Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for Pc and Info Science and Engineering Workplace of Superior Cyberinfrastructure Division of Pc and Community Programs

Workplace of Integrative Actions

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

April 22, 2024

October 15, 2024

Necessary Info And Revision Notes

This solicitation reorganizes and revises this system areas.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation must 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 often revised and it’s the duty 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.

Abstract Of Program Necessities

Normal Info

Program Title:

Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

Synopsis of Program:

The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program invests in coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure enhancements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science purposes and distributed analysis tasks. Tasks that assist overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity related to geographic location, and thereby advance the geography of innovation and allow populations based mostly in these locales to turn into extra nationally aggressive in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) analysis and schooling are significantly inspired. Science-driven necessities are the first motivation for any proposed exercise.

CC* awards shall be supported in 5 program areas:

Space (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure (Campus or Area),
Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum (Campus or Area),
Space (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation (Small or Giant),
Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives, (Campus or Area), and
Space (5) Technique (Campus or Area).

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

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

Amy W. Apon, Program Director, CISE/OAC, phone: (703) 292-5184, e-mail: [email protected]
Kevin L. Thompson, Program Director, CISE/OAC, phone: (703) 292-4220, e-mail: [email protected]
Deepankar Medhi, Program Director, CISE/CNS, phone: (703)292-8950, e-mail: [email protected]
Subrata Acharya, Program Director, CISE/CNS, phone: (703) 292-2451, e-mail: [email protected]
Nicholas Goldsmith, Assistant Program Director, CISE/CNS, phone: (703) 292-8950, e-mail: [email protected]
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, Program Director, OD/OIA/EPSCoR, phone: (703) 292-8246, e-mail: [email protected]

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

47.070 — Pc and Info Science and Engineering
47.083 — Workplace of Integrative Actions (OIA)

Award Info

Anticipated Kind of Award: Normal Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 32 to 55

The estimated variety of awards per program space is as follows: 8-13 Networking Infrastructure awards; 8-16 Computing and the Computing Continuum awards; 5-8 Community Integration and Utilized Innovation awards; 7-10 Knowledge Storage awards; and 4-8 Technique awards.

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 pending availability of funds and high quality of proposals acquired.

CC* awards shall be supported in 5 program areas and at two ranges of funding in every space (Campus/Small or Area/Giant) pursuant to the next price range and period. See the outline in every Space for variations between Campus/Small and Area/Giant awards.

Space (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus awards shall be supported as much as $700,000 for as much as 2 years. Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Area awards shall be supported as much as $1,400,000 for as much as 2 years.
Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus awards shall be supported at as much as $700,000 whole for as much as 2 years. Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Area awards shall be supported at as much as $1,400,000 whole for as much as 2 years.
Space (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation awards shall be supported at as much as $500,000 for Small proposals and as much as $1,000,000 for Giant proposals for as much as 2 years.
Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Campus awards shall be supported at as much as $700,000 whole for as much as 2 years. Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Area awards shall be supported at as much as $1,400,000 whole for as much as 2 years.
Space (5) Technique for the Campus awards shall be supported for as much as $100,000 whole for as much as 1 yr. Technique for the Area awards shall be supported for as much as $200,000 whole for as much as 2 years.

Eligibility Info

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Increased Schooling (see definition in PAPPG Chapter I.E.1.) might submit proposals to any of this system areas.

NSF welcomes proposals that embrace efforts to broaden geographic and demographic participation in campus cyberinfrastructure. Proposals from minority-serving establishments and establishments in EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions, together with collaborations between these establishments and people in non-EPSCoR jurisdictions, are inspired.

Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations (see definition in PAPPG Chapter I.E.1.) might undergo program Space (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Area, program Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Area, program Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Area, and program Space (5) Technique for the Area solely.

Collaborative proposals submitted as simultaneous submission of proposals from totally different organizations, with every group requesting a separate award usually are not allowed. Collaborative proposals have to be submitted as a single proposal, by which a single award is being requested (with subawards administered by the lead group).

For Space (1) Knowledge-Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus, Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus, and Space (4) Knowledge Storage for the Campus, previous and present recipients in these areas usually are not eligible to submit a proposal(s) to that space once more for five years from the earlier award begin date. Any Campus-level proposal acquired from a corporation having already acquired an award on this Campus-level space inside 5 years shall be returned with out overview. The five-year rule doesn’t apply to any proposal for the Area in these areas.

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

Proposal Evaluate Info Standards

Advantage Evaluate Standards:

Nationwide Science Board authorised standards. Extra advantage overview standards apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

Award Administration Info

Award Situations:

Normal NSF award circumstances apply.

Reporting Necessities:

Normal NSF reporting necessities apply.

Desk Of Contents

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 Situations
Reporting Necessities

Company Contacts
Different Info

I. Introduction

Campuses at the moment face challenges throughout a number of ranges of cyberinfrastructure(CI), the place assembly the wants of scientific analysis and schooling in capability and companies extends to networking, computing, knowledge companies, AI, safe and reliable programs, and particularly human experience, collaboration, and data sharing. The ubiquity of large-scale datasets and growth of recent AI methodologies for scientific development and discovery are resulting in an elevated focus in addressing the info challenges posed by the NSF analysis and schooling neighborhood.

NSF addresses the rising necessities of the NSF neighborhood, and alternatives to innovate, in cyberinfrastructure by way of the CC* program, which invests in revolutionary, coordinated, and safe campus, multi-campus and multi-institution CI parts. The CC* solicitation invests in coordinated cyberinfrastructure enhancements at each the campus and regional ranges, together with campus community upgrades and re-architecting, revolutionary growth and integration of recent networking capabilities, computing, storage, multi-institution built-in CI, and studying and workforce growth.

Science-driven necessities are the first motivation for any proposed exercise. All tasks supported by CC* must be pushed by STEM analysis and schooling wants that require the help of networking, computing, and storage infrastructure on campuses.

Space (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus awards shall be supported as much as $700,000 for as much as 2 years. Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Area proposals shall be supported as much as $1,400,000 for as much as 2years.
Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus awards shall be supported as much as $700,000 whole for as much as 2 years. Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Area awards shall be supported as much as $1,400,000 whole for as much as 2 years.
Space (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation awards shall be supported as much as $500,000 for Small tasks and as much as $1,000,000 for Giant tasks for as much as 2 years.
Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Campus awards shall be supported as much as $700,000 whole for as much as 2 years. Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Area awards shall be supported as much as $1,400,000 whole for as much as 2 years.
Space (5) Technique for the Campus awards shall be supported as much as $100,000 whole for as much as 1 yr. Technique for the Area awards shall be supported as much as $200,000 whole for as much as 2 years.

This system aligns with NSF’s imaginative and prescient for a holistic CI ecosystem as outlined in “Reworking Science By means of Cyberinfrastructure: NSF’s Blueprint for a Nationwide Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem for Science and Engineering within the Twenty first Century” (see https://www.nsf.gov/cise/oac/imaginative and prescient/blueprint-2019/). This program helps the aggregation and integration of CI investments on the campus degree, with the purpose of serving to campuses drive towards a Twenty first-century realization of an built-in CI for enabling science. Program Space (1) addresses science-driven wants in knowledge pushed networking intra-campus, and externally, together with regional awards with a selected emphasis on supporting the wants of a number of under-resourced campuses by way of partnerships with small establishments and regional entities with expertise in high-performance Analysis & Schooling (R&E) networking. Space (2) acknowledges the analysis computing wants at a campus degree, and the largely untapped potential to share unused compute cycles and assets throughout all the tutorial material of extremely linked and more and more resourced campuses. Regional awards on this space promote coordinated approaches in scientific computing on the regional degree by way of investments in computing assets serving scientific computing wants spanning a state or area’s small and under-resourced establishments. Space (3) goes past networking infrastructure investments in Space (1) by leveraging the campus community as a compelling setting on which to develop and deploy new networking capabilities reflecting utilized analysis and growth in networking. Space (4) promotes coordinated approaches in scientific knowledge storage and knowledge administration and digital archives on the campus or regional degree with an emphasis on small and under-resourced establishments. Space (5) helps strategic planning and coordination for a campus or the area, partly reflecting the challenges for establishments that presently don’t take part within the R&E community material and neighborhood. All areas mirror NSF’s purpose of democratization and broadening participation in scientific networking, computing, and knowledge.

CC* has more and more seemed for tactics to broaden participation extra successfully in this system, a course receiving main impetus with participation in this system by the Workplace of Integrative Actions (OIA). In July 2021, NSF launched the Pricey Colleague Letter: In direction of an Equitable Nationwide Cyberinfrastructure (NSF 21-108).This effort represents a partnership between NSF’s Workplace of Superior Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and the Established Program to Stimulate Aggressive Analysis (EPSCoR) inside the Workplace of Integrative Actions (OIA) This collaboration with CISE/OAC and OIA/EPSCoR goals to encourage proposal submissions to CC* for tasks that may assist overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity related to geographic location, and thereby allow the populations based mostly in these locales to turn into extra nationally aggressive in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) analysis and schooling.

Cyberinfrastructure limitations have an effect on EPSCoR-eligible establishments disproportionately as a bunch as a result of usually lowered ranges of entry to analysis infrastructure, together with cyberinfrastructure. This impact is compounded for establishments inside EPSCoR jurisdictions whose current STEM analysis and schooling infrastructure could also be extra restricted, similar to Primarily Undergraduate Establishments (PUIs) and Minority-Serving Establishments (MSIs). Extra assets have been printed by neighborhood organizations to assist determine options to cut back gaps in cyber-connectivity for MSIs and under-resourced establishments. By means of this joint solicitation, CISE/OAC and OIA/EPSCoR goal to deal with the disparities in campus and regional degree networking and cyberinfrastructure, with the purpose of leveraging the complete spectrum of expertise that society has to supply which incorporates under-served communities and underrepresented populations throughout the nation by particularly encouraging proposals that may tackle this disparity.

II. Program Description

CC* Program-wide Standards

Science-driven necessities are the first motivation for any proposed exercise. Proposals shall be evaluated on the energy of the science enabled (together with analysis and schooling) as drivers for proposed funding and innovation in cyberinfrastructure. Establishments whose missions are primarily education-focused might select to current their scientific wants within the context of cyberinfrastructure-enabled schooling actions and distance schooling.

A standard theme throughout all points of the CC* program is the crucial significance of the partnership amongst campus-level CI specialists, together with the campus Info Expertise (IT)/networking/knowledge group, contributing area scientists, analysis teams, and educators crucial to interact in, and drive, new cyberinfrastructure capabilities and approaches in help of scientific discovery. Proposals throughout this system ought to mirror and show this partnership on campus. Proposals shall be evaluated on the energy of institutional partnerships, as they need to play a central function in growing and implementing the eventual community and knowledge infrastructure upgrades. Campus IT management involvement is a crucial component in CC*.

All proposals in Areas (1), (2), (3), and (4) ought to doc specific partnerships or collaborations with the campus IT/networking group, in addition to a number of area scientists, analysis teams, and educators in want of the brand new cyberinfrastructure capabilities. Partnership documentation from personnel not included within the proposal as PI, co-PI, or Senior/Key Personnel must be within the type of a letter of collaboration situated within the Supplementary Paperwork part of the proposal. A letter of help from a campus chief is strongly inspired and will tackle sustainability and dedication from the establishment.

It’s required that the campus-wide cyberinfrastructure wants are addressed within the proposal. A proposal specializing in a single science area or mission use won’t be thought-about for funding.

All proposals submitted to the CC* program, apart from submissions in response to Space (5) Technique, should embrace a Campus CI plan inside which the proposed CI enhancements are conceived, designed, and carried out within the context of a coherent campus-wide technique and method to CI that’s built-in horizontally intra-campus and vertically with regional and nationwide CI investments and finest practices. This Campus CI plan have to be included as a Supplementary Doc and is restricted to not more than 5 pages. Proposals lacking a Campus CI Plan as a supplementary doc shall be returned with out overview.

The web site, http://fasterdata.es.web/campusCIplanning/, provides a number of Campus CI plans supplied by current CC* program recipients as examples. Proposals addressing a multi-institution or regional exercise and method to coordinated and built-in CI might submit a Campus CI plan representing the multi-institution group or area.

Since safety and resilience are elementary points in campus CI, the Campus CI plan ought to tackle the campus-wide method to cybersecurity within the scientific analysis and schooling infrastructure, together with the campus method to knowledge and privateness. Campuses ought to take into account merging finest practices in community routing safety for community operators as expressed within the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Safety (see https://www.manrs.org). The plan ought to embrace the campus standing and plans with respect to federated id and particularly InCommon, together with: if the campus is registered with InCommon as supporting the Analysis and Scholarship (R&S) Entity Class to streamline integration with analysis purposes (see https://areas.internet2.edu/show/InCFederation/Analysis+and+Scholarship+Class); and if the campus meets the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Belief in Federation (see https://areas.at.internet2.edu/show/BE?preview=/164988631/175965279/TI.34.2-BaselineExpectations-v2-2020-11.pdf).

All proposals submitted to CC* shall be evaluated on how effectively they tackle cybersecurity points and challenges related to their proposed actions. Relying on the kind of proposal, these points might embrace, however usually are not restricted to knowledge integrity, privateness, community safety measures, federated entry and id administration, and infrastructure monitoring.

As a campus CI program, funded actions ought to signify ongoing alternatives for scholar engagement, schooling, and coaching. Proposals that show alternatives to interact college students straight within the design, deployment, operation, and development of the funded CI actions, according to the required Campus CI plan, are inspired.

All proposals ought to take into account anticipated outcomes and clarify the compelling want for proposed cyberinfrastructure assets contemplating the present state of accessible assets and the anticipated enabling advantages of the proposed assets to the recognized science drivers and purposes.

All proposals in Space (1), (2), and (4) shall be evaluated on the descriptions of scientific and engineering analysis tasks and their workload wants and the extent to which the proposed useful resource offers a wanted functionality required by science, engineering and schooling. Proposals in Space (1), (2), and (4) ought to embrace a abstract desk of the science drivers and their useful resource environments. These necessities must be laid out in clear phrases reflecting a selected understanding of the required cyberinfrastructure assets and setting (for instance, throughput vary within the case of community upgrades; CPU/GPU sort, compute job profile parameter ranges, core rely ranges per job, occasions to completion within the case of computing; dimension and fee of file or knowledge entry for storage), or as a part of a composition or scientific workflow profile.

All proposals in Space (1), (2), and (4) ought to embrace supporting quantitative data, for instance, offering present or historic knowledge stream charges or CPU/storage utilization of current assets of their descriptions of software situations and use instances. Proposals ought to doc present utilization within the context of the proposed upgrades. Proposals ought to justify tools decisions based mostly on the wants of the science drivers and workflows. Proposals shall be evaluated on the tangible metrics addressing measures of success of the system or set of actions.

Enabling entry to analysis and schooling assets exterior to the campus, together with cloud computing assets, can be inside scope.

All proposals in Areas (1), (2), and (4) ought to current a whole technical answer, with full tools specs.

Full tools quotes are required for Areas (1), (2), and (4) and have to be supplied within the Supplementary Doc part. Proposals in these areas lacking tools quotes shall be returned with out overview.

Proposals shall be evaluated on the energy of the mission administration plan, included within the Mission Description, to deal with clear mission targets and milestones. The plan ought to tackle roles, tasks, and help within the Mission Description. Aside from Space (5), the plan ought to clearly describe how a working system will consequence from the hassle.

Goal environments have to be campus infrastructure residing inside the U.S.

A price range request for IT employees help required to configure and function the assets is a suitable part of the price range. IT employees help must be documented in coordination with the establishment’s campus IT or CIO group. Staffing help may embrace coaching and person on-boarding actions to broaden adoption and use.

The proposal ought to doc campus IT and analysis management dedication to operations and upkeep (O&M) of the useful resource previous the lifetime of the award or describe the technique for sustaining availability of the useful resource.

Proposals shall be evaluated on the extent to which the proposal addresses the sustainability of the proposed work by way of ongoing operational and engineering prices.

This system helps open supply platforms and options. Software program license charges usually are not allowed.

Any price range request for skilled companies, similar to IT employees help, must be documented in coordination with the establishment’s campus IT or CIO group.

Exterior skilled consulting prices for provisioning the cyberinfrastructure are permitted.

Exterior skilled consulting prices for the administration and administration of the deployed cyberinfrastructure after provisioning are discouraged.

Consulting prices shall be evaluated according to the experience and previous expertise in constructing and supporting neighborhood analysis and schooling cyberinfrastructure.

All proposals to Space (1), (2), and (4) ought to describe mission efforts to offer coaching and help for customers.

CC* awards usually are not the suitable mechanism to offer help for particular person college analysis tasks. Requests for help of such tasks must be directed to NSF’s analysis grant packages.

Extra proposal preparation steering or this space may be present in Part V.A. Proposal Preparation Directions.

Recipients in Areas (1), (2), and (4) on the Campus-level usually are not eligible to submit a proposal(s) to the identical space on the Campus degree once more for five years from the earlier award begin date. Any Campus-level proposal acquired from a corporation having already acquired an award on this Campus-level space inside 5 years shall be returned with out overview. The 5 yr rule doesn’t apply to any proposal for the Area in these areas.

Proposals for the Area should embrace collaborations that transcend a single campus to focus on small, under-resourced establishments. Proposals for the Area embrace, however usually are not restricted to, the next:

Proposals ought to broaden participation and considerably widen the set of establishments which have entry to regional and nationwide analysis and schooling cyberinfrastructure assets, particularly concentrating on teams of smaller establishments with elementary challenges in entry to assets.
Proposals ought to tackle scientific and engineering tasks and their analysis and schooling cyberinfrastructure wants at focused small and below resourced establishments, describing project-specific situations for scientific computing tied to the proposed cyberinfrastructure assets.
Proposals ought to tackle coordination actions with the collaborating small establishments by planning for a number of assembly occasions beginning in yr 1.
The lead proposing entity must be skilled in superior cyberinfrastructure and to be well-resourced and able to actively working with the collaborating establishments on designing and implementing the proposed cyberinfrastructure enhancements. The partnering establishments’ engagement actions could also be supported within the proposal and could also be included as subawards.
Proposals for the Area might type collaborations between EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR jurisdictions, with the lead within the EPSCoR jurisdiction the place possible.

All proposals to the CC* program ought to fulfill the Program-wide standards.

Abstract of Program-wide Standards:

Proposals shall be evaluated primarily on the energy of the science analysis and schooling use instances introduced as drivers for proposed funding and innovation in cyberinfrastructure, quantification of these use instances, and the way the use instances relate to the proposed cyberinfrastructure.
Proposals shall be evaluated on the energy of institutional partnerships as they need to play a central function in growing and implementing the proposed cyberinfrastructure. The proposal ought to describe partnerships amongst campus-level CI specialists, together with the campus Info Expertise (IT)/networking/knowledge group, contributing area scientists, analysis teams, and educators. Personnel not included as PI, co-PI, or Senior/Key Personnel must be documented within the type of a collaboration letter.
All proposals should embrace a Campus CI plan besides proposals to Space (5) Technique.
Proposals ought to tackle the sustainability of the proposed work. Particularly, the proposal ought to doc campus IT and analysis management dedication to operations and upkeep(O&M) of the useful resource previous the lifetime of the award or describe the technique for sustaining availability of the useful resource.
Proposals ought to tackle related cybersecurity points that will embrace, however usually are not restricted to knowledge integrity, privateness, community safety measures, federated entry and id administration, and infrastructure monitoring.
Funded actions ought to signify ongoing alternatives for scholar engagement, schooling, and coaching.
Proposals in Space (1), (2), and (4) ought to embrace a abstract desk of the science drivers and their useful resource environments.
Proposals ought to embrace supporting quantitative data and to justify tools decisions based mostly on the wants of the science drivers and workflows.
Proposals in Areas (1), (2), and (4) ought to current a whole technical answer, with full tools specs. Full tools quotes are required and must be supplied within the Supplementary Doc part.
Proposals ought to embrace, within the Mission Description, a mission administration plan addressing clear mission targets, milestones, roles, and tasks.
Proposals ought to describe the anticipated advantages to the recognized science drivers and purposes enabled by the proposed assets.
Goal environments are campus infrastructure residing inside the U.S.
Proposals ought to describe full open source-based configurations and options. Software program license charges usually are not allowed.
Any price range request for skilled companies, similar to IT employees help, must be documented in coordination with the establishment’s campus IT or CIO group.
Exterior skilled consulting prices for manufacturing administration and administration of the cyberinfrastructure after deployment are discouraged. Consulting prices shall be evaluated according to the experience and previous expertise in constructing and supporting neighborhood analysis and schooling cyberinfrastructure.
Proposals ought to describe mission efforts to offer coaching and help for customers.
Proposals for the Area should tackle campus cyberinfrastructure wants spanning a number of under-resourced establishments and tackle analysis and schooling wants on the focused small and under-resourced establishments. Proposals addressing a single establishment which might be submitted as proposals for the Area shall be returned with out overview.
Proposals for the Area ought to tackle coordination actions with the collaborating small establishments by planning for a number of assembly occasions beginning in yr 1. Participant help prices for these actions are permitted and have to be justified.

Program Areas

CC* awards shall be supported in 5 program areas and at two ranges of funding in most areas (Campus/Small or Area/Giant) pursuant to the next price range and period. See the outline in every Space for invites to submit in Campus/Small and Area/Giant proposals. Areas embrace (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure, (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum, (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation, (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives, and (5) Technique.

Space (1) Knowledge-Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus or Area

Proposals submitted to this space tackle community infrastructure enhancements to allow nationwide and world high-performance end-to-end entry to dynamic community companies that in flip allow speedy, unimpeded motion of numerous and distributed scientific knowledge units and superior computing. Proposals might goal both the Campus or the Area. Proposals on this space ought to give attention to supporting their establishments’ science analysis and schooling wants and aspirations and talk about how these wants and aspirations translate to the necessity for larger connectedness and funding in community capability. Entry to analysis and schooling assets exterior to the campus, together with cloud computing assets, can be inside scope.

Campus networking enhancements embrace, however usually are not restricted to, the next kinds of actions:

Community upgrades inside a campus community to help a variety of science data-flows (together with massive information, distributed knowledge, sensor networks, real-time knowledge sources, and virtualized devices for pc programs analysis”);
Re-architecting a campus community to help massive science knowledge flows, for instance, by designing and constructing a Science DMZ (see http://fasterdata.es.web/science-dmz/ for extra data on the Science DMZ method); and/or

A community connection improve for the campus connection to a regional optical alternate or point-of-presence that connects to a state/regional/nationwide community aggregation level prioritizing help for analysis and schooling.

Proposals for the Area networking enhancements embrace the identical kinds of actions for a single campus expanded to span a number of small and under-resourced campuses. These proposals ought to tackle a number of campuses and their science pushed knowledge networking wants and in addition:”

improve analysis and schooling (R&E) community connectivity throughout smaller establishments coordinated and led by a Regional Optical Community (RON) or a management establishment in R&E networking within the area.
could also be led by established regional and state R&E knowledge networks and knowledge network-based consortia. Instance entities are listed as members of the nationwide regional networks consortium referred to as the Quilt (see https://www.thequilt.web/about-us/the-quilt-participants/). For areas of the US with no state or regional degree coordinating entity and related construction and community infrastructure, proposals shall be accepted from self-declared management universities. An establishment may lead a proposal in areas with a longtime RON with documented coordination with the RON.
are required to deal with campus networking wants spanning a number of under-resourced establishments. Proposals addressing a single establishment which might be submitted as proposals for the Area shall be returned with out overview. Proposals might select to use an alternate design framework to the traditional single establishment context in Space (1) and take into account an aggregation mannequin the place some or all related assets and companies (e.g., Science DMZ) are centralized at a regional degree.
might embrace tools and assets focused for the state or regional community infrastructure. Such investments must be justified within the proposal within the context of wanted enhancements on the state and regional aggregation degree with a view to help the goal establishments’ exterior connectivity regionally, nationally, and globally for enabling R&E collaborations, in addition to lack of alternate funding sources.
ought to embrace the function of a Mission Supervisor perform with duties reflecting the coordination challenges of multi-institutional bodily networking upgrades.

All Space (1) proposals might want to take into account the appliance of recent applied sciences as a component of their engineering answer to network-based challenges in enabling scientific analysis and schooling on their campus. For instance, proposals might embrace multi-gigabit or environment-constrained applied sciences to attach new instrumentation, assets, or communities related to the proposing establishment. Be aware that any wi-fi answer proposed ought to tackle analysis and schooling wants because the singular precedence, versus a basic campus wi-fi community.

All proposals to Space (1) ought to embrace a abstract desk of the science drivers and their community necessities which might be laid out in clear phrases reflecting a selected understanding of the required networking assets and setting, for instance, knowledge stream, throughput charges, whole knowledge to switch or as a part of a composition or scientific workflow profile.

All Space (1) proposals are required to incorporate a community diagram of the proposed community upgrades. Proposals lacking a community diagram shall be returned with out overview. Proposals ought to doc present utilization within the context of the proposed upgrades. Proposals ought to embrace detailed and legible campus community diagrams for every collaborating establishment “earlier than” and “after” the proposed efforts displaying finish person connectivity. These diagrams could also be included as Supplementary Paperwork.

Budgets ought to mirror a network-based improve. Proposals with budgets dominated by non-networking tools are strongly discouraged. Proposals might embrace nominal configurations for a Knowledge Switch Node (DTN) as a part of their Science DMZ designs; nevertheless, the DTN part must be lower than 15% of the general price range. Compute assets shouldn’t be included within the price range until they’re an built-in part of the DTN platform. See Space (2) beneath for funding alternatives in campus and regional computing.

Proposals might give attention to upgrading an establishment’s connectivity to the nationwide analysis and schooling neighborhood and/or level to a necessity to revamp their campus community to higher help tutorial knowledge flows, such because the Science DMZ method (see http://fasterdata.es.web/science-dmz/ for extra data). Connectivity options between R&E buildings and websites are additionally in scope. Proposals are inspired to leverage goal neighborhood experience and expertise in high-performance networking tools and configurations accessible from the NSF-funded EPOC mission at: https://epoc.world/cc/.

All Space (1) proposals are inspired to interact neighborhood data and experience for related technical areas of proposal growth. In addressing related safety issues within the proposed design, proposals are inspired to reference the Vitality Science Community’s (ESnet) design steering for the Science DMZ, together with this component: “Safety insurance policies and enforcement mechanisms which might be tailor-made for prime efficiency science environments.” ESnet offers extra detailed steering on safety issues within the design of the Science DMZ at: http://fasterdata.es.web/science-dmz/science-dmz-security/. If a proposal chooses to debate design of a proposed Science DMZ, NSF encourages adoption of steering discovered on the ESnet web site.

All Space (1) proposals ought to describe an method to end-to-end community efficiency measurement based mostly on the PerfSonar framework with related instrument set up and use; proposals might describe an alternate method to PerfSonar with adequate justification. Proposers are inspired to reference the next neighborhood web site for extra data on PerfSonar: http://fasterdata.es.web/performance-testing/perfsonar/. Proposals ought to tackle end-to-end networking efficiency in contemplating metrics of success.

All Space (1) proposers are strongly inspired to interact with the related state or regional analysis and schooling optical community entity. Most of those entities are members of a nationwide group referred to as Quilt and may be discovered right here: http://thequilt.web/.

All Space (1) proposals ought to allocate not less than 50% of the price range to community tools.

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC*Community-Campus:” for proposed community enhancements on the campus degree or “CC*Community-Area:” for proposed enhancements for the area adopted by the title of the mission.

Solely Establishments of Increased Schooling are eligible to submit Campus proposals on this program space.

Establishments of Increased Schooling and Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations are eligible to submit proposals for the “Area on this program space.

Proposals to Space (1) acquired with out the next objects shall be returned with out overview:

a community diagram of the proposed community upgrades.
itemized vendor quotes.
a Campus CI plan as a Supplementary Doc, restricted to not more than 5 pages (see Part II. Program-wide Standards above for extra data).

Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus or Area

Native campus computing assets have emerged as an necessary aggregated and shared layer of scientific computing. This program space promotes coordinated approaches in scientific computing on the campus or regional degree and invests within the seeding of recent and shared computing assets by way of investments in capability computing. This system space promotes a coordinated method incentivizing multi-campus and nationwide useful resource sharing as enabled by the OSG Consortium, an NSF-supported material of distributed scientific computing companies that federate computing capability throughout greater than 150 establishments that delivered 2.6 billion CPU hours of scientific computing in calendar yr 2023.

NSF encourages campus-level proposals on this program space from under-resourced establishments and powerful choice shall be given to proposals demonstrating a compelling want for entry to campus and distributed computing assets.

Campus proposals might request funding for the acquisition of a shared, high-performance network-connected compute useful resource accessible to scientific computing customers on campus and outdoors of campus.

Proposals for the Area on this space embrace all the steering and necessities of campus-level proposals and increase the affect and utilization of the compute useful resource on a number of small and under-resourced campuses recognized within the proposal. Proposals for the Area:

promote coordinated approaches in scientific computing assets serving scientific computing wants spanning a state’s or area’s small and below resourced establishments.
are led by regional and state analysis and schooling management organizations.
might request funding for the acquisition of a shared, high-performance network-connected compute useful resource accessible to scientific computing customers throughout an outlined set of campuses.
are required to deal with computing wants spanning a number of under-resourced establishments. A proposal specializing in a single campus however submitted as a proposal for the Area shall be returned with out overview.
fund computing assets primarily utilized by the focused small and below resourced establishments.

A tenant of CC* is to permit a campus to interact extra deeply with collaborators on the regional and nationwide ranges for provisioning of cyberinfrastructure. Examples might embrace ACCESS (https://access-ci.org/), PATh ( https://path-cc.io/), and regional compute, and knowledge facilities similar to MGHPCC (https://www.mghpcc.org/) and others. For single campuses that don’t have any entry to fundamental infrastructure to help proudly owning and working a computing and knowledge assets, a partnership between the campus, PI and computing heart or supervisor might allow a PI and campus to work with a supplier to design an answer by which the supplier configures and operates the useful resource on behalf of the campus. NSF views this space as a chance, particularly for under-resourced establishments, to develop a scientific computing technique, describe it within the required CI plan, and take into account how the proposed useful resource performs into that technique.

All Space (2) proposals ought to allocate not less than 50% of the price range to computing {hardware}.

Prices for storage as one part of an built-in computing useful resource are permitted.

All Space (2) proposals submitted to this space ought to tackle s cientific and engineering tasks and their analysis and schooling computing wants, describing project-specific situations for scientific computing tied to the proposed computing assets, together with the scientific computing codes which might be anticipated to run on the assets. The proposal ought to describe t he platform structure specifying computing parts, together with compute node sort and rely, per-node reminiscence, interconnect material, storage, and open-source software program/platform, together with options, capabilities, and software program platforms representing the proposed computing assets. Proposal ought to use an open source-based method to monitoring, measurement, administration, and instrumentation.

Proposals in Space (2) ought to embrace a abstract desk of the science drivers and their computing environments which might be laid out in clear phrases reflecting a selected understanding of the required computing assets and setting (for instance, CPU/GPU sort, compute job profile parameter ranges, core rely ranges per job, occasions to completion), or as a part of a composition or scientific workflow profile.

All Space (2) proposals ought to describe the community connectivity of the proposed computing useful resource, each intra-campus [for example, the campus network path(s) connecting the resource with the researchers and driving science applications on campus], and inter- campus (for instance, displaying the community path connecting with the regional alternate level or Internet2). Proposals ought to embrace a community diagram displaying the linked topology of the proposed computing useful resource. Proposals ought to embrace of their plans the deployment of a PerfSonar based mostly community efficiency measurement functionality to initially measure achievable end-to-end community efficiency for scientific knowledge flows between the useful resource and related finish factors of researchers.

All Space (2) proposals ought to describe (1) their method to sharing the proposed computing useful resource throughout the science drivers and researchers at their establishment; (2) how the useful resource shall be accessed by exterior analysis teams; and (3) how the useful resource is coordinated with exterior assets permitting the establishment’s researchers to seamlessly entry computing assets at different campuses, regional and nationwide computing assets.

All Space (2) proposals ought to decide to a minimal of 20% shared time and describe their method to creating the computing useful resource accessible as a shared useful resource exterior to the state/area and the establishment(s) being primarily served. Proposals are strongly inspired to deal with this requirement by becoming a member of the Partnerships to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh ) campus federation (https://path-cc.io) and adopting an acceptable subset of PATh companies to make the useful resource accessible to researchers on a nationwide scale. Proposals are inspired to incorporate a letter of collaboration from the chosen platform and describe how they are going to monitor and report on assembly the 20% extramural utilization purpose annually. Establishments in want of technical course/experience throughout their proposal growth are inspired to interact the NSF-funded PATh mission at: https://path-cc.io.

Awards on this program space ought to work cooperatively with ACCESS award actions and companies (see https://access-ci.org) in direction of a extra seamless integration and leverage of CI assets for researchers, educators, and college students.

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Compute-Campus:” for proposed computing on the campus degree or “CC* Compute-Area:” for proposed computing on the regional degree, adopted by the title of the mission.

Extra proposal preparation steering for this space may be present in Part V.A. Proposal Preparation Directions.

Solely Establishments of Increased Schooling are eligible to submit Campus proposals on this program space.

Establishments of Increased Schooling and Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations are eligible to submit proposals for the Area on this program space.

Proposals in Space (2) acquired with out the next objects shall be returned with out overview:

an itemized vendor quote and
a Campus CI plan as a Supplemental Doc, restricted to not more than 5 pages (see Part II. Program-wide Standards for extra data).

Space (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation

This program space helps end-to-end community CI by way of integration of current and new applied sciences and utilized innovation. The purpose is to make the most of analysis outcomes, prototypes, and rising improvements to make use of them to allow specified researchers in a networking context. Proposals on this space might leverage new and current investments in community infrastructure, companies, and instruments by combining or extending capabilities to work as a part of the CI setting utilized by scientific purposes and customers.

Proposals on this space are anticipated to mirror innovation in superior networking. Consequently, this space is just not acceptable for tasks whose prices are dominated by tools purchases.

Proposals on this space help the event and integration of revolutionary networking capabilities and network-related software program growth, and deployment actions leading to an operational setting prototype are anticipated to be a part of the proposed actions.

A broad vary of actions is roofed by this space, together with however not restricted to:

Integration of networking protocols and applied sciences with science software layer processes and workflows, as an illustration, for large-scale shared scientific datasets and/or large-scale distant computational assets;
Transition of profitable analysis prototypes in Software program-Outlined Networking (SDN) and wi-fi networking applied sciences to distributed scientific environments and campus infrastructure;
Purposes of networking {hardware} and software program developed on NSFFutureCloud amenities (e.g., ChameleonCloud and CloudLab), together with the combination of recent applied sciences similar to programmable community interfaces;
Networking options exploiting virtualization, distributed computing and Software program-Outlined Infrastructure (SDI), together with cloud companies and direct campus-to-cloud connections;
Progressive analysis prototypes integrating programmable packet processing parts into campus infrastructure or exploring purposes of software-defined knowledge planes in help of high-performance knowledge distribution; and
Community engineering help by way of the creation and software of recent and novel procedures and instruments and community measurement and monitoring software program for fixing end-to-end community efficiency points, particularly for dynamically constructed community companies.

Moreover, proposals are inspired to carry out experimental deployment, protocol prototyping and testing, and analysis utilizing FABRIC (https://www.fabric-testbed.web). FABRIC is an NSF-funded nationwide next-generation community testbed comprising novel extensible community components outfitted with compute and storage capabilities situated all through the community, interconnected by high-speed devoted optical hyperlinks. FABRIC’s programmability mixed with high-fidelity measurement capabilities offers a compelling analysis infrastructure that helps utilized community analysis. Utilizing such a testbed, for instance, a researcher might conduct edge-core-cloud evaluations.

Proposals on this space should determine, within the Mission Description, a number of supported science or engineering analysis tasks or purposes and describe how the proposed community integration actions will help these tasks, significantly within the context of addressing knowledge motion, throughput, and predictable efficiency end-to-end.

The place acceptable, proposals are inspired to doc specific partnerships or collaborations with the campus IT/networking group. Graduate college students are required to be concerned and supported in conducting proposed actions for this program space.

Proposals on this space should embrace, within the Mission Description, a mission plan addressing clear mission targets and milestones leading to a working system within the goal setting. Proposals should determine base metrics related to the proposal targets and tackle measurement and analysis of the ensuing system. Any software program growth below proposed actions have to be accessible below an open-source license.

Extra proposal preparation steering for this space may be present in Part V.A. Proposal Preparation Directions.

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Integration-Small”: for proposed budgets of as much as $500,000 or “CC* Integration-Giant:” for proposed budgets of between $500,001 and $1,000,000, adopted by the title of the mission.

Solely Establishments of Increased Schooling are eligible to submit proposals on this program space.

Abstract of further Space (3) necessities:

Proposals are required to:

determine, within the Mission Description, a number of supported science or engineering analysis tasks or purposes and describe how the proposed community integration and utilized innovation actions will help these tasks.
contain and help graduate college students the place acceptable in conducting proposed actions.
embrace, within the Mission Description, a Mission Plan addressing clear mission targets and milestones leading to a working system within the goal setting.
outline base metrics related to the proposal targets and tackle measurement and analysis of the ensuing system.
make accessible below an open-source license any software program growth below proposed actions.
embrace a Campus CI plan as a Supplementary Doc, restricted to not more than 5 pages (see Part II. Program-wide Standards above for extra data).
be submitted by an Establishment of Increased Schooling.
have titles that start with “CC* Integration-Small”: for proposed budgets of as much as $500,000 or “CC* Integration-Giant:” for proposed budgets of between $500,001 and $1,000,000, adopted by the title of the mission.

Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Campus or Area

A major problem, if not bottleneck, to CI-enabled analysis and schooling is the restricted entry to knowledge storage and related companies throughout campuses. Whereas cloud companies proceed to offer knowledge companies for elements of the analysis neighborhood, knowledge restrictions on some datasets usually mixed with costly egress knowledge motion costs don’t permit this to be a whole answer. In the meantime, the power of analysis tasks throughout disciplines to assemble ever extra knowledge and elevated instruments to investigate knowledge places growing strain on storage and administration.

This program space promotes coordinated approaches in scientific storage, knowledge administration, and digital archives and incentivizes multi-campus and nationwide useful resource sharing. Awards on this space mirror NSF ideas and steering in the neighborhood’s stewardship of knowledge from NSF funded analysis, and significantly goal at supporting the info lifecycle. As described beneath for the Knowledge Administration Plan, proposals ought to adhere to the findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) ideas and steering from NSF described within the Pricey Colleague Letter (DCL) on Efficient Practices for Knowledge: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf19069.

Storage proposals for the Campus tackle campus-wide storage wants within the proposal. A proposal specializing in a single science area or mission use won’t be thought-about for funding.

Storage proposals for the Area undertake all the necessities and steering of a campus storage proposal and goal the analysis and schooling knowledge wants spanning a number of small and under-resourced establishments in a area.

All Space (4) proposals ought to tackle:

Scientific and engineering tasks and their analysis and schooling storage wants, describing project-specific situations for scientific knowledge era, storage, and
Options, capabilities, and particulars of the software program platforms representing the proposed storage assets and companies; and
Plans to handle the useful resource, datasets, and utilization whereas making certain adherence to FAIR ideas and equitable entry.

NSF encourages proposals on this program space from under-resourced establishments and powerful choice shall be given to proposals demonstrating a compelling want for entry to knowledge storage assets, together with establishments missing crucial knowledge storage assets on campus.

The proposal might request funding for the acquisition of a shared, high-performance network-connected knowledge storage useful resource accessible to scientific customers on campus and outdoors of campus.

All Space (4) proposals ought to deploy the system “on premise” which can embrace placement at an off-campus knowledge heart with a pre-existing function in campus analysis computing and storage.

All Space (4) proposals ought to allocate not less than 50% of the price range to storage tools.

Proposals ought to embrace within the Mission Description:

a abstract desk of the science drivers and their knowledge storage environments – these necessities must be laid out in clear phrases reflecting a selected understanding of the required storage assets and setting, for instance, storage sort, knowledge motion traits and knowledge curation method as a part of a scientific workflow profile;
the platform {hardware}, open supply software program programs, working system, and software program structure;
an open source-based method to storage system monitoring, measurement, administration, file system, and instrumentation (no software program license charges are allowed.
an outline of the storage system as a Shared Useful resource Intra-campus and Inter-campus – see beneath for extra particulars.

All Space (4) proposals ought to describe the community connectivity of the proposed storage useful resource, each intra-campus (for instance, the campus community path(s) connecting the useful resource with the researchers and driving science purposes on campus), and inter-campus (for instance, displaying the community path connecting with the regional alternate level or Internet2).

All Space (4) proposals ought to embrace a community diagram displaying the linked topology of the proposed computing useful resource. Proposals ought to embrace of their plans the deployment of a PerfSonar based mostly community efficiency measurement functionality to initially measure achievable end-to-end community efficiency for scientific knowledge flows between the useful resource and related finish factors of researchers.

All Space (4) proposals are required to have interoperability with a nationwide and federated knowledge sharing material similar to PATh/OSDF (see: http://www.opensciencegrid.org/about/osdf). Not less than 20% of the disk/space for storing on the proposed storage system must be made accessible as a part of the chosen federated knowledge sharing material. Proposals ought to describe the interplay with knowledge sharing material past merely naming it.

Staffing required to configure, function, and help knowledge administration and entry of the storage useful resource is a suitable part of the price range. Workers related to coaching and facilitating adoption, integration, and use of the useful resource on campus could also be included. Workers and person coaching prices might prolong to the open-source software program platforms and federated knowledge material sharing platform.

Administration of the system and deliberate datasets must be mentioned within the proposal and may be addressed as a part of the Knowledge Administration Plan(see beneath).

Proposals ought to talk about the storage system within the bigger context of campus or regional CI and a imaginative and prescient inclusive of supporting shared assets and computing on the campus or regional degree.

The Knowledge Administration Plan ought to embrace the campus method to knowledge lifecycle administration, knowledge sharing, and adherence to the FAIR ideas. Proposals ought to reference NSF’s DCL on Efficient Practices for Knowledge: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf19069.

Campuses with a science DMZ ought to tackle its use within the proposal.

Progressive concepts for implementing novel storage methods, collaborative applied sciences, coaching, broadening participation, and adoption of neighborhood requirements for knowledge and meta-data are particularly inspired.

All Space (4) proposals ought to tackle the long-term plan for archival storage and sustainability. Proposals might tackle these subjects within the Mission Description, Knowledge Administration Plan, or the Campus CI Plan.

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Storage-Campus:” for proposed computing on the campus degree or “CC* Storage-Area:” for proposed computing on the regional degree, adopted by the title of the mission.

Solely Establishments of Increased Schooling are eligible to submit proposals for the Campus on this program space.

Establishments of Increased Schooling and Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations are eligible to submit proposals for the Area on this program space.

Proposals in Space (4) acquired with out the next objects shall be returned with out overview:

an itemized vendor quote and
a Campus CI plan as a Supplemental Doc, restricted to not more than 5 pages (see Part II. Program-wide Standards for extra data).

Space (5) Technique Awards for the Campus or the Area

For establishments, teams of establishments, and different entities, the duty of assembling a whole CC* proposal could be a daunting problem. CC* PI groups might require planning and energy associated to their proposal concepts, for instance, for compiling and understanding the science environments, purposes and drivers motivating the proposed CI investments.

Technique Awards help PIs and groups requiring assets and time to coordinate and develop an method to CC*-related actions. Proposals on this space shall be reviewed and evaluated the identical as different CC* proposals. Technique proposals ought to outline a transparent set of targets and a set of coordination and planning actions to satisfy these targets. Tools prices usually are not allowed as a part of a Technique award, and proposed prices ought to embrace help for neighborhood coordination and planning actions. Technique proposals are welcome for areas (1), (2), and (4) in CC*.

Technique awards for the Campus are restricted to $100,000 for 1 yr.

Technique awards for the Area present alternatives to foster new collaborations, together with worldwide partnerships, and tackle interdisciplinary subjects. Progressive concepts for implementing novel networking methods, collaborative applied sciences, coaching, broadening participation, and growth of neighborhood requirements for knowledge and meta-data are particularly inspired. A Technique proposal for the Area ought to develop a complete CI technique encompassing a campus, a number of campuses, or a state or regional analysis and schooling community entity. The regional technique exercise might embody planning for a future CC* proposal, however goes past a selected campus community design, evaluation of campus computing wants, or compilation of demanding science drivers to deal with built-in CI planning and scoping throughout the related scientific communities on campus, throughout a number of campuses, state-wide, or regionally. Technique awards for the Area are restricted to $200,000 for two years.

Technique awards don’t help main analysis.

A Campus CI plan is just not required for this program space of CC*.

Establishments of Increased Schooling and Nonprofit, Non-academic Organizations are eligible to submit proposals on this program space.

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Technique-Campus:” for technique proposals for the campus or “CC* Technique-Area:” for technique proposals for the area, adopted by the title of the mission.

III. Award Info

Roughly $15 million-$20 million shall be made accessible in FY24 to help 32-55 awards, topic to the provision of funds.

IV. Eligibility Info

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Increased Schooling (see definition in PAPPG Chapter I.E.1.) might submit proposals to any of this system areas.

NSF welcomes proposals that embrace efforts to broaden geographic and demographic participation in campus cyberinfrastructure. Proposals from minority-serving establishments and establishments in EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions, together with collaborations between these establishments and people in non-EPSCoR jurisdictions, are inspired.

Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations (see definition in PAPPG Chapter I.E.1.) might undergo program Space (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Area, program Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Area, program Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Area, and program Space (5) Technique for the Area solely.

Collaborative proposals submitted as simultaneous submission of proposals from totally different organizations, with every group requesting a separate award usually are not allowed. Collaborative proposals have to be submitted as a single proposal, by which a single award is being requested (with subawards administered by the lead group).

For Space (1) Knowledge-Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus, Space (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus, and Space (4) Knowledge Storage for the Campus, previous and present recipients in these areas usually are not eligible to submit a proposal(s) to that space once more for five years from the earlier award begin date. Any Campus-level proposal acquired from a corporation having already acquired an award on this Campus-level space inside 5 years shall be returned with out overview. The five-year rule doesn’t apply to any proposal for the Area in these areas.

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 Directions

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 must be ready and submitted in accordance with the final 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 must be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Software 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 Software 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 Software Information and Software 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 Software Package deal and Software 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 Software Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

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.

Proposals are inspired to overview the NSF/CISE Knowledge Administration Steering for CISE Proposals and Awards accessible at https://www.nsf.gov/cise/cise_dmp.jsp.

For Space (1) Knowledge-Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus or Area Proposals:

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Community-Campus:” for proposed community enhancements for the campus or “CC* Community-Area:” for proposed enhancements for the area adopted by the title of the mission.

Confer with Part II. Program Description, for added details about necessities for CC* proposals. Particularly, a Campus CI plan have to be included, with a restrict of as much as 5 pages, as a Supplementary Doc.

If acceptable, proposals on this space are allowed to have their Campus CI plan signify a multi institutional or regional CI plan, versus a single campus. These plans have a chance to convey a future imaginative and prescient of inter-campus cyberinfrastructure in help of distributed scientific analysis and schooling.

For space (2) Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus or the Area Proposals:

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Compute-Campus:” for proposed computing for the campus or “CC* Compute-Area:” for proposed computing for area, adopted by the title of the mission.

For space (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation Proposals:

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Integration-Small”: for proposed budgets as much as $500,000 or “CC* Integration-Giant:” for proposed budgets of between $500,001 and $1,000,000, adopted by the title of the mission.

For space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Campus or the Area Proposals:

Proposals on this space require titles that start with “CC* Storage-Campus:” for proposed storage for the campus or “CC* Storage-Area:” for proposed storage for area, adopted by the title of the mission.

For space (5) Technique Awards for the Campus or Area Proposals:

Confer with Part II. Program Description, for added details about necessities for CC* proposals.

B. Budgetary Info

Price Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated price sharing is prohibited.

Finances Preparation Directions:

Budgets ought to embrace journey funds for the mission principal investigators and different workforce members as acceptable from all collaborating establishments to attend annual Principal Investigators’ conferences.

C. Due Dates

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted Through Analysis.gov:

To organize 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 basic technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must 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 Sources webpage: https://www.grants.gov/internet/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Software Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) offers directions concerning 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 basic technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must 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 software shall be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.

The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page offers submission steering to candidates and hyperlinks to useful assets together with the NSF Grants.gov Software Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Steadily Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should cross all NSF pre-check and post-check validations with a view to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.

When submitting by way of Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission not less than 5 enterprise days prematurely of a deadline to permit satisfactory time to deal with 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 software has been acquired and validated by NSF, the Approved Organizational Consultant might examine the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov must be used to examine the standing of an software.

VI. NSF Proposal Processing And Evaluate Procedures

Proposals acquired by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for overview. All proposals are fastidiously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and often by three to 10 different individuals outdoors NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re specialists within the specific fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the overview course of. Proposers are invited to counsel names of individuals they imagine are particularly effectively certified to overview the proposal and/or individuals they would favor not overview the proposal. These options might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nevertheless, is elective. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers don’t have any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might receive feedback from web site visits earlier than recommending remaining motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional overview suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts all the NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.

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

Proposers must also concentrate on core methods which might 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 overview is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented by way of the combination of analysis and schooling and broadening participation in NSF packages, tasks, and actions.

One of many strategic aims in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and schooling by way of the packages, tasks, and actions it helps at tutorial and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, practice, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based economic system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis below the steering of the Nation’s most inventive scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps growth of a robust science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data 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 might 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 variety and deems it central to the packages, tasks, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Advantage Evaluate Rules and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to put money into a sturdy and numerous portfolio of tasks that creates new data and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and schooling. To determine which tasks to help, NSF depends on a advantage overview course of that comes with consideration of each the technical points of a proposed mission 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 advantage overview course of for the number of tasks.

1. Advantage Evaluate Rules

These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when getting ready proposals and managing tasks, 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. On condition 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 tasks must be of the very best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not rework, the frontiers of information.
NSF tasks, within the combination, ought to contribute extra broadly to attaining societal targets. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved by way of the analysis itself, by way of actions which might be straight associated to particular analysis tasks, or by way of actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. The mission actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or revolutionary strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded tasks must be based mostly on acceptable metrics, preserving in thoughts the possible correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the assets supplied to implement tasks. If the scale of the exercise is restricted, analysis of that exercise in isolation is just not more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might finest be finished at a better, extra aggregated, degree than the person mission.

With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific tasks is finished at an aggregated degree, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded mission. Thus, particular person tasks ought to embrace clearly said targets, 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 advantage overview ideas present the premise for the advantage overview standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the standards can higher perceive their intent.

2. Advantage Evaluate Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated by way of use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board authorised advantage overview standards. In some situations, nevertheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to spotlight the particular aims of sure packages and actions.

The 2 advantage overview standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration through the overview and decision-making processes; every criterion is important however neither, by itself, is adequate. Due to this fact, proposers should absolutely tackle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). comprises further data to be used by proposers in growth of the Mission Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to overview the standards, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the overview of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers shall be requested to contemplate 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 mission is profitable. These points apply each to the technical points of the proposal and the way in which by which the mission might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers shall be requested to judge all proposals towards two standards:

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

The next components must be thought-about within the overview for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to

Advance data and understanding inside its personal subject or throughout totally different fields (Mental Advantage); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?

To what extent do the proposed actions counsel and discover inventive, unique, or doubtlessly 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 effectively certified is the person, workforce, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there satisfactory assets accessible to the PI (both on the residence group or by way of collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be achieved by way of the analysis itself, by way of the actions which might be straight associated to particular analysis tasks, or by way of actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embrace, however usually are not restricted to: full participation of girls, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM schooling and educator growth at any degree; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and know-how; improved well-being of people in society; growth of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, trade, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of the US; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and schooling.

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

Extra Solicitation Particular Evaluate Standards

All CC* tasks shall be reviewed with cautious consideration to the next:

The extent to which the work offers a wanted functionality required by science, engineering and schooling.
The anticipated affect on the deployed setting described within the proposal, and potential affect throughout a broader phase of the NSF neighborhood.
The place relevant, how useful resource entry management, federated id administration, and different cybersecurity associated points and neighborhood finest practices are addressed.
Consulting prices, which shall be evaluated according to the experience and previous expertise in constructing and supporting neighborhood analysis and schooling cyberinfrastructure.
A Cyberinfrastructure (CI) plan [except for area (5) as noted earlier]: To what extent is the deliberate cyberinfrastructure more likely to improve capability for discovery, innovation, and schooling in science and engineering? How effectively does the plan as introduced place the proposing establishment(s) for future cyberinfrastructure growth? How effectively does the cyberinfrastructure plan help and combine with the establishments’ science and know-how plan? Are IPv6 deployment and InCommon Federation addressed? Are the actions described within the proposal according to the establishment’s cyberinfrastructure plan?

Moreover, for proposals in Space (1) Knowledge Pushed Networking Infrastructure for the Campus or the Area, Space (2) Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum for the Campus or the Area, and Space (4) Knowledge Storage and Digital Archives for the Campus or the Area:

The extent to which science drivers and purposes encourage the kinds of assets requested.
The energy of the partnership amongst campus-level CI specialists, together with the campus Info Expertise (IT)/networking/knowledge group, contributing area scientists, analysis teams, and educators.
Tangible metrics to measure the success of the system or set of actions.
The energy of the mission administration plan addressing clear targets and milestones leading to a working system within the goal setting.
How effectively the sustainability of the cyberinfrastructure is addressed.

Moreover, for proposals in space (3) Community Integration and Utilized Innovation:

A Mission Plan addressing clear targets and milestones leading to a working system within the goal setting.
Tangible metrics to measure the success of the built-in programs and any related software program developed, and the steps essential to take the programs from prototype standing to manufacturing use.

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.

Reviewers shall be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board authorised advantage overview standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will usually be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s overview will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a suggestion.

After scientific, technical and programmatic overview and consideration of acceptable components, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal must 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 advanced proposals or proposals from new recipients might require further overview 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 overview of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative overview 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 must 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 danger.

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

VII. Award Administration Info

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 robotically to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added data on the overview course of.)

B. Award Situations

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 price range, 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, similar to Grant Normal Situations (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Situations* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance which may be integrated by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Situations (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Situations. 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 data on NSF Award Situations and different necessary data 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, according to regulation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and companies supplied in, the US.

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 way of this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award until all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the mission are produced in the US. For added data, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.

C. Reporting Necessities

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

Failure to offer the required annual or remaining mission experiences, or the mission outcomes report, will delay NSF overview 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 study the codecs of the required experiences prematurely to guarantee availability of required knowledge.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, accessible by way of Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and remaining mission experiences. Such experiences present data on accomplishments, mission members (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the mission. 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 mission 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 mission. This report shall be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

Extra complete data on NSF Reporting Necessities and different necessary data 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. Company Contacts

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

Normal inquiries concerning this program must 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 software, please contact by way of phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].

IX. Different Info

The NSF web site offers probably the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact data), 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, necessary modifications in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable by way of 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 offers an extra digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed by way of this mechanism. Additional data on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

Associated Packages:

NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Job Drive on Campus Bridging, Remaining Report, March 2011. Accessible from: https://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/taskforces/TaskForceReport_CampusBridging.pdf

Reference materials on the “Science DMZ” idea is obtainable at: http://fasterdata.es.web/fasterdata/science-dmz/

About The Nationwide Science Basis

The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an impartial 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 way of grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 faculties, universities, Ok-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 annually for analysis, schooling and coaching tasks, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand purposes 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 trade, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each tutorial degree.

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 tasks. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions concerning preparation of these kind of proposals.

The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Machine 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 basic data. 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 the US by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and schooling within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.

To get the most recent 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

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314

For Normal Info(NSF Info Middle):

(703) 292-5111

TDD (for the hearing-impaired):

(703) 292-5090

To Order Publications or Types:

Ship an e-mail to:

[email protected]

or phone:

(703) 292-8134

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Privateness Act And Public Burden Statements

The data requested on proposal varieties and mission experiences is solicited below the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal varieties shall be utilized in reference to the number of certified proposals; and mission experiences submitted by proposers shall be used for program analysis and reporting inside the Government Department and to Congress. The data requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and employees assistants as a part of the proposal overview course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or receive knowledge concerning the proposal overview course of, award choices, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, specialists, volunteers and researchers and educators as crucial to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing data concerning proposers or nominees as a part of a joint software overview course of, or with a view to coordinate packages or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or get together 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 File Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Data,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Data.” Submission of the knowledge is voluntary. Failure to offer full and full data, nevertheless, might scale back the opportunity of receiving an award.

An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual is just not required to reply to, an data assortment until 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 concerning the burden estimate and some other side of this assortment of data, together with options for decreasing this burden, to:

Suzanne H. Plimpton
Stories Clearance Officer
Coverage Workplace, Division of Establishment and Award Help
Workplace of Finances, Finance, and Award Administration
Nationwide Science Basis
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