Division of Engineering Research
The E-Funding News
Jan 18, 2013
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Contents:
1.Exploratory Advanced Research Program - Dept of Transportation
2.Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Ideas Challenge – NSF
3. Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) - DARPA
4. DHS/DNDO Broad Agency Announcement for Exploratory Research (ER)
5. DARPA-BAA-13-12: Cyber Targeted Attack Analyzer (CAT) Proposers' Day Jan 30, 2013
6.Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) (EFRI-2013) – NSF
7. IARPA's Office of Smart Collection Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
8.IARPA's Office of Safe & Secure Operations Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
9. Phoenix Proposers' Day Announcement - DARPA
10.Educational Modules and Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Engagement - DOD
11. Hydrologic Sciences – NSF
12.CampusCyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program (CC-NIE) -NSF
13. Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development Competition - USAID
14. Science and Technology Broad Agency Announcement - Army
15.Active Authentication (AA) Phase 2 Proposers' Day - DARPA
16. Special Notice for Intrachip/Interchip Enhanced Cooling Applications (ICECool Apps) Proposers' Day - DARPA
17. Apply for 2013 TechWomen Program
18. Broad Agency Announcement for Development and Demonstration of Mine Safety and Health Technology (BAA) - DHHS
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1.Exploratory Advanced Research Program - Dept of Transportation
Due: March 15, 2013 4 pm
This program is intended to spur innovation and focus on high risk and high pay-off research. Exploratory Advanced Research bridges basic and applied research. In contrast to applied research, a narrowly-defined application or product is not the goal of the work. Incremental advances and demonstrations or evaluations of existing technologies are not within the scope of this program. Though the overall program scope is intentionally ambitious and broad to address the wide spectrum of topics and objectives that funded investigations will strategically support, this solicitation is intended to address specific technology and knowledge gaps, identified through scanning and convening activities, that will help the FHWA improve highway safety, reduce congestion on the nation’s highways, reduce environmental and health impacts of the nation’s highways and reduce the long term costs and improve the efficiency of the nation’s highways.
2.Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Ideas Challenge – NSF
Due; Aug 31, 2013
The objective of BREAD is to support innovative basic scientific research designed to address key constraints to smallholder agriculture in the developing world. The focus of BREAD is on novel, transformative, basic research at the proof of concept stage rather than its application or development. However, a significant distinction between BREAD and other NSF programs is that proposals to BREAD have to make a clear and well-defined connection between the outcomes of the proposed basic research and its direct relevance and potential application to agriculture in the developing world.
3. Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) - DARPA
SOL: DARPA-BAA-13-17
DUE: 071213
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of distributed unmanned sensors and systems for maritime applications. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. Details are contained in the attached Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) DARPA-BAA-13-17.Synopsis
4. DHS/DNDO Broad Agency Announcement for Exploratory Research (ER)
SOL: HSHQDC-13-R-B0001
DUE: 050813
This announcement is for information and planning purposes only. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Procurement Operations (OPO), Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Acquisition Division (DNDOAD), is seeking proposals for the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Exploratory Research (ER) program in direct support of the DNDO mission. The BAA is soliciting proposals in Preventing Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism. The BAA will be issued to private industry that may team/subcontract with other companies, organizations and institutions to include FFRDCs, UARCs, and other Federally-funded Government activities, as appropriate, to best utilize individual strengths. Full Proposals and White Paper submission instructions for any organization that wishes to participate can be found on page 41 of the solicitation
Combine Synopsis/Solicitation
5. DARPA-BAA-13-12: Cyber Targeted Attack Analyzer (CAT) Proposers' Day Jan 30, 2013
SOL: DARPA-SN-13-12
DUE: 012813
The CAT program seeks to reduce the amount of time cyber defenders in the Department of Defense spend discovering cyber-attacks by federating and correlating disparate network data sources. Changing the way the information in the IT infrastructure is acquired, processed and made available to cyber defenders, and providing them with connected and correlated data, will directly address the scale-of-data problem. The fact that the IT devices that will be integrated by the CAT application(s) are not standardized (other than communication protocols) will create several challenges.Synopsis
6.Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) (EFRI-2013) – NSF
Solicitation: 12-583
Due: Feb 8, 2013
The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation has established the Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) to serve a critical role in focusing on important emerging areas in a timely manner. This solicitation is a funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, we will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in the followingthree specific research areas:
TOPIC 1: Flexible Bioelectronics Systems, (BioFlex)
TOPIC 2: Origami Design for Integration of Self-assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation (ODISSEI)
TOPIC 3: Photosynthetic Biorefineries (PSBR)
7. IARPA's Office of Smart Collection Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
SOL: IARPA-BAA-13-01
DUE: 013114
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 research is parsed among three Offices: Smart Collection, Incisive Analysis, and Safe & Secure Operations. This BAA solicits abstracts/proposals for the Office of Smart Collection (SC). In general, this BAA solicits research to dramatically improve the value of collected data from all sources. Research areas of particular interest to SC (in no particular order) include: • Innovative methods or tools for identifying and/or creating novel sources of new information; • New ways of identifying and assessing collection systems for dramatically improved performance; • Sensor technologies that dramatically improve the reach, sensitivity, size, weight, and power for collection of broad signal or signature types; • Secure communication to and from collection points; • Tagging, Tracking, and Location (TTL) techniques; • Electrically small antennas and other advanced RF concepts; • Agile architectures that intelligently distill useful information at the collector; and, • Innovative means and methods to ensure the veracity of data collected from a variety of sources. This announcement seeks research ideas for topics that are not addressed by emerging or ongoing IARPA programs or other published IARPA solicitations. It is primarily, but not solely, intended for early stage research that may lead to larger, focused programs through a separate BAA in the future, so periods of performance will generally not exceed 12 months.
Combine Synopsis/Solicitation
8.IARPA's Office of Safe & Secure Operations Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
SOL: IARPA-BAA-13-03
DUE: 013114
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 research is parsed among three Offices: Smart Collection, Incisive Analysis, and Safe & Secure Operations. This BAA solicits abstracts/proposals for the Office of Safe and Secure Operations (SSO). SSO focuses on threats to the Intelligence Community's ability to operate freely and effectively in an increasingly interdependent and networked world. While some of our challenges emanate from adversary actors, others emerge coincidentally with changes in technology or business practices. This BAA solicits research that explores or demonstrates the feasibility of revolutionary concepts in computation, trust establishment and maintenance, and detecting and deflecting hostile intent. It is primarily, but not solely, intended for early stage research that may lead to larger, focused programs through a separate BAA in the future, so periods of performance will generally not exceed 12 months. Combine Synopsis/Solicitation
9.Phoenix Proposers' Day Announcement - DARPA
SOL: DARPA-SN-13-16
DUE: 020413
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office (TTO) is sponsoring a Proposers' Day for the potential proposer community in advance of a planned Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Phoenix program. The Proposers' Day will be held on Friday, February 8, 2013 at the DARPA Conference Center, 675 North Randolph Street, Arlington, VA from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Advance registration is required.Synopsis
10.Educational Modules and Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Engagement - DOD
SOL: HDTRA1-13-RFI-CBC-EDMOD
DUE: 021313
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Chemical/Biological Technologies Department is seeking information regarding the capability to design, write, and produce educational videos and teaching materials for chemical/biological subject areas with emphasis on synthetic biology and emerging sciences that can be converted into modules for use by teachers and students. These modules would be distributed to 2,000 middle school, high school, and college students at over 50 schools nationwide. Following this, feedback would be solicited on their usefulness and impact. Educational outreach would be accomplished to discern training modules' use, and to determine the module effectiveness, and identify areas for improvement. This sources sought notification should be considered an open call for respondents capable of providing the production and distribution of the educational materials and modules, solicitation of feedback on the impact of the modules and teaching tools, coordinating educator engagement and production and dissemination of feedback and findings. Synopsis
11. Hydrologic Sciences – NSF
Solicitation: 13-531
Due DATES:June 3, 2013, December 5, 2013
The Hydrologic Sciences Program focuses on the fluxes of water in the environment that constitute the water cycle as well as the mass and energy transport function of the water cycle in the environment. The Program supports studying processes fromrainfall to runoff to infiltration and streamflow; evaporation and transpiration; as well as the flow of water in soils and aquifers and the transport of suspended, dissolved and colloidal components. The Hydrologic Sciences Program retains a strong focus on linking the fluxes of water and the components carried by water across the boundaries between various interacting components of the terrestrial system and the mechanisms by which these fluxes co-organize over a variety of timescales and/or alter the fundamentals of the interacting components. The Program is alsointerested in how water interacts with the solid phase, the landscape and the ecosystem as well as how such interactions and couplings are altered by land use and climate change.Studies may address aqueous geochemistry and solid phase interactions as well as physical, chemical, and biological processes as coupled to water transport.These studies commonly involve expertise frombasic sciences and mathematics, and proposals may require joint review with related programs. The Hydrologic Sciences Program will also consider some synthesis activities.
12.CampusCyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program (CC-NIE) -NSF
Solicitation13-530
DUE DATES Full ProposalDeadline Date:April 3, 2013
The "Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE)" program invests in improvements and re-engineering at the campus level to support a range ofdata transfers supporting computational science and computer networks and systems research. The program also supports Network Integration activities tied to achieving higher levels of performance, reliability and predictability for science applications and distributed research projects. Two types of CC-NIE awards will be made. Data Driven Networking and Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher awards will be supported at up to $500,000 total for up to 2 years. Network Integration and Applied Innovation awards will be supported at up to $1,000,000 total for up to 2 years.
13.Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development Competition - USAID
SOL: SOL-OAA-13-000017
DUE: 020613 – Due Date extended
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is for a funding competition component of this Grand
Challenge for Development, designed to address barriers to increasing access to clean energy
services within the agriculture sectors of developing countries.
14. Science and Technology Broad Agency Announcement - Army
SOL: W909MY11R0001
DUE: 022813
A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) sponsored by the U. S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) in conjunction with Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), Ft. Belvoir, VA is posted at under BAA W909MY-11-R-0001. These include advanced technology programs for landmine detection such as integration and evaluation of infrared sensors, electro-optics, laser physics, hyperspectral analysis, target recognition, ground penetrating and forward looking radar, chemical, nuclear, acoustic sensor technologies and avionic systems, on hand-held, airborne, ground, countermine system/sensors platforms; along with programmatic tasks related to documentation preparation and project coordination. These programs also include neutralization efforts such as, high-powered RF, microwave, burst laser systems, and projectile delivery systems. Modification
15.Active Authentication (AA) Phase 2 Proposers' Day - DARPA
SOL: DARPA-SN-13-11
DUE: 020113
The Active Authentication program seeks to address this problem by developing novel ways of validating the identity of the individual at the console that focus on the unique aspects of the individual; the program is specifically focusing on expanding research in the development of biometrics that can validate an individual’s identity without interrupting what they are doing. “Biometrics” is defined as a collection of characteristics (features) that can be used to uniquely recognize humans through their intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. Within this program, DARPA has two primary focus points. The first is focused on expanding research in the area of the computational behavioral traits that can be observed through how a computer user interacts with the world without requiring them to do anything different from their normal work functions. The second focus of the Active Authentication program is on developing an application (“Biometric Platform”) that can integrate all biometrics available on a single device to allow for the most accurate validation of the identity of the individual using the device, whether the biometrics collected are behavioral, cognitive, or physical. In this respect,
the application is trying to identify you by looking at all available aspects of you, not just a single sensor connected to the computer.Synopsis
16.Special Notice for Intrachip/Interchip Enhanced Cooling Applications (ICECool Apps) Proposers' Day - DARPA
SOL: DARPA-SN-13-17
DUE: 013113
This Special Notice, DARPA-SN-13-17, is to announce that DARPA is holding a Proposers’ Day for Intrachip/Interchip Enhanced Cooling Applications (ICECool Apps) on February 7, 2013 in Arlington, VA. ICECool Apps is the second thrust of DARPA’s ICECool program, following the ICECool Fundamentals effort (DARPA-BAA-12-50), and specifically addresses the thermal management needs of RF MMIC power amplifiers and embedded high performance computer modules. The Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for ICECool Apps, DARPA-BAA-13-21, is expected to be released prior to the Proposers’ Day. The specific goal of ICECool Applications is to enhance the performance of such defense electronic systems through the judicious application of intrachip/interchipmicrofluidic cooling and on-chip thermal interconnects that will together enable the removal of kW/cm2 heat fluxes on the chip and kW/cm3 heat densities in the targeted electronic modules. Synopsis
17. Apply for 2013 TechWomen Program
Deadline: February 22, 2013
TheTechWomen Programwill identify approximately 80 women who are emerging leaders and entrepreneurs working in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) from the Middle East and Africa for a five-week program in the fall of 2013, including mentorships and professional exchanges at leading companies in Silicon Valley, California, concluding with workshops, networking events and meetings in Washington, D.C. TechWomen connects and supports the next generation of women leaders in STEM fields by providing them access and opportunity to advance their careers and pursue their dreams.
Applicants must be women who are permanent residents of Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunisia, Yemen and Zimbabwe.TechWomen is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
18. Broad Agency Announcement for Development and Demonstration of Mine Safety and Health Technology (BAA) - DHHS
SOL: 2013-N-14974
DUE: 032113
The Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, NIOSH, is soliciting proposals to conduct research, exploratory development, testing, or evaluations of new technologies to improve mine safety, or to adapt technologies from other industries for application in mining environments that could result in improved safety for mineworkers. Proposals to facilitate or expedite commercialization of demonstrated mine safety technologies are also invited. Concept papers are due by Mar 21, with Full Proposals due within 30 days of invitation to submit. Combine Synopsis/Solicitation