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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: 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.
•Awardees are responsible for ensuring publications are deposited into the NIHMS upon acceptance for publication.
•Authors can use the Applicability & Submission Method Wizard ( to learn how to bring their publication into compliance and report it to NIH.
•Investigators, authors and delegates can track public access compliance in My Bibliography ( 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.
•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
1)Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) NSF 13-594
2)Early Stage Innovations (ESI) NNH15ZOA001N-15ESI-B2
3)Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office Wide DARPA-BAA-14-39
4)Economic Analysis of the National Need for Technology Infrastructure to Support the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) 2015-NIST-TPO-01
5)Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields (REVEAL) DARPA-BAA-15-44
6)Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) For Research Initiatives at the Naval Postgraduate School NPS-BAA-14-004
7)Solar Bankability Data to Advance Transactions and Access FOA (SB-DATA) DE-FOA-0001319
8)Michigan Truck Safety Commission (MTSC) Strategic Plan for 2015-2019
9)Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
10)Fulbright Global Flex Award
11)Nuclear Science and Engineering Nonproliferation Research Consortium DE-FOA-0001300
12)National Robotics Initiative (NRI) NSF 15-505
13)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 Light-fields (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 non-profit 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
12)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, non-profit 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)