and Registration http://resfacil.msu.edu/?q=node/8
- SBIR Workshops from Biotechnology Business Consultants <http://www.bioconsultants.com/mttcconsulting.html> will host seminars to help companies learn more about the SBIR and STTR programs and prepare funding proposals.
April 3, 2009: An SBIR proposal preparation seminar (with emphasis on DoD) will be held at Automation Alley headquarters in Troy.
-Check out your listing in the Faculty Expertise Database. Changes can be made via the Update button. http://www.egr.msu.edu/egr/research/resources/facultyexpertise.php
-If you’ve been away, archived E-Funding News are easily accessed at http://www.egr.msu.edu/research/administration/funding
CONTENTS THIS WEEK:
1. Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1)
2.Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) – NSF
3. RADAR AND WIND TURBINE INTERACTION MODEL RFI AND CONFERENCE – Dept Homeland security
4. Hydrologic Sciences - NSF
5. Petrology and Geochemistry - NSF
6. Tectonics - NSF
7. NSF SBIR Solicitation FY 2010
8. Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) - NSF
9. Operator Interface & Management Applications for Command and Control – Dept Homeland Sec
10. Information Fusion Test-Bed Technologies and Applications - AFRL
11. Communications and Networking Discovery & Invention- ONR
12. THERMAL-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
13. Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office BAA -DOD
14. Component Development for Advanced Shipboard Desalination Systems - ONR
15. Request for Information (RFI): Technologies for the Applications of Social Computing (TASC) - DARPA
16. Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program 9.1 - Dept Homeland Security
17.Cyber Warfare Support - DOD
18. BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FY2009 – US Army Engineer Research & Development
19. Missile Defense Advanced Technology Innovation BAA
20. Research on Advanced Non-Destructive (NDE) Methods for Materials, Processes and Structures- AFRL
21. ROAD SIDE DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVELY FORMED PENETRATOR (EFPs) - DOD
22. EPA Small Business Innovation Research Solicitation (SBIR)
23. Electromagnetics and other Topics - AFRL
24. Manufacturing Processes of Medical, Dental, and Biological Technologies (SBIR [R43/R44]) and STTR - NIH
25. Environmental Sensors for Personal Exposure Assessment (SBIR [R44]) - NIH
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1. Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1)
Solicitation: RFA-OD-09-003
Due: April 27, 2009
This new program will support research on topic areas which address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds. NIH Institute and Centers have selected specific Challenge Topics within each of the Challenge Areas. The research in these Challenge Areas should have a high impact in biomedical or behavioral science and/or public health. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html
2.Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) – NSF
Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 9, 2009
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084&govDel=USNSF_25
3. RADAR AND WIND TURBINE INTERACTION MODEL RFI AND CONFERENCE – Dept Homeland security
SOL: HSHQDC-09-R-00060
DUE: 04-17-09
The purpose of this RFI is to allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T), Special Programs Division (SPD) in conjunction with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Air and Marine (A&M) to solicit information from potential sources to develop a modeling tool to accurately determine the interaction between radars and wind turbine farms (current and proposed). A Conference will be conducted on 25 March 2009 in Atlanta, GA, to facilitate an informational exchange between Industry, Academia, and the Government, regarding the capabilities required to develop a modeling tool to accurately determine the interaction between radars and wind turbine farms (current and proposed).
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/OCPO/DHS-OCPO/HSHQDC-09-R-00060/listing.html
4. Hydrologic Sciences - NSF
Program Solicitation: NSF 09-538
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): June 01, 2009 or
December 05, 2009
Studies may address aqueous geochemistry as well as physical, chemical, and biological processes within water bodies. These studies commonly involve expertise from many basic sciences and mathematics, and proposals often require joint review with related programs.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09538/nsf09538.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
5. Petrology and Geochemistry - NSF
Program Solicitation:09-543
Submission Window Date(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): June 06, 2009 - July 06, 2009
Or December 06, 2009 - January 06, 2010
Proposals in this program generally address the petrology and high-temperature geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks (including mantle samples), mineral physics, economic geology, and volcanology. Proposals that bridge disciplinary boundaries or that include development of analytical tools for potential use by the broad community are also encouraged. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09543/nsf09543.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
6. Tectonics - NSF
Program Solicitation: 09-542
Submission Window Date(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): June 06, 2009 - July 06, 2009
and December 06, 2009 - January 06, 2010
The Tectonics Program supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the formation, evolution, and deformation of continental lithosphere through time. Proposals to elucidate the processes that act on the lithosphere at various time-scales and length-scales, either at depth or the surface, are encouraged. Because understanding such large-scale phenomena commonly requires a variety of expertise and methods, the Tectonics Program supports integrated research involving the disciplines of structural geology, petrology, geochronology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, rock mechanics, paleomagnetics, geodesy, and other geophysical techniques.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09542/nsf09542.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
7. NSF SBIR Solicitation FY 2010
Due: June 9, 2009
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09541/nsf09541.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
8. Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) - NSF
Program Solicitation: NSF 09-540
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): May 26, 2009
he Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports scientific research directed at advancing the understanding of what constitutes effective virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision and management sciences, economics, engineering, organization theory, organizational behavior, social and industrial psychology, public administration, and sociology. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09540/nsf09540.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
9. Operator Interface & Management Applications for Command and Control – Dept Homeland Sec
SOL: RFI-09-12--STIDPOpsInt
DUE: 040609
DHS-S&T's Standoff Technology Integration Demonstration Program (STIDP) is designed to accelerate the development of standoff and remotely operated explosives detection technologies, related technologies, concepts of operations, and training. The ultimate goal of the program is to prevent explosives attacks at large public events and mass transit facilities via a spiral development approach. The C3center operations and the supporting infrastructure are critical components in the operations of any countermeasure architecture. System operation and management applications and integration solutions are needed for deployment in a command center for testing countermeasure architecture operations. Operations include law enforcement personnel using a variety of standoff sensor systems geographically distributed over an outdoor public venue to screen patrons attending events, such as hockey games. Software, middleware, and other relevant solutions are needed to provide and/or integrate area surveillance cameras for situational awareness; threat and asset evaluation, prioritization and management; and support and record screening and interdiction decisions.https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/OCPO/DHS-OCPO/RFI-09-12--STIDPOpsInt/listing.html
10. Information Fusion Test-Bed Technologies and Applications - AFRL
SOL: BAA-09-05-RIKA
The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting white papers for various scientific studies, analytical tools, algorithm developments, projects, and experiments focused on developing enhanced information fusion technology capabilities to provide the Air Force the means to better conduct Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). One of the Air Force's key mission is to provide exacting Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) in Ground, Air, Space and Cyberspace. The significance of ISR is growing as our adversaries become more difficult to locate and identify and their intentions more difficult to analyze and predict. The transition from force-on-force confrontation of the past to today's asymmetrical warfare is challenging ISR force to anticipate, find, fix, track, and identify potential targets over broader areas, in less time and with more accuracy than at any other time in history. The goal of ISR operations is to provide accurate, relevant, and timely intelligence information to decision-makers at all levels.
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLRRS/BAA-09-05-RIKA/listing.html
11. Communications and Networking Discovery & Invention- ONR
SOL: ONRBAA09-016
DUE: 06-30-09
Communications technology that can provide seamless, robust, connectivity is at the foundation of the Sea Power 21 and FORCEnet Vision "... to have the right information, at the right place, at the right time ..." The performance of Command and Control (C2) systems and decision making at all levels of command depend critically on reliable, interoperable, survivable, secure and timely communications and networking, and the availability of high capacity multimedia (voice, data, imagery) communication networks is fundamental to nearly all Department of Navy missions. The current evolution of naval warfighting from a platform-centric to a network-centric paradigm depends on successfully meeting the implied need for significantly enhanced communications and networking capabilities, extending both to fixed shore facilities and to highly mobile air, surface, land and subsurface platforms, including the so-called "disadvantaged user", e.g., small-deck combatants, submarines, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), dispersed ground units in urban and radio frequency (RF) challenged environments. Many of these tactical platforms and users routinely operate in a highly intermittent, often disconnected communications environment.The vision is to provide high throughput robust communications and autonomous networking to ensure all warfighters from the operational command to the tactical edge have access to information, knowledge, and decision-making necessary to perform their assigned tasks. https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DON/ONR/ONR/ONRBAA09-016/listing.html
12. THERMAL-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
SOL: Thermal-Structural
DUE: 03-20-09
NASA/DFRC is hereby soliciting information about potential sources for Thermal-Structural Analysis of Structural Systems and Components. SCOPE The contractor shall develop mathematical models of structural systems and components consisting of refractory composites and other high temperature materials. As appropriatef or large and/or geometrically complex systems, these mathematical models shall be based on finite element analysis methods. The contractor must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in the mathematical modeling of high temperature material structures.
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/NASA/DFRC/OPDC20220/Thermal-Structural/listing.html
13. Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office BAA -DOD
SOL: 09-Q-4554
DUE: 03-09-09
The Navy Engineering Logistics Office (NELO) is soliciting concepts for innovative research and development projects for the Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office (CTTSO). The mission areas are: Blast Effects and Mitigation (BX); Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Countermeasures (CBRNC); Explosives Detection (ED); Improvised Device Defeat (IDD); Investigative Support and Forensics (ISF); Irregular Warfare Support Program (IWS); Physical Security (PS); Surveillance, Collection, and Operations Support (SCOS); Tactical Operations Support (TOS); Training Technology Development (TTD); and Personnel/VIP Protection (VIP). NELO is the procuring office for this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The BAA Package will be available only from the following website, www.bids.tswg.gov. The BAA process constitutes a solicitation of concepts from those offerors capable of satisfying the Government's needs. The Government encourages non-profit organizations, educational institutions, small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, government laboratories, and HBCU/MIs, foreign contractors, as well as large businesses, to submit research concepts for consideration. The BAA selection process will be conducted in three phases fully described in the BAA Package. The BAA Package describes the full process for the concept submission and evaluation as well as the specific requirements. Potential offerors are encouraged to download the BAA package from the BIDS web site identified below as soon as it becomes available on or about March 9, 2009. https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DON/NELO/NELO/09-Q-4554/listing.html
14. Component Development for Advanced Shipboard Desalination Systems - ONR
SOL: ONRBAA09-013
DUE: 06-01-09
Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination has become the Navy standard for the shipboard production of freshwater since its introduction into the Navy in the early 1990s. RO plants have provided significant operational and cost benefits over conventional distillers which have been used on Navy ships since before the introduction of steam propulsion. These benefits include reduced monitoring and manpower requirements and significant reductions in operational costs including: reduced power requirements, independence from ship steam systems, reduction in the use of chemical additives, and large improvements in reliability and maintainability. Over the past two decades, there has been a large increase in the use of membrane based separations for both liquid and gas streams, much of this due to technical advancements such as improved membranes and pumps, novel membrane topologies and operational approaches, and staged separation processes. The Office of Naval Research has encouraged such technology development through the Expeditionary Unit Water Purification (EUWP) research program. It is the goal of this solicitation to further develop promising water purification and desalination technologies, on a component and not a complete system level, over a two year period to a readiness level that would be appropriate for consideration for use in a robust shipboard desalination system (technical readiness level 4 or 5). https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DON/ONR/ONR/ONRBAA09-013/listing.html
15. Request for Information (RFI): Technologies for the Applications of Social Computing (TASC) - DARPA
SOL: DARPA-SN-09-20
DUE: 03-25-09
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-SN-09-20/listing.html
16. Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program 9.1 - Dept Homeland Security