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The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences seeks to establish new and/or renewed Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) Centers in a network of coordinated centers that faciliate collaborations and communications between ocean science researchers and educators.  These Centers foster the integration of ocean research into high-quality educational materials, enable ocean researchers to gain a better understanding of educational organizations and pedagogy, provide educators with an enhanced capacity to understand and deliver high-quality educational programs in the ocean sciences, and provide material to the public that promotes a deeper understanding of the ocean and its influence on each person’s quality of life and our national prosperity.

Award Information

Anticipated Type of Award:  Standard Grant or Continuing Grant

Estimated Number of Awards:    7   awards in total: seven COSEE Centers for up to five years at a maximum of $530,000/year for the first year, increasing by up to $20,000/year up to $610,000/year, with a budget review after 3 years.

Anticipated Funding Amount:   $3,710,000  is the approximate total for the first year of all awards, pending availability of funds and quality of proposals.

Proposals due April 15th

Full Announcement

Full Proposals are due by 4:00PM ET, February 5, 2010

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency often selects its research efforts through the Research Announcement (RA) process.  The RA will appear on the Grants.gov website http://www.grants.gov/.  The following information is for those wishing to respond to the RA.

The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program will identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions in academia and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA’s program development process.  The YFA program will provide high-impact funding to these rising stars early in their careers in order to develop their research ideas in the context of DoD issues. The long term goal is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security issues.

This RA solicits single investigator proposals for research and development in the areas of the Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics of interest to DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), and Social Sciences of interest to DARPA’s Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) as described in the topic list below. Proposed research should focus on innovations that will enable revolutionary advances in the selected topic area. High-risk/high-payoff ideas are strongly encouraged. Thus proposals that offer only incremental advances over state of the art will be deemed nonresponsive to this RA.

This solicitation is limited to participation by young investigators as defined in the Proposer Eligibility, Section III.

This solicitation seeks proposals for a 24 month research activity consisting of a 12 month base period and a 12 month option period, with a maximum funding level of $150K per each 12 month period ($300K maximum total funding). Continue reading “DARPA Young Faculty Award Released”