Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) (nsf24526)

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Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences Division of Mathematical Sciences

Nationwide Geospatial Intelligence Company

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

April 10, 2024

February 19, 2025

Third Wednesday in February, Yearly Thereafter

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation ought to be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) that’s in impact for the related due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is frequently revised and it’s the accountability of the proposer to make sure that the proposal meets the necessities specified on this solicitation and the relevant model of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal previous to a specified deadline doesn’t negate this requirement.

SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Common Info

Program Title:

Algorithms for Risk Detection (ATD)

Synopsis of Program:

The Algorithms for Risk Detection (ATD) program will help analysis initiatives to develop the following era of mathematical and statistical algorithms for evaluation of huge spatiotemporal datasets with utility to quantitative fashions of human dynamics. This system is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) on the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) and the Nationwide Geospatial Intelligence Company (NGA).

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

Please notice that the next info is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Tomek Bartoszynski, phone: (703) 292-4885, e mail: [email protected]
Elizabeth Wilmer, phone: (703) 292-7021, e mail: [email protected]
Ludmil T. Zikatanov, phone: (703) 292-2175, e mail: [email protected]
Eriko Hironaka, phone: (703) 292-7041, e mail: [email protected]
Jun Zhu, phone: (703) 292-4551, e mail: [email protected]

Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):

12.630 — Nationwide Geospatial Intelligence Company
47.049 — Mathematical and Bodily Sciences

Award Info

Anticipated Kind of Award: Commonplace Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 10 to twenty

Anticipated Funding Quantity:

$3,000,000 Anticipated funding quantity is $3,000,000 yearly. Estimated variety of awards and funding quantities are topic to the supply of funds.

Eligibility Info

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Greater Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group faculties) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, appearing on behalf of their college members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal consists of funding to be supplied to a world department campus of a US establishment of upper schooling (together with by use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the venture of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the venture actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and comparable organizations situated within the U.S. which can be instantly related to instructional or analysis actions.
Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges as a federally acknowledged tribe pursuant to the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Listing Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.

Who Might Function PI:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Letters of Intent: Not required
Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
Full Proposals:

B. Budgetary Info

C. Due Dates

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

April 10, 2024

February 19, 2025

Third Wednesday in February, Yearly Thereafter

Proposal Evaluate Info Standards

Advantage Evaluate Standards:

Nationwide Science Board accredited standards. Further benefit evaluation standards apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Award Administration Info

Award Circumstances:

Further award circumstances apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Reporting Necessities:

Commonplace NSF reporting necessities apply.

Abstract of Program Necessities

Introduction
Program Description
Award Info
Eligibility Info
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
Proposal Preparation Directions
Budgetary Info
Due Dates
Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

NSF Proposal Processing and Evaluate Procedures
Advantage Evaluate Rules and Standards
Evaluate and Choice Course of

Award Administration Info
Notification of the Award
Award Circumstances
Reporting Necessities

Company Contacts
Different Info

I. INTRODUCTION

Understanding human dynamics is crucial in predicting occasions which can be probably damaging to society. Evaluation of publicly-available geospatial knowledge reveals patterns of motion and traits in group actions that point out baseline regular exercise and gives potential alternatives to detect anomalies. The current development of such publicly-available geospatial knowledge sources now opens the chance to doc and perceive the sophisticated dynamics of communities and determine patterns that could be indicative of threats. The power to investigate such knowledge in close to real-time provides the potential to determine risk indicators shortly sufficient to stop violent acts or restrict their influence.

The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) on the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) has an extended historical past of supporting elementary mathematical and statistical analysis related to the nationwide curiosity. DMS has fashioned a partnership with joint proposal evaluation and proposal administration with the Nationwide Geospatial Intelligence Company (NGA) to develop the following era of mathematical and statistical algorithms for the inference of data from massive geospatial datasets.

II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Algorithms for Risk Detection (ATD) program helps analysis on new approaches to leveraging large spatiotemporal datasets to investigate and perceive spatiotemporally distributed phenomena. Program aims embody improved illustration of complicated spatiotemporal dynamics and the event of superior computational algorithms that may course of large knowledge in close to real-time to quickly, reliably, and securely determine aberrant phenomena and render actionable predictions about potential threats indicated by such phenomena.

The ATD program will help analysis initiatives in two topical areas:

1. Initiatives that intention to develop novel mathematical, statistical and computational algorithms for fast, dependable and safe evaluation of large spatiotemporal datasets, at scale. Analysis that successfully leverages spatiotemporal options of supply knowledge are of specific curiosity, e.g., venture proposals growing new insights into characterizing human actions and impacts on the Earth’s floor, made doable by new knowledge sources.

2. Initiatives that develop mathematical concept to information the appliance of superior synthetic intelligence to processing large spatiotemporal knowledge (e.g., to issues in pc imaginative and prescient, massive language fashions, pure language processing).

Matters of particular curiosity embody, however aren’t restricted to:

Efficient utility of superior neural networks, together with (however not restricted to) graph neural networks, liquid (liquid time-constant) neural networks and neuromorphic computing;
Enhancing reliability of huge language fashions for algorithmically-informed reasoning and sense-making of spatiotemporal knowledge;
Independently figuring out novel phenomena;
Methods for locating hidden phenomena;
Quantifying aleatory and systemic uncertainty in mannequin findings;
Assessing levels of confidence in mannequin efficiency;
Enhancing mannequin reliability, at run-time;
Methods for bettering reliability of switch studying, together with few-shot and single-shot (“you-only-look-once’) studying.
Novel approaches to distributed sensing and edge computing; decision of orchestration issues, together with (however not restricted to) securing algorithmic chain-of-custody and multimodal knowledge fusion;
Change detection throughout time for cross-modal knowledge sources;
Algorithmic options to cybersecurity challenges.

DMS and NGA acknowledge the alternatives for the mathematical, statistical and computational sciences group to develop methodology for figuring out and mitigating threats arising from a wide range of sources. Accordingly, this program seeks bold and artistic analysis proposals from particular person investigators and collaborative teams within the mathematical, statistical and computational sciences group. Particular consideration shall be afforded to high-risk, high-reward proposals. Trans-disciplinary analysis collaborations with colleagues from throughout the pure and socio-behavioral sciences and engineering disciplines are strongly inspired.

III. AWARD INFORMATION

Anticipated Kind of Award: Commonplace Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 10 to twenty

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $3,000,000 Anticipated funding quantity is $3,000,000 yearly. Estimated variety of awards and funding quantities are topic to the supply of funds.

IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Greater Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group faculties) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, appearing on behalf of their college members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal consists of funding to be supplied to a world department campus of a US establishment of upper schooling (together with by use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the venture of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the venture actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and comparable organizations situated within the U.S. which can be instantly related to instructional or analysis actions.
Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges as a federally acknowledged tribe pursuant to the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Listing Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.

Who Might Function PI:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI:

There are not any restrictions or limits.

V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers might choose to submit proposals in response to this Program Solicitation by way of Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.

Full Proposals submitted by way of Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation ought to be ready and submitted in accordance with the overall pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The entire textual content of the PAPPG is obtainable electronically on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Paper copies of the PAPPG could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected]. The Put together New Proposal setup will immediate you for this system solicitation quantity.
Full proposals submitted by way of Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation by way of Grants.gov ought to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Purposes by way of Grants.gov. The entire textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information is obtainable on the Grants.gov web site and on the NSF web site at: (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide). To acquire copies of the Utility Information and Utility Types Package deal, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov web site, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Utility Package deal and Utility Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Package deal button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Utility Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

In figuring out which technique to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please notice the next:

Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations have to be submitted by way of Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 gives further info on collaborative proposals.

See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steering on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please notice that the proposal preparation directions supplied on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.

Proposal titles ought to start with the characters “ATD:”

Proposal budgets ought to embody funds for journey to an annual PI assembly to be held within the Washington, DC space.

B. Budgetary Info

Value Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.

C. Due Dates

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

April 10, 2024

February 19, 2025

Third Wednesday in February, Yearly Thereafter

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted Through Analysis.gov:

To arrange and submit a proposal by way of Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions accessible at: https://www.analysis.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Service/Desktop/ProposalPreparationandSubmission.html. For Analysis.gov person help, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions normal technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation ought to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.

For Proposals Submitted Through Grants.gov:

Earlier than utilizing Grants.gov for the primary time, every group should register to create an institutional profile. As soon as registered, the applicant’s group can then apply for any federal grant on the Grants.gov web site. Complete details about utilizing Grants.gov is obtainable on the Grants.gov Applicant Assets webpage: https://www.grants.gov/net/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) gives directions relating to the technical preparation of proposals by way of Grants.gov. For Grants.gov person help, contact the Grants.gov Contact Middle at 1-800-518-4726 or by e mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Middle solutions normal technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation ought to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.

Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Approved Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the appliance to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the appliance is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the appliance to Grants.gov. The finished utility shall be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.

The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page gives submission steering to candidates and hyperlinks to useful sources together with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Incessantly Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should cross all NSF pre-check and post-check validations with the intention to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.

When submitting by way of Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission at the least 5 enterprise days upfront of a deadline to permit enough time to handle NSF compliance errors and resubmissions by 5:00 p.m. submitting group’s native time on the deadline. Please notice that some errors can’t be corrected in Grants.gov. As soon as a proposal passes pre-checks however fails any post-check, an applicant can solely appropriate and submit the in-progress proposal in Analysis.gov.

Proposers that submitted by way of Analysis.gov might use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted by way of Grants.gov, till an utility has been acquired and validated by NSF, the Approved Organizational Consultant might test the standing of an utility on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov ought to be used to test the standing of an utility.

VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW PROCEDURES

Proposals acquired by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for evaluation. All proposals are rigorously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and normally by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re consultants within the specific fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the evaluation course of. Proposers are invited to counsel names of individuals they imagine are particularly properly certified to evaluation the proposal and/or individuals they would like not evaluation the proposal. These ideas might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nonetheless, is non-compulsory. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers haven’t any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might get hold of feedback from web site visits earlier than recommending ultimate motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional evaluation suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts the whole NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.

A complete description of the Basis’s benefit evaluation course of is obtainable on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.

Proposers must also pay attention to core methods which can be important to the success of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Improvement and the Supply of Advantages from Analysis – NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 – 2026. These methods are built-in in this system planning and implementation course of, of which proposal evaluation is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented by the combination of analysis and schooling and broadening participation in NSF packages, initiatives, and actions.

One of many strategic aims in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and schooling by the packages, initiatives, and actions it helps at tutorial and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, prepare, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based financial system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis beneath the steering of the Nation’s most artistic scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps improvement of a powerful science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the information that informs enhancements in STEM educating and studying.

NSF’s mission requires the broadening of alternatives and increasing participation of teams, establishments, and geographic areas which can be underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is crucial to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of range and deems it central to the packages, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Advantage Evaluate Rules and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to spend money on a strong and numerous portfolio of initiatives that creates new information and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and schooling. To determine which initiatives to help, NSF depends on a benefit evaluation course of that includes consideration of each the technical features of a proposed venture and its potential to contribute extra broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to advertise the progress of science; to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare; to safe the nationwide protection; and for different functions.” NSF makes each effort to conduct a good, aggressive, clear benefit evaluation course of for the number of initiatives.

1. Advantage Evaluate Rules

These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when getting ready proposals and managing initiatives, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program employees when figuring out whether or not or to not suggest proposals for funding and whereas overseeing awards. Provided that NSF is the first federal company charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in fundamental analysis and schooling, the next three ideas apply:

All NSF initiatives ought to be of the very best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not remodel, the frontiers of information.
NSF initiatives, within the mixture, ought to contribute extra broadly to reaching societal objectives. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved by the analysis itself, by actions which can be instantly associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by actions which can be supported by, however are complementary to, the venture. The venture actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or progressive strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be properly justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives ought to be based mostly on acceptable metrics, protecting in thoughts the seemingly correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources supplied to implement initiatives. If the dimensions of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation just isn’t more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might finest be finished at a better, extra aggregated, stage than the person venture.

With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific initiatives is completed at an aggregated stage, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded venture. Thus, particular person initiatives ought to embody clearly said objectives, particular descriptions of the actions that the PI intends to do, and a plan in place to doc the outputs of these actions.

These three benefit evaluation ideas present the idea for the benefit evaluation standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the factors can higher perceive their intent.

2. Advantage Evaluate Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated by use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accredited benefit evaluation standards. In some cases, nonetheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to focus on the particular aims of sure packages and actions.

The 2 benefit evaluation standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration in the course of the evaluation and decision-making processes; every criterion is important however neither, by itself, is enough. Subsequently, proposers should absolutely handle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). comprises further info to be used by proposers in improvement of the Undertaking Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to evaluation the factors, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the evaluation of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers shall be requested to think about what the proposers need to do, why they need to do it, how they plan to do it, how they are going to know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages might accrue if the venture is profitable. These points apply each to the technical features of the proposal and the best way through which the venture might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers shall be requested to guage all proposals towards two standards:

Mental Advantage: The Mental Advantage criterion encompasses the potential to advance information; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.

The next parts ought to be thought-about within the evaluation for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance information and understanding inside its personal area or throughout completely different fields (Mental Advantage); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?

To what extent do the proposed actions counsel and discover artistic, unique, or probably transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and based mostly on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How properly certified is the person, group, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there enough sources accessible to the PI (both on the dwelling group or by collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be achieved by the analysis itself, by the actions which can be instantly associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by actions which can be supported by, however are complementary to, the venture. NSF values the development of scientific information and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embody, however aren’t restricted to: full participation of ladies, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM schooling and educator improvement at any stage; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and expertise; improved well-being of people in society; improvement of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, business, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of america; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and schooling.

Proposers are reminded that reviewers may also be requested to evaluation the Knowledge Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as acceptable.

Further Solicitation Particular Evaluate Standards

The general influence of the proposed scientific actions within the mathematical sciences shall be thought-about.

B. Evaluate and Choice Course of

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation shall be reviewed by Advert hoc Evaluate and/or Panel Evaluate.

NSF will coordinate and handle the evaluation of proposals collectively with NGA. Related details about proposals and evaluations of proposals shall be shared with NGA as acceptable.

Reviewers shall be requested to guage proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accredited benefit evaluation standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract score and accompanying narrative will typically be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s evaluation will think about the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a suggestion.

After scientific, technical and programmatic evaluation and consideration of acceptable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal ought to be declined or advisable for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform proposers whether or not their proposals have been declined or advisable for funding inside six months. Giant or significantly complicated proposals or proposals from new recipients might require further evaluation and processing time. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer’s suggestion.

After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals advisable for funding shall be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for evaluation of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative evaluation has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers carry out the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer might make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF ought to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own threat.

As soon as an award or declination determination has been made, Principal Investigators are supplied suggestions about their proposals. In all circumstances, evaluations are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of evaluations, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying info, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Undertaking Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain an evidence of the choice to award or decline funding.

VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION

A. Notification of the Award

Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer. Organizations whose proposals are declined shall be suggested as promptly as doable by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of evaluations, not together with the id of the reviewer, shall be supplied routinely to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added info on the evaluation course of.)

B. Award Circumstances

An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the finances, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has based mostly its help (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award circumstances, comparable to Grant Common Circumstances (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Circumstances* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance that could be included by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Circumstances (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Circumstances. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group by way of e-mail.

*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

Extra complete info on NSF Award Circumstances and different essential info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, accessible electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

Administrative and Nationwide Coverage Necessities

Construct America, Purchase America

As expressed in Government Order 14005, Making certain the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Employees (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the chief department to make use of phrases and circumstances of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, in line with legislation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and providers supplied in, america.

Per the necessities of the Construct America, Purchase America Act (Pub. L. 117-58, Division G, Title IX, Subtitle A, November 15, 2021), no funding made accessible by this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award except all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and development supplies used within the venture are produced in america. For extra info, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.

Particular Award Circumstances:

Joint NSF-NGA recipients shall be required to incorporate acceptable acknowledgment of the NGA help in experiences and/or publications on work carried out beneath this award with award numbers included. All publicity which references the joint NSF/NGA funding should check with it because the Joint Program.

C. Reporting Necessities

For all multi-year grants (together with each commonplace and persevering with grants), the Principal Investigator should submit an annual venture report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the top of the present finances interval. (Some packages or awards require submission of extra frequent venture experiences). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a ultimate venture report, and a venture outcomes report for most of the people.

Failure to offer the required annual or ultimate venture experiences, or the venture outcomes report, will delay NSF evaluation and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to look at the codecs of the required experiences upfront to guarantee availability of required knowledge.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, accessible by Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and ultimate venture experiences. Such experiences present info on accomplishments, venture individuals (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the venture. Submission of the report by way of Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The venture outcomes report additionally have to be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a short abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the venture. This report shall be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

Extra complete info on NSF Reporting Necessities and different essential info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, accessible electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS

Please notice that this system contact info is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Common inquiries relating to this program ought to be made to:

For questions associated to using NSF programs contact:

NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532
Analysis.gov Assist Desk e-mail: [email protected]

For questions regarding Grants.gov contact:

Grants.gov Contact Middle: If the Approved Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not acquired a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of utility, please contact by way of phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].

IX. OTHER INFORMATION

The NSF web site gives essentially the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact info), packages and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of recent NSF funding alternatives and publications, essential adjustments in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable by e-mail or the person’s Internet browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is obtainable on NSF’s web site.

Grants.gov gives a further digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed by way of this mechanism. Additional info on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an unbiased Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and schooling in all fields of science and engineering.”

NSF funds analysis and schooling in most fields of science and engineering. It does this by grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 faculties, universities, Okay-12 faculty programs, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal help to tutorial establishments for fundamental analysis.

NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, schooling and coaching initiatives, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand functions for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does help Nationwide Analysis Facilities, person amenities, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and business, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each tutorial stage.

Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) present funding for particular help or tools to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions relating to preparation of a majority of these proposals.

The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Gadget for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Info Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF packages, employment or normal info. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.

The Nationwide Science Basis Info Middle could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.

The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in america by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and schooling within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.

To get the newest details about program deadlines, to obtain copies of NSF publications, and to entry abstracts of awards, go to the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov

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PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS

The knowledge requested on proposal varieties and venture experiences is solicited beneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The knowledge on proposal varieties shall be utilized in reference to the number of certified proposals; and venture experiences submitted by proposers shall be used for program analysis and reporting throughout the Government Department and to Congress. The knowledge requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and employees assistants as a part of the proposal evaluation course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or get hold of knowledge relating to the proposal evaluation course of, award choices, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, consultants, volunteers and researchers and educators as vital to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing info relating to proposers or nominees as a part of a joint utility evaluation course of, or with the intention to coordinate packages or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or occasion in a court docket or Federal administrative continuing if the federal government is a celebration. Details about Principal Investigators could also be added to the Reviewer file and used to pick out potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of Report Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Data,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Data.” Submission of the data is voluntary. Failure to offer full and full info, nonetheless, might scale back the opportunity of receiving an award.

An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual just isn’t required to answer, an info assortment except it shows a legitimate Workplace of Administration and Finances (OMB) management quantity. The OMB management quantity for this assortment is 3145-0058. Public reporting burden for this assortment of data is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback relating to the burden estimate and some other facet of this assortment of data, together with ideas for decreasing this burden, to:

Suzanne H. Plimpton
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Workplace of Finances, Finance, and Award Administration
Nationwide Science Basis
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