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NSF Releases Solicitation for National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes

August 2, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided this report about the NSF's solicitation for the fourth competition of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes. The latest solicitation focuses on themes aimed at “transformational advances in a range of economic sectors, and science and engineering fields,” and includes funding opportunities associated with two funding years: fiscal year (FY) 2024 and FY 2025.

DOD Releases 2023-2028 Extramural Biomedical & Human Performance BAA

July 31, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided this report about the DOD's United States Special Operations Command's open, five-year Broad Agency Announcement for Extramural Biomedical & Human Performance Research and Development. The BAA solicits basic and applied research proposals that “identify and develop techniques, knowledge products, and materiel (medical devices, drugs, and biologics) for early intervention in life-threatening injuries; prolonged field care (PFC); human...

NSF and NIH Release Second Solicitation on Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science

August 15, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC has provided campus a report about the NIH and NSF's solicitation on “Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science” through the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program. The SCH program supports innovative, high-risk, high-reward research to promote disruptive transformations in biomedical and public health research, drawing from coordinated, convergent, and interdisciplinary approaches from...

NSF GEO Releases Solicitation for EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (EMBRACE)

August 24, 2023
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Lewis-Burke has provided campus with a report about NSF's Directorate for Geosciences' new solicitation for a new program to support research and educational efforts in geosciences and related fields, by addressing barriers for faculty members at non-R1 institutions in competing for federal funding. The EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (EMBRACE) program will accept two categories of proposals that focus supporting faculty to initiate research and programs...

ARL releases FOA for Collaborative Adversarial Cyber Decision Making

August 23, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) seeks research proposals for the Adversarial Resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance Collaboration Research Program (ARCEDD-CRP). Modeled after their Collaborative Research Alliances (CRAs), ARL intends to fund multiple cooperative agreements in two cycles, this first seedling cycle in fiscal year (FY) 2024 and a second seedling cycle in FY 2026. ARCEDD-CRP’s purpose is to aid in the discovery of knowledge and the advancement of “scientific foundations of multidomain cyber deception, cyber resilience, and machine learning for cybersecurity...

NSF Releases Solicitation for Ideas Lab: Personalized Engineering Learning (PEL)

September 28, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided campus with a report about a new solicitation from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support an Ideas Lab on Personalized Engineering Learning (PEL), which aims to create comprehensive technology to improve individual human learning performance for all, by addressing gaps between people and technology.

Special Education Research and Development Center Program: K-12 Special Education Teacher Workforce

September 27, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided campus with a report about the Institute on Education Sciences’ competition for a new Research and Development center on the K-12 Special Education Teacher Workforce (Teacher Workforce Center). The goal for this center is to provide national leadership on issues affecting the special education teacher workforce.

NSF Publishes Dear Colleague Letters to Support STEM Education Research and Implementation

December 7, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided campus with a report about four Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs) inviting proposals for funding across several programs to strengthen STEM education and STEM education research across the United States. The DCLs cover a wide range of topics within STEM education, including improving use of AI in the classroom to advance inclusive computing education, support for proposals to pursue mid-scale research infrastructure awards to support STEM...

NSF Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) Solicitation

December 18, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates had provided campus with a report about NSF’s newly released solicitation for Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG). The RFP invites proposals for projects aimed at addressing research questions from across the breadth of the Geosciences Directorate using AI tools and methods. Funding for the program will be up to $10 million for 10-15 awards and proposals are due on March 15, 2024.

Department of Defense FY 2023 Minerva Research Initiative FOA

December 8, 2023
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

Lewis-Burke Associates has provided campus with a report about DOD's Minerva Research Initiative. Minerva, DOD’s signature university-led social science research program, brings together universities, research institutions, and individual scholars to broaden the understanding of social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape U.S. strategic interests across the world. Minerva’s topics of interest in FY 2023 align closely with and support the Biden...