Replaces Doc(s):NSF 23-523
Nationwide Science Basis
Directorate for Engineering Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Programs
Heart for the Development of Science in Area
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):
March 04, 2024
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES
Appropriateness of Proposals for the NSF-ISS Program:
The NSF-ISS Program just isn’t meant for use for proposals which are acceptable for present funding mechanisms or that proceed well-established practices.
Potential proposers should submit a Feasibility Evaluation Kind to the Heart for the Development of Science in Area, Inc. (CASIS) by January 10, 2024. The shape might be evaluated for the operational feasibility of the proposed work on the Worldwide Area Station.
Proposers who’ve submitted a Feasibility Evaluation Kind that passes the preliminary operational evaluate by CASIS might be invited to submit a full proposal for analysis by NSF. Documentation from the CASIS crew confirming approval to submit a proposal after the operational evaluate have to be supplied as a Single Copy Doc when the total proposal is submitted.
CASIS strongly encourages submission of the Feasibility Evaluation Kind as early as potential. Potential PIs or groups ought to seek the advice of with the CASIS Operations crew ([email protected]) for suggestions concerning feasibility and compliance with necessities and capabilities for implementation of the proposed work on the Worldwide Area Station.
Remaining Deadline for Submitting the Feasibility Evaluation Kind to CASIS: January 10, 2024.
To Submit the Feasibility Evaluation Kind, please go to: https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/.
CASIS officers will reply to a Feasibility Evaluation Kind inside 4 weeks after submission.
Submitted proposals that move the preliminary operational evaluate might be eligible for analysis by NSF.
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 recurrently 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.
SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Basic Info
Program Title:
Transport Phenomena Analysis on the Worldwide Area Station to Profit Life on Earth (NSF-ISS)
Synopsis of Program:
The Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Programs (CBET) within the Engineering Directorate of the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is partnering with The Heart for the Development of Science in Area, Inc. (CASIS) to solicit analysis initiatives within the basic area of fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and hearth methods, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions that may make the most of the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) Nationwide Lab to conduct analysis that can profit life on Earth. Solely entities that qualify as “U.S. Individuals” beneath 22 U.S. Code §6010, together with tutorial investigators, non-profit impartial analysis laboratories and academic-commercial groups are eligible to use.
Cognizant Program Officer(s):
Please observe that the next data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Ronald D. Joslin, Fluid Dynamics, phone: (703) 292-7030, electronic mail: [email protected]
Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh, Particulate and Multiphase Processes, phone: (703) 292-8045, electronic mail: [email protected]
Sumanta Acharya, Thermal Transport Processes, phone: (703) 292-4509, electronic mail: [email protected]
Harsha Chelliah, Combustion and Hearth Programs, phone: (703) 292-7281, electronic mail: [email protected]
Nora F. Savage, Nanoscale Interactions, phone: (703) 292-7949, electronic mail: [email protected]
Phillip Irace, Heart for the Development of Science in Area, Inc., phone: (321) 751-5152, electronic mail: [email protected]
Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):
43.007 — Heart for the Development of Science in Area
47.041 — Engineering
Award Info
Anticipated Kind of Award: Commonplace Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 9
Anticipated Funding Quantity: $3,600,000
NSF Funding (whole) obtainable beneath this solicitation is as much as $3.6 million to be distributed in FY 2024.
Estimated program finances, variety of awards and award measurement/period are topic to the supply of funds. Challenge period should not exceed 4 years.
Funding for ISS Experiments
NSF awards beneath this solicitation will present PIs with help to conduct elementary and translational analysis, to arrange experiments for execution onboard the ISS, to collaborate with service suppliers as obligatory, to supply preliminary evaluation to conduct the experiment, to investigate and interpret information, and to disseminate outcomes broadly. CASIS operations will help recipients in translating ground-based experiments and applied sciences into an acceptable ISS licensed {hardware} answer the place potential. All prices related to the interpretation of the proposed experiments to flight experiments onboard the ISS, together with coaching of ISS crews, transporting the experiment payload and gear to the ISS, and conducting experiments on the ISS, might be supported by CASIS by way of their cooperative settlement with the Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration (NASA).
CASIS might present funding to Industrial Implementation Companions for PIs to make the most of present flight {hardware} and services to help proposed analysis. Please observe that proposals requiring vital modifications to {hardware} or the event of recent capabilities might be out of scope for this solicitation. Price range requests for industrial implementation companies supported by CASIS are capped at $350,000 whole per proposal. Word that this can be a separate allocation from the NSF award finances.
For data concerning obtainable flight {hardware} for this solicitation, please go to: https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/
For this yr’s solicitation, NASA’s movement boiling and condensation modules – the Stream Boiling Module (FBM) and the Condensation Module for Warmth Switch (CM-HT) – of the Stream Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) facility, in addition to the bottom models, can be found for help of proposed analysis.
For different technical and/or operational inquiries, please submit inquiries to [email protected].
Eligibility Info
Who Might Submit Proposals:
Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Increased Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with neighborhood faculties) 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 schooling (together with by way of use of subawards and advisor preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the mission of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the mission actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and comparable organizations situated within the U.S. which are immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.
For-profit organizations: U.S.-based industrial organizations, together with small companies, with robust capabilities in scientific or engineering analysis or schooling and a ardour for innovation.
Who Might Function PI:
The PI and any Co-PIs should qualify as “U.S. Individuals” beneath 22 U.S. Code §6010: ” ‘United States particular person’ means any United States citizen or alien admitted for everlasting residence in the US, and any company, partnership, or different group organized beneath the legal guidelines of the US.”
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
A person might take part in any capability (PI, co-PI, Different Senior Personnel, or Guide) in just one proposal submitted in response to this solicitation. The submitting group is accountable to make sure that the PI, co-PIs, Different Senior Personnel, and Consultants are taking part in just one proposal. This limitation contains proposals submitted by a lead group and any sub-award submitted as a part of a proposal. Violations of this rule will end in return with out evaluate of all proposals together with the offending particular person aside from the primary such proposal submitted in time-stamped order.
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
A. Proposal Preparation Directions
Letters of Intent: Not required
Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
Full Proposals:
B. Budgetary Info
Value Sharing Necessities:
Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.
Oblique Value (F&A) Limitations:
Not Relevant
Different Budgetary Limitations:
Different budgetary limitations apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.
C. Due Dates
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):
March 04, 2024
Proposal Evaluation Info Standards
Benefit Evaluation Standards:
Nationwide Science Board accredited standards. Further benefit evaluate standards apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.
Award Administration Info
Award Circumstances:
Further award circumstances apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.
Reporting Necessities:
Commonplace NSF reporting necessities apply.
TABLE 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 Evaluation Procedures
Benefit Evaluation Rules and Standards
Evaluation and Choice Course of
Award Administration Info
Notification of the Award
Award Circumstances
Reporting Necessities
Company Contacts
Different Info
I. INTRODUCTION
The Heart for the Development of Science in Area (CASIS) is an Inside income Code (IRC) Part 501(c)(3) entity chargeable for administration of the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) U.S. Nationwide Laboratory beneath a Cooperative Settlement (80JSC018M0005) with the Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration (NASA). Per Part 504 of the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, the aim of CASIS is to maximise the worth of the funding the U.S. authorities made within the ISS Nationwide Lab and show the scientific and technological productiveness of the ISS Nationwide Lab over the following decade. CASIS seeks to advance scientific analysis, know-how improvement, and schooling at the side of utilization of the ISS, managing a various analysis, know-how, and schooling portfolio throughout a broad vary of scientific fields.
As a result of NSF and CASIS have a typical curiosity in analysis and improvement in transport, thermal, combustion, nanoscale interactions, and fluid phenomena beneath microgravity circumstances, NSF and CASIS have developed a collaboration to collectively help analysis that may reap the benefits of the alternatives afforded by conducting experiments on-board the ISS.
In 2016, Program Solicitation NSF 16-518 was targeted on the fluid dynamics analysis, in 2017, Program Solicitation NSF 17-517 was targeted on combustion and thermal transport processes analysis, in 2018, Program Solicitation NSF 18-521 was targeted on analysis proposals addressing fluid dynamics and particulate and multiphase processes analysis, in 2019, Program Solicitation NSF 19-525 targeted on transport phenomena analysis within the microgravity atmosphere, and in 2020, Program Solicitation NSF 20-501, in 2021, Program Solicitation NSF 21-525, in 2022, Program Solicitation NSF 22-539, and in 2023, Program Solicitation NSF 23-523 targeted on transport phenomena analysis and nanoscale interactions within the microgravity atmosphere. The funded proposals will be discovered on the web site of the packages inside the Transport Phenomena Cluster and the Nanoscale Interactions Program of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Programs. This solicitation is targeted on analysis coated by all of the packages inside the Transport Phenomena Cluster (Fluid Dynamics, Particulate and Multiphase Processes, Combustion and Hearth Programs, and Thermal Transport Processes) and the Nanoscale Interactions Program from the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Cluster.
The aim of this solicitation is to draw proposals that make use of the ISS Nationwide Lab for analysis initiatives within the fields associated to the Transport Phenomena Cluster and Nanoscale Interactions packages. Responsive proposals will describe utilizing the ISS Nationwide Lab for improvement and testing of fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and hearth methods, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions that can result in Earth-based functions and improve the return on the U.S. funding within the ISS Nationwide Lab. CASIS targets are to advance science analysis and know-how improvement, develop human data, encourage and educate the following technology, foster the industrial improvement of house, and show scientific capabilities in house for Earth profit. Basic analysis to check fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and hearth methods, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions the place the outcomes could have direct terrestrial profit however will contain flight analysis using the ISS, is solicited.
The collaboration seeks to take advantage of the complementary missions of (i) analysis and improvement for NSF, and (ii) stimulation, improvement, and administration of U.S. nationwide makes use of of the ISS Nationwide Lab by U.S. authorities businesses, tutorial establishments, and personal corporations for CASIS. Proposals should search to take advantage of the ISS Nationwide Lab for fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and hearth methods, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions research to help functions on Earth. The proposal should embody an outline of mission advantages for all times on Earth. Proposals targeted on analysis and know-how improvement supporting solely house exploration-related targets don’t fall inside the scope of the NSF and CASIS mission and might be thought-about non-responsive to this solicitation. For instance, this program doesn’t help analysis strictly targeted on house propulsion.
II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The distinctive atmosphere on the ISS Nationwide Lab has many advantages and may embody top quality and lengthy period microgravity and excessive circumstances together with warmth and chilly biking, excessive vitality radiation, and vacuum.
Potential analysis associated to fluid dynamics and particulate and multiphase processes might embody areas reminiscent of (however not restricted to):
Multiphase movement
Capillary movement
Separation/Agglomeration
Sedimentation/Stratification
Diffusion
Interfacial conduct
Floor stress
Organic and physiological transport
The robust hindrance of processes, reminiscent of pure convection and sedimentation, and of these pushed or affected by hydrostatic stress and buoyancy, as an illustration, can all contribute to the change within the conduct of a substance in house. The impact on these variables permits phenomena of curiosity to be studied with minimal gravitational interference. Instance phenomena associated to combustion and hearth methods and thermal transport processes might embody (however not restricted to):
Combustion of gasoline, liquid and stable
Hearth security
Low-temperature combustion chemistry
Convective (pressured) movement
Part change
Radiation
Microgravity can affect the crystal development course of and the molecular construction of a cloth throughout part change. Microgravity may additionally allow the measurement of sure bodily/chemical properties, involving multicomponent transport and flame dynamics, which have been proven to be tough to measure sufficiently properly in Earth-based laboratories. Lengthy-term publicity to microgravity can be essential in lots of combustion and thermal transport research. Longer time scales (e.g., for totally developed movement profiles or weakly-driven flows to happen) are sometimes wanted for experimentation, which can’t happen in parabolic flights or drop towers, thus the need for the ISS Nationwide Lab.
Particular curiosity for the Thermal Transport Processes Program on this solicitation is prime analysis in movement condensation utilizing NASA’s FBCE facility and their floor models to profit life on Earth. Tasks that mix novel machine studying, data-driven, and superior modeling approaches with the ISS experiments, geared towards understanding, discovery, and real-time prediction of the traits of warmth switch, fluid dynamics, and interfacial stabilities in movement condensation are welcome.
Examples of analysis associated to the Nanoscale Interactions program embody 1) investigation of transport, interplay, and affect of nanostructured supplies on organic methods in microgravity, and a pair of) characterization of interfacial interactions and transformation of each easy and complicated nanoparticles and/or heterogeneous composites and nanosystems beneath microgravity circumstances.
To obtain funding as an NSF-ISS-appropriate mission, an ISS-based flight experiment must be proposed. Chosen initiatives have to be flight prepared inside 24 months of the award and last stories have to be accomplished by six months publish flight. If flight schedules change, investigators might modify proposed timelines, topic to evaluate and approval by the CASIS Operations crew. Previous to submitting a proposal to NSF, the Feasibility Evaluation Kind have to be accredited by CASIS.
This solicitation just isn’t meant for use for initiatives that may be accommodated inside different NSF funding mechanisms. As well as, this solicitation just isn’t meant for use for initiatives that may be performed of their entirety with ground-based analysis.
Collaborative proposals may additionally be submitted and collaborations with business and related prices for his or her participation are allowed. In these circumstances, if the co-PIs are at totally different organizations and have complementary abilities and services, then the usage of the individually submitted, collaborative proposal mechanism is allowed. See PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 for details about submission of a collaborative proposal from a number of organizations.
Potential proposals might be topic to a evaluate for operational feasibility performed by CASIS. See the CASIS pointers for additional particulars on these evaluations at https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/.
The solicitation seeks to extend use of the ISS Nationwide Lab for fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and hearth methods, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions research to profit functions or industries on Earth, to advertise ISS in addition to new and present facility/know-how utilization. Prices reminiscent of preparatory work, together with however not restricted to design of experimental prototypes and numerical simulations, information acquisition, and post-flight information evaluation, will be included within the finances. Topic to budgetary and time constraints, CASIS might cowl prices of restricted modifications to flight {hardware}, on a case-by-case foundation, to satisfy outlined analysis aims. Very best proposals will describe a industrial, civil, or tutorial mission to attain analysis or know-how improvement aims that can immediately affect areas together with (however not restricted to):
Clear water and vitality
Carbon emissions and seize
Manufacturing
Equipment
Shopper Merchandise
Oil & gasoline
Electronics
Medical units and prescription drugs
Microfluidics and nanofluidics
Waste warmth restoration
Power storage
Catastrophe prevention and mitigation
Potential proposers ought to seek the advice of with the flight {hardware} listing at https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/ for an introduction to the fundamental capabilities of the ISS payload services and instrumentation platforms, together with the movement condensation module (i.e., CM-HT) of the FBCE facility. NSF will supply grants to analysis proposals that develop elementary and translational analysis and CASIS will help recipients in translating ground-based experiments and applied sciences into space-appropriate {hardware} the place potential. A perfect proposal will show the investigator’s data of the numerous challenges and significance of the proposed analysis and the way ISS utilization will enable their analysis targets to be achieved. All proposers ought to learn this on-line materials to obviously perceive the {hardware} platform and capabilities on the ISS.
CASIS additionally encourages potential proposers to be taught in regards to the availability and functionality of flight {hardware} and integration companies by immediately speaking with the CASIS Operations crew ([email protected]). Potential proposers ought to learn the CASIS pointers at https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/.
Proposals that don’t comply with the CASIS pointers might be deemed non-responsive to this solicitation.
III. AWARD INFORMATION
Anticipated Kind of Award: Commonplace Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 9
Anticipated Funding Quantity: As much as $3,600,000
NSF Funding (whole) obtainable beneath this solicitation is as much as $3.6 million, to be distributed in FY 2024.
Estimated program finances, variety of awards and common award measurement/period are topic to the supply of funds. Challenge period should not exceed 4 years.
Funding for ISS Experiments
NSF awards beneath this solicitation will present PIs with help to conduct elementary and translational analysis to arrange experiments for execution onboard the ISS, to collaborate with service suppliers as obligatory, to supply preliminary evaluation to conduct the experiment, to investigate and interpret information, and to disseminate outcomes broadly. CASIS will help recipients in translating ground-based experiments and applied sciences into space-appropriate {hardware} the place potential. Prices related to the interpretation of the proposed experiments to flight experiments onboard the ISS, together with the coaching of ISS crews, transporting the experiment payload and gear to the ISS, and conducting experiments on the ISS, might be supported by CASIS by way of their cooperative settlement with NASA.
CASIS might present funding to Industrial Implementation Companions for PIs to make the most of present flight {hardware} and services to help proposed analysis however observe that proposals requiring vital modifications to {hardware} or the event of recent capabilities might be out of scope for this solicitation. Price range requests for industrial implementation companies supported by CASIS are capped at $350,000 whole per proposal. Word that this can be a separate allocation from the NSF award finances.
Each organizations will collectively handle the mission evaluations. All NSF awards might be made through a Commonplace Grant mechanism. As well as, NSF recipients shall be required to barter separate circumstances with CASIS for ISS utilization help through a contract mechanism.
IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION
Who Might Submit Proposals:
Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Increased Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with neighborhood faculties) 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 schooling (together with by way of use of subawards and advisor preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the mission of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the mission actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and comparable organizations situated within the U.S. which are immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.
For-profit organizations: U.S.-based industrial organizations, together with small companies, with robust capabilities in scientific or engineering analysis or schooling and a ardour for innovation.
Who Might Function PI:
The PI and any Co-PIs should qualify as “U.S. Individuals” beneath 22 U.S. Code §6010: ” ‘United States particular person’ means any United States citizen or alien admitted for everlasting residence in the US, and any company, partnership, or different group organized beneath the legal guidelines of the US.”
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
A person might take part in any capability (PI, co-PI, Different Senior Personnel, or Guide) in just one proposal submitted in response to this solicitation. The submitting group is accountable to make sure that the PI, co-PIs, Different Senior Personnel, and Consultants are taking part in just one proposal. This limitation contains proposals submitted by a lead group and any sub-award submitted as a part of a proposal. Violations of this rule will end in return with out evaluate of all proposals together with the offending particular person aside from the primary such proposal submitted in time-stamped order.
Further Eligibility Information:
Grant Alternatives for Educational Liaison with Business (GOALI) proposals, the place academe and business companion on a analysis mission, are inspired (see PAPPG Chapter II.F.5 for added data).
V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
A. Proposal Preparation Directions
Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers might decide 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 must be ready and submitted in accordance with the overall pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The whole textual content of the PAPPG is out there 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 must 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 out there 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 Kinds Package deal, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov website, 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 methodology to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please observe the next:
Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations have to be submitted through Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 gives further data on collaborative proposals.
See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steering on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please observe that the proposal preparation directions supplied on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.
The next directions complement the steering within the PAPPG and NSF Grants.gov Utility Information:
The mission title on the proposal Cowl Sheet might be preceded by the prefix “ISS:” to differentiate the submission from a daily proposal that may undergo a daily evaluate course of.
All investigators who want to submit a proposal in response to this solicitation should submit a accomplished CASIS Feasibility Evaluation Kind. The CASIS Feasibility Evaluation Kind might be obtainable on the CASIS web site at: https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/.
The assertion of labor (SOW) and finances from a possible implementation companion, for each present and proposed new {hardware}, must be uploaded as a Supplementary doc with the total proposal. An appropriate SOW will comprise a abstract of how the implementation companion’s choices align with the mission targets, an in depth scope of end-to-end mission administration (idea of operations, {hardware} availability, verification testing, and hazard identification/security evaluate method), a mission schedule, and an in depth finances, together with any driving assumptions and detailed prices for modification of {hardware}. The idea of operations ought to embody an estimate of mass/quantity, stowage necessities, energy necessities, and crew time with a foundation for the estimate.
This CASIS Feasibility Evaluation Kind have to be accomplished and submitted through the CASIS web site no later than January 10, 2024, to permit time for a response and time to arrange the total proposal.
CASIS officers will reply to a Feasibility Evaluation Kind inside 4 weeks after submission.
Documentation from the CASIS crew confirming approval to submit a proposal after the operation and terrestrial profit evaluations have to be supplied as a Single Copy Doc. A proposal submitted with out the required authorizations might be returned with out evaluate.
A proposal that passes the operational and terrestrial profit evaluations represents CASIS’s preliminary judgment that the mission could be acceptable for consideration beneath this initiative; it’s not a dedication to suggest help of a proposal with program funds. For an outline in regards to the CASIS operational and terrestrial profit evaluate standards, please see: https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/.
The proposal should explicitly tackle how the mission will make the most of the ISS capabilities and the way the analysis will profit lifeon Earth.
NSF recipients beneath this solicitation might want to execute a Consumer Settlement with CASIS so as to make the most of the ISS Nationwide Laboratory. A template settlement (https://www.issnationallab.org/research-on-the-iss/solicitations-3/rfp2024-1/) has been developed for this program to streamline the processes of forging partnerships between CASIS and recipients.
Further Directions for Submission of a GOALI Proposal
When making ready a GOALI proposal, choose this program solicitation quantity after which choose “GOALI” because the Kind of Proposal. The mission title on the proposal Cowl Sheet ought to start with “GOALI: ISS”. The proposal have to be ready in accordance with the GOALI particular directions in Chapter II.F.5 of the PAPPG and the extra directions contained on this solicitation. Please observe that if submitting through Analysis.gov, the system will mechanically insert the prepended title “GOALI” when proposal is created.
B. Budgetary Info
Value Sharing:
Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.
Different Budgetary Limitations:
Inclusion of a payment within the proposal finances and/or any subaward finances is unallowable.
C. Due Dates
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):
March 04, 2024
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 basic technical questions associated to the usage of the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must 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 out there on the Grants.gov Applicant Assets 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 Heart at 1-800-518-4726 or by electronic mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Heart solutions basic technical questions associated to the usage of Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must 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 Approved Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the applying to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the applying is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the applying to Grants.gov. The finished software might be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.
The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page gives submission steering to candidates and hyperlinks to useful sources together with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Ceaselessly Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should move all NSF pre-check and post-check validations so as to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.
When submitting through Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission at the least 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 observe 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 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 Approved Organizational Consultant might test the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have obtained an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov must be used to test the standing of an software.
VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW 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 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 evaluate course of. Proposers are invited to recommend names of individuals they consider are particularly properly certified to evaluate the proposal and/or individuals they would favor not evaluate the proposal. These options might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nonetheless, is non-obligatory. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers haven’t any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might receive feedback from website visits earlier than recommending last 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 benefit evaluate course of is out there on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.
Proposers must also concentrate on core methods which are important to the achievement of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Growth 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 way of the combination of analysis and schooling and broadening participation in NSF packages, initiatives, and actions.
One of many strategic aims in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and schooling by way of the packages, initiatives, 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 financial system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to supply cutting-edge analysis beneath the steering of the Nation’s most inventive scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps improvement of a robust 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 are underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is crucial to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of range and deems it central to the packages, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.
A. Benefit Evaluation Rules and Standards
The Nationwide Science Basis strives to spend money on a sturdy and various portfolio of initiatives that creates new data and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and schooling. To determine which initiatives to help, NSF depends on a benefit evaluate course of that includes consideration of each the technical features 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 benefit evaluate course of for the choice of initiatives.
1. Benefit Evaluation Rules
These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when making ready proposals and managing initiatives, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program workers 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 primary analysis and schooling, the next three ideas apply:
All NSF initiatives must be of the best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not remodel, the frontiers of data.
NSF initiatives, 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 are immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by way of actions which are supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. The mission actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or modern strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be properly justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives must be based mostly on acceptable metrics, protecting in thoughts the probably correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources supplied to implement initiatives. If the dimensions of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation just isn’t more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might greatest be performed at the next, extra aggregated, stage than the person mission.
With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific initiatives is completed at an aggregated stage, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded mission. Thus, particular person initiatives ought to embody 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 benefit evaluate ideas present the idea for the benefit evaluate standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the standards can higher perceive their intent.
2. Benefit Evaluation Standards
All NSF proposals are evaluated by way of use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accredited benefit evaluate standards. In some cases, nonetheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to spotlight the particular aims of sure packages and actions.
The 2 benefit evaluate standards are listed under. Each standards are to be given full consideration throughout the evaluate and decision-making processes; every criterion is critical however neither, by itself, is ample. Subsequently, proposers should totally tackle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). incorporates further data to be used by proposers in improvement of the Challenge 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 might be requested to think about what the proposers need to do, why they need to do it, how they plan to do it, how they’ll know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages may accrue if the mission is profitable. These points apply each to the technical features of the proposal and the best way through which the mission might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers might be requested to guage all proposals in opposition to 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 profit society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.
The next parts must be thought-about within the evaluate for each standards:
What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance data and understanding inside its personal area or throughout totally different fields (Mental Benefit); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?
To what extent do the proposed actions recommend and discover inventive, 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 properly certified is the person, crew, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there sufficient sources obtainable 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 are immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by way of actions which are 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 embody, however usually are not restricted to: full participation of ladies, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM schooling and educator improvement at any stage; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and know-how; improved well-being of people in society; improvement of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, business, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of the US; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and schooling.
Proposers are reminded that reviewers may even be requested to evaluate the Knowledge Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as acceptable.
Further Solicitation Particular Evaluation Standards
Along with the usual NSF standards for evaluating proposals, reviewers might be requested to guage the proposal on the next content material:
To what extent does the proposal justify the necessity for long-duration microgravity and/or excessive circumstances on board ISS for profitable execution of the proposed analysis? Proposals should embody an outline on why different microgravity atmosphere platforms (e.g., parabolic flights, drop towers, and many others.) usually are not sufficient to conduct the proposed investigation.
Does the proposal listing implementation companions or, if companions haven’t been recognized, describe the companies wanted to finish the proposed analysis? Proposals ought to specify present flight {hardware} for use within the mission and any modifications which are essential to the {hardware} to attain the said analysis aims. New {hardware} could also be proposed supplied a design has been developed with an acceptable implementation companion and the related finances request matches inside the said scope. The related assertion of labor (SOW) from a possible implementation companion must be uploaded as a Supplementary doc with the total proposal. An appropriate SOW will comprise a abstract of how the implementation companion’s choices align with the mission targets, an in depth scope of end-to-end mission administration (idea of operations, {hardware} availability, verification testing, and hazard identification/security evaluate method), a mission schedule, and an in depth finances, together with any driving assumptions and detailed prices for modification of {hardware}. The idea of operations ought to embody an estimate of mass/quantity, stowage necessities, energy necessities, and crew time with a foundation for the estimate.
To what extent does the proposal show the investigators’ capabilities and associated expertise related to the proposed mission?
Please observe that CASIS will facilitate investigators in figuring out service suppliers, in assessing the feasibility of potential {hardware} and experiment modifications, and in creating a practical finances and timeframe for the mission. CASIS might ask the PIs’ permission to share a replica of their proposal with NASA for the aim of finishing an operational feasibility evaluate of the experiment design and/or the supply of flight {hardware} and services required for the execution of the experiment on the ISS.
B. Evaluation and Choice Course of
Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation might be reviewed by Advert hoc Evaluation and/or Panel Evaluation.
The evaluate course of and panel might be administratively managed by NSF. Reviewers might be requested to guage proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accredited benefit evaluate standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract score and accompanying narrative might be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer. The NSF and CASIS Program Officers will think about the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a advice to their respective administration groups.
After scientific, technical and programmatic evaluate and consideration of acceptable elements, 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. Massive or notably complicated 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 advice.
After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals advisable for funding might be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Assist 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 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 threat.
As soon as an award or declination choice has been made, Principal Investigators are supplied suggestions about their proposals. In all circumstances, evaluations are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of evaluations, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying data, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Challenge 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 INFORMATION
A. Notification of the Award
Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer. Organizations whose proposals are declined might be suggested as promptly as potential by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of evaluations, not together with the id of the reviewer, might be supplied mechanically to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added data on the evaluate course of.)
B. Award Circumstances
An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the finances, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has based mostly its help (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award circumstances, reminiscent of Grant Basic Circumstances (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Circumstances* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance that could be integrated by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Circumstances (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Circumstances. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group 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 data on NSF Award Circumstances and different essential data 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 Govt Order 14005, Guaranteeing the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Staff (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the chief department to make use of phrases and circumstances of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, in keeping with legislation, the usage of items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and companies provided in, the US.
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 way of this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award except all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the mission are produced in the US. For extra data, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.
Particular Award Circumstances:
Joint NSF/CASIS recipients might be required to incorporate acceptable acknowledgement of NSF and CASIS help in stories and/or publications of labor carried out beneath this award. An instance of such an acknowledgement is: “This materials relies upon work supported by NSF and CASIS beneath Award No. [Recipient should enter the awarding entities award number(s)].”
Recipients might be required to submit annual and last mission stories to NSF and interim progress stories to CASIS to make sure well timed execution of the flight experiments.
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 finances interval. (Some packages or awards require submission of extra frequent mission stories). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a last mission report, and a mission outcomes report for most people.
Failure to supply the required annual or last mission stories, or the mission 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 stories prematurely to guarantee availability of required information.
PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, obtainable by way of Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and last mission stories. Such stories present data on accomplishments, mission contributors (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the mission. Submission of the report through 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 might be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.
Extra complete data on NSF Reporting Necessities and different essential data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Award & Administration Information (AAG) Chapter II, obtainable electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=aag.
VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS
Please observe that this system contact data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Basic inquiries concerning this program must be made to:
Ronald D. Joslin, Fluid Dynamics, phone: (703) 292-7030, electronic mail: [email protected]
Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh, Particulate and Multiphase Processes, phone: (703) 292-8045, electronic mail: [email protected]
Sumanta Acharya, Thermal Transport Processes, phone: (703) 292-4509, electronic mail: [email protected]
Harsha Chelliah, Combustion and Hearth Programs, phone: (703) 292-7281, electronic mail: [email protected]
Nora F. Savage, Nanoscale Interactions, phone: (703) 292-7949, electronic mail: [email protected]
Phillip Irace, Heart for the Development of Science in Area, Inc., phone: (321) 751-5152, electronic mail: [email protected]
For questions associated to the usage of NSF methods contact:
NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532
Analysis.gov Assist Desk e-mail: [email protected]
For questions referring to Grants.gov contact:
Grants.gov Contact Heart: If the Approved 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. OTHER INFORMATION
The NSF web site gives 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, essential adjustments 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 out there on NSF’s web site.
Grants.gov gives a further digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed through this mechanism. Additional data on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.
In regards to the Heart for the Development of Science in Area (CASIS)
The Heart for the Development of Science in Area (CASIS) is an IRC Part 501(c)(3) entity chargeable for administration of the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) U.S. Nationwide Laboratory beneath a Cooperative Settlement with NASA (80JSC018M0005). Per Part 504 of the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, the aim of CASIS is to maximise the worth of the funding the U.S. authorities made within the ISS Nationwide Lab and show the scientific and technological productiveness of the ISS Nationwide Lab over the following decade. CASIS seeks to advance scientific analysis, know-how improvement, and schooling at the side of utilization of the ISS, managing a various analysis, know-how, and schooling portfolio throughout a broad vary of scientific fields.
CASIS Objectives
Stimulate, develop, and handle U.S. nationwide makes use of of the ISS Nationwide Lab by U.S. authorities businesses, tutorial establishments, and personal corporations; and
Develop instruments and methods to speak the worth of makes use of of the ISS analysis platform, and improve the return on the U.S. funding within the ISS Nationwide Lab.
The Heart for Development of Science in Area could also be reached at:
6905 N. Wickham Street, Suite 500
Melbourne, FL 32940
Cellphone: (321) 253-5101
ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
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 college methods, 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 primary analysis.
NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, schooling and coaching initiatives, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand functions for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does help Nationwide Analysis Facilities, person services, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and business, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each tutorial stage.
Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) present funding for particular help or gear to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions concerning preparation of most of these proposals.
The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic System 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 Heart 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 Basic Info(NSF Info Heart):
(703) 292-5111
TDD (for the hearing-impaired):
(703) 292-5090
To Order Publications or Kinds:
Ship an e-mail to:
or phone:
(703) 292-8134
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PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS
The knowledge requested on proposal types and mission stories is solicited beneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The knowledge on proposal types might be utilized in reference to the choice of certified proposals; and mission stories submitted by proposers might be used for program analysis and reporting inside the Govt Department and to Congress. The knowledge 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 supply or receive information concerning the proposal evaluate course of, award choices, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, specialists, volunteers and researchers and educators as obligatory to finish assigned work; to different authorities businesses or different entities needing data concerning proposers or nominees as a part of a joint software evaluate course of, or so as to coordinate packages or coverage; and to a different Federal company, courtroom, or social gathering in a courtroom 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 Report 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 supply full and full data, nonetheless, might cut back the potential for receiving an award.
An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual just isn’t required to answer, an data assortment except it shows a legitimate Workplace of Administration and Price range (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 facet of this assortment of data, together with options for decreasing this burden, to:
Suzanne H. Plimpton
Experiences Clearance Officer
Coverage Workplace, Division of Establishment and Award Assist
Workplace of Price range, Finance, and Award Administration
Nationwide Science Basis
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