Past Funding 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. 

U.S. food and agricultural systems are regularly experiencing new challenges, including climate change, a growing population and evolving pests and pathogens. Employers need early-career scientists trained to conduct research that helps farms and food systems adapt to these unprecedented changes.

In partnership with North Carolina State University, FFAR launched the FFAR Fellows Program to provide career guidance to the next generation of food and agriculture scientists. Unique to this program, we prepare a career ready STEM workforce by breaking down the disciplinary silos and focusing on professional development and soft-skills.

This GCR solicitation targets multidisciplinary teams who are embracing convergence research as a means of developing highly innovative solutions to complex research problems.   GCR proposals are expected to be bold and address scientific or technical challenges and bottlenecks which if resolved have the potential to transform scientific understanding and solve vexing problems. Successful GCR projects are anticipated to lead to paradigm shifting approaches within disciplines, establishment of new scientific communities, or development of transformative technologies that have the potential for broad scientific or societal impact.

UPL is looking for seed-treatment technologies with the potential to control Pythium under European soil and climate conditions and that can ultimately be developed into EU-compliant, low-risk or biological products suitable for use on corn.

Solutions of interest include:

• Microbial biocontrol agents (live organisms)
• Bio-derived fungicidal compounds
• Plant extracts
• Novel chemical fungicides

UPL is seeking technologies that have been tested and show proven effectiveness in reducing or delaying UV-induced degradation of herbicide molecules. The solution may involve formulation strategies or other innovative approaches that are practical, scalable, and feasible for both manufacturing and application.

Solutions of interest include:

• Encapsulation (micro/nano-carriers, polymer matrices, controlled-release capsules, protective coatings)
• UV filters (absorbers, stabilizers, and blockers)
• Surface modifiers
• Co-formulants (synergists, antioxidants, radical scavengers) improving photostability

The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions (e.g., “clinical professor,” “professor of practice” or “research professor,” the titles and roles depending on the university) in existing academic departments (the “host institutions”) to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.

BASF is looking for novel compounds, such as organic molecules, natural products, and fragment-like molecules, which could be subjected to screening within our research facility, with the goal of developing new crop protection products. Solutions of interest include:

• Small organic molecules
• Natural products
• Virtual compounds
• Single chemical compounds (in a dry form)

The CO2 Foundation funds innovative smaller-scale projects that can accomplish a lot in a short timeframe, which might otherwise fall through the cracks. We seek proposals to support timely interventions for extreme weather and/or prepare communities for the impacts of a rapidly changing climate system. Examples include small workshops to explore innovative, fast-track solutions; new ways of reaching new audiences; or early research into the most promising protective interventions. Because civilization must survive until climate change and extreme weather are no longer a threat, we need to be resilient and to cooperate with each other.

The Foundation recommends you connect with the Executive Director to discuss the current funding priorities before submitting a proposal.

Infected dairy cows experience sudden drops in milk production, lowering milk quality and causing significant economic losses for farmers. Cases of HPAI have also been observed spilling over from cattle to dairy workers. The level of risk for dairy workers from this novel spillover transmission ion poses and how it occurs is still under study.  

To address these outbreaks quickly, the ROAR Program funds rapid research related to response, prevention or mitigation of new pests and pathogens. ROAR’s funding fills urgent research gaps until traditional, longer-term funding can be secured.

OCP Nutricrops is  looking for innovative solutions (agronomic and non-agronomic) to improve the nutritional quality of staple crops, fruits, and vegetables, along with low-cost tools that can monitor and verify nutritional value from soil through harvest. Tools should be suitable for use on soil or on crops in their natural, unprocessed form. :

• Micronutrient-enriched fertilizers to boost crop nutritional value
• Foliar sprays that enhance vitamins and antioxidants in crops
• Biostimulants for improved nutrient density
• Soil or crop amendments that increase mineral bioavailability
• Post-harvest treatments that preserve nutritional compounds
• Portable sensors for rapid nutrient testing in crops and soils
• Low-cost field kits to monitor crop nutritional content
• Handheld spectroscopy devices for quick nutrient analysis
• Traceability systems tracking nutritional quality from field to market

BASF is looking for the next generation of active ingredients, proteins, and RNA-based molecules to control economically significant agricultural pests, including insects and plant-parasitic nematodes. Pesticidal compounds of interest include (1) biochemical molecules such as proteins, peptides, and RNA or other macromolecules appropriate for in planta production and (2) chemical compounds, also referred to as small molecules. Such compounds may be derived from bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, algae, and plants. We welcome both naturally occurring compounds and engineered or derived variants. Actives of high interest will be considered for licensing agreements. Finalists may be asked to sign a material transfer agreement and ship their actives for internal evaluation, at BASF’s expense. Solutions of interest include new pesticidal compounds exhibiting significant activity against the following pest groups. Solutions of interest include:

• Lepidopteran insects such as armyworms, diamondback moths, and bollworms
• Coleopteran insects such as beetles, rootworms, and weevils
• Hemipteran insects such as stink bugs, planthoppers, leafhoppers, and thrips
• Plant-parasitic nematodes such as root-knot nematodes (RKN), root lesion nematodes (RLN), and soybean cyst nematodes (SCN)

OCP Nutricrops is looking for innovative, sustainable solutions that improve nitrogen use efficiency by enhancing crop uptake and minimizing losses, enabling crops to deliver the same or better performance with less nitrogen applied while reducing environmental impact. Solutions of interest include:

• Natural nitrification and urease inhibitor compounds
• Biodegradable analogs of common nitrification and urease inhibitors
• Microbial inoculants for nitrogen fixation or soil cycle modulation
• Enzyme-based solutions to suppress urease or nitrifying bacteria
• Biodegradable polymers or coatings for controlled urea release
• Smart delivery systems for timed inhibitor release

Our world is facing big, complex, and rapidly changing environmental and societal challenges. Regardless of what the future may hold, learners will need support to develop capacities to learn about, care for and take action to protect our world. How do you imagine the future for our planet and its people? What skills, attitudes, and knowledge do people need in order to design a future for our planet that leads to healthier outcomes for people and nature? What are the learning solutions that can develop knowledge, attitudes, and skills to enact that future? How might we change minds and behaviors to achieve positive impacts for the immense biodiversity of our planet and its people?

To meet this future we will need to develop and scale models of what effective learning looks like – not just in formal education but also in informal and community education spaces, through career-connected learning, and with learners of any age from young children to adults. Through our grants program we are looking for education projects that:

• Advance knowledge about how to spark curiosity and inspire learners of all ages to care for and protect our world
• Pilot new, or scale proven, educational solutions
• Enable learners to acquire new knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes that help them care for and protect our world
• Use interdisciplinary approaches

USDA/FAS is requesting the design and delivery of a training program for marketing U.S. poultry meat for 8 Georgian participants who are expected to be mid- to senior-level private sector actors from the South Caucasus Region’s leading firms involved with poultry importation, marketing and transshipment in and through the country of Georgia. The purpose is to promote imports to Georgia. The training program is envisioned as being 1-2 consecutive weeks in duration, to be completed before June 30, 2026. The host institution shall propose the place(s) of performance within the United States. USDA/FAS will be entirely responsible for the recruitment of the Georgian participants, which will be completed after the close of this Notice of Funding Opportunity.

This company is looking for a sprayable wound treatment for cattle that combines a safe, effective insecticidal active with a visible dye marker for screwworm control. Ideally, this would be an existing commercial product available in Latin America (with priority given to Brazil), but we will also consider other global commercial opportunities or late-stage development candidates.

Solutions of interest include:

• Sprayable formulation using doramectin
• Sprayable formulation using moxidectin
• Sprayable formulation using fipronil
• Sprayable formulation using spinosad
• Combination formulation using two or more approved actives

UPL is looking for environmentally friendly, low-risk seed treatment solutions to prevent or mitigate Fusarium virguliforme, the causal agent of Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soybeans. We are open to partnerships with an existing producer and collaborations where we produce and formulate the solution.

Solutions of interest include:

• Biological seed treatments using microbial strains
• Naturally derived antifungal seed-coating compounds
• Induced resistance activators or plant defense primers
• Novel chemical classes with low-risk profiles
• Seed treatments with environmentally friendly modes of action

Bio-Rad Laboratories is seeking to develop a universal sample preparation method to support accurate, consistent, and sensitive pathogen quantification across a wide range of food matrices. We are open to approaches involving target concentration, DNA cleanup, or both, and are particularly interested in technologies capable of selectively separating target particles (typically <3–5 µm) from larger debris in samples where the targets are present in low abundance and minimizing loss is critical. The solution is intended for use in routine food safety testing and must ultimately deliver consistent recovery performance across diverse and complex matrices, supporting reliable and sensitive quantification via droplet digital PCR (ddPCR). 

• Filtration technologies
• Magnetic bead-based on capture for ddPCR-grade purity
• Microfluidic cartridges for standardized sample processing
• Heat-stable, low-volume prep protocols for simple lab use
• Inhibitor-binding solutions like membranes or additives for complex sample cleanup
• Extraction kits optimized for meat, with relevance to other food types, such as dairy and plant-based matrices
• A combination of several approaches

LOI due Oct 31; Full Proposal due Dec 12

The AI for Economic Opportunity Demonstration and Scaling Fund is the third annual round of a groundbreaking philanthropic initiative to harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to improve economic mobility for millions. This initiative, powered by a partnership between the GitLab Foundation and OpenAI, continues our shared commitment to advancing income growth and economic opportunity through innovative uses of AI.

GitLab Foundation is seeking bold projects that use AI to expand economic mobility — from unlocking data for impact, to making services more affordable, to helping workers navigate education and job pathways.

• Estimated Number of Awards: 10 to 16 per year
• Projects will be funded for up to four years for a total of $1,200,000 ($300,000 per year).
• Anticipated Amount of Funding Available: $15 to $20 million
• Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that develop novel methods to intuitively and intelligently collect, sense, connect, analyze and interpret data from individuals, devices and systems to enable discovery and optimize health. Solutions to these complex biomedical or public health problems demand the formation of interdisciplinary teams that are ready to address these issues, while advancing fundamental science and engineering.

• NEW IN FY 2026 – A Mentoring Plan is now required for all AFRI grant applications (excluding Workshop grants, equipment grants and sabbatical grants) for projects that involve any type of education, training or mentoring of students or other individuals including high school students, undergraduate students, graduate students, professional degree students, postdoctoral scholars, other professionals or any other individual receiving any type of formal, or non-formal training on the proposed project.
• Amount of Funding Available: $300 million
• Due dates range from Oct 2 to Nov 13 depending on priority area
• Rapid Response applications are accepted on a continuous basis after the RFA has been published
• AFRI is America’s flagship competitive grants program for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences.

The U.S. NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP) partners across sectors to advance three primary focus areas – accelerating technology translation and development, fostering regional innovation and economic growth, and preparing the American workforce for future high-wage jobs in STEM fields. 

• A PI (or Co-PI) may submit only one NSF TTP proposal
• A PI must hold either:
  • A tenured or tenure-track position, or
  • A primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position (with exceptions granted for family or medical leave), as determined by the submitting institution.

The Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact (SoS:DCI) program is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity. Science of Science draws from multiple disciplinary and field perspectives to advance theory and research about scientific discovery, communication and impact. SoS:DCI welcomes proposals applying rigorous empirical research methods to advance theory and knowledge on:

• The social and structural mechanisms of scientific discovery.
• Theories, frameworks, models and data that improve our understanding of scientific communication and outcomes.
• The societal benefits of scientific activity and how science advances evidence-based policy making and the creation of public value.

The NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing bold, groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Applications in all topics relevant to the broad mission of NIH are encouraged, including, but not limited to, behavioral, social, biomedical, applied, and formal sciences and topics that may involve basic, translational, or clinical research. 

Pre-applications are due Sep 3.

The Growing Impact Award program was established to build on FFAR’s successful investments and provide opportunities for high-performing projects to translate research outputs into greater impacts aligned with FFAR’s Research Strategy, benefiting U.S. agriculture. Research funded through this program will accelerate innovation, expand impact, strengthen public-private partnerships and encourage more integrated research of previous FFAR-funded projects.  

• Number of Awards Available: 5
• Project Period: 2 years
• Maximum Award: $200,000

AgriProspects, a national program of the Extension Foundation, is a five year grant program sponsored by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) which aims to elevate the profile of Extension’s non-traditional, non-credit adult agricultural workforce development (AAWD) skill attainment opportunities and enhance internal and external AAWD practices, partnerships, and networks across Extension. The second round of the AgriProspects mini-grant program is aimed at bolstering Cooperative Extension’s work in this area by supporting regional and national grant projects that meaningfully boost Extension’s ability to engage in new technologies, in particular digital credentialing and artificial intelligence, in support of the nation’s producers, agriculture-related workforce, and communities.

This company is looking for highly sensitive antibodies targeting milk and soy allergens for use in food allergen diagnostic applications. We are open to purchasing or licensing antibodies from commercial, academic, and governmental groups that have developed or are developing allergen-specific antibodies for diagnostic applications. Solutions of interest include:

• Antibodies for milk allergens
• Antibodies for soy allergens
• Alternative antibody-based binding reagents (e.g., nanobodies, recombinant antibody fragments)

PepsiCo is looking for novel proteins, peptides, and amino acids that provide specific health benefits in the area of weight management and muscle development, retention, or repair. While this is our primary interest, we also welcome protein-derived solutions that address other health areas listed below. Solutions of interest include:

• Weight management
• Muscle development, retention, and repair
• Heart health
• Sport performance
• Cognition
• Digestion
• Satiety
• Hormonal management
• Overall wellness

The VINES program seeks to support both fundamental research and verticals-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next generation (NextG) advanced intelligent network systems that span the user-edge-core-cloud continuum. The program seeks to go beyond the current research portfolios within individual participating NSF directorates and partner organizations by simultaneously emphasizing gains in performance and capabilities without compromising resilience and interoperability across all layers of the networking protocol and computation stacks. Innovations are sought across the various aspects of next generation communications, networking, and computing systems.

This program is a multisector effort led by the National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with several industry and international agency partners, and in cooperation with other U.S. Federal agencies. It recognizes the importance of advanced telecommunications as a key technology area. The program seeks to enhance U.S. competitiveness in advanced telecommunications technologies to establish itself as a global leader in both NextG wireless telecommunications and emerging potential NextG vertical industries, as well as address the need for skilled workforce and expertise in these technology areas. VINES expects to increase investments in foundational technology innovations and their translation while leveraging international eco-system partners to drive the principles of open and trustworthy networks. It seeks to fund collaborative research that transcends the traditional boundaries of individual disciplines or geographic boundaries to achieve the program goals.

• Grant Duration: 24 months
• Anticipated Number of Awards: 4
• Minimum Award Amount: $500,000
• Maximum Award Amount: $1.5 million 

The Potato Breeding Research program (program code AN) will fund two-year projects that have great potential for developing and releasing new potato varieties with a high value to the commercial U.S. potato industry. The Potato Breeding Research program encourages applicants to establish and work through regional, multi-location, research breeding networks to address priority national or regional science needs of the potato industry. By bringing together expertise across multiple universities, federal agencies, industry organizations, and states, the Potato Breeding Research program seeks to enhance the effectiveness of limited state, federal, and  6 industry resources and accelerate the development of superior varieties that produce benefits to the potato industry.

• The STS program encourages research on complex socio-technical and techno-scientific problems that are best confronted using a distributed approach by multiple collaborative teams
• Estimated Number of Awards: 40
• Anticipated Funding Amount: $6.2 million

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.

This is a leading company in consumer product goods, dedicated to providing high-quality, nutritious products. Their focus is on high-meat formulations, which require precise drying techniques to maintain their nutritional value and quality. Traditional drying methods, such as hot-air drying by convection, often result in nutrient loss and undesirable changes in texture, aroma, and flavor due to extended heat processes, which negatively impact the product quality, consumer satisfaction, and production efficiency. We aim to identify novel drying solutions that can preserve the integrity of high-meat formulations while streamlining manufacturing performance by reducing production costs and lowering energy consumption. We invite innovators, researchers, and industry experts to collaborate with us and submit their groundbreaking ideas to revolutionize the drying process for high-meat pet food formulations.

Bayer Crop Science is looking to leverage gene editing to develop solanaceous crops (such as tomatoes and peppers), cucurbits (such as cucumbers and melons), and strawberries that exhibit reduced susceptibility to diseases, enhanced structural traits, and improved agronomic sustainability, including tolerance to variable growing conditions. 

• Disease Resistance: To develop fruits and vegetables with enhanced resistance to prevalent diseases, and minimizing crop losses.
• Architectural Modifications: to create plants with structural changes that allow for more efficient production practices, facilitate mechanized harvesting, optimize space utilization across operations and faster growth cycles, without compromising yield.
• Improved agronomic sustainability: to ensure stability and tolerance to changes across different growing environments, efficient resource use, and reduced need for inputs

Natural and synthetic-derived chemistries can be potentiators for fungicides. These compounds exhibit anti-fungal activity only in combination with a fungicide but have no fungicide activity alone. Furthermore, each potentiator increases the potency of its respective fungicide against its fungal target(s), by possibly improving the bioavailability of the fungicide to the pathogen, offering another mode of action, and extending the window of disease protection.

This company is looking for potentiators that can provide the “second knockout punch” by improving the bioavailability of the fungicide, offering another mode of action, disabling a known resistance mechanism, and/or inhibiting cellular stress responses. Specifically, we want potentiators discovered through your chemical library screens combining sub-lethal doses of a fungicide against a laboratory fungal pathogen or a fungicide-resistant strain.

We want to collaborate with you to produce or synthesize these potentiator candidates and determine their efficacy combined with our proprietary fungicides, which fall within the chemistry and/or mode-of-action groups outlined below.

• Potentiators intended for use in combination with fungicides from the following chemical classes: triazole, strobilurin, carboxamide, and phenylamide
• Potentiators intended for use in combination with fungicides from the following mode-of-action targets: C14-demethylase in sterol biosynthesis (erg11/cyp51), quinone outside site inhibitors (QoI), succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHIs), or RNA polymerase I inhibitors

Providing healthy (vegetable) seeds to customers is a prerequisite for sustainable food production. A healthy seed is free from pathogenic organisms that could cause disease in the developing plant. Frequently used methods to determine seed health such as ELISA and PCR detect the presence of proteins or nucleic acids associated with specific plant pathogens. However, these methods cannot distinguish between viable, infectious pathogens and non-viable remnants. As a result, a positive test may indicate the presence of non-viable organisms, residual genetic material left on the seed after a disinfection treatment, or environmental contamination with genetic material, rather than an actual infection risk. Therefore, such test results may not reliably reflect the true risk posed by a seed lot when it is brought into the market. The must-have requirements are:

• Designed for use in a laboratory environment
• Strong rationale for achieving sensitivity comparable or higher than PCR
• Test turnaround time of up to 7 days, with preliminary data or rationale supporting repeatability

• Proposals between $500,000 and $1 million
• Projects can be up to two years in length
• The matching funds for this opportunity have already been secured, but additional matching funds are encouraged.

The Dairy HERD Initiative is a partnership between FFAR, Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) and Zoetis to advance research that will enable U.S. Dairy and allied industry to better understand and use innovations to support improved animal health/management and welfare, economic viability and environmental outcomes. Recent reports suggest that improving the health of dairy cows in the U.S. could substantially improve the environmental outcomes associated with dairy production. Yet very little research has attempted to quantify the environmental impacts of improved animal health in dairy or to understand the tradeoffs and intersections with other aspects of livestock production, including the role of caretakers and economic aspects of herd management. The Dairy HERD Initiative aims to support research to advance our understanding of the interrelationships among dairy health/management and welfare, economics and the environment.

Please note: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and will be reviewed at several points during the open application period that runs from December 17, 2024, to May 27, 2025. All application deadlines and dates are based on Pacific Time

The Global Science Scholars program is a postdoctoral fellowship of up to two years designed to advance early-stage careers and catalyze groundbreaking science globally. We are seeking to support cutting-edge science in bioengineering and biomedical domains and, in particular, people who are committed to pursuing up to two years of research directed at creating a better future for all by conducting research outside of their degree granting country. 

This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) will support pilot, feasibility or exploratory research in priority areas in substance use epidemiology, prevention, and health services, including research in response to: 1 )sudden and severe emerging drug issues; 2) emerging trends and topics related to a change in federal, state, or local drug policy; 3) unexpected and time-sensitive medical system issues; 4) unexpected and time-sensitive criminal or juvenile justice opportunities that relate to drug misuse and access and provision of health care service; 5) the early implementation of new or newly changed federal, state, or local programs, policy, financing, or payment approaches related to substance use, substance use epidemiology, prevention, treatment, or recovery; 6) natural disasters or newly emergent public health emergencies, to understand their impacts on drug markets, substance use epidemiology, prevention, treatment or recovery outcomes.

• Each award will be for 24 months.
• Year One budget maximum is $500,000; Year Two budget maximum is $1 million
• Total budget maximum is $1.5 million
• PI, co-PI or other senior personnel must hold either:
  • A tenured or tenure-track positions, or
  • A primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position, or
  • A staff leadership role in an Open-Source Program Office or equivalent position

To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security, and privacy of open-source ecosystems (OSEs), NSF is launching the Safety, Security, and Privacy for Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) program. This program solicits proposals from OSEs, including those not originally funded by NSF's Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, to address significant safety, security, and/or privacy vulnerabilities, both technical (e.g., vulnerabilities in code and side-channels) and socio-technical (e.g., supply chain, insider threats, and social engineering).

This award is for Graduate Students

Students from any university in the U.S. or Canada are eligible to apply for both categories of the Fellowship. Sponsorship, matched equally by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, can be derived from industry, foundations, NGOs, commodity organizations, and non-federal university funds. Sponsorship from several sources can be combined to support a student.  Must be enrolled or accepted by a PhD program at a U.S. or Canadian university. A student who is selected as a FFAR Fellow in the Professional Development category in one year may apply in a subsequent year for the Stipend + Professional Development category. Regardless of the outcome of that application, the student would continue with his/her original cohort of Fellows.

This award is for Graduate Students

The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) award is to enable promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from outstanding faculty sponsors while conducting dissertation research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. The proposed mentored research training must reflect the candidate’s dissertation research project and is expected to clearly enhance the individual’s potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist.

• A PI/Co-PI/Sr. Personnel may participate or consult-on a single project per application submission cycle

This program seeks to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad improvement in quality of life. Robust, reliable and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security and fuels American leadership.