Cybersecurity-related Opportunities

USDA / Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program
Deadline: Dec 31, 2022
https://nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/agriculture-food-research-initiative-foundational-applied-science
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
d. Food and Agriculture Cyber informatics Tools (FACT) ß *security and privacy* are topics in this area.
This program area priority focuses on data science to enable systems and communities to effectively utilize data, improve resource management, and integrate new technologies and approaches to further U.S. food and agriculture enterprises. The program encourages university- based research as well as public and private partnerships.  

ONR / Science of Artificial Intelligence – Basic and Applied Research for the Naval Domain”
Deadline: Jan 4, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344017
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
ONR is interested in receiving white papers and proposals in support of advancing artificial intelligence for future naval applications.
1. Human-inspired Computational Models of Vision-Language Interactions for Agents
The goal of this basic research topic is to develop a principled computational framework and architecture for vision-language interaction, informed by human performance, that is open-domain and capable of strong compositional generalization. Interactions that enable agents to learn and reason about the real world with high levels of complexity in a transparent manner, result in multimodal dialogue for human-agent collaboration performing challenging tasks, and more.
2. Mission-focused AI (AI Fundamental and Applied Research)
The goal of this basic and applied research topic is to investigate and develop techniques to support mission planning and execution activities that are dynamic, uncertain, and require coordination across different areas. Solutions are sought that will provide applications or foundational knowledge that enable the generation and evaluation of Courses of Actions (COA), transfer of learning across mission areas, countering mission focused AI, and interactive machine learning applications.
3. Collaborative AI (CAI)
Research under this topic will aim to create collaborative agents capable of working with humans towards common goals and support data intensive tasks under resource and time constraints in real-world settings. While using simulated, non-military applications is acceptable and expected, approaches must be capable of shifting from simulation environments to real world settings with humans, using real world data, dealing with real world complexities, and supporting goal-directed task feedback loops. The resulting agents must be incentivized to optimize on satisfying task objectives in data-driven environments with minimal data.

NSF / Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
Deadline: Jan 5, 2023 (Preliminary proposal required)
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mid-scale-research-infrastructure-1-mid-scale-ri-1
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
NSF-supported science and engineering research increasingly relies on cutting-edge infrastructure. With its Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program and Major Multi-user Facilities ("Major Facilities") projects, NSF supports infrastructure projects at the lower and higher range of infrastructure project costs, Foundation-wide, across science and engineering research disciplines. The Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Big Idea is intended to provide NSF with an agile, Foundation-wide process to fund experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range between MRI and Major Facilities. NSF defines Research Infrastructure (RI) as any combination of facilities, equipment, instrumentation, or computational hardware or software, and the necessary human capital in support of the same. Major facilities and mid-scale projects are subsets of research infrastructure. The NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 Program (Mid-scale RI-1) supports either the design or implementation of unique and compelling RI projects. Mid-scale implementation projects may include any combination of equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, broadly used large scale datasets and the personnel needed to successfully commission the project. Mid-scale RI-1 design projects include the design efforts intended to lead to eventual implementation of a mid-scale class RI project. Mid-scale RI-1 projects should involve the training of a diverse workforce engaged in the design and implementation of STEM research infrastructure. Mid-scale RI-1 emphasizes strong scientific merit, a response to an identified need of the research community and/or fulfillment of a national need to enable U.S. researchers to be competitive in a global research environment.

DARPA / Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Office-wide
Deadline: Jan 6, 2024 (Abstract); Mar 16, 2024 (Proposal)
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338733
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
As MTO evolves to address future microsystems-related challenges, the office has identified four thrust areas: (1) Embedded Microsystem Intelligence and Localized Processing, (2) Next Generation Front-End Component Technologies for Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum Dominance, (3) Microsystem Integration for Increased Functional Density and Security, and (4) Disruptive Defense Microsystem Applications. Each of these overlapping spaces present significant opportunities for exploring new and creative technologies.  

NSF / Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (ExpandAI)
Deadline: Jan 09, 2023 - Mar 13, 2023; Mar 14, 2023 - June 26, 2023; June 27, 2023 - Oct 20, 2023; Jan 08, 2024 - Mar 11, 2024; Mar 12, 2024 - June 24, 2024; June 25, 2024 - Oct 18, 2024; Jan 06, 2025 - Mar 10, 2025; Mar 11, 2025 - June 23, 2025; June 24, 2025 - Oct 17, 2025
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/expanding-ai-innovation-thro…
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Track 1: ExpandAI Capacity Building Pilots
Track 2: ExpandAI Partnerships
-ACCESS TO EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
-CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCES

NSF / LSAMP National Coordination Hub and Louis Stokes Community Resource Centers
Deadline: Jan 9, 2023
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22584/nsf22584.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The LSAMP Hub will promote intentional coordination, stronger collaborations, and build community among the broader LSAMP community as well as provide a bridge between alliance and non-alliance organizations. The coordination activities of the Hub, along with the research activities of the new LSCRCs, will complement and amplify the work of the existing alliances and assist in wider dissemination of knowledge production from LSAMP activities. The LSCRCs will accelerate the pace of knowledge generation and research dissemination in the areas of broadening participation, STEM education for LSAMP populations, and preparation for national STEM priorities. In addition, the LSCRCs will support a community of researchers and facilitate scholarly opportunities that will further advance the overall goal of the LSAMP program to diversify the nation's STEM workforce. Each LSCRC will focus on a topic or theme that will advance knowledge for preparing students from LSAMP populations for 21st century careers, with a focus on meeting national priorities and preparation for emerging sciences (e.g. artificial intelligence, data science, climate change, cybersecurity).

NSF / Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)
Deadline: Jan 12, 2023; Feb 02, 2023 (Second Thursday in July, Annually Thereafter)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22505/nsf22505.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual and group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that provide data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security.
a. (1) Human Networks and Data Science – Infrastructure (HNDS-I): Infrastructure proposals will address the development of data resources and relevant analytic techniques that support fundamental Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) research.
b. (2) Human Networks and Data Science – Core Research (HNDS-R): Core research proposals will advance theory in a core SBE discipline by the application of data and network science methods. This includes the leveraging of large data sets with diverse spatio-temporal scales of measurement and linked qualitative and quantitative approaches, as well as multi-scale, multi-level network data and techniques of network analysis.  

SDA / National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC)
Deadline: Jan 12, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/89fc1a2de9314f98b2b3f63ee3b4600c/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
3. Omniscient Command, Control, and Execution
- Cyber defense of space data networks – architectures, protocols, and tools for layered cyber defense of the ground and space segment, with emphasis on adaptable, lightweight systems for malware and network intrusion detection, authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); and security incident and event management (SIEM)
- Radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant advanced cryptographic devices – very-high speed High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptors (HAIPE), supporting ground- and space-based mesh communications in a mass-producible, low-SWaP-C implementation, following the latest guidance in quantum resilience and zero-trust properties
a. Automated schedule optimization and sensor tasking – dynamic, status-aware, optionally AI-enabled algorithms and systems providing for automation of resource allocation and scheduling, including the prioritization of software processes, tasking of missile tracking and surveillance resources, and power cycling of payloads
b. Architecture-wide digital engineering – rapidly developed, low cost, low maintenance calibrated digital engineering tools and approaches that involve the use of a common set of reference data across NDSA design, development, operations, without labor-intensive administration of comprehensive, high-fidelity digital twins
c. Seamless multi-level security (MLS) operations – robust MLS solutions that protect NDSA operations across heterogeneous platforms, multiple warfighting domains, and at multiple levels of security

NIH / Advanced Training in Artificial Intelligence for Precision Nutrition Science Research (AIPrN) Institutional Research Training Programs (T32)
Deadline: Jan 15, 2023
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-22-027.html
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) and participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) intend to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for new applications that will support new institutional research training programs (predoctoral, postdoctoral or both) in artificial intelligence (AI) for precision nutrition (AIPrN) that will focus on integration of the domains of precision nutrition, AI including machine learning (ML), systems biology, systems science, Big Data, and computational analytics. The goal is to build a future workforce that will be able to use growing data resources to tackle complex biomedical challenges in nutrition science that are beyond human intuition.  It is hoped such research will lead to the development of innovative solutions to combat diet-related chronic diseases within the mission areas of the participating ICs. The vision of the AIPrN training program is to support the development of a diverse research workforce capable who will possess advanced competencies in AI including machine learning and data science analytics to apply to an increasingly complex landscape of Big Data from the molecular, to organismal, to community and societal scales related to nutrition and diet related conditions.

NSF / Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources
Deadline: Jan 18, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344124
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EHR supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings.

NSF / Regional Innovation Engines Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Jan 18, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/bd00bb5129334b71847dc464ef200036/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program is a bold new initiative, committed to creating regional-scale, technology-driven innovation ecosystems throughout every region of the United States, accelerating emerging technologies, driving economic growth, addressing key societal challenges, and maintaining national competitiveness. The NSF Engines program aims to fund regional coalitions of partnering organizations to establish NSF Engines that will catalyze technology and science-based regional innovation ecosystems. Each Engine must focus on addressing specific aspects of a major societal and/or economic challenge that are of significant interest in the Engine’s defined “region of service,” where such a region could range from a metropolitan area (including its adjacent rural regions) to an area spanning parts of several states.

NSF / Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)
Deadline: Jan 23, 2023 (Annually thereafter)
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=505693&ods_key=nsf19609
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1.       Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all STEM fields that NSF supports. ER2 solicits proposals for research that explores the following: ‘What constitutes responsible conduct for research (RCR), and which cultural and institutional contexts promote ethical STEM research and practice and why?' Do certain labs have a ‘culture of academic integrity'? What practices contribute to the establishment and maintenance of ethical cultures and how can these practices be transferred, extended to, and integrated into other research and learning settings?’ Factors one might consider include: honor codes, professional ethics codes and licensing requirements, an ethic of service and/or service learning, life-long learning requirements, curricula or memberships in organizations (e.g. Engineers without Borders) that stress responsible conduct for research, institutions that serve under-represented groups, institutions where academic and research integrity are cultivated at multiple levels, institutions that cultivate ethics across the curriculum, or programs that promote group work, or do not grade. Successful proposals typically have a comparative dimension, either between or within institutional settings that differ along these or among other factors, and they specify plans for developing interventions that promote the effectiveness of identified factors. 

ONR / Hierarchical Command and Control of Unmanned Systems (H- C2 UxS)
Deadline: Jan 27, 2023
https://www.nre.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/hierarchica…
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
ONR is interested in receiving white papers and proposals in support of advancing hierarchical command and control of unmanned systems for future naval applications. Research Issues of Interest:
1. Orders and plans: How will orders, other formal command documents, mission plans, and associated processes need to be modified to incorporate tasks and requirements for UxSs in support of military operations? Formal documents such as operational orders (OPORDs), fragmentary orders (FRAGOs), and other documents flow from upper echelons of command to lower levels. These documents are further interpreted and expanded upon at lower echelons as they prepared detailed plans for specific operations. Research issues include:
a) How can these orders, plans and supporting documents be made both machine readable and human interpretable, with easy comprehension by troops and enable manageable computational requirements by software systems, at each level in the control hierarchy? Can we standardize the language and other elements used in these documents so that effective C2 of UxSs can be achieved through their contents, as they flow down through each level of command?
b) How do autonomous UxSs fit into existing command structures? How can these systems be direct recipients of orders and commands? How can they formulate and disseminate plans in response to those orders and commands, similar to the way humans use context and implicatures? How is the initial mission plan involving multiple platforms properly coordinated, summarized, and conveyed to all participants, and to all levels of the command structure and to support the different needs for planning?
c) When an on-going operation must be dynamically re-planned in response to unforeseen events, how is updated information transmitted to and from the platforms involved, potentially using a priori knowledge? How should the higher levels of command be involved in dynamic re-planning?
d) How much re-planning can / should occur within the unmanned system itself and for what kinds of changes or eventualities and what planning should be managed by more central control nodes? How is an updated plan disseminated to other participants, and across all levels of the command structure?
e) How should voice commands and other modes of human communication be used to command and control UxSs?
f) In the presence of denied or degraded communications, what implicit or explicit behaviors might be embedded in autonomous systems in order to convey critical mission status? What analytic capabilities would need to be embedded in operator workstations to detect these behaviors (or lack thereof)? How might operators monitor the status of missions as they execute in denied environments with limited communication capabilities?

NSF / Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS)
Deadline: Jan 27, 2023
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22512/nsf22512.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program solicits foundational research aimed towards a deeper understanding and formalization of the bi-directional relationship between software systems and the complex social and legal contexts within which software systems must be designed and operate. The DASS program aims to bring researchers in computer and information science and engineering together with researchers in law and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for understanding the drivers of social goals for software and for designing, implementing, and validating accountable software systems. DASS will support well-conceived collaborations between these two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in software design, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as formal methods, programming languages, software engineering, requirements engineering and human-centered computing. The second group consists of researchers in law and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, who study social systems and networks, culture, social norms and beliefs, rules, canons, precedents, legal code, and routine procedures that govern the conduct of people, organizations, and countries. Proposals for this program must create general advances in both (1) understanding the social, behavioral, economic and/or legal context of accountable software design; and (2) improving the methodology for designing accountable software beyond specific use cases. 

AFMC / Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center  for AF TENCAP BAA
Deadline: Jan 31, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/64547441b9be405793ba15934a05bd33/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Focus Area 3:  Unconventional/Asymmetric Warfare/Support to Special Operations
· Cyber effects to enable irregular warfare.
· Tools, equipment, and software to support Special Operations Forces.
· Tools and equipment that enable wide-band, low profile communications in man-pack portable configurations to include LPI/LPD/LPX capabilities.
· Communication encryption software that has the potential to meet TYPE I standards.
· Commercial foreign-releasable tools for imagery analysis and download, situational awareness, mission planning, and force tracking.
Focus Area 4:  Situational Awareness
· Near-real-time detection, location and identification of Personal Communications Systems.
· Indications and warnings of imminent or potential threats and activities of interest.
· Detecting, identifying and locating difficult to detect and LPI/LPD/LPX signals such as short up-time/blinking emitters, frequency hopping and spread-spectrum signals, and low power signals/jammers, etc.. 
· Timely detection, characterization and location of intentional and unintentional electromagnetic interference affecting military or commercial SATCOM.
· Detection, characterization, and geolocation of the source of attacks against our space assets.
· Automated, multi-INT data mining, data fusion, exploitation, and analysis systems/tools that leverage multi-sensor/multi-platform data to provide reliable, scalable, contacting and time dominant intel and reporting. 
· Automated exploitation systems that include effective multi-intelligence data mining capabilities and/or automated target recognition capabilities.
Focus Area 6: Cyber and Spectrum Warfare Operations
· Capabilities/techniques for RF-enabled capabilities:
· Rapid integration of relatively mature RF-enabled cyber capabilities with tactical airframes or special mission platforms.
· Rapid development and integration of cyber with software-defined radios.
· Rapid development of highly sophisticated EW techniques and/or technologies.
· Risk reduction prototyping of next-generation, tactical cyber and/or EW capabilities.
· Offensive capabilities/techniques against data confidentiality, integrity and availability and active defense (e.g., penetration testing) capabilities.
· Cyber and/or EW capabilities that provide obfuscated communications and/or techniques for tactical warfighter platforms to achieve global reach and access.
· Capabilities /techniques that protect tactical warfighter assets against spectrum or electromagnetic interference (EMI) threats
· Capabilities/and or techniques that provide indications and warnings (I&W), situational awareness (SA) and/or automated force protection countermeasures. 
· Capabilities and/or techniques that support cyber and/or EW operational preparation of the environment (OPE), enhanced ISR, measures of effectiveness/performance (MOE/MOP), and /or battle damage assessments (BDA). 
· End to end command and control (C2) infrastructure specifically tailored to the projection of full-spectrum tactical cyber capabilities.
Focus Area 7:  Air Superiority
· Survivable, interoperable, multi-platform, full-spectrum, state-of-the-art offensive and defensive electronic warfare (EW) capabilities--electronic Attack (EA), electronic protect (EP), and electronic support (ES).
Focus Area 8:  Command, Control and Spectrum Utilization
· Technologies to generate comprehensive and accurate air, surface (land/ maritime), space, and cyberspace (to include enemy, friendly, and neutral force information) common operating pictures available to networked warfighters  

NSF / Science and Technology Studies (STS) [for collaboration w/ historians, philosophers, social scientists]
Deadline: Feb 2, 2023 (Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19610/nsf19610.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Science and Technology Studies (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines. The STS program supports proposals across the broad spectrum of STS research areas, topics, and approaches. They include, but are not limited to:
a. Studies of societal aspects of an emerging technology such as artificial intelligence, robotics, big data analysis, neuroscience, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and quantum technologies (computers, sensors, and encryption).
b. Research on the social organization of scientific work (e.g., organizations, groups, and collaborations) and how this shapes the knowledge that gets produced and its intellectual and social impacts.
c. Issues relating science and engineering to broader societal concerns including ethics, policy, governance, equity, race and gender, inclusion, trust, reliability, risk and uncertainty, sustainability, user-centeredness, and globalization.
d. Research on the historical and conceptual foundations of any of the natural, social, or formal sciences including its nature and fundamentals, its origins, or its place in modern politics, culture, and society.
e. Mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) approaches, and approaches that integrate traditional STS perspectives (historical, philosophical, social scientific) with each other or with innovative perspectives from the arts or humanities.
f. Interdisciplinary projects on topics of broad societal concern that engage in integrative collaborative research involving at least one STS expert and one in some other STEM field with prospective outcomes that serve to advance both fields.  

NSF / Science and Technology Studies
Deadline: Feb 2, 2023 (Annually), Aug 3, 2023 (Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22629/nsf22629.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues. 

DOD / Human-Centered Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Leveraged Science and Technology (S&T) Program
Deadline: Feb 10, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=300895
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. improve the capability to identify, track and locate human targets in the ISR environment and (2) improve the performance of humans who process, exploit, analyze, produce, and disseminate the ISR data and information. Human-centered ISR research encompasses three major research areas: (1) human signatures, (2) human trust and interaction and (3) human analyst augmentation. The human signatures research develops technologies to sense and exploit human bio-signatures at both the molecular level and macro (anthropometric) level. The human trust and interaction research develops technologies to improve human-to-human interactions as well as human-to- machine interactions. The human analyst augmentation research develops technologies to enhance analyst performance and to test the efficacy of newly developed technologies within a simulated operational environment. 

NSF / Formal Methods in the Field
Deadline: Feb 15, 2023
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf20613
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Track I: Research proposals: Each proposal must have at least one Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI with expertise in formal methods and at least one with expertise in one or more of these fields: computer networks, distributed/operating systems, embedded systems, human centered computing, and machine learning. Proposals are expected to address fundamental contributions to both formal methods and the respective field(s) and should include a proof of concept in the field along with a detailed evaluation plan that discusses intended scope of applicability, trade-offs, and limitations. All proposals are expected to contain a detailed collaboration plan that clearly highlights and justifies the complementary expertise of the PIs/co-PIs in the designated areas and describes the mechanisms for continuous bi-directional interaction. Projects are limited to $750,000 in total budget, with durations of up to four years. 

NSF / Internet Measurement Research: Methodologies, Tools, and Infrastructure
Deadline: Feb 15, 2023 (Track 1); Mar 8, 2023 (Track 2)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22519/nsf22519.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Track 1: Methodologies and Methods (MM) track awards support the creation of new methods for collecting, anonymizing, modeling, and analyzing Internet measurement data. The award track will support three subtracks. The first subtrack is statistical methodologies, with awards supporting the creation of new stochastic models and statistical methodologies for Internet measurement research, such as methodologies that adjust for non-representative data (e.g., data imputation), provide accurate results despite limited or sparse data, or methodologies that support new ways to analyze Internet measurement data. The second subtrack is privacy-preserving methodologies, with awards supporting innovative techniques or methodologies to ensure privacy protection during collection, sharing and analysis of Internet measurement data. The third subtrack is other methodologies, with awards supporting the creation of new Internet measurement methodologies, analyses, or post-processing not covered by the first two subtracks, such as improving the footprint of current data collection methods (e.g., to access networks), methods for measuring IPv6 address space, or integrating the measurement of access (both wireless and fixed broadband) and core networks. 

NSF / Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
Deadline: Feb 20, 2023 (Third Wednesday in Feb, Annually Thereafter)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21550/nsf21550.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable low-income, talented domestic students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program wants to increase the number of low-income students who graduate and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships and to adapt, implement, and study effective evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.
2. The program seeks to 1) increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need obtaining degrees in S-STEM eligible disciplines and entering the US workforce or graduate programs in STEM; 2) improve support mechanisms for future scientists, engineers, and technicians, with a focus on low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need; and 3) advance our understanding of how interventions or evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities affect the success, retention, transfer, academic/career pathways, and graduation of low-income students in STEM. 

NSF / National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics (NRI-3.0)
Deadline: Feb 22, 2023 (Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21559/nsf21559.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The program supports research that promotes integration of robots to the benefit of humans including human safety and human independence. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit, and other organizations is encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science and engineering and technology development, deployment, and use. 

NSF / Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Deadline: Feb 23, 2023
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/training-based-workforce-development-advanced
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI, and (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the Nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials. Proposals responding to this solicitation may target one or both of the two solicitation goals. For the purpose of this solicitation, advanced CI is broadly defined as the set of resources, tools, methods, and services for advanced computation, large-scale data handling and analytics, and networking and security for large-scale systems that collectively enable potentially transformative fundamental S&E research and education.

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: NRT-PREM Collaborative Supplements
Deadline: Feb 24, 2023 (white paper); Supplemental funding deadline: April 7, 2023
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23015/nsf23015.jsp
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education (DGE) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Division of Materials Research (DMR) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) invites requests for supplemental funding from existing awardees of NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program (NSF 21-536) and Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program (NSF 21-510) to collaborate and form new partnerships to enhance efforts to broaden participation in materials research in any research field supported by DMR and NRT. Supplemental funding requests from partnering institutions in each program should represent mutual benefit and true intellectual collaboration between NRT and PREM. The NRT program aims to broaden participation through the development of interdisciplinary and/or convergent approaches to graduate research and traineeships that emphasize teamwork, communication, ethics, and cross-disciplinary experiences designed to prepare diverse graduates to tackle societally relevant challenges. The PREM program aims to broaden participation through the development of pathways for the recruitment, retention, and graduation of undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented groups in STEM through partnerships in research and education with DMR-supported centers and facilities. 

NSF / DCL: Building Investigators' Capacity to Leverage Emerging Technologies to Improve STEM Education Research
Deadline: Feb 24, 2023
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/building-investigators-capac…
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), we invite proposals to the ECR: BCSER program solicitation NSF 22-548 that request support to build investigators' capacity to conduct high-quality and equitable STEM education research that leverages promising methodological advances supported by emerging technologies. Research methods that employ these advances have the potential to transform STEM education research and to enable research that will reduce barriers to STEM learning success for historically marginalized groups. Examples include the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, learning analytics, natural language processing, sensor technology, and tools for more efficient and secure analysis of educational datamining sets and other data that could come from digital learning platforms. Proposals advancing methods to support the integration and sharing of multiple heterogenous datasets are also encouraged. It is important for investigators to understand and use such research methods in equitable ways. Institutes should include training on and foster deep understanding about how the use of advanced research methods requires highly developed considerations of equity, the reduction of bias in AI algorithms and machine learning processes, data privacy, and data security.

NIH / Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) Pancreas Knowledgebase Program (PanKbase) (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: Feb 28, 2023 (LOI)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-22-018.html
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to continue development and expansion of the NIDDK Information Network (dkNET) under the direction of the dkNET Coordinating Unit (dkNET-CU). dkNET supports the NIDDK communitys needs in data science by providing an information portal that connects users to data, analytical tools, and other biomedical research resources. Additionally, dkNET supports researchers by providing a hub for data-driven hypothesis generation; a suite of tools that assist users in FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) practice, and in improving Rigor and Reproducibility in research; and a variety of programs to enhance community engagement and workforce development. The dkNET-CU will be responsible for providing the scientific direction, vision, and administrative management to advance dkNET goals.
-An open science platform: The platform will allow users to query, annotate, aggregate, visualize, and integrate data and knowledge from PanKbase’s database and library, through a user-friendly web interface. It will allow investigators to select and combine datasets of interest, assemble data analysis workflows using embed tools from its library, customize the tools and the workflows if needed, run analysis, and save and share their analysis instances. The PanKbase will maintain an inventory of analysis results of its datasets. Others can potentially rerun the same exact analysis of the same dataset, and reproduce the findings; or adopt/modify the workflow for new analysis. PanKbase will take advantage of modern data science technologies to enhance performance and improve efficiency; to provide the knowledgebase content in novel ways that are informative, efficient, and intuitive to users; and to ensure that the platform will scale efficiently and sustainably with both the growing data volume and complexity. Such technologies can include but are not limited to, natural language processing (NLP), semantic technology, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning (AI/ML), and Deep Learning (DL). The platform will be in cloud and friendly for AI/ML applications. The knowledgebase will use community standards and ontologies for data, metadata and tools, and include a scheme to assign persistent unique identifiers to track all resources, and to promote sharing, FAIR practice, and R&R.

NSF / Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs, Large Projects
Deadline: Feb 28, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344718
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The NSF CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering through core programs. The core programs for the participating CISE divisions include:
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF):
-- Algorithmic Foundations (AF)program;
-- Communications and Information Foundations (CIF)program;
-- Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET)program; and
-- Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF)program;
- Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS):
-- Computer and Network Systems (CSR)program;
-- Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)program;
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS):
-- Human-Centered Computing (HCC)program;
-- Information Integration and Informatics (III)program; and
-- Robust Intelligence (RI)program.

NSF / Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
Deadline: Feb 1, 2023 - Mar 1, 2023 (Annually Feb 1-Mar1)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22603/nsf22603.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage (see restrictions under Additional Eligibility Information) to substantively enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research. MCA support is expected to help lift these constraints to reduce workload inequities and enable a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with disabilities, and individuals from groups that have been underrepresented) at high academic ranks. 

DARPA / Environment-driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE)
Deadline: Feb 28, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343549
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities: 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the following areas of interest: Human Language Technology, computer vision, artificial intelligence, reasoning, and human-computer interaction. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. Two technical areas are of primary interest:
- Distributed Curriculum Learning and
- Human-Machine Collaborative Analysis

NSF / Campus Cyberinfrastructure
Deadline: Mar 01, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344716
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Area (1) Data-Driven Networking Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher;
Area (2) Regional Connectivity for Small Institutions of Higher Education;
Area (3) Network Integration and Applied Innovation;
Area (4) Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum;
Area (5) Regional Computing;
Area (6) Data Storage; and
Area (7) Planning Grants and CI-Research Alignment.

NSF / Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies
Deadline: Mar 02, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344094
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) seek to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics). As NSF seeks to support the development of technologies in such fields, similar support will be needed to foster and grow a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce to contribute to such innovation. Large scale societal challenges like climate change and clean energy also require a STEM workforce that brings varied perspectives and expertise to further accelerate the translation of science and engineering discoveries into large-scale solutions. Moreover, as current and new emerging technologies continue to evolve, unforeseen issues around security, safety and privacy will impact the preparation of the workforce. Emerging technologies are also dynamic and rapidly changing, with career entry and advancement often requiring "learning-by-doing" experience, even for those with some STEM education. Therefore, NSF recognizes that a competitive emerging technology workforce must include individuals from traditional and nontraditional education pathways as well as those individuals who may have “stopped” out of traditional educational pathways. Key program goals are to (1) expand access to career-enhancing experiential learning opportunities for a broader, more diverse population, including adult learners interested in re-skilling and/or upskilling (e.g., those who face or who have faced significant barriers to accessing a formal STEM education); (2) promote cross sector partnerships between organizations in emerging technology fields and those with expertise in workforce development; and (3) develop a workforce aligned with regional economies based onemerging technologies across the Nation, in alignment with the mission of the TIP Directorate.

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites Supplemental Funding for Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) Scholars in Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Deadline: Mar 15, 2023 (Third Wednesday in March, Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21550/nsf21550.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. A well-educated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is critical to maintaining the competitiveness of the U.S. in the global economy, yet there continues to be high attrition among STEM undergraduate students across U.S. colleges and universities1. The NSF S-STEM program addresses the need for a high-quality STEM workforce in STEM disciplines supported by the program by providing scholarships to low-income, academically-talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in these disciplines. High-impact educational practices, such as undergraduate research experiences and learning communities, have been shown to be successful in increasing undergraduate student retention rates and student engagement 2 3 . For that reason, this DCL encourages active REU Site awardees to partner with S-STEM awardees to provide productive summer research experiences for undergraduates currently being supported by S-STEM scholarships. 

NASA / Technology Transfer Opportunity More Reliable Doppler Lidar for Autonomous Navigation (LAR-TOPS-351)
Deadline: Mar 15, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/e1fb3eff43d94e1bab970d3af944525b/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
NASA pioneered Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) for precision navigation and executing well-controlled landings on surfaces like the moon. The lidar sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) technique to determine the distance to the target and the velocity between the sensor and target. Specifically, homodone sensors obtain the changes in signal frequency between the received and reference frequencies for calculating both speed and distance. However, homodyne detection cannot provide any phase information. This is a problem because the current sensor cannot determine the sign (+/-) of the signal frequencies, resulting in false measurements of range and velocity. NASA has developed an operational prototype (TRL 6) of the method and algorithm that works with the receiver to correct the problem. Using a three-section waveform and an algorithm to resolve ambiguities in sign when the signal is compromised, the algorithm analyzes historical phase information to interpret the sign of the remaining frequencies and recover the phase information that contains valuable measurement information. 

DOD / Army Rapid Capability Office (RCO) Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Mar 23, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=302133
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), W56JSR-18-S-0001, is sponsored by the Army Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO).  The RCO serves to expedite critical capabilities to the field to meet Combatant Commanders’ needs.  The Office enables the Army to experiment, evolve, and deliver technologies in real time to address both urgent and emerging threats while supporting acquisition reform efforts.  The RCO executes rapid prototyping and initial equipping of capabilities, particularly in the areas of cyber, electronic warfare, survivability and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), as well as other priority projects that will enable Soldiers to operate and win in contested environments decisively.  This BAA is an expression of interest only and does not commit the Government to make an award or pay proposal preparation costs generated in response to this announcement. 

NSF / Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program
Deadline: Mar 25, 2023 (Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20595/nsf20595.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Goals of the IGE Program are to:
a. Generate the knowledge base needed to inform the development of models of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education as well as their implementation and adaptability.
b. Catalyze rapid advances in STEM graduate education broadly as well as those responsive to the needs of particular disciplinary and interdisciplinary STEM fields.
2. The IGE Program calls for proposals to:
a. Design, pilot, and test new, innovative and transformative approaches for inclusive STEM graduate education;
b. Examine the potential to extend a successful approach developed in one discipline or context to other disciplines or contexts; and
c. Develop projects that are informed by learning science and the existing body of knowledge about STEM graduate education. 

ONR / FY22 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT (FOA) for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Program
Deadline: Mar 31, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339127
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
As the capacity of the Department of the Navy (DON) Science and Technology (S&T) workforce is interconnected with STEM education and outreach, ONR recognizes the need to support efforts that can jointly improve STEM student outcomes and align education and outreach efforts with Naval S&T current and future workforce needs. This announcement explicitly encourages projects that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students of all ages and the naval-related workforce. Projects must aim to increase engagement in STEM, from students to the current workforce, and enhance people with needed Naval STEM skills, knowledge and abilities. ONR encourages applications to utilize current STEM educational research for informing project design and advancing STEM careers and opportunities of naval relevance. 

NSF / Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program
Deadline: March 25, 2023 (Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20595/nsf20595.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Goals of the IGE Program are to:
a. Generate the knowledge base needed to inform the development of models of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education as well as their implementation and adaptability.
b. Catalyze rapid advances in STEM graduate education broadly as well as those responsive to the needs of particular disciplinary and interdisciplinary STEM fields.
2. The IGE Program calls for proposals to:
a. Design, pilot, and test new, innovative and transformative approaches for inclusive STEM graduate education;
b. Examine the potential to extend a successful approach developed in one discipline or context to other disciplines or contexts; and
c. Develop projects that are informed by learning science and the existing body of knowledge about STEM graduate education.  

DOD / Broad Agency Announcement for the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO)
Deadline: Apr 08, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/ac065fbfd2d3451acd4aa963b270fc5e/view
2. Cyber
The Army, as a modern enterprise, is interested in software and algorithms, hardware/software systems, artificial intelligence, or other solutions, and enabling capabilities, which are proficient in identifying threats, cleaning up sorting and categorizing data in real time to provide reliable decision options to Army users, creating offensive cyber solutions, or other effects. The Army is particularly looking for novel solutions to collect and/or analyze vast amount of dynamic data, identify meaningful and bogus correlations, flag potential data gaps, identify false positives, remove human confirmation bias, and reduce the overall risk of creating damage by incorrect interpretations. The Army will also explore proof of concepts and prototype solutions to help identify the next wave of solutions and look for innovative and responsiveness approaches to defend and counter emerging cyber threats.
3. Electronic Warfare
The Army is looking at the commercial sector that continues to develop data analytics and machine learning techniques, and other electronic warfare capabilities. The Army is interested in taking advantage of those developments for military applications. One application of interest is using machine learning techniques on monitoring and assessing threat RF emissions, to establish normal and abnormal patterns of life, to characterize emitter types and signal structures, to assess utility of electronic attack systems, or for other tactical uses. This does not limit the Army to looking for other novel applications for providing an enhanced capability to the Warfighter. 

DOE / RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT (FY 2022)
Deadline: Apr 14, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343136
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), on behalf of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) Risk Management Tools and Technologies (RMT) program, is seeking applications under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (Announcement) to advance cybersecurity tools and technologies specifically designed to reduce cyber risks to energy delivery infrastructure.  This effort will lead to next generation tools and technologies not available today that will become widely adopted throughout the energy sector to reduce a cyber incident disruption to energy delivery.

AI2C - ACC-RI / Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), Innovative & Transformative Commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies
Deadline: Apr 24, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/9a24f0dcf26f46f7a2fd80b5493d8a8f/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), in collaboration with the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI), is seeking demonstrations for commercial technologies to foster innovative and transformative Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities relevant to the following areas of AI technological exploration:
1 Data Readiness
2 Synthetic Data Generation
3 Cloudlet / Edge Deployments and Management
4 Data Labeling
5 Models and Simulation for AI
6 Distributed AI Agents 

DOD-NAVAIR / FY22 Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Jun 01, 2023  
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340879
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Cyber. Areas of research may include but are not limited to the following: cyber effects modeling, reverse engineering, applied cryptology, behavioral analysis, intrusion, adaptive cybersecurity, simulation and interface research, concolic testing and systems configuration management.  

DARPA / Adaptive Warfighting Architectures
Deadline: Jun 02, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/80321ea2480a46599fa4ce30867c01ac/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Adaptive Capabilities Office (ACO), working in close partnership with the military services, develops adaptive warfighting architectures that combine emerging technologies with new warfighting constructs to address the challenges faced by military forces. These adaptive architectures must be developed through a coherent campaign of study and analysis, constructive modeling and simulation (M&S), and live, virtual, and constructive experimentation. Relevant technology areas include:
- Sensing and tracking – Technology based approaches for rapid geolocation and identification of targets in all physical domains, and technology solutions enhancing the ability to fuse diverse data and develop tracks at various security levels.
- Communications – technology opportunities to maintain robust, effective communications across the diverse battlefield situations.  

DOD / NIWC Pacific Broad Agency Announcement - C4ISR, Information Operations, Cyberspace Operations and Information Technology System Research, Cryogenics & Quantum
Deadline: June 7, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340981
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Submissions in response to this announcement shall be for areas relating to the advancement of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities, enabling technologies for Information Operations and Cyberspace Operations, and Information Technology systems.
- General C4ISR
- Command and Control
- Communications
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
- Unmanned Vehicles
- Information Operations/Cyberspace Operations
- Ubiquitous Communications and Computing Environment
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Research
- Advanced Power and Energy Production and Efficient Use
- Cryogenics & Quantum  

DARPA / Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
Deadline: Jun 14, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=341144
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities: (each thrust includes, but is not limited to the listed topics)
•    Computation and Processing: quantum computing, cryptography, and modeling of complex systems.
•    Enabling Operations: technologies to support space-based operations, tactically remote environments, and resource assurance.
•    Collective Intelligence: exploration of complex social systems, adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI), and AI-accelerated learning.
•    Global Change: national security concerns related to global issues associated with raw material availability, environmental catastrophes, and digital societies.  

DARPA / Redefining Possible - 2022
Deadline: Jun 21, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/a517e20d661b431aa933e55263a2bc42/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Tactical Technology Office (TTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting executive summaries, proposal abstracts, and proposals for applied research, advanced technology development, platform demonstrations, or systems studies that aim to redefine the future of warfighting across four domains: Air, Ground, Maritime, and Space. TTO Focus Areas (selective summary):
-Technologies to enable next generation unmanned air systems.
-Distributed, disaggregated systems to reduce reliance on small numbers of exquisite platforms, increase survivability, improve flexibility, and counter adversary numerical advantage.
-Technologies to enable timely delivery of targeting data and tactical target prosecution at campaign scale to support Assault Breaker II (ABII).
-Technologies to enable development of aircraft capabilities that have not previously been fully exploited, including flight demonstration of vehicles that are traceable to operationally relevant missions.
-Technologies to enable greater levels of autonomy that can minimize the risk to human warfighters and make individual platforms more “attritable,” all while increasing overall effectiveness and lethality and allow piloted and autonomous systems to operate in concert.
-Emerging technologies in design and systems engineering that offer the possibility of developing and fielding systems more rapidly than previously.
-Systems that leverage advances in intelligent autonomy for effective integrated manned-unmanned ground force operations.
-Technologies to counter advanced subsurface systems and defeat advanced torpedo threats.
-Concepts and technologies that exploit artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies to support access-denied scenarios, by enabling autonomous evaluation of data collected by multiple proliferated-LEO constellations, and enabling dynamic creation of kill chains. 

DOD / A--This is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Modeling and Simulation Research for the Defense Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (DMSCO)
Deadline: Jul 3, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/d5bd833aaae9fdefe16c639e97fe0880/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
DMSCO is interested in proposals that provide standards architectures, networks, and environments that promote the sharing of tools, data, and information across the Department.  This area of interest also includes the development and fostering of common formats and enables the sharing of data and information.  Novel ideas that lead to making models, simulations, and data readily accessible to users and reliably applicable by users are sought.
2.2.1  Standards, architectures, networks and environments
2.2.2  Management processes for models, simulations, and data
2.2.3  Tools in the form of models, simulations, and authoritative data
2.2.4  Improving the Department M&S Workforce

NIH-DHHS / Exploratory Data Science Methods and Algorithm Development in Infectious and Immune-mediated Diseases
Deadline: Jul 6, 2023
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-21-035.html
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support exploratory research focused on developing innovative methods and algorithms in biomedical computing, informatics, and data science addressing priority needs across the infectious or immune-mediated disease research continuum aligned with the research mission of NIAID. This includes infectious diseases, emerging infections, or immune-mediated diseases that include allergy, autoimmunity, or immune reactions associated with transplantation. 
a. Methods to conduct patient-level disambiguation for de-identified linkage of data across networks including use of cryptographic methods to enable collaborative data use/analytics;
b. Methods to address bias inherent in real-world data and computational modeling;
c. Artificial intelligence approaches to predictive and personalized medicine in immune-mediated or infectious diseases; novel machine learning/artificial intelligence methods for data analytics of high-throughput and multi-dimensional data, computer-assisted detection and diagnosis or treatment planning and medical decision support.

DOD / Science and Technology for Autonomous Teammates (STAT)
Deadline: Jul 7, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=295281
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Multi-domain Command and Control
2. Intelligence, Surveillance, Recognizance (ISR) Processing Exploitation and Dissemination (PED)
3. Manned-Unmanned combat Teaming to demonstrate autonomy capabilities to develop and demonstrate autonomy technologies that will improve Air Force operations through human-machine teaming and autonomous decision-making.

NSF / Faculty Early Career Development Program
Deadline: Annually, fourth Wednesday in July
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22586/nsf22586.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious recent CAREER awardees. Selection for this award is based on three important criteria: 1) performance of innovative research at the frontiers of science, engineering, and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency, 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach, and 3) commitment to STEM equity, diversity, accessibility, and/or inclusion.

DOD / National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Boosting Innovative GEOINT Research Broad Agency Announcement (NGA BIG-R BAA)
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328273
Deadline: Jul 31, 2023
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Analytic Technologies. Topics of interest in this domain include, but are not limited to, innovations in advanced processing techniques and enabling technologies for (1) geospatial signatures detection, analysis, and tracking, (2) derivation of GEOINT from non-traditional data in cyberspace, (3) stand-off detection of counter proliferation and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive activities, (4) water security, (5) image/video understanding and computer vision, (6) image and product standards development and enhancement, (7) automatic target recognition, (8) temporal and activity modeling and contextualization, (9) event forecasting and prediction, (10) knowledge and ontology modeling, (11) artificial intelligence, to include novel learning techniques, (12) automation, to include software tools, (13) natural language processing, (14) social media analytics, (15) location-based insights, (16) workflow effectiveness and analyst workflow modernization, (17) human-machine interaction, (18) tools that provide better human understanding of automated solutions, (19) tools to guide algorithm and automation governance, and (20) immersive GEOINT visualization tools.

NSF / Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Deadline: Aug 11, 2023; Aug 9, 2024
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22585/nsf22585.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Proposed ITEST projects are expected to (1) engage students in technology-rich learning to develop disciplinary and/or transdisciplinary STEM content knowledge, including skills in data literacy and evidence-based decision-making and reasoning; (2) prioritize the full inclusion of groups who have been underrepresented and/or underserved, including but not limited to Blacks and African Americans, Alaska Natives, Hispanics and Latinos , Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Pacific Islanders, persons with disabilities, neurodiverse students, and women in the STEM and information and communication technologies (ICT) workforce; (3) motivate students to pursue appropriate education pathways to technology-rich careers; and (4) leverage strategic and community partnerships to expand education pathways in communities through public and private partnerships and collaborations. ITEST supports three types of projects: (1) Exploring Theory and Design Principles (ETD); (2) Developing and Testing Innovations (DTI); and (3) Scaling, Expanding, and Iterating Innovations (SEI). ITEST also supports Synthesis and Conference/Workshop proposals. ITEST will support one 5-year resource center starting in FY23. All ITEST proposals must address how the proposed research and development project meets the ITEST program Pillars: 1) Innovative Use of Technologies in Learning and Teaching, 2) Partnerships for Career and Workforce Preparation, and 3) Strategies for Equity in STEM Education (Program Description, section A.).

DOD / Corrosion and Coatings
Deadline: Sep 13, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343515
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
2. Modeling and Analytics: Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division is seeking unclassified proposals that do not contain proprietary information regarding the modeling of corrosion data, rates, and other analytics, collection of field and environmental data for data analytics & modeling and data visualizations, machine learning, material degradations, sensors, performance prediction, failure analysis, real-time condition assessment, and statistical and meta-analysis of data.
3. Training and Product Support: Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division is seeking unclassified proposals that do not contain proprietary information regarding the corrosion and coating product support and training, including the development and transition of tools, virtual or augmented reality products, digital and practical visual aids, kits, specifications and technical manuals, training aids, short courses, seminars, scholarly papers, reports, systemic reviews, patent analyses, and other literature reviews or meta-analysis, and other transition strategies.

DARPA / Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
Deadline: Sep 14, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/bc7a44d2bfcc4409b2b6df2a865c09d3/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities: 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) mission to maintain technological superiority over our adversaries drives its Research and Development (R&D) programs to transform revolutionary concepts into practical capabilities for the military and civilian society. Under this Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), DARPA seeks to close military and civilian capability gaps with commercial solutions derived from the Agency's R&D programs. This CSO is solicited by DARPA's Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI), and awardees will participate in EEI described at https://eei.darpa.mil/. Proposals are solicited for transitioning innovative solutions derived from DARPA R&D-funded technologies into capabilities that fulfill requirements, close capability gaps, or provide new technological advancements as of the submission date. DARPA reasonably anticipates meaningful proposals with varying technical or scientific approaches in response to this CSO.

NSF / Engineering Research Initiation (ERI)
Deadline: Sep 15, 2023
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22595/nsf22595.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) seeks to build engineering research capacity across the nation by investing in new academic investigators who have yet to receive research funding from Federal Agencies.  The Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) program will support new investigators as they initiate their research programs and advance in their careers as researchers, educators, and innovators.  This funding opportunity aims to broaden the base of investigators involved in engineering research and therefore is limited to investigators that are not affiliated with “very high research activity” R1 institutions (according to the Carnegie Classification https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/).

NRL / Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research
Deadline: Sep 29, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343869
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
- 53-23-02 - LOW-COST WIDEBAND ANTENNA ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES
- 53-23-03 - ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS
- 55-23-01 - INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND DECISION ARCHITECTURES
- 55-23-02 - MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HIGH ASSURANCE COMPUTING
- 55-23-03 - HIGH ASSURANCE ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING
- 55-23-04 - ADVANCED NAVAL NETWORK SOLUTIONS
- 55-23-05 - FEDERATED, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING/NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
- 57-23-01 - INNOVATIVE ANTI-SHIP MISSILE - ELECTRONIC WARFARE SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY
- 57-23-03 - OFFBOARD COUNTERMEASURE TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- 57-23-04 – ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR THE RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM
- 57-23-05 - SHIPBOARD ELECTRONIC WARFARE

AFRL / Stratagem: Applying State-of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches to Air Battle Management
Deadline: Sep 29, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/0c48744fc48f4967a45612dad94cac24/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. AFRL/RI is seeking innovative research to create a capability to develop new Artificial Intelligence-based capabilities that can reason in real-time about developments in the battlespace during wartime engagements and assist planners and decision makers responsible for reacting to those developments. In recent years, major developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for video game playing agents has suggested that some of these approaches could be considered as candidates to provide that form of decision support. The objective of this effort is three-fold. First, AFRL is looking to investigate and develop machine intelligence approaches for supporting and performing operations in complex adversarial environments. It is imperative to explore the use of existing decision support AI algorithms and machine learning methods applicable to developing strategies and playing complex games. Second, AFRL desires the capability to capture human expertise to augment warfighter capability through the use of game play in Air Force (AF) relevant "video games" via interactive components. Finally, AFRL will apply forms of domain adaptation techniques to transfer AI strategies and/or machine learned models from video game play to AF relevant challenge problems/simulations. In order to develop these capabilities, focus will be placed on using existing game playing engines and newly developed interactive "simulation" environments that can be played by operators, either supported by or against AI agents. 

AFRL / Computational Diversity for Cyber Security
Deadline: Sep 30, 2023 (Whitepapers)
https://sam.gov/opp/b7a3ef6b6aa64da38f909003491794c7/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Seeking innovative research to develop a secure microcontroller for cryptography in an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) form factor. The secure microcontroller should utilize computationally diverse software or hardware to deliver an ASIC that exceeds current state of the art in terms of speed, power consumption and security, while also addressing the weaknesses associated with storage of cryptographic keys in Flash memory. Additionally, seeking innovative research to establish the necessary primitives and logic functions to support computationally diverse computing.

NAWC / Open Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/ed7485c2cef64495abcfb2c73e48d855/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities: 
This open BAA is for Aerospace science research with focuses on weapons and aerospace technologies which directly support naval science and technology requirements for joint strike warfare involving air superiority and precision attack, and air and surface battle space requirements of joint littoral aircraft involving aircraft, naval surface fire support and ship self-defense.

DOD / TryAi; Artificial Intelligence Demonstrations; Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)
Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/e53c2d960a064f32aab9b3a36396a61d/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities: 
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in collaboration with the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI) is seeking demonstrations for commercial technologies to foster innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities relevant to the following areas of AI technological exploration:
1.) Data Readiness
2.) AI Assurance
3.) Synthetic Data
4.) Edge/Fog Deployments
5.) Data Labeling
6.) Integration with 5G
7.) Modeling and Simulation
8.) AI Security
9.) AI Ethics

DOD / Robust and Efficient Computing Architectures, Algorithms and Applications for Embedded Deep Learning
Deadline: Sep 30, 2023 (White papers)
https://sam.gov/opp/7ee3bc7222204688a9e09fd09d4d1cbd/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting white papers under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for research, development, integration, test, evaluation and delivery of technology for computational capabilities with greater sophistication, autonomy, intelligence, and assurance for addressing dynamic mission requirements imposed by Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) applications and Size Weight and Power (SWAP) constrained Air Force platforms.  Of particular interest are advanced efficient computing architectures and systems, as well as robust algorithms and applications.  The overarching objective is to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in size, weight and power for deploying robust artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities in an embedded computing environment.

ONR / Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
Deadline: Oct 02, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343846
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
ONR, ONRG, and MCWL are interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range S&T Projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR, ONRG and MCWL’s broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines. Broad research interests listed here: https://www.nre.navy.mil/our-research/onr-technology-and-research

NSF / Advanced Technological Education
Deadline: Oct 5, 2023
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf21598
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. ATE Projects: These projects should increase the relevance of technician education to modern practices and assure an increased number of students with an enhanced STEM theoretical understanding and technical skills and competencies entering the high performance workplace.
a. Developing new materials or courses that add rigorous STEM content to technician programs;
b. Developing innovative methods for using laboratory-, field- and work-based experiences to improve students' understanding of basic principles and the modern workplace;
c. Using modern instrumentation and new technologies to address the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for the evolving, converging, and emerging technical workplace;
d. Integrating industry standards and workplace competencies into the curriculum including 21st century skills (www.p21.org )/employability skills (http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills/);
e. Implementing strategies to support student recruitment, retention, and program completion;
f. Developing life-long career and educational pathways for technicians to support the changing workplace, including improving articulation between programs at secondary schools and two-year IHEs, and pathways from two-year to four-year IHEs programs;
g. Providing industry internships, apprenticeships, and/or undergraduate research experiences including course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) that build both technical skills and competencies and employability skills; and
h. Instrumentation acquisition with curricular modifications to support existing programs that, in partnership with industry, have identified new instrumentation needs. Industry partner(s) must provide a letter affirming the changing workplace needs that supports the new instrumentation and their role in curricular revisions.

NSF / Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet)
Deadline: Oct 9, 2023 (Second Monday in October, Annually Thereafter)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21511/nsf21511.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The goals of the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program are to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations.  The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand research challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts.  The program seeks to foster high-impact science and engineering by providing opportunities to cooperatively identify and coordinate efforts to address knowledge gaps and research needs. This solicitation invites proposals for the creation of international networks of networks in research areas aligned with a grand challenge identified as a priority by the research community or NSF, such as the NSF Big Ideas or in an active program solicitation.  AccelNet awards support the connections among research networks, rather than supporting fundamental research as the primary activity.  Each network of networks is expected to engage in innovative collaborative activities that promote synergy of efforts across networks and provide professional development for U.S. students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career researchers.

DOD/NSWC - Carderock Research Projects
Deadline: Nov 14, 2023
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344506
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. College - University Student and Faculty Research Projects
NSWCCD is interested in receiving proposals directed toward student or faculty general research projects where the focus is upon technologies and capabilities outlined in the Doing Business with Carderock website: https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Business/ under the Partnering with Carderock tab. NSWCCD is especially, but not solely, interested in research projects dealing with Machine Learning, Data Analytics & Modeling, Data Visualizations, Cyber Security, Complex Systems & Organizational Dynamics, Operations Analysis and Military Utility/Impact Analysis, Knowledge Management & Retention, and Web Presence with Tool Implementation strategies (both for Business Operations and Technical applications). With the latest advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, NSWCCD desires to begin to see how these advances may impact our activities, especially in relation to laboratory & range data acquisition & transmission, upgrades to our business operations & efficiency, and enhancing our internal communications capabilities by improving efficiency, as well as user experience. The goal of these research projects is to develop and implement innovative tools that will revolutionize our operations thus making us a more secure, efficient and preferred supplier to our stakeholders.
2. College - University Student Capstone and Senior Research Projects
NSWCCD seeks proposals for novel research projects whose intent is the development of future naval scientists and engineers. NSWCCD is especially interested in technical projects dealing with Hydrodynamics (specifically the interaction of fluid flow over rough or bio-fouled surfaces), Unmanned Vehicle Dynamics & Control, tool development for Automated Ship Design, Extreme Environment Materials Development (e.g. Ultra-high Temperature Erosion & Corrosion), Automated & Advanced Materials Processing and Characterization (including Modeling & Simulation), and Structural Health Monitoring. Other technology areas will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. More specific details of various areas of interest can be found at the Doing Business with Carderock website: https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Business/ under the Partnering with Carderock tab.  The primary goal of these projects is to develop student interests in naval engineering with an eye toward future employment.

DOD / Foundations of Trusted Systems
Deadline: FY24 = Dec 1, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/7855dd8226c44bb9a2f0d8d68329ac6d/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Trusted, Secure, and Resilient Computational Systems:
(i) Problems and challenges with current processor designs for trustworthiness and their solutions
(ii) Problems and challenges with current computer architectures for trustworthiness and solutions to them
(iii) Tools and methodologies for ensuring trustworthiness of integrated circuits (ICs) and systems targeting malicious inclusions, side-channel attacks, probing attacks, etc.;
(iv) New computer architectures for secure and reliable computing, including data integrity and code protection and verification;
(v) Operating System level constructs, objects, functions and distributions that must be provided to complement the hardware to enable a trustworthy computing base;
(vi) Tools and methodologies for ensuring trustworthiness and security of the software development process, including compilers, assemblers, linkers, binary checks, and source code analysis;
(vii) State-of-the-art software-based assurance designs, methodologies or concepts which are better suited for implementation in hardware than software
(viii) IC inspection, characterization, and testing techniques; these techniques can be applied for automated post fabrication verification, counterfeit identification, device identification, tampering evidence identification, wear out characterization, and/or adaptive system degradation.
2. Trusted and Assured Software:
(a) Software Assurance
3. (b) Trusted and Resilient Software-intensive Systems Engineering
(i) Techniques to enable trust in model-based software engineering
(ii) Model-based engineering for predictable software attributes
(iii) Formal methods tools
(iv) Provably correct code generation
(v) Provably correct code repair
(vi) Evidence-based software assurance
(vii) Evolutionary approaches, trusted software and systems composability
(viii) Modeling, analysis, and verification of autonomous software
(ix) Novel architectural approaches, strategic “roots of trust,” hardening and resiliency techniques such as artificial diversity, containment areas for execution of untrusted software, lightweight runtime monitoring techniques and utilization of hardware (HW) advances
(ix) Trusted and resilient mechanisms to fight through software failures, cyber-attacks to include zero-day attack
(x) Human understanding and trust of automated software development, red teaming, metrics and measures of trustworthy systems, integration, validation and demonstration on a realistic mission critical embedded system exemplar
(xi) Autonomous resilience, self-healing software systems, and pliable computing.
4. (c) Cyber Physical Systems (CPS):
(i) Specification, modeling, and analysis such as heterogeneous models of computation and hybrid discrete and continuous systems;
(ii) Modularity, composability, predictability, and synthesis addressing the issues of scalability and the integration of legacy systems; and
(iii) Verification and validation techniques (assurance, simulation, formal methods, correct-and-secure-by-construction, etc.) applicable to these models.
5. (d) AI in Trusted Systems:
(i) Capturing, learning, or annotating software intent and constraints separate from the concrete decisions required to create a specific instance of software
(ii) Using captured intent to drastically reduce the human-in-the-loop effort needed to adapt software to new requirements, platforms, and resources
(iii) Verifying that the newly-adapted software provides the functional needs of the customer/end user and that the instance does not violate any requirements
(iv) Integrating a new intent-defined software development paradigm into existing Agile workflows to enable adoption and transition into the greater programmer community
(v) Cost-effective, reliable methods of predicting performance of system configurations using high-fidelity models
(vi) Automated decision making processes that can rapidly converge on solutions concerning interdependent design constraints
(vii) Exploration techniques that scale to large state spaces
(viii) Means of curating evidence for the assurance of software
(ix) Technology for validation and assessment of confidence in an assurance case argument
(x) Automated construction of assurance cases
(xi) Continual assurance technology for learning-enabled components.

NSF / Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)
Deadline: Feb 23, 2023, Jan 18, 2024
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23521/nsf23521.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
- CISE/OAC supports all three communities of CI Professionals, CI Contributors, and CI Users, both current and future generations. OAC encourages proposals on technical and research CI professional skills development, career development, and sustaining the community of CI Professionals. These include technical skills such as network engineering, cybersecurity of advanced research CI and scientific workflows, and software installation and maintenance, as well as research support skills such as porting legacy scientific research software and workflows to HPC and cloud platforms, advanced visualization, supporting scientific gateways, and required domain knowledge. OAC also encourages proposals, relevant to the domain directorates, for cross-training of the computational and data scientists and engineers who are current and future CI Contributors in contributor-level CI topics such as scalable algorithms and scientific software development, big data analytics methods, modeling and simulation, and computer architecture and middleware, and in advanced domain topics such as domain-specific tools, datasets, and models. OAC is also interested in the larger goal of preparing the Nation's scientific and engineering research workforce — well-versed in basic CI and computational and data-driven S&E literacy — with an understanding of computation as the third pillar and data-driven science as the fourth pillar of the scientific discovery process. CIP workforce preparation is especially needed in disciplines and areas with low levels of CI adoption, while also addressing broadening participation from underrepresented groups.
- CISE/IIS supports research and education in artificial intelligence, data science, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics. IIS welcomes proposals that broadly enhance the IIS-relevant communities of CI Professionals, and empower them to support CI Contributors and CI Users in research relevant to IIS, in consultation with the Cognizant Program Officer.
- TIP brings together teams of researchers, practitioners, users, and others, such as cyberinfrastructure professionals, to shape research directions, catalyze iterative co-design and co-creation, develop game-changing technologies and solutions to address the nation's societal and economic challenges, and grow the future workforce. TIP’s Regional Innovation Engines program supports the development of diverse, regional coalitions to engage in use-inspired research, drive research results to the market and society, and promote workforce development, including cyberinfrastructure professionals. TIP ignites partnerships among academia, industry, government, nonprofits, civil society, and communities of practice to cultivate regional innovation, leveraging NSF’s advanced cyberinfrastructure ecosystem, to create technology solutions, support future STEM leaders who reflect the rich cultural and geographic diversity of the country, and ultimately advance our nation's economy and competitiveness. TIP Program Officers are available for consultation on ideas.
- EDU supports the development of a diverse and well-prepared workforce of scientists, technicians, engineers, mathematicians, and educators. EDU is interested in engaging the CI Professionals community in supporting education research communities to use advanced CI and other approaches to analyze, visualize, and harness data to better understand issues of workforce development in S&E. Educational research topics of particular interest include preparation of the workforce in areas of data security and privacy in connection with EDU's investment in the CyberCorps(R): Scholarships for Service (SFS) and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) programs, as well as the other aspects associated with preparation of the technical workforce for proficiency in using advanced CI, which is supported by EDU's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. EDU especially welcomes proposals that will pair well with the efforts of the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES program (NSF INCLUDES) to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society. Collaborations are encouraged between CyberTraining proposals and existing NSF INCLUDES projects, provided these collaborations strengthen both the CyberTraining and NSF INCLUDES projects. Prospective PIs may wish to also submit substantially different proposals to the EDU Core Research (ECR) program, which welcomes proposals seeking to advance fundamental research on the learning of challenging CI content in formal/informal settings, exploring the evaluation of models for broadening participation such as collective impact, and studying the development of the CI professional workforce.
- ENG/CBET has a special interest in research focused on (i) developing multi-scale models that enable fundamental understanding of the relationships between molecular-level and macroscopic chemical, biological, and physical phenomenon; (ii) establishing workflows and/or best practices for data generation, analysis, and storage that address the long-standing issues of reproducibility and uncertainty quantification; and (iii) effective implementation of advanced computational methods (e.g., machine learning) toward solving relevant engineering problems. CBET welcomes proposals that empower CI Professionals to support CI Contributors and CI Users in research relevant to CBET.
- ENG/CMMI encourages proposals that would empower the CI professionals community to support the CMMI research community to more effectively use CI to make new advances in potentially transformative fundamental research in any CMMI-funded fields or to lead in the development of new CI to catalyze major research discoveries in CMMI-funded fields. CMMI supports the integration of modeling, computation, data analysis and interdisciplinary research partnerships and perspectives to advance fundamental knowledge. CMMI is interested in opening pathways for discovering, developing, accessing, sharing, understanding, and using powerful CI tools, data, platforms and ecosystems to enhance CMMI researchers' productivity and impact. The division is particularly interested in proposals that will enable the CMMI community to use CI to develop new modes of discovery and to lead in CI development. For additional information on CMMI CI priorities, please see https://www.nsf.gov/eng/cmmi/about.jsp.
GEO supports fundamental research that advances the frontiers of knowledge and drives technological innovation while improving our understanding of the many processes that affect the global environment. GEO is interested in atmospheric and geospace science, Earth science, ocean science, and all areas of polar science. GEO is interested in proposals that would provide training, education, and career development to empower CI Professionals to support GEO research communities to more effectively access and adopt CI, including in the following research areas:
- GEO/AGS is interested in answering fundamental science questions related to atmospheric and geospace research, including a wide variety of important processes that impact humans and society, such as space weather, tropospheric weather, physical and dynamic meteorology, climate, and air quality.
- GEO/EAR is interested in improving our understanding of the structure, composition, and evolution of the Earth, the life it supports, and the processes that govern its behavior. EAR interests include research in terrestrial and solid-earth sciences.
- GEO/OCE is interested in activities that advance understanding of all aspects of the global oceans and ocean basins, including their interactions with people and the integrated Earth system.
- GEO/OPP supports all areas of research in and about the Arctic and Antarctic regions; polar proposals are encouraged to consider the recommendations made in the 2013 NSF-funded "Cyberinfrastructure for Polar Sciences" workshop report.
- MPS/AST welcomes proposals that would empower CIP Professionals to support AST research leading to wide utility and a broad base of community support.
- MPS/CHE recognizes the value of CI and CI Professionals to a broad range of existing and emerging scientific areas relevant to fundamental chemical research. CHE encourages proposals that will enhance CI-enabled capabilities and community engagement. Support from CHE will aim to increase CI expertise among chemists of all levels, from undergraduates to professors.
- MPS/DMR is interested in empowering CI Professionals to support the materials research community at career levels from undergraduate to independent researchers in the use, development, and implementation of CI across fundamental materials research. Important is training in the creative and innovative application of CI, including community-CI, to advance fundamental materials research and/or its translation to societal impact. Of particular interest is empowering CI Professionals to support data-intensive and computational CI, and CI that enables or enhances the integration of data with experiment, computation, and theory in support of materials design and discovery, and emerging cyber-enhanced modes of materials research. DMR welcomes the inclusion of activities that would lead to materials-research CIP career advancement, retention within the scientific research ecosystem, or better incorporation in the materials-research enterprise. DMR encourages the incorporation of evaluation mechanisms to assess effectiveness.
- MPS/PHY is interested in empowering CIP Professionals to support research using computational methods on advanced computing architectures, including high-performance computing and data analytics methods in the context of specific scientific applications relevant to the MPS communities.
- SBE supports rigorous methods to discover fundamental principles of human behavior at levels ranging from cells to society, from neurons to neighborhoods, and across space and time. The SBE directorate supports research that advances computational social science and analytic methods using social network, sensor, text, video, administrative, and other big data. SBE seeks proposals that will empower CI Professionals to support CI Contributors and CI Users in research relevant to SBE. SBE welcomes proposals that support SBE scientists in computational tools and skills for understanding and promoting economic opportunity, security, civic and political engagement, health, and well-being in different regions and populations, many of which require interdisciplinary sociotechnical collaborations and team science.

NSF / National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
Deadline: Sep 6, Annually Thereafter
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf21536
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Proposals are requested that address any interdisciplinary or convergent research theme of national priority, as noted above.

NSF / Science of Science - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SOS DDRIG)
Deadline: Sep 9 Annually
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505709&WT.mc_id=USNSF_50&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants funding opportunity is designed to improve the quality of dissertation research. DDRIG awards provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university such as enabling doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus. DDRIGs do not provide cost-of-living or other stipends or tuition. Outstanding DDRIG proposals specify how the knowledge to be created advances science of science.

NSF / Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC)
Deadline: Second Wednesday in September, Annually
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505789&WT.mc_id=USNSF_50&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The IUCRC program catalyzes breakthrough pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams, and government agencies. IUCRCs help industry partners and government agencies connect directly and efficiently with university researchers to achieve three primary objectives:1) Conduct high-impact research to meet shared and critical industrial needs in companies of all sizes; 2) Enhance U.S. global leadership in driving innovative technology development, and 3) Identify, mentor and develop a diverse, highly skilled science and engineering workforce.

NSF / Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science program
Deadline: Second Wednesday in October, Annually
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21606/nsf21606.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The RET program encourages the active participation of K-14 educators in ongoing engineering and/or computer science research activities through Site awards and Supplements. RET Sites and Supplements can include pre- and/or in-service K-12 teachers and/or community college faculty as participants. A RET Site proposal must be submitted by a College, School, or Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Computer and/or Information Science. RET projects offer an opportunity to tap the nation's diverse teacher talent pool and broaden participation in science and engineering. Partnerships with inner city, rural, or other high-needs schools are especially encouraged. Proposals emphasizing broadening participation of underrepresented groups in Engineering and Computer Science, including women, persons with disabilities, veterans, Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders, are also encouraged. These proposals could focus on participation of K-14 educators who are themselves underrepresented, or K-14 educators who serve underrepresented students.

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23018/nsf23018.jsp
No deadline
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF reaffirms its commitment to advancing reproducibility and replicability in science. NSF is particularly interested in proposals addressing one or more of the following topics:
- Advancing the science of reproducibility and replicability. Understanding current practices around reproducibility and replicability, including ways to measure reproducibility and replicability, what reproduction and replication means in practice, the right degree of replicability to target, quantitative measures of progress to understand the effectiveness of interventions to improve reproducibility and replicability, and exploration of reasons why studies may fail to replicate.
- Research infrastructure for reproducibility and replicability. Developing and facilitating adoption of cyberinfrastructure tools and/or research methods that enable use of reproducible and replicable practices across one or more science and engineering communities.
- Educational efforts to build a scientific culture that supports reproducibility and replicability. Enabling training in science and engineering communities to identify and encourage best practices for reproducibility and replicability, providing community-building and institutional support, and supporting broad public outreach about rigor, reproducibility, and replicability in science.

DARPA / Information Innovation Office
https://sam.gov/opp/ff7da3e6622a491598b0b7c317901aa5/view
Deadline: Oct 27, 2023
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
- Proficient artificial intelligence (AI): I2O is focused on exploring and advancing a full range of AI techniques, including symbolic reasoning, statistical machine learning, grounded cognition, meta-learning, explanation and assurance, and hybrid methods.
- Advantage in cyber operations: The I2O cyber operations portfolio includes techniques, tools, and frameworks for the full range of cyber operations and involves many layers and stages in systems, from endpoint to endpoint. I2O’s research explores network operations analytics, attribution of attacks, applied cryptography – such as secure multi-party computation – graceful-degradation and recovery from attacks, deterrence effects, and social engineering defense.
- Confidence in the information domain: The information domain has become critical both to stability and to multi-domain operations in modern warfare. I2O programs focus on understanding online activity, building better technical models of strategic and tactical operations in the information domain, developing technologies to support stabilization efforts, and building on these efforts to create improved situational awareness to inform strategic decision-making. Approaches that support the measurement of the information domain and information operations, support countering broad-based or targeted information attacks, and can inoculate a population against information attacks are of particular interest.
- Resilient, adaptable, and secure systems: I2O’s research efforts focus on topics related to modeling and analysis, toolchain development, support for human developers and analysts, and the capture and management of diverse kinds of engineering evidence, both formal and informal. Approaches that support scaling formal engineering practices to a broader variety of software and hardware systems and reduce the expertise necessary to employ formal methods are particularly of interest.

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Cyberinfrastructure, Data and Computation Opportunities for CMMI
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23017/nsf23017.jsp
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The focus of this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to better acquaint the CMMI community with three of these funding opportunities, specifically:
• Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Deadline: Oct 1 - 31, Annually
• Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
Deadline: Third Thursday in January, Annually

NSF / SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
Deadline: Nov 1, 2023 (Annually)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18584/nsf18584.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Track 1: Fundamental Research in the SBE Sciences (SPRF-FR)
Track 2: Broadening Participation in the SBE Sciences (SPRF-BP) 

DOD / Command and Control, Battle Management & Communications (C2BMC) Advanced Research Opportunity (ARO) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Deadline: Dec 15, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/1d5c087ba9624e70b89c6fe1becde0d4/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) contracting office (BCK) invites innovative technical approach concept “white” papers that address operationally focused C2BMC capabilities and/or agile mechanisms to monitor, acquire, track, and engage adversary weapons during any phase of an attack. MDA seeks to identify, adapt and acquire emerging technologies that enhance the performance of C2BMC capabilities, which include addressing the development of Command and Control (C2) of Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) for Homeland Defense (S8.2-5), Engage on Remote technology (Spiral S8.2-3), early development of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System Track (BST) with System Level Integrated Discrimination (S8.2-7), radar and radio frequency (RF) communications, computer science, signal, and data processing, and artificial intelligence / machine learning. 

DHS / 2018 DHS S&T Directorate LRBAA
Deadline: Dec 31, 2023
https://sam.gov/opp/8659650e8b324bd28ac390bf70aba048/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Distinguishing Threats from Non-threats on Passengers (05)
a. SEC AVN 05-02: Screening at Speed: Screening at Speed seeks to mature transformative technologies that increase aviation security effectiveness from curb-to-gate while dramatically reducing wait times and improving passenger experiences. The end objective is a prototype solution capable of improving the security, throughput, and/or passenger experience at the airport checkpoint or similar environments. Capabilities of particular interest include accessible property (carry-on baggage) screening systems, components, and algorithms; on-person screening systems, components, and algorithms; curb-to-gate screening capabilities and integration architectures; cyber secure architecture and capabilities; and passenger facing technologies to improve the overall user experience.
2. SECURING CYBERSPACE (SEC CYB)
a. DHS S&T identifies, develops and delivers new cybersecurity technologies, tools, techniques, and next-generation capabilities that enable DHS and the nation to defend and secure current and future critical systems and networks against cyberattacks. We leverage public-private partnerships to identify real-world requirements for innovative technology solutions, which are developed with the partners and transitioned into the marketplace. Some examples of priority cybersecurity R&D needs include: 
i. Distributed cloud-based communications and monitoring
ii. Industrial control systems, cyber sensors, analytics, and prevention
iii. Metrics for cybersecurity effectiveness, severity, and comparison
iv. Data capture of networked devices for forensic examination Website:
b. SEC CYB 03-04: Predictive Analytics: Predictive Analysis, as applied to cybersecurity, is the ability to identify potential cyber threat vectors and determine the probable course of action for each threat.
c. Mobile Security-Associated/Related Efforts (04)
d. SEC CYB 04-02: Mobile Security & Resiliency R&D: The research and development of creating or enhancing technologies to enable the secure and/or resilient use of mobile ecosystem technologies in support of the DHS mission. Areas of interest include: 5G, mobile supply chain, security analysis, mobile infrastructure resilience, emergency communications, mobile vulnerability analysis, mobile communication security protocol analysis, and security.
3. Modeling and Predictive Analytics for Decision Making (02)
1. PROT 02-01: Data Analytics: Data Analytics research pursues advanced and emerging architectures, analytic capabilities, and automation to enable data-driven decision making to improve mission outcomes. Data analytics crosscuts all DHS mission areas. Future Computing Architectures includes research and evaluation of storage and infrastructure that aims to enable real-time, efficient compute with built-in privacy and security. Examples of research in this area include Secure Multi-party Computation; Cloud, Intercloud, and Hybrid Cloud Computation; Real-time Analytics; Block-chain; and High-Performance Computing.

Comcast / Innovation Fund
Deadline: Jan - until year's fund is exhausted (annually)
https://innovationfund.comcast.com
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Top Themes of Interest for 2022:
· Internet Consolidations & Mechanisms for De-Centralization
· Internet Measurement
· Encryption of data & network protocols, certificate & key management
· CDNs and Video Streaming Efficiency including encoding improvements
· Low Latency Networking
· Multi-Path Networking
· Security and Privacy design, automation, privacy enhancements & confidential computing for devices, systems, cloud, and microservices as well as topics like differential privacy.
· De-centralized Data & Identity
· De-centralized Anomaly Detection 
· Internet core services such as DNS and Routing

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Pilot for the Allocation of High-Throughput Computing Resources (HTC)
No Deadline (Jan 2022 onwards – NSF-funded PATh project)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22051/nsf22051.jsp?org=NSF
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF announces a Pilot for the Allocation of High-Throughput Computing (HTC) resources made available through the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) project supported by NSF2. HTC supports the automated execution of workloads that consist of large ensembles of self-contained inter-dependent tasks that may require large amounts of computing power over long periods of time to complete. Available resources include large-scale compute and GPU servers and nearline storage, as described in more detail on the PATh credit accounts web page.

IBM / Academic Awards
Deadline: January through October of a calendar year
https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/shared_university.html
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities
1. IBM Global University Program’s Academic Awards scale from an individual faculty member’s research to much larger university-based concepts and programs. Research areas:
2. Future of Health, Work, and Climate
3. Governance of Science and Technology (Standards)
4. Future of Computing
5. Materials Design
6. Hybrid Cloud/Multi-Cloud/Future of Cloud
7. AI for Business, Science, or Technology
8. AI Optimization
9. Security/Blockchain
10. Systems
11. Quantum
12. Exploratory Sciences
13. IBM Cloud Academic Credits

DOD / AIR FORCE TENCAP OPEN BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Deadline: Feb 17, 2024
https://sam.gov/opp/96d4a24f29894f418ed6fef6fd0bea75/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Unless superseded, at any time during the three (3) year active period for this BAA any eligible contractor can submit a White Paper describing their ability to enhance one or multiple Focus Areas listed in this BAA.  Each White Paper will be evaluated IAW the criteria listed in this BAA. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is intended to fulfill requirements for operational prototype development of state-of-the-art technologies and/or increase knowledge and understanding as a means to identify and develop robust innovative concepts, stimulate technology innovation, and exploit breakthroughs in science that immediately may provide operational capability to be transitioned to the warfighter. This BAA identifies research/exploratory development areas of interest and provides prospective offerors information on the preparation of white papers along with evaluation factors.
a. Focus Area 5: Electronic & Cyber Warfare
b. Focus Area 6: Command, Control, Communications (C3) and Spectrum Utilization

c. Focus Area 7: Real-Time/Near Real-Time Large Data Analytics and Virtualization  

NSF / Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
Deadline: Apr 1, 2024
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22529/nsf22529.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The S&CC program encourages submission of proposals that advance disruptive technologies and concepts that may involve high-risk, high-reward approaches or significantly advance theoretical foundations of S&CC sociotechnical research. In either case, the proposal must span social and technical dimensions with community engagement. Technological dimensions include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) data integration and management, and computing and network resource management; (2) new algorithms and modeling frameworks for understanding and exploiting high volumes of diverse and complex infrastructure- and community-related data; (3) systems engineering approaches for integrating cyber, physical, and social concerns in a large-scale system-of-systems context with multiple stakeholders; (4) ubiquitous and persistent connectivity to enable data collection and instantaneous dissemination of information; (5) improved cybersecurity and privacy; (6) innovations in integrating materials, sensors, structures, and systems to support smart and connected communities; (7) design of interfaces, controls, and feedback systems; and (8) innovative concepts for advanced infrastructure systems and services, including dual-use sensing and flexible infrastructure that supports multiple uses and applications. 

DOD / ARMY APPLICATIONS LAB BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DISRUPTIVE APPLICATIONS
Deadline: May 1, 2024
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=315517
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
a. Autonomous platforms
b. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) - AI/ML research is needed in areas such as:
i. Autonomous, intelligent maneuver and behaviors of autonomous ground and air vehicles - object recognition, threat warning, etc.
ii. Ability to analyze large, diverse data sets to predict enemy intent and behaviors
iii. Technologies to ensure robust, resilient and intelligent networking, cyber, electronic warfare and analysis of adversary signals
iv. Data analysis capabilities to engage with and exploit classified and unclassified sources in order to produce enhanced intelligence products
v. Techniques to fuse data from disparate sources to improve a particular mission
c. Data visualization and synthetic environments –
i. Sensor data
ii. Large data sets
iii. Complex multi-source mode data sets
iv. Novel visualization and synthetic environment approaches to enable improved training
v. Synthetic environments and networked instrumentation approaches for virtual-live validation of concepts and prototypes
d. Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
e. Power generation and management technologies
f. Sensing
g. Communications & network
h. Computation – 
i. Throughput
ii. Power efficiency
iii. Edge computing
i. Space
j. Internet of Things (IoT) – 
i. New concepts, quantitative models and technical approaches enabling automated management of IoT
ii. New machine learning techniques that accelerate decision making to address the scale/volume of IoT information and advance the science
iii. New approaches, low-complexity algorithms, and methods to enable secure, resilient, and to automatically managed IOT networks in highly complex, mixed cooperative/adversarial, information-centric environment
iv. Novel IoT approaches to enable improved training and system evaluation
k. Quantum Technologies
l. Signature reduction
m. Protection
n. Human Performance
o. Underpinning Methodologies   

DOD / Multi-Sensor Exploitation for Tactical Autonomy (META)
Deadline: Aug 20, 2024
https://sam.gov/opp/5bcfa05198ca407193a608dab7fee7ae/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Research effort covers all sensing autonomy technologies including modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A); multi-domain, multi-sensor data management, collection, experimentation and phenomenology investigation; as well as learning technologies, algorithms and computing for knowledge and understanding. Additional research objectives, goals, and aims include knowledge generation through information fusion and the application of machine/deep learning techniques to solve military problems. This research effort shall also investigate the application of machine/deep learning techniques to accomplish knowledge generation (i.e., detections, tracks, IDs, patterns, behaviors, intents) through information fusion. Machine learning (ML) can include traditional ML, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and other novel ML approaches. High performance computing (HPC) will be leveraged for data generation, modeling, simulation, algorithm development and performance assessment as appropriate. 

DOD-DTRA / Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction
Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275322
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Thrust Area 2—Network Sciences: The fundamental science of network sciences 1.5.2.includes advancing knowledge of complex disparate but interdependent networks critical to military operations where WMD-related robustness, resiliency, recovery of, and informational and operational utility is required. It includes response, resilience, and recovery of interdependent, multi-layered physical networks after exposure from electromagnetic pulse and other nuclear weapons effects, rapid discovery and analyzing low-observable WMD-related information from large, disparate WMD-related data sets from multiple types of networks, and to develop theories and representations for low observable WMD-related radical ideation from social networks. 
Thrust Area 3—Science for Protection: Fundamental science for protection involves 1.5.3.advancing knowledge in physical, biological, and engineering sciences to protect personnel, sensitive electronic systems, and structural infrastructure from the effects of weapons of mass destruction. Protection includes both passive and active defense against threats. Approaches include advanced highly-ordered materials and nanomaterials to hardening infrastructure and facilities against blast, nuclear events, or other CBRNE effects; exploring new methods to experimentally and computationally simulate the effects of a nuclear event; investigations of the interaction of radiation with sensitive electronics and systems as well as development of novel materials and methods that are robust against radiation effects; novel methods to protect personnel from the physical, radiological, and nuclear effects of WMDs; and the study of biological systems, including intact structures, metabolic products, or discrete components and pathways, as applied to protection of U.S. Forces during operations in areas actually or potentially contaminated by radiation. For protection of personnel the areas of interest include development of radiation countermeasures to prevent biological damage associated with exposure to ionizing radiation and development of novel biologically-based or -produced detection systems for wide area surveillance to determine the nature, extent, and distribution of contamination.
Thrust Area 4—Science to Defeat WMD: Fundamental Science for significantly 1.5.4.improving energetic materials for use against WMD facilities and systems with minimal collateral effects from post-blast WMD release, for deeper penetration to deny the adversary sanctuary of WMD, and for predictable modeling of counter-WMD munitions and simulation of in-theater scenarios with accurate lethality calculations. 
Thrust Area 5—Science to Secure WMDs: Fundamental science to support securing 1.5.5.WMD includes: revolutionary means to safely handle, transport, control access, or eliminate WMD components and weapons; new physical or other methods to monitor compliance to support future agreements or treaties; and, exploring phenomena and means that facilitate reduction of nuclear or non-nuclear WMD proliferation pathways. This includes focus on: science principles to assist tagging, tracking, location to secure WMD; novel means to mark and read objects in order to secure inventories; remote or unattended monitoring to understand the nature of objects (e.g., is it nuclear, biological, chemical or conventional?); monitoring to detect intrusion, diversion or substitution, tampering, and other adverse activity; and, understanding of both physical and life science environmental signatures as witnesses of WMD-related activity. The ability to secure WMD may impact either verification of treaties, or control of WMD outside treaty regimes.

AFRL Munitions Directorate / Air Superiority Technology Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Oct 31, 2024
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=322104
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. RESEARCH AREA 1 – MODELING, SIMULATION, & ANALYSIS (MS&A)
The objective is to apply, modify and/or combine engineering, engagement (one-on-one), mission (few-on-few), systems-of-systems, campaign (many-on-many, military worth), level modeling techniques, tools, and analysis methods as well as virtual and constructive digital simulation which lend themselves to the quick and effective evaluation of air superiority concepts.  

AFRL / Research Methods and Technologies for Blended Live and Synthetic Personalized Learning, Modeling and Assessment Open Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Dec 16, 2024
https://sam.gov/opp/1974570a4e3b4509acd3a431182f4795/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Two major themes serve to frame the anticipated work. The personalized learning and readiness sciences theme focuses on scientific discovery regarding the fundamental nature of readiness and also on the application of personalization technologies to enable improved learning and performance for robust mission readiness in and across real- world operational contexts. The cognitive modeling theme focuses on invariant human cognitive capacities and novel integrations with Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to contribute to an understanding of the human mind and/or facilitate the development of models capable of operating as intelligent teammates, adversaries, coaches, or multi- level computational physiocognitive performance prediction systems. The work includes modeling and the design and execution of laboratory and field studies to evaluate alternative live, virtual, and constructive approaches, solutions, and practices.in mission areas as diverse as integrated human and machine operations, manned and unmanned air and ground operations, command and control, cyber operations, emergency response, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, tactical air combat, and integrated, multi-domain air, land, sea, space, and cyber operations.  

DOD / Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Research at the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Soldier Center
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
https://sam.gov/opp/608e71e76e0d4987ae9b628decee31ff/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The BAA technical areas of interest are divided into the following groups:
B. SOLDIER PROTECTION AND SURVIVABILITY 
WARFIGHTER SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES 
Counter surveillance
C. SOLDIER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
Technology Assessment and Simulation Tools
2. D. EXPEDITIONARY MANEUVER SUPPORT AND FIELD SERVICE TECHNOLOGIES
1.5 Detection Avoidance
F. SIMULATION AND TRAINING TECHNOLOGY 
EMBEDDED TRAINING (ET)
LIVE TRAINING SIMULATION OF TACTICAL WEAPON SYSTEM LETHALITY
MEDICAL SIMULATION AND TRAINING
ADVANCED INTERACTIVE SIMULATION
CYBER WARFARE FOR TRAINING (CyWar‐T)
ADAPTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS
BATTLESPACE VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION
SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS  

DOD / US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327285
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
12. Soldier Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) 

DOD / US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327285
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
F. Simulation and Technology - Cyber Warfare for Training (CyWar-T)
(1) Data Models and Ontologies for Cyber-related M&S
(2) Synthetic Representation of Cyber Terrain
(3) Service-based Network Simulations for L/V/C-G Training Systems
(4) CEMA Models and Simulations across the gamut of the cyber domain. Including, but not limited to: a) Intelligence
b) Signal
c) Information Operations (IO)
d) Cyberspace
e) Space
f) Fires (as related to the cyber domain)
(5) CEMA Visualization Concepts and Tools  

DTRA / Strategic Trends Research Initiative (STRI)
Deadline: Mar 2, 2025
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325076
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Competition With Revisionist Powers
2. Emerging Threats
3. Counter Threat Networks (CTN)
4. Strategic Security and Risk Reduction 

DOD / UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325932
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The USMA BAA seeks proposals from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and for-profit organizations (i.e., large and small businesses) for research based on the following campaigns: Socio-Cultural; Information Technology; Ballistics, Weapons, and Protections; Energy and Sustainability; Materials, Measurements, and Facilities; Unmanned Systems and Space; Human Support Systems; and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Quantum Technologies.
6. Emerging Technologies Campaign
a. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cyber Security
b. Quantum Sciences
c. Internet of Things (IOT) 

DOD / Future Scholars for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Development Programs
Deadline: June 17, 2025
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327212
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Address geographic disparities and broaden participation for underrepresented and underserved communities.
2. Foster community engagement that support and encourage STEM learning, understanding, build STEM skills and literacy in an evidence-based and innovative manner.
3. Increase awareness of DoD and AFRL science and technology priorities such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, biotechnology, cyber security and DoD science and technologies.
4. Develop partnerships with industry and other organizations to promote sustainable STEM Workforce Development programs or projects. 

AFRL / Advanced Development of Enhanced Operator Capabilities (ADEOC)
Deadline: Sep 10, 2025
https://sam.gov/opp/1da3f9e8979e4e2f9b7b4637d919cd7a/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. RHW - Envisioned technologies will provide the capability to increase combat capabilities through personalized learning, readiness, and cognitive improvements; and to deploy integrated solutions that develop synergies, maximize battlespace interoperability, enhance situational awareness, and increase combat power while decreasing Airman and Guardian physical and cognitive workloads. The proposed acquisition would acquire advanced system development, engineering, and integration skills needed for experimentation and development of prototype systems for operational demonstration, assessment, and eventual transition to acquisition programs for production and deployment. 

DOD / Broad Agency Announcement Emerging Technologies
Deadline: Dec 17, 2025
https://sam.gov/opp/79aa988485ab4ea6b029c20cc014d93e/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Autonomy; Guidance, Navigation and Control
2. Biometric Collection, Matching, Analysis & Sharing
3. Containerized Software Applications & Orchestration
4. Government Cloud Software Factories Enabling DevSecOps
5. Artificial Intelligence
6. Networked Lethality 

DOD / Naval Supply Systems Command
Research Initiatives at the Naval Post Graduate School
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337346
Deadline: Jan 13, 2026
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is interested in receiving proposals for research initiatives that offer potential for advancement and improvement in the NPS core mission of graduate education and research. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare NPS’s solicitation in competitive funding of meritorious research initiatives across a spectrum of science and engineering, business, politics and public/foreign policy, operational and information sciences, and interdisciplinary disciplines that are in line with the NPS’s graduate education and research mission.  

DOD / Enabling Cyber-Linked Physical Sensing Exploitation (ECLPSE)
Deadline: Feb 25, 2026 (White Papers)
https://sam.gov/opp/29a072d733fe4c4b8762739f7cc9890c/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. ECLPSE will be a Two Step, Open BAA to support research and analysis on cyber-physical sensing and Electronic Warfare (EW)-kinetic effects to enable understanding how cyber-connected devices interact with the physical environment found in manufacturing automation, utilities, transportation, agricultural, medical, and other common applications. This effort will also support research and analysis regarding the prevention and exploitation of information leakages similar to electromagnetic security (EMSEC) vulnerabilities in the cyber/EW-physical domain. Research objectives involve systems analysis of behaviors, interactions, and vulnerabilities; lead to R&D, evaluation, test, and training for new and disruptive technologies; and provide insights and awareness for strategic, operational, and tactical decisions and vectors for continued development and analysis. The purpose is to generate knowledge and battlespace understanding of sensing effects across multiple domains (air, space, cyber, and ground) to include internet of things (IoT) and distributed sensing with traditional and ad hoc configurations. There is a definite and urgent need for the development, testing, and evaluation of operational cyber-physical, EW-kinetic, and related non-kinetic sensing capabilities in support of national military objectives. Additional research objectives are to understand sensing effects across multiple domains; perform modeling, simulation and analysis; experiments, testing and evaluation; Small Unmanned Systems Exploitation (SUSEX); cyber research and development; electronic warfare research and development; machine learning; autonomy; hard and soft information fusion; multi-level fusion; and novel exploitation products. 

AFRL - RXM / Manufacturing Research and Technology Development - Open Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Mar 24, 2026
https://sam.gov/opp/85aa94ef17eb4820904ea5c85fa7ed88/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. 2.1.2.4. Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing
AFRL/RX’s cybersecurity posture is largely based on collaborating with multiple R&D institutes and related activities. There are specific technology development efforts envisioned.
1)Within the factory: advancing machine monitoring for connectivity and threats; innovating or furthering specific controls for risk identification and mitigation; streamlining specific manufacturing processes with actionable intelligence and intrusion alerts; integrating multiple levels of security screening to qualify parts or components; and furthering technical innovations to develop the next-generation of secure, open control systems and interfaces.
2)Within the supply chain: verification and validation of authenticity of materials and components against counterfeit and off-specification materials; physical tracking and anti-tampering strategies for components and inventories throughout the supply chain network; secure and efficient communication between suppliers and customers at all levels of the supply chain; protecting data and IP from exposure and theft; integration of a multitude of systems that vary in age, sophistication, and architecture; and, analysis and modeling of the widely diverse systems, equipment, and processes across the supply chain network. 

AFRL / Multi-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MuSTeR)
Deadline: May 20, 2026
https://sam.gov/opp/ec772bcd22ed40ab8e18b49866591832/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Multispectral Sensing and Detection Division (RYM) in the Sensors Directorate conducts basic and applied research, advanced technology development, as well as test and evaluation to meet U.S. Air Force (USAF) aerospace electro-optical (EO) and radio frequency (RF) sensor needs for air, space and C2 sensor systems. AFRL/RYM conducts programs in modeling, simulation, research, design, test and evaluation of RF and EO subsystems and sensors for use in offensive, defensive and integrated offensive/defensive systems. AFRL/RYM ensures unequaled persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; time sensitive targeting; and battlespace access capabilities for America’s air and space forces by developing, demonstrating and transitioning advanced RF and EO sensors. AFRL/RYM is soliciting innovative research proposals in the following Thirteen (13) research areas.
I. Multiband Multifunction Radio Frequency Sensing (RYMF)
II. Laser Radar Technology (RYMM)
III. Passive Radio Frequency Sensing (RYMP)
IV. Distributed Radio Frequency Sensing (RYMS)
V. EO Target Detection & Surveillance (RYMT) 

DOD / Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) - Transformative Artificial Intelligence Research and Applications Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Deadline: Jul 31, 2026
https://sam.gov/opp/d22442c7d1c34d05a766f1b6ce1b0cd9/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), in collaboration with the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI) is seeking demonstrations for commercial technologies to foster innovative and transformative Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities relevant to the following areas of AI technological exploration:
1.) Autonomous Platforms
2.) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms (AI/ML)
3.) AI-Based Decision Making
4.) Analysis and Human-Machine Interfaces
5.) Sensing
6.) Communications & Networks
7.) Internet of Things (IoT)
8.) Human Performance 

AFRL / Signals Information Exploitation Technology Enhancements (SIETE)
Deadline: Dec 31, 2026
https://sam.gov/opp/3ae1d5e163c14832a2a63905e7697230/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
White papers to mature, prototype, demonstrate, and evaluate algorithms, methodologies, techniques, and capabilities to enable enhanced signal processing, exploitation, dissemination, and analytics of existing and emerging adversarial systems.
Technology Areas (TAs) of the ARA include the following:
1) Technologies for Audio Signals Intelligence: Development, demonstration, and evaluation of technologies to enhance speech processing capabilities, addressing emerging requirements for automation of speaker recognition in tactical, operational environments.
2) Technologies for Communications Intelligence: Development, demonstration, and evaluation of technologies to detect/identify/geolocate communication signals, addressing emerging requirements for LTE and 5G networks.
5) Technologies for Special Signals: Development, demonstration, and evaluation of technologies to detect/identify/geolocate and exploit machine-to-machine data link transmissions of Integrated Air Defense (IADS) networks.
7) Open System Architectures for Trusted and Agile Platforms: Level of implementation within candidate solutions of current and emerging Open System Architecture (OSA) standards and approaches to ensure information exploitation interoperability.

DOD / Air Delivered Effects
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338821
Deadline: Mar 21, 2027
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
3. Automatic Target Recognition (RWWI) - Technical approaches in the areas of pattern recognition, computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, autonomous systems, and cooperative systems as they apply to weapon seekers are of interest.
19 - CYBER RESILIENCY SECURITY RESEARCH FOR PRECISION-GUIDED MUNITIONS (RWWI) - Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to, formal methods, privacy, authentication/authorization, hardware/software assurance, physics-based security, wireless communications, network security, security architectures, and secure munitions-specific algorithms (sensor fusion, GNC, etc.). Solutions focused on detection and/or monitoring are generally ineffective for munitions applications. 

DOD-DLA / Emergent IV Research and Development Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Jun 12, 2027
https://sam.gov/opp/e814c9a7aea248b6a2b4ee26129ab898/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
- D. Emerging Technologies to Enhance Part, Component and Logistical Product
Data Granularity, Availability and Interoperability.
Research must focus on developing solutions that support DoD’s Digital Engineering Strategy and Digital Modernization efforts for DLA by:
1. using digital data in place of documents as the authoritative source of technical data;
2. extending the model-based approach by incorporating digital engineering technologies and practices that connect business and technical data such as artificial intelligence, augmented realities, digital twin, and machine learning;
3. providing a standards-based open system IT infrastructure that enables the digital thread, distributed manufacturing, advanced methods for cybersecurity, and protection of intellectual property; and
4. preparing the workforce for change management and strategic communications necessary to transform DLA use of digital data.
- E. Smart Connected Logistics.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is often viewed as a network of linked devices. Each device is a smart, connected product characterized by its “awareness” of its state and its ability to communicate with other important “things” in its environment. Connectivity amplifies the awareness and enables the device to be connected to many other devices and sources of data. DLA seeks projects that address connecting devices and users or systems to the data necessary to provide "cradle to grave" logistical sustainment; for example, the technology to acquire and organize the vast amount of data that will be supplied by these devices. The data must be transformed so it is coherent, relevant, and actionable by humans and machine-to-machine or system-to-system interfaces. To accomplish this, DLA expects a standard or open source protocol solution that addresses a specific challenge that DLA currently faces. The data acquired from IoT device swill be independent from the constraints of the device suppliers or any singular data aggregator.
- H. Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Applications
Responses shall focus on artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) applications to aid in planning, acquisition, and technical/quality processes across the DLA Enterprise. Research shall be directed to one or more of the following subtopics:
10. Cybersecurity  

NSF / CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
Deadline: Third Friday in July Annually
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22509/nsf22509.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities
1. Planning Community Infrastructure (Planning) awards support planning efforts to engage research communities to develop new CISE community research infrastructures. Such an infrastructure could be eventually funded through the CCRI program (Planning-C) or the NSF mid-scale research infrastructure programs (Planning-M). For the scope of mid-scale research infrastructure proposals, see the most recent solicitation NSF 21-505.
2. Medium Community Infrastructure (Medium) awards support the creation of new CISE community research infrastructure or the enhancement of existing CISE community research infrastructure with integrated tools, resources, user services, and research community outreach to enable innovative CISE research opportunities to advance the frontiers of the CISE core research areas. The Medium award class includes New (New) and Enhance/Sustain (ENS) awards.
3. Grand Community Infrastructure (Grand) awards support projects involving significant efforts to develop new CISE community research infrastructure or to enhance and sustain an existing CISE community research infrastructure to enable world-class CISE research opportunities for broad-based communities of CISE researchers that extend well beyond the awardee organization(s). 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Cloud Computing for CISE Grantees
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22087/nsf22087.jsp?org=NSF
No deadline
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Many projects funded by various CISE programs face data- and computationally-intensive challenges that may benefit from accessing cloud computing resources, which provide robust, agile, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) describes opportunities available to CISE awardees to support the use of such resources. NSF's Cloud Access Program has established partnerships with commercial cloud service providers to provide awardees with cost-effective, flexible access to cloud-based resources with benefits such as no indirect cost for cloud computing resources resulting in significant savings, and automated updates on cloud credit use. This DCL aims to provide cloud computing resources to NSF-funded projects just-in-time as opposed to requiring PIs to budget for resources at the time of proposal submission, in the hopes of maximizing on the elasticity of the cloud and providing users with computing cycles when they need them. 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Inviting Proposals Related to Information Integrity to the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22050/nsf22050.jsp
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. This DCL invites proposals that: apply the highest standards of research methodology and use of evidence to characterize the psychological, sociological, economic, and cultural contexts of information manipulation and its consequences; design strategies to effectively mitigate violations of information integrity, along with metrics and plans for evaluating the success of those strategies, and systems that are more resistant to those violations; measure and understand the consequences and effects of information manipulation on individuals, communities, and institutions, and develop public awareness pathways to build societal resistance to information manipulation; and design and develop curricular materials at all levels of education (K-12, post-secondary, adult and other vulnerable populations), both in formal and informal settings, and accompanying pedagogical methods to enable a more informed future citizenry. 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Innovative Solutions to Climate Change
No Deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21124/nsf21124.jsp?org=NSF
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Energy Innovations Relevant to Climate Change Mitigation. Proposals focused on mitigating negative impacts of climate change are encouraged to address fundamental scientific questions aimed at providing solutions relevant to renewable energy and related topics. Proposed research or requests for conferences (workshops) on mitigation strategies should consider potential long-term environmental consequences. Topics may include: Efficient and massive-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DERs - wind, solar, energy storage) in electric power transmission and distribution grids to reduce carbon emissions, including power electronic converter design and controls, new ways of distributed optimization and control of DERs, risk modeling and risk analytics, adaptive, secure, and self-optimizing energy markets and policymaking; collaboration between climate science, predictive modeling, and machine learning for better solar forecasting.
2. Strategies for increasing resilience of infrastructure such as power grids to hazards and disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires, which may be exacerbated by climate change; integration of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles into existing electricity grid services; new control architectures for operating power grids and transportation networks while respecting cross-coupling issues on stability, efficiency, power quality, price, cyber-security, resilience, etc.; social and behavioral sciences and public policy solutions for energy equity; fair, accountable, transparent, and ethical artificial intelligence for smart homes, smart buildings, smart grids, smart transportation, and smart agriculture.  

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Career-Life Balance (CLB) Supplemental Funding Requests
No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21021/nsf21021.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
Career Life Balance supplements to existing research awards may be requested for the following purposes:
1. To support additional personnel (e.g., a technician or research assistant) to sustain research when the PI, co-PI, or other member of the Senior Personnel is on family leave for primary dependent care responsibilities and other direct family considerations; and
2. To support additional personnel (e.g., a technician or research assistant) to sustain research while a postdoctoral researcher or graduate student being supported by NSF on the award is on family leave for primary dependent care responsibilities and other direct family considerations.
3. Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardee institutions may request supplemental funding:
a. To support additional personnel (e.g., a technician or research assistant) to sustain the research of NSF Graduate Research Fellows on approved medical deferral due to primary dependent care (family leave) situations.  

NIST / Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
Deadline: No deadline
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=324363
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. f. Intelligent Systems Division
1. Robotic systems for smart manufacturing (including measurement science for perception, dexterous manipulation and grasping, mobility, human-robot and robot-robot collaboration, agility, robot system integration, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for manufacturing robotic applications);
2. Additive manufacturing (including characterization of additive manufacturing materials; modeling, monitoring, and real-time control of additive manufacturing processes; and measurement science supporting the qualification of additive manufacturing materials, machines and processes, and parts);
3. Sensing, prognostics, and health management (PHM) for smart manufacturing, including AI applications for PHM;
4. Industrial wireless networking in factory environments;
5. Industrial control system cybersecurity; and
6. Emergency response robot performance metrics and standards. 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Encouraging Mid-scale Research Infrastructure in Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Deadline: No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20091/nsf20091.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Science-driven: Projects that are motivated by and align with NSF initiatives such as the NSF Big Ideas and other national priorities, and/or that collaboratively address the needs of more than one research domain supported by NSF directorates, are particularly welcomed. Demonstrating community buy-in is a fundamental characteristic of successful mid-scale RI projects.
2. Holistic and integrative: Seeks to innovatively bring together a range of CISE and/or other research disciplines as appropriate to address the identified infrastructure objectives. This might include computing, software, data, networking, algorithms and other research and infrastructure areas supported by CISE, along with those supported by other NSF directorates.  

NSF / Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505248
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Create new complex and hybrid systems ranging from nano- to macro-scale with innovative engineering principles and solutions for a variety of applications including but not limited to healthcare, medicine, environmental and biological monitoring, communications, disaster mitigation, homeland security, intelligent transportation, manufacturing, energy, and smart buildings. CCSS encourages research proposals based on emerging technologies and applications for communications and sensing such as high-speed communications of terabits per second and beyond, sensing and imaging covering microwave to terahertz frequencies, personalized health monitoring and assistance, secured wireless connectivity and sensing for the Internet of Things, and dynamic-data-enabled autonomous systems through real-time sensing and learning. 

NSF / Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN)
Deadline: Proposals Accepted Anytime
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/energy-power-control-and-networks-epcn-0
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
2. Energy and Power Systems
b. Power Grid Cybersecurity
4. Learning and Adaptive Systems
a. Neural Networks
b. Data analytics and Intelligent Systems
c. Machine Learning Algorithms, Analysis and Applications 

DOD / Research Interests of the United States Air Force Academy
Deadline: No deadline
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=270574
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Computer Science (Academy Center for Cyberspace Research)
ACCR has four primary research focus areas: system security analysis, immersive environments (augmented and virtual reality), artificial intelligence and autonomy, and big-data analytics. In addition to these four primary focus areas, ACCR can conduct research in any topics related to the field of Computer and Cyber Science provided there is sufficient faculty and cadet interest. 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Persons with Disabilities - STEM Engagement and Access (PWD-SEA)
No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21110/nsf21110.jsp?org=EHR
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The NSF’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), with leadership from the Division of Human Resource Development (HRD), seeks to increase the engagement of persons with disabilities in STEM fields and STEM education. A wide range of disability types are recognized in this Dear Colleague Letter including deafness or hearing loss; blindness or visual impairment; physical, mental health, medical or other health-related disabilities; and neurodiverse conditions (e.g., dyslexia, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities). New proposals or requests for supplemental funding to existing awards, to support existing or new access to and engagement in STEM learning, research, and workforce development at proposing or awardee organizations for students, postdoctoral scholars, or faculty and staff with disabilities are especially welcome. Proposers are encouraged to explore a wide range of actions to support access to and engagement in STEM learning, research, and employment activities of persons with disabilities, such as, but not limited to:
a. Stipends for K-12 students and teachers, undergraduate students and/or graduate students with disabilities to provide greater access to and engagement in EHR-funded STEM education and research project activities, and/or STEM education and research training.
b. Funding to increase time and effort for undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral research scholars, staff, faculty and/or senior personnel with disabilities to work on EHR-funded STEM education and research project activities.
c. Support for technology, tools, equipment and instrumentation, and the physical modifications necessary to access them in research labs, libraries, informal science settings, field-based environments and/or classrooms that ensure students, postdoctoral research scholars, K-12 teachers, staff and faculty with disabilities will have greater access to and engagement in STEM research, teaching, training and learning.  

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Towards an Equitable National Cyberinfrastructure
No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21108/nsf21108.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to encourage proposal submissions to CC* for projects that will help overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity associated with geographic location, and thereby enable the populations based in these locales to become more nationally competitive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education. This effort represents a partnership between NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) within the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA).

NSF / Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/dynamics-control-and-systems-diagnostics-dcsd-0
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program promotes the fundamental science and engineering of dynamic systems to advance solutions to urgent societal problems. Such problems include mitigating the impacts of climate change; responding to epidemics, cyber-attacks, extreme weather, and other natural and man-made events; promoting efficient and equitable production and distribution of resources; developing resilient infrastructure; improving the experience of work and learning; and meeting the challenges of aging and illness. Recognizing that dynamic systems lie at the heart of current and emerging imperatives, the DCSD proposals should articulate clear Intellectual Merit through the advancement of knowledge in one of the following foundational areas:
·Modeling: mathematical frameworks for studying the behavior of dynamic systems.
·Analysis: theoretical and computational tools for discovery and exploration of structure in dynamic behavior.
·Diagnostics: data-based methods to infer properties of dynamic systems from observations.
·Control: methods to produce desired or mitigate undesired behaviors in dynamic systems.
·Integration: architectures that expand the reach of dynamic systems and overcome application-specific challenges.

NSF / Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22517/nsf22517.htm
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Privacy Research Strategy (NPRS) to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy. The RDSP identified six areas critical to successful cybersecurity research and development: (1) scientific foundations; (2) risk management; (3) human aspects; (4) transitioning successful research into practice; (5) workforce development; and (6) enhancing the research infrastructure.

NSF / Cyberinfrastructure Centers of Excellence
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505744
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Exploring emerging technologies, disruptions, opportunities, and community needs, and developing proactive design and adoption strategies, practices, and other approaches in response;
2. Nurturing communities of stakeholders and experts in their area(s) of focus (foci) with the overall goal of achieving self-sustaining communities of practice; and
3. Providing services, training, and outreach to target communities. 

NSF / Biosensing
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=320536
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. Novel signal transduction principles and mechanisms that enable sensitive and specific biosensors, suitable for measurements in multiple areas;
2. Design of novel biorecognition elements and appropriately designed transducing systems to enable adaptable and/or reconfigurable operating parameters in response to environmental changes or application needs at levels of device, system, or data analysis;
3. Development of adaptive and/or evolvable biosensing systems for detection of novel target analytes or analytes under novel conditions;
4. Novel synthetic biology approaches for the development of cell-free and cell-based biosensors; and
5. Combining biosensors with artificial intelligence (AI) methods to improve sensor specificity and response time.  

NSF / Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505385
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. CESER supports early-stage exploratory efforts that may comprise analysis, community planning, and pilot-level activities that are preparatory or informative for eventual future development and deployment of science/engineering-driven CI.

DOD / Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Deadline: Posted until superseded
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=314753
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
a. Agile Science of Test and Evaluation (T&E) - Autonomy, Hypersonics, and Cyber & Microelectronics; Advanced algorithms and test techniques that allow rapid and accurate assessment of devices and methods to cyber vulnerability
b. Dynamical Systems and Control Theory - Hybrid dynamical systems theory, geometric and algebraic methods of dynamics and control, stochastic and adversarial systems, control of cyber physical systems with formal specifications, emerging areas of control theory, graph theoretic control theory over nonlinear dynamics at nodes of graphs, partial and corrupted information, nonlinear control and estimation, and novel computational techniques specifically aimed at control of systems with large data.
c. Information Assurance and Cybersecurity - dependent type theory, cryptographic protocols for interactive computation and communication, interactive and automated theorem proving, language-based techniques in software and hardware for formal specification and verification, secure protocols, game theory with strong security content, obfuscation and fully homomorphic encryption, model categories, formalized mathematics.
d. h. Trust and Influence - empirical studies to discover new theories of influence pertaining to the spread of information, such as through narrative diffusion, that occur in the cyber domain or transition from the online to offline environments to impact human cognition or behavior.  

DOD / Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare (EW) System Technologies (TEMPEST)
https://sam.gov/opp/5c968f0074af466bcc1457b42d10dce0/view
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. AFRL/RYW has a need to investigate and develop methodologies, tools, techniques, and capabilities to identify susceptibilities and mitigate vulnerabilities in avionics systems, protect those systems against cyber-attack, provide simulation capabilities required to develop, mature and transition advanced sensor and avionics technologies, develop platform architecture technologies that enable revolutionary and agile capabilities, and expand emerging open system architecture standards and approaches for existing and next-generation Air Force and DoD weapon systems in multi-domain environments. The goal is to explore new and emerging concepts related to development, integration, assessment, evaluation, and demonstration of cyber security, open system architecture (OSA), novel avionics and sensor technologies, and multi-domain technologies. For this solicitation, avionics is defined to include manned, unmanned, autonomous, and remotely piloted vehicles, on-board Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, Electronic Warfare (EW) systems, munitions, and any equipment, component, or subsystem that could compromise mission assurance of the Air Force weapon system or tactical platform.  

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: United States-Ireland-Northern Ireland R&D Partnership
Deadline: No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20064/nsf20064.jsp
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The United States (U.S.), Northern Ireland (NI), and the Republic of Ireland (RoI) have come together to form a unique partnership as a way of increasing the level of collaborative R&D among researchers across the three jurisdictions that will generate innovation and lead to improvements in society. The objective of U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership is to encourage trilateral, collaborative research projects that address significant research challenges, particularly in the areas of nanoscale science and engineering, sensors and sensor networks, telecommunications, energy and sustainability, and cybersecurity. These thematic areas have been identified as representing a unique opportunity for collaborative research and are internationally recognized as potentially pivotal fields in the 21st century. 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Academy of Finland (AoF) Collaborative Research Opportunities
Deadline: No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21035/nsf21035.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and the Academy of Finland (AoF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and Finnish research communities and sets out the principles by which jointly supported activities might be developed. The MOU provides for an international collaboration arrangement whereby U.S. researchers may receive funding from NSF and Finnish researchers may receive funding from AoF. This new NSF-AoF collaborative research opportunity focuses specifically upon discoveries and innovations in the areas of artificial intelligence and wireless communication technologies. 

NSF / Innovation Corps Teams (I-CorpsTM* Teams) Program
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf21552
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to further develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that guides the output of scientific discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products, and services that benefit society. The goals of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program, created in 2011 by NSF,are to spur translation of fundamental research to the marketplace, to encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and to train NSF-funded faculty, students and other researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship skills. The purpose of the I-Corps Teams program is to identify NSF-funded researchers to receive additional support in the form of entrepreneurial education, mentoring, and funding to accelerate the translation of knowledge derived from fundamental research into emerging products and services that may attract subsequent third-party funding. The outcomes of I-Corps Teams' projects are threefold: 1) a decision on a clear path forward based on an assessment of the business model, 2) substantial first-hand evidence for or against product-market fit, with the identification of customer segments and corresponding value propositions, and 3) a narrative of a technology demonstration for potential partners. 

Open Technology Fund / Internet Freedom Fund
Deadline: No deadline
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/internet-freedom-fund/
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. The Internet Freedom Fund accepts applications on a rolling basis and is done in a two-stage-process. Applications are submitted as concept notes, upon positive review, OTF invites the applicant to submit a full proposal. The projects and people we support all fall into one or more of the following areas: Technology Development, Applied Research, Digital Security Support, or Events. Eligible areas of focus:
2. technology-focused interventions with clear human-centered benefits for Internet freedom.
3. Applied research
4. digital security capacity needs for on-the-ground organizations promoting human rights, focusing on those fighting to increase free expression and Internet freedom. 

NSF / Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational Cognition (CompCog)
No deadline
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16122/nsf16122.jsp
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
1. A proposal in response to this Dear Colleague Letter must meet the requirements and deadlines of the program to which it is submitted, but should start the proposal title with “CompCog:”. Primary and secondary units of consideration on the cover sheet should indicate which participating SBE and CISE programs are most relevant. These proposals may, at the discretion of the cognizant program director, be reviewed in a special cross-directorate Computational Cognition panel that will occur sometime during the spring. Participating programs in SBE include:
Cognitive Neuroscience
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5316
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423
Developmental and Learning Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671
Linguistics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408
Perception, Action, and Cognition
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686
Social Psychology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712
Participating programs in CISE include:
National Robotics Initiative (NRI)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503641
Robust Intelligence
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503305