Nationwide Science Basis
Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences Division of Mathematical Sciences
Directorate for Engineering Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation
Air Pressure Workplace of Scientific Analysis
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting group’s native time):
June 20, 2024
March 17, 2025
March 15, Yearly Thereafter
Necessary Info And Revision Notes
Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation needs to be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) that’s in impact for the related due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is repeatedly revised and it’s the accountability of the proposer to make sure that the proposal meets the necessities specified on this solicitation and the relevant model of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal previous to a specified deadline doesn’t negate this requirement.
Abstract Of Program Necessities
Basic Info
Program Title:
Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins (MATH-DT)
Synopsis of Program:
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) within the Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences (MPS) on the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) and the Air Pressure Workplace of Scientific Analysis (AFOSR) plan to collectively help foundational mathematical and statistical analysis on Digital Twins in utilized sciences. Latest years have witnessed a major improve within the demand and curiosity in functions that contain collaborative groups growing and analyzing Digital Twins to help determination making in varied fields, together with science, engineering, medication, city planning, and extra. Each companies acknowledge the necessity to promote analysis aiming to stimulate an interaction between arithmetic/statistics/computation and sensible functions within the realm of Digital Twins. This program encourages new collaborative efforts inside the realm of Digital Twins, aiming at stimulating elementary analysis innovation, pushing, and increasing the boundaries of information, and exploring new frontiers in arithmetic and computation for Digital Twin growth, and its functions. By leveraging this synergy, this system goals to harness science, know-how, and innovation to handle a few of our Society’s most urgent challenges.
Cognizant Program Officer(s):
Please be aware that the next info is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Yuliya Gorb, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-2113, e-mail: [email protected]
Jodi Mead, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-7212, e-mail: [email protected]
Fariba Fahroo, Program Officer, AFOSR/RTA2, phone: (571) 230-6634, e-mail: [email protected]
Yulia Gel, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-7888, e-mail: [email protected]
Dmitry Golovaty, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-2117, e-mail: [email protected]
Daan Liang, Program Officer, ENG/CMMI, phone: (703) 292-2441, e-mail: [email protected]
Siqian Shen, Program Officer, ENG/CMMI, phone: (703) 292-7048, e-mail: [email protected]
Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):
12.800 — Air Pressure Workplace of Scientific Analysis
47.041 — Engineering
47.049 — Mathematical and Bodily Sciences
Award Info
Anticipated Kind of Award: Customary Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 6 to 10
Awards are for collaborations involving no less than two PIs or co-PIs for 36 months.
Anticipated Funding Quantity: $5,000,000
Estimated program price range and variety of awards are topic to the supply of funds and receipt of aggressive proposals.
Eligibility Info
Who Could Submit Proposals:
Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Larger Training (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group schools) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, performing on behalf of their college members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be supplied to a world department campus of a US establishment of upper training (together with by use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the venture of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the venture actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Impartial museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and related organizations situated within the U.S. which might be immediately related to academic or analysis actions.
Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges as a federally acknowledged tribe pursuant to the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Listing Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.
Who Could Function PI:
There aren’t any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:
There aren’t any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1
Due to the extent of dedication anticipated from senior/key personnel, none might be a part of multiple proposal or award at a time as a PI or co-PI.
Proposals involving investigators from multiple group are allowed and individually submitted collaborative proposals are inspired. See the NSF PAPPG for steering on the simultaneous submission of proposals from completely different organizations.
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 Overview Info Standards
Benefit Overview Standards:
Nationwide Science Board accepted standards. Extra advantage evaluate standards apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.
Award Administration Info
Award Situations:
Customary NSF award situations apply.
Reporting Necessities:
Customary 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 Overview Procedures
Benefit Overview Ideas and Standards
Overview and Choice Course of
Award Administration Info
Notification of the Award
Award Situations
Reporting Necessities
Company Contacts
Different Info
I. Introduction
In recent times, there was a outstanding upsurge within the demand and curiosity surrounding functions that necessitate the event of Digital Twins (DTs). A Digital Twin is a illustration of a real-world object, course of, or system that adjustments over time as it’s up to date with knowledge and fashions. This dynamic digital counterpart serves as a strong device that permits us to realize insights, check methods, and make predictions about real-world habits. The scope of functions for Digital Twins is exceptionally broad, encompassing fields as numerous as manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, city planning, and extra. What’s driving the expansion on this space is the numerous developments made in a variety of fields, together with synthetic intelligence and scientific machine studying, numerical partial differential equations, imaging strategies, inverse strategies, knowledge assimilation, uncertainty quantification, management, optimization strategies, excessive efficiency computing, experimental design, and varied others. These developments are poised to speed up the event and the impression of Digital Twins throughout a number of domains.
Recognizing the inherently interdisciplinary nature of Digital Twins and the synergistic relationship between Digital Twin functions and mathematical innovation, the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) inside the Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences (MPS) on the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) has solid a strategic partnership with the Air Pressure Workplace of Scientific Analysis (AFOSR). This partnership effort is geared in the direction of mathematical and statistical developments that may improve the accuracy, reliability, robustness, effectivity, and effectiveness of Digital Twins in functions, finally resulting in improved decision-making and coverage design for varied sensible functions. This pilot program, collectively launched by DMS and AFOSR, requires proposals that intention to develop the boundaries of each arithmetic and functions. By this partnership, the NSF and AFOSR intention at driving analysis and innovation within the burgeoning discipline of Digital Twins, setting the stage for transformative breakthroughs sooner or later.
II. Program Description
MATH-DT is a pilot program designed to foster new and current collaborative analysis that innovatively addresses crucial mathematical and statistical challenges come up within the growth of Digital Twins. The first goal of the MATH-DT program is to facilitate progressive analysis that tackles overarching issues characterised by substantial complexity and challenges, akin to these involving multi-scale, multi-physics, or high-dimensional elements, relatively than concentrating on particular software domains. The MATH-DT program seeks proposals that tackle one or each features of the two-directional relationship between arithmetic/statistics and Digital Twins inside sensible functions. In a single route, arithmetic/statistics performs a pivotal position in guiding the creation of intricate Digital Twin fashions and strategies for his or her analysis whereas additionally serving as a problem-solving device. Within the different route, software area specialists can introduce constraints and goals that necessitate the event of recent mathematical, computational, and statistical approaches for Digital Twins.
The MATH-DT program will present help for collaborative efforts involving analysis groups consisting of no less than two Principal Investigators (PIs). Not less than one of many PIs will assume a lead position in addressing the rising mathematical or statistical challenges of the venture, whereas no less than one different PI needs to be specialised in modeling or have entry to knowledge immediately associated or related to sensible Digital Twin functions. Some examples of software issues with vital mathematical challenges embody areas akin to design monitoring, operations of civil infrastructure techniques, emergency response to disasters, and sophisticated system prediction and management. Mathematical challenges akin to these usually embody, however will not be restricted to, (i) the mixing of fashions and knowledge throughout varied scales and ranges of constancy, (ii) the quantification of uncertainty to evaluate mannequin inadequacy when coping with restricted and noisy knowledge, and (iii) the excellent analysis of computational prices and scalability inside the overarching framework.
Profitable proposals are anticipated to exhibit substantial innovation inside the discipline of arithmetic, computation and/or statistics, and clear proof of Digital Twins’ potential to handle real-world issues and points. These two crucial features needs to be prominently featured within the venture abstract and additional elaborated upon within the venture description. The MATH-DT program anticipates that the Digital Twins growth will capitalize on and be reworked by the synergistic relationship between Digital Twin functions and mathematical/statistical improvements. This system, nonetheless, doesn’t impose particular necessities on functions, providing flexibility to advance the foundations of Digital Twins.
The MATH-DT program goals to stimulate a dynamic interplay between arithmetic/statistics, software, and the linkage between the 2 within the realm of Digital Twins. By supporting tasks that tackle the closed loop interplay between the bodily and the Digital Twin, this system seeks to catalyze innovation, push, and develop the boundaries of information, and chart new frontiers in each the realms of mathematical principle and its sensible software. The MATH-DT program expects that Digital Twin growth will capitalize on, and be reworked by, the synergistic relationship between software area data and the associated mathematical improvements. This system strives to advance the event of Digital Twins and their transformative impression throughout varied scientific and engineering domains by the collaborative synergy between foundational analysis and sensible functions.
The MATH-DT program welcomes the submission of proposals to this funding alternative that embody the participation of the complete spectrum of numerous expertise in STEM, e.g., as PI, co-PI, senior personnel, postdoctoral students, graduate or undergraduate college students or trainees. This contains traditionally under-represented or under-served populations. It additionally contains numerous establishments together with Minority-Serving Establishments (MSIs), Primarily Undergraduate Establishments (PUIs), and two-year schools, in addition to main analysis establishments. Proposals from EPSCoR jurisdictions are particularly inspired.
III. Award Info
Anticipated Kind of Award: Customary Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 6 to 10
Awards are for collaborations involving no less than two PIs or co-PIs for 36 months.
Anticipated Funding Quantity: $5,000,000
Estimated program price range, variety of awards and common award measurement/length are topic to the supply of funds.
IV. Eligibility Info
Who Could Submit Proposals:
Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Larger Training (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group schools) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, performing on behalf of their college members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be supplied to a world department campus of a US establishment of upper training (together with by use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the venture of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the venture actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Impartial museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and related organizations situated within the U.S. which might be immediately related to academic or analysis actions.
Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges as a federally acknowledged tribe pursuant to the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Listing Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.
Who Could Function PI:
There aren’t any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:
There aren’t any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1
Due to the extent of dedication anticipated from senior/key personnel, none might be a part of multiple proposal or award at a time as a PI or co-PI.
Proposals involving investigators from multiple group are allowed and individually submitted collaborative proposals are inspired. See the NSF PAPPG for steering on the simultaneous submission of proposals from completely different organizations.
Extra Eligibility Data:
A minimal of two PIs should be named on a proposal. Not less than one in all them will assume a lead position in addressing the rising mathematical or statistical challenges of the venture, whereas no less than one different PI needs to be specialised in modeling or have entry to knowledge immediately associated or related to sensible Digital Twin functions.
AFRL and its workers are ineligible to be concerned in any proposals submitted to this funding alternative, together with as unfunded collaborators, through letters of collaboration or help, or through another means.
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 through Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.
Full Proposals submitted through Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the final pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The whole textual content of the PAPPG is on the market 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 through Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation through Grants.gov needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Purposes through Grants.gov. The whole textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information is on the market on the Grants.gov web site and on the NSF web site at: (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide). To acquire copies of the Utility Information and Utility Varieties Package deal, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov web site, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Utility Package deal and Utility Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Package deal button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Utility Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].
In figuring out which technique to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please be aware the next:
Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations should be submitted through Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 gives further info on collaborative proposals.
See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steering on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please be aware that the proposal preparation directions supplied on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.
Title. To facilitate well timed processing, the title of the proposed venture ought to start with “MATH-DT”. Once you submit a proposal as a part of a set of collaborative proposals, the title of the proposal ought to start with “Collaborative Analysis: MATH-DT”. Please be aware that if submitting through Analysis.gov, the system will routinely insert the prepended title “Collaborative Analysis” when the collaborative set of proposals is created. All proposals in a gaggle of individually submitted collaborative proposals ought to have the identical title and needs to be submitted to the Computational Arithmetic program.
B. Budgetary Info
Value Sharing:
Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.
C. Due Dates
D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities
For Proposals Submitted Through Analysis.gov:
To organize and submit a proposal through Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions obtainable at: https://www.analysis.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Service/Desktop/ProposalPreparationandSubmission.html. For Analysis.gov person help, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions normal technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program workers 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 on the market on the Grants.gov Applicant Sources webpage: https://www.grants.gov/internet/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) gives directions concerning the technical preparation of proposals through Grants.gov. For Grants.gov person help, contact the Grants.gov Contact Middle at 1-800-518-4726 or by e-mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Middle solutions normal technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program workers contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.
Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Licensed 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 will probably be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.
The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page gives submission steering to candidates and hyperlinks to useful assets together with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Continuously Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should move all NSF pre-check and post-check validations in an effort to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.
When submitting through Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission no less than 5 enterprise days prematurely of a deadline to permit sufficient time to handle NSF compliance errors and resubmissions by 5:00 p.m. submitting group’s native time on the deadline. Please be aware 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 right and submit the in-progress proposal in Analysis.gov.
Proposers that submitted through Analysis.gov might use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted through Grants.gov, till an software has been obtained and validated by NSF, the Licensed Organizational Consultant might examine the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have obtained an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov needs to be used to examine the standing of an software.
VI. NSF Proposal Processing And Overview Procedures
Proposals obtained by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for evaluate. All proposals are rigorously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and normally by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re specialists within the specific fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the evaluate course of. Proposers are invited to counsel names of individuals they imagine are particularly effectively certified to evaluate the proposal and/or individuals they would like not evaluate the proposal. These ideas might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nonetheless, is 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 acquire feedback from web site visits earlier than recommending remaining motion on proposals. Senior NSF workers additional evaluate suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts the whole NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.
A complete description of the Basis’s advantage evaluate course of is on the market 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 achievement 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 evaluate is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented by the mixing of analysis and training and broadening participation in NSF applications, tasks, and actions.
One of many strategic goals in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and training by the applications, tasks, and actions it helps at tutorial and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, prepare, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based financial system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis beneath the steering of the Nation’s most artistic scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps growth of a powerful science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM instructing 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 important to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of range and deems it central to the applications, tasks, and actions it considers and helps.
A. Benefit Overview Ideas 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 training. To establish which tasks to help, NSF depends on a advantage evaluate course of that includes consideration of each the technical features of a proposed venture and its potential to contribute extra broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to advertise the progress of science; to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare; to safe the nationwide protection; and for different functions.” NSF makes each effort to conduct a good, aggressive, clear advantage evaluate course of for the number of tasks.
1. Benefit Overview Ideas
These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when making ready proposals and managing tasks, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program workers when figuring out whether or not or to not advocate 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 training, the next three ideas apply:
All NSF tasks needs to be of the very best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not remodel, the frontiers of information.
NSF tasks, within the combination, ought to contribute extra broadly to reaching societal targets. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved by the analysis itself, by actions which might be immediately associated to particular analysis tasks, or by actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the venture. The venture actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or progressive strategies and approaches, however in both case should be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded tasks needs to be based mostly on applicable metrics, conserving in thoughts the doubtless 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 will not be more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might greatest be finished at the next, extra aggregated, degree than the person venture.
With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific tasks is completed at an aggregated degree, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded venture. Thus, particular person tasks ought to embody clearly acknowledged 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 evaluate ideas present the premise for the advantage evaluate standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the standards can higher perceive their intent.
2. Benefit Overview Standards
All NSF proposals are evaluated by use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accepted advantage evaluate standards. In some situations, nonetheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to focus on the precise goals of sure applications and actions.
The 2 advantage evaluate standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration throughout the evaluate and decision-making processes; every criterion is critical however neither, by itself, is adequate. Subsequently, proposers should totally tackle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). accommodates further info to be used by proposers in growth of the Undertaking Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to evaluate the standards, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the evaluate of a proposal.
When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers will probably be requested to contemplate what the proposers wish to do, why they wish to do it, how they plan to do it, how they may know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages may accrue if the venture is profitable. These points apply each to the technical features of the proposal and the best way during which the venture might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers will probably be requested to judge all proposals towards two standards:
Mental Benefit: The Mental Benefit criterion encompasses the potential to advance data; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.
The next parts needs to be thought of within the evaluate for each standards:
What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance data and understanding inside its personal discipline or throughout completely different fields (Mental Benefit); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?
To what extent do the proposed actions counsel and discover artistic, authentic, or probably transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and based mostly on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How effectively certified is the person, crew, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there sufficient assets obtainable to the PI (both on the house group or by collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?
Broader impacts could also be achieved by the analysis itself, by the actions which might be immediately associated to particular analysis tasks, or by actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the venture. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embody, however will not be restricted to: full participation of ladies, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM training 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 america; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and training.
Proposers are reminded that reviewers may even be requested to evaluate the Information Administration and Sharing Plan and the Mentoring Plan, as applicable.
Extra Solicitation Particular Overview Standards
Along with the Nationwide Science Board advantage evaluate standards, reviewers will probably be requested to evaluate how effectively the proposal addresses the next features:
To what extent do the proposed actions discover the synergistic relationship between Digital Twin functions and mathematical/statistical innovation?
To what extent do the proposed actions tackle one or each features of the two-directional relationship between arithmetic and Digital Twins within the context of sensible functions? In a single route, arithmetic serves as a information for creating intricate Digital Twin fashions and strategies to judge them, whereas additionally functioning as a problem-solving device. Within the different route, software area specialists can introduce constraints and goals that necessitate growth of recent mathematical, computational, and statistical approaches for Digital Twins.
To what extent does no less than one PI or co-PI function lead within the rising mathematical or statistical challenges of the venture, and no less than one different function the skilled in modeling or knowledge related to the sensible Digital Twin software?
B. Overview and Choice Course of
Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation will probably be reviewed by Advert hoc Overview and/or Panel Overview.
NSF will coordinate and handle the evaluate of proposals collectively with AFOSR. AFOSR-designated Program Officer(s) might attend NSF evaluate panels as observers. Related details about proposals and opinions of proposals will probably be shared with designated AFOSR Program Officers as applicable.
Reviewers will probably be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accepted advantage evaluate standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract score and accompanying narrative will typically be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s evaluate will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a suggestion.
After scientific, technical and programmatic evaluate and consideration of applicable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal needs to be declined or advisable for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform proposers whether or not their proposals have been declined or advisable for funding inside six months. Massive or notably advanced proposals or proposals from new recipients might require further evaluate 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 will probably be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for evaluate of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative evaluate 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 needs to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own danger.
As soon as an award or declination determination has been made, Principal Investigators are supplied suggestions about their proposals. In all circumstances, opinions are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of opinions, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying info, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Undertaking Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain 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 will probably be suggested as promptly as attainable by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of opinions, not together with the identification of the reviewer, will probably be supplied routinely to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added info on the evaluate 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 situations, akin to Grant Basic 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 through e-mail.
*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].
Extra complete info on NSF Award Situations and different essential info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, obtainable 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, Guaranteeing 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 situations of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, according to legislation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and companies supplied in, america.
According to 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 obtainable by this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award until all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the venture are produced in america. For added info, 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 venture report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the top of the present price range interval. (Some applications or awards require submission of extra frequent venture experiences). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a remaining annual venture report, and a venture outcomes report for most of the people.
Failure to offer the required annual or remaining annual venture experiences, or the venture outcomes report, will delay NSF evaluate and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to look at the codecs of the required experiences prematurely to guarantee availability of required knowledge.
PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, obtainable by Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and remaining annual venture experiences. Such experiences present info on accomplishments, venture individuals (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the venture. Submission of the report through Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The venture outcomes report additionally should be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a short abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the venture. This report will probably be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.
Extra complete info on NSF Reporting Necessities and different essential info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, obtainable electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
VIII. Company Contacts
Please be aware that this system contact info is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Basic inquiries concerning this program needs to be made to:
Yuliya Gorb, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-2113, e-mail: [email protected]
Jodi Mead, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-7212, e-mail: [email protected]
Fariba Fahroo, Program Officer, AFOSR/RTA2, phone: (571) 230-6634, e-mail: [email protected]
Yulia Gel, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-7888, e-mail: [email protected]
Dmitry Golovaty, Program Officer, MPS/DMS, phone: (703) 292-2117, e-mail: [email protected]
Daan Liang, Program Officer, ENG/CMMI, phone: (703) 292-2441, e-mail: [email protected]
Siqian Shen, Program Officer, ENG/CMMI, phone: (703) 292-7048, e-mail: [email protected]
For questions associated to using NSF techniques 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 Licensed Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not obtained a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of software, please contact through phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].
IX. Different Info
The NSF web site gives probably the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact info), applications and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of recent NSF funding alternatives and publications, essential adjustments in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable by e-mail or the person’s Net browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is on the market on NSF’s web site.
Grants.gov gives an extra digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed through this mechanism. Additional info on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.
About The Nationwide Science Basis
The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an unbiased Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and training in all fields of science and engineering.”
NSF funds analysis and training in most fields of science and engineering. It does this by grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 schools, universities, Okay-12 college techniques, 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, training and coaching tasks, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand functions for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does help Nationwide Analysis Facilities, person services, 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 gear 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 kinds of proposals.
The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Gadget for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Info Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF applications, employment or normal info. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.
The Nationwide Science Basis Info Middle could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.
The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in america by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and training 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
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For Basic Info(NSF Info Middle):
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To Order Publications or Varieties:
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Privateness Act And Public Burden Statements
The data requested on proposal types and venture experiences is solicited beneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal types will probably be utilized in reference to the number of certified proposals; and venture experiences submitted by proposers will probably 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 workers assistants as a part of the proposal evaluate course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or acquire knowledge concerning the proposal evaluate course of, award selections, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, specialists, volunteers and researchers and educators as essential to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing info concerning proposers or nominees as a part of a joint software evaluate course of, or in an effort to coordinate applications or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or social gathering 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 potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of Document Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Information,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Information.” Submission of the data is voluntary. Failure to offer full and full info, nonetheless, might scale back the potential of receiving an award.
An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual will not be required to answer, an info 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 another side of this assortment of data, together with ideas for lowering 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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