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The Department of Defense Polygraph Institute DoDPI began in 1999 an effort to broaden its presence in the scientific and academic communities in response to the need for more advanced technical expertise to fulfill DoDPIs research mission. The Personnel Security Thesis, Dissertation, and Institutional Research Awards Program seeks to give the DoDPI a research workforce that is competitive with the best minds from the complex cerebral worlds of academia, and the emerging technologies.
Interested offerors may view and/or download the full Broad Agency Announcement by accessing https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/attachment_view.cfm?psolicitationnbr=W911NF06R0009
This synopsis is for the TARDEC Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) W56HZV-05-R-BAA1. A BAA is a form of solicitation authorized by the Federal Acquisition Regulation when the government wants to fund certain forms of research and development. The BAA is issued to solicit competitive proposals against a range of topics, and is expected to lead to the award of one or more contracts or agreements for the conduct of basic or applied research or that part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware as defined in FAR 2.1 and FAR 35.001. The solicitation is scheduled for posting on or around 21 April 2005. The offer due dates will be unique to each topic. The amount of program funding is also unique to each topic.
The East Asia Summer Institutes (EASI) provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in China, Japan, Korea, or Taiwan, an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location, and orientation to the culture and language. The primary goals of EASI are to introduce students to East Asia science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts in the future. The institutes last approximately eight weeks from June to August and are administered in the United States by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with co-sponsorship by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Government is a major collector and provider of data and information, provider of information-based services and user of information technologies. The research goals of the Digital Government Program are to support: 1) multi-disciplinary and multi-sector partnerships of researchers in information technologies and government agencies at all levels in order to foster collaboration among societal sectors, and 2) research on the relationships between the design and use of information technologies on : i) forms, processes, and outcomes of democracy, ii) government organizational forms, learning, and adaptation, iii) new forms of government-government collaboration, iv) citizen/government interaction, and v) other social/political science research related to IT and government. Academic/government collaborations are expected to contribute to government strategic planning for information technologies and services (external and internal) while providing interesting and unique new research problems and data sets for the academic research community.
The long-range goal of the EMSW21 program is to increase the number of U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who are well-prepared in the mathematical sciences and who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other NSF-supported disciplines. EMSW21 builds on the VIGRE program and now includes a broadened VIGRE activity, an additional component for Research Training Groups (RTG) in the Mathematical Sciences and an additional component for Mentoring through Critical Transition Points (MCTP) in the Mathematical Sciences.
The purpose of the FRG activity is to allow groups of researchers to respond to recognized scientific needs of pressing importance, to take advantage of current scientific opportunities, or to prepare the ground for anticipated significant scientific developments in the mathematical sciences. Groups may include, in addition to mathematical scientists, researchers from other science and engineering disciplines appropriate to the proposed research. The activity supports projects for which the collective effort by a group of researchers is necessary to reach the scientific goals. Projects should be scientifically focused and well-delineated. It is not the intent of this activity to provide general support for infrastructure. Projects should also be timely, limited in duration to up to three years, and substantial in their scope and impact.
The National Science Foundation recognizes the importance of enabling U.S. researchers and educators to advance their work through international collaboration, and of helping to ensure that future generations of U.S. scientists and engineers gain professional experience beyond this nation's borders early in their careers. The Office of International Science and Engineering (INT) contributes to NSF's mission by promoting new partnerships between U.S. investigators and their colleagues in other countries, or new cooperative projects between established collaborators. Such activities may be in any field of science and engineering research and education supported by NSF. The Office of International Science and Engineering (INT) also supports an array of activities designed to provide opportunities for junior investigators. Graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers can receive travel and living expenses to participate in the overseas aspects of collaborative research projects proposed to NSF by senior U.S. investigators. Graduate students can also be supported through INT's dissertation enhancement awards, or for participation in the East Asia Summer Institutes (EASI) in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, or China. Principal Investigators (PI's) of existing grants from other parts of NSF may request supplemental support to include junior faculty members, postdoctoral investigators, graduate students, and qualified undergraduates who are conducting collaborative research in foreign countries. For a summary of INT supported activities, check the Overview of Programs chart on the INT website.
The Chesapeake B-WET grant program is a competitively based program that supports existing environmental education programs, fosters the growth of new programs, and encourages the development of partnerships among environmental education programs throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Funded projects assist in meeting the Stewardship and Community Engagement goals of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. Projects support organizations that provide students ``meaningful'' Chesapeake Bay or stream outdoor experiences and teachers professional development opportunities in the area of environmental education related to the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The program priorities for this opportunity support NOAA's mission support goal of: Ecosystems - Protect, Restore, and Manage Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources through Ecosystem-Based Management.
The National Estuarine Research Reserve System consists of estuarine areas of the United States and its territories which are designated and managed for research and educational purposes. Each reserve within the system is chosen to represent different biogeographic regions and to include a variety of ecosystem types in accordance with the classification scheme of the national program as presented in 15 CFR Part 921. Through the funding of designated reserve agencies and universities to undertake land acquisition and construction projects that support the NERRS purpose, NOAA will strengthen protection of key land and water areas; enhance long-term protection of the area for research and education; and provide for facility and exhibit construction.
The Climate and Global Change Program represents a NOAA contribution to evolving national and international programs designed to improve our ability to observe, understand, predict, and respond to changes in the global environment. This program builds on NOAA's mission requirements and long-standing capabilities in global change research and prediction. The NOAA Program is a key contributing element of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, which is coordinated by the interagency Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources. NOAA?s program is designed to complement other agencies? contributions to that national effort.
The purpose of this document is to advise the public that NOS/CSCOR is soliciting proposals for the Oceans and Human Health Initiative External Grants Program. This funding opportunity is offered as part of NOAA?s new Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI), recently established by the Oceans and Human Health Act passed by Congress December 8, 2004. The OHHI is a competitive suite of programs designed to enhance understanding of the connections between the oceans and human health, with the goal of providing useful research and predictive information to NOAA, public health officials, and natural resource managers. For the purposes of this announcement, ?oceans? are defined as inclusive of the Great Lakes, estuaries and the ocean. The OHHI is designed to enhance NOAA?s capability in oceans and human health through partnerships with academia, the private sector, and other Federal, State, and local agencies. Toward that end, this funding opportunity is intended to engage the non-federal research community in research across the physical, chemical, biological, medical, public health and social sciences on priority issues for the OHHI. A non-federal partner shall lead the proposal. Participation of federal scientist(s)on the team is allowed but no federal expenses will be covered. Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with the NOAA Oceans and Human Health Centers of Excellence (http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/mpe/ohi/index.htm), the National Science Foundation/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Centers of Excellence in Oceans and Human Health, NOAA scientists and other federal and non-federal researchers working on OHHI or related issues as described in this announcement. Applicants will be required to provide a plan for management and submission of data to NOAA from any supported research, to participate in an annual OHHI research meeting, and to provide information for the development of an annual OHHI report required by Congress.
The research set-aside (RSA) Program provides a mechanism to fund research and compensate vessels through the sale of fish harvested under a research quota. For fishing year 2006 (January 1-December 31, 2006), NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces that up to 3 percent of the total allowable landings (TAL) in certain Mid-Atlantic fisheries may be dedicated to research endeavors under the RSA program. The setting of the actual RSA quotas will be the subject of future rulemaking. NMFS is soliciting proposals for research activities concerning the summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, Loligo squid, Illex squid, Atlantic mackerel, butterfish, bluefish, and tilefish fisheries. The award of a set-aside from the TAL of selected species resulted from the approval of Framework Adjustment 1 (Framework 1) to the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish; Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass; and Bluefish Fishery Management Plans (FMPs); and the RSA provisions of the Tilefish FMP. Framework 1 established a procedure through which RSA amounts are set annually as part of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) quota-setting process. The set-asides may range between 0 and 3 percent of each species' TAL. The set-aside allocated for a given species is designated primarily for research involving that species. However, to promote research for species where it would otherwise be infeasible, individual research projects may involve a percentage of the set-aside allocations for several other species listed in this notice. Therefore, in addition to, or in lieu of, applying for part of the set-aside involving a species directly involved in a research project, applicants may also apply for up to 25 percent of the RSA quota for species not directly involved in a particular research project.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Exploitation Office (IXO) intends to publish a Broad Agency Announcement on or before December 12, 2003 on the HURT program. A Briefing to Industry (BTI) is scheduled for November 20, 2003 to be held in Arlington, VA. Advanced registration for the BTI is required. No walk-ins will be registered at time of the BTI. Persons not registered at time of BTI will not be admitted into the meeting. At meeting check-in, registered participants will be required to show a government issued picture identification and pay a per person fee of $40. Persons interested in attending the BTI are required to register by November 14, 2003. For further information on location and on-line registration, reference URL: http://www.tfims.darpa.mil/BTI. The purpose of the HURT BTI is to broadly articulate the vision, goals, technology organization and programmatic structure of the HURT program. The BTI also provides an opportunity for interested persons to meet and begin to assess possibilities for collaboration. HURT BTI briefing material and a FAQ will be posted at http://www.darpa.mil/ixo/solicitations/HURT/index.htm within 5 days following the BTI. No handouts will be provided at the meeting. The HURT program will develop technologies enabling mission-driven command and control of a heterogeneous team of uninhabited platforms for the conduct of coordinated urban operations. The class of uninhabited platforms of particular interest in the HURT program is aerial vehicles. The roboticized Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) team, under HURT control, will provide services to warfighters according to user demand as modulated by mission priority subject to resource availability. HURT technology will be used to decouple users from direct platform control and tasking. HURT Platform Management technologies will provide symbolic representations of platform, payload and algorithm capabilities that allow ...
States play an essential role in the conservation and recovery of endangered and threatened species. Protected species under the National Marine Fisheries Service?s (NMFS) jurisdiction may spend all or a part of their life-cycles in state waters, and success in conserving these species will depend in large part on working cooperatively with State agencies. Under section 6 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), the NMFS is authorized to provide Federal assistance to eligible States for the purpose of conserving marine and anadromous species that reside within that State. This assistance, provided in the form of grants through the Protected Species Conservation and Recovery with States program (PSCRS), can be used to support the development and implementation of conservation programs for endangered, threatened, and candidate species. Grants can also support post-delisting monitoring of recovered species. Funded activities can include scientific research, development and implementation of management strategies, and public education and outreach; and, projects should address priority actions identified in either an ESA Recovery Plan or a State?s ESA section 6 conservation program. Projects focusing on North Atlantic right whales will not be considered for funding under this grant program; such projects may be funded under the North Atlantic Right Whale Research Program. Any State that has entered into an agreement with the NMFS pursuant to section 6(c) of the ESA is eligible to apply to this grant program. This document describes how to submit proposals for funding in fiscal year (FY) 2006 and how we will determine which proposals will be funded.
The NOAA Coral Reef Monitoring Grant Program, as authorized under the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, provides matching grants to Governor?appointed point of contact agencies for the jurisdictions of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Florida, Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia (including Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, and Pohnpei), and American Samoa for State and Territory Coral Reef Monitoring activities
The Graduate Fellowship Program awards at least two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors.
The Sea Grant - Industry Fellowship Program (Industry Fellowship Program), which is available to graduate students enrolled in either MS or PhD degree programs in institutions of higher education in the United States and its territories, with required matching funds from private industrial sponsors, expects to support up to five new Industry Fellows in FY 2006. Industry Fellows will work on research and development projects on topics of interest to a particular industry/company. In a true partnership, the student, the faculty advisor, the Sea Grant College or institute, and the industry representative will work together, sharing research facilities and the cost of the activity.
This notice announces that applications may be submitted for a Fellowship program initiated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant Office (NSGO), in fulfilling its broad educational responsibilities and legislative mandate of the Sea Grant Act, to provide educational experience in the policies and processes of the Legislative and Executive Branches of the Federal Government to graduate students in marine and aquatic-related fields.
The Graduate Fellowship Program awards at least two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors.
